musicalnovelty
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He posted on NitrateVille recently that he was having trouble logging on to the Message Boards. So yes, he's okay.
Gagman:
When you can get back on here, you'll see that you're being missed!
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I hope everyone saw the "Word of Mouth" interview clip of child actress Cora Sue Collins talking about her appearance in "Queen Christina" (1933). (It ran several times on TCM last week before the movie was shown on Friday).
Let's hear more from this lady! Her memory seems very clear and the list of great stars she worked with is very impressive. I'm sure she can tell us a lot of interesting stories. If that clip was part of a longer interview, let's hear more.
And doesn't she look great for 83? (Assuming that interview was filmed recently).
Info on Cora Sue:
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Joan Davis in "Hold That Ghost" (Universal, 1941).
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> {quote:title=LillianJuda wrote:}{quote}
> Hi guys!
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> Well, I've search as much as I can find. Looks like I'm forced to ask the audience.
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> I'm looking for a film I saw as a child. I saw it on TCM.
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> It's a French film including 2 children, 1 boy and 1 girl. They live in a small town/village. It has something to do with a barn and perhaps a small animal or insect. The boy finds this insect/animal and tries to take care of it, but it dies and he's very upset by it. He then buries it attaching a small white cross to the burial mound. Then maybe some extra emphasis is put on the white cross, but I'm not sure.
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I believe this is it:
"Forbidden Games" (1952)
Info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043686/combined
More info here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=75364&category=Overview
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> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
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> > > > That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY.
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> > > Interesting... I guess the folks at this website got it wrong as well?
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> > Yes, obviously...and amusingly!
> > Just a look at the cast and director's name printed right on the poster is all the evidence needed. None of those folks had anything to do with the 1931 THE PUBLIC ENEMY.
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> Oh well... I liked the poster anyway, lol!
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Me, too, and may I take a moment to say thanks for all the cool posters you've been posting!
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> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY.
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> Interesting... I guess the folks at this website got it wrong as well?
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Yes, obviously...and amusingly!
Just a look at the cast and director's name printed right on the poster is all the evidence needed. None of those folks had anything to do with the 1931 THE PUBLIC ENEMY.
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That James Cagney poster is actually for the 1937 Grand National movie GREAT GUY.
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> {quote:title=drednm wrote:}{quote}
> Eastman House has a perfect copy of this film, Gloria Swanson's smash hit talkie debut (and Oscar nomination).
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> Why doesn't TCM ever show this film?
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We can see the remake (THAT CERTAIN WOMAN - 1937, starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda) on TCM, but I agree, it would be great to see the TCM show the original. I saw it years ago at Cinefest, Syracuse and would like to see it again.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Just to clarify. The Code began to be enforced in mid-1934. Would TWENTIETH CENTURY and other 1934 films be considered pre-code?
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In the case of 1934 films I guess technically one would have to look at the film's release date. If it's before July 1934 it probably can be considered pre-code, as that's when the Code took effect and films started being assigned Production Code approval numbers.
TWENTIETH CENTURY was released in May 1934, so that makes it pre-code.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> My bad. I didn't notice that helenbaby's post said CLASSIC movie guide. Why doesn't he just include EVERYTHING in his regular guide? Would that make it too thick?
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Yes, to try to put everything in one book would definitely make it way too thick. It just would not be practical. So after so many years of having older titles that had been dropped being unlisted anywhere, I think he had a good idea to compile a separate Guide that covers all the older stuff (although personally I wish he'd kept the latest edition at the cut-off year of 1960, and not extended it to 1965. I'm one whose interest in movies drops off sharply after 1960 and doesn't think of post-1960 movies as "old".)
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> {quote:title=VP19 wrote:}{quote}
> Perhaps the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a copy of the original script, or contemporary accounts (reviews, etc) of "Virtue."
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I do know where to get a copy of the script, and I do have a few original 1932 reviews of VIRTUE, but the script wouldn't necessarily reveal anything, as we have do the soundtrack complete on the film as it has been shown. What needs to be found is the missing picture element, not the soundtrack or any description of the dialogue or sound.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> Interesting. I have 2 versions of the Maltin guide, 1990 and 2006, and neither one has VIRTUE.
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VIRTUE is listed in Leonard's "Classic Movie Guide" which, as helenbaby pointed out, covers only older films, many of which were included in earlier editions of his "Movie Guide" book. But over the years as newer titles were added space limitations forced him to delete older and more obscure movies (much to the frustration of we fans of the older stuff).
In 2005 he put out the first "Classic Movie Guide" which not only restored all of those dropped titles, but added many that had never been listed before. That book covered films only up to 1960. He did not indented this version of his Guide to be printed annually, like the regular version, but every five years or so. And so the second edition came out last year. The big change this time is his extension of the cut-off year for inclusion of newer titles. Now the Guide includes movies made up through 1965.
Here is VIRTUE's entry:
Rating: Three stars.
(Running time, director, cast).
"Fine comedy-drama about the romance of streetwalker Carole Lombard and taxi driver Pat O'Brien, who has a thing against all women. Genuinely warm chemistry between the two stars and plenty of snappy pre-code patter spark this likable film, written by Robert Riskin."
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The black screen for the first minute or so of VIRTUE was not intended to be seen that way. Although the movie has two long-lasting popular stars I can not find any concrete evidence it was ever theatrically re-released, as often happens with movies with big stars who continue to remain popular.
But at some point perhaps a reissue was considered then rejected but the opening scene was cut, then lost. Anyway since the scene basically makes it quite clear that the cops are telling Mae (Carole) to get out of town, you're a prostitute and we don't want your kind here, at some point it was cut. As I understand it, all that now survives for that scene is the soundtrack but no picture. So some prints have that first scene restored but the sound only with the black screen we saw on this print.
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> {quote:title=SueSueApplegate wrote:}{quote}
> How about:
> Sandy Descher discussing her experiences with *The Last Time I Saw Paris,*
> *The French Line, Three Brave Men, Her Twelve Men,* *The Bad and The Beautiful*,
> *The Opposite Sex* and/or *The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit* ?
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And of course, THEM!
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British actor & comedian Norman Wisdom passed away on October 4 at age 95.
Info about him:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936295/bio
Article:
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> Did you know that Hinds was a lawyer in the L.A. area, who did theatre as a hobby? He had several offers to go into pictures but turned them down. When the depression hit in 1929, he lost all his money and became an actor full time.
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And I'll bet that in Hinds-sight he didn't regret the decision at all!
But then, if he'd remained a lawyer he wouldn't be remembered and loved by so may of us for all of his memorable films.
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How are the winners notified? Do you receive an email?
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> Or Search for Beauty 1934 with Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe? This one actually sounds more like it and I think it was on recently?
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The original poster said that he saw the movie on TCM, but "Search for Beauty" has not (yet) been shown on TCM.
Here's a plot summary, anyway:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=89346&category=Full%20Synopsis
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> I posted a reply to thisone on the Romantic comedy forum--I think it is Search for Beauty 1934 with Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe?
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The original poster said he saw the movie on TCM, but "Search for Beauty" has not (yet) been shown on TCM.
Here's a plot summary, anyway:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=89346&category=Full%20Synopsis
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Grace Bradley Boyd dies at 97; widow of William 'Hopalong Cassidy' Boyd kept 'Hoppy' character alive
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By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
Grace Bradley Boyd, who came to Hollywood as a Paramount contract player in the early 1930's but abandoned her career after marrying the love of her life, William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd, has died. She was 97.
Boyd, the keeper of the "Hoppy" flame after the death of her western movie-hero husband of 35 years in 1972, died of age-related causes on her birthday Tuesday at her home in Dana Point, said Jane Mak, a longtime close friend.
As Grace Bradley, Boyd appeared in 35 films, including "Too Much Harmony," starring Bing Crosby; "The Big Broadcast of 1938," with W.C. Fields and Bob Hope; and "Come on Marines" with Richard Arlen and Ida Lupino.
The petite, Brooklyn-born actress, who launched her show-business career as a dancer, was often cast as a femme fatale or "the wrong girl," but she played a variety of characters.
Her most enduring role, however, was off-screen ? as the wife of William Boyd.
Born Grace Bradley on Sept. 21, 1913, she studied to be a concert pianist and at 15 represented the state of New York in an annual competition for young pianists at Carnegie Hall. Although she won the contest, she began modeling full time and attending dance school at night.
She was dancing in the floor show at the Paradise nightclub in Manhattan in 1933 when she was spotted by a Paramount Pictures director and placed under contract.
Grace Bradley had a string of movies behind her when she received the phone call that changed her life.
Years before, as a 12-year-old Brooklyn school girl, she had become smitten by dashing silent-screen star William Boyd.
Since his earlier success, the handsome actor's career had plummeted then risen again in 1935 after he began playing Hopalong Cassidy, the silver-haired western hero who dressed in black and rode a snow-white horse in a series of low-budget films.
In 1937, a mutual friend in Hollywood told William Boyd, "There's a girl you should meet."
When the actor phoned Bradley and said, "This is William Boyd," she recalled in a 1976 interview with the Costa Mesa-based Daily Pilot, she thought someone who knew about her "mad crush" on Boyd was pulling her leg.
"You mean the William Boyd?" she asked.
He laughed ? the same distinctively hearty laugh she had heard in his movies ? and she was speechless.
"You couldn't miss that laugh," she recalled. "There was no other like it."
The actor invited her to a small party at his beach house Malibu. And when he arrived at her Beverly Hills townhouse to pick her up, her mother greeted him at the door.
William Boyd was standing at the foot of the stairs when Grace walked down to meet him. He instinctively held out his arms for her, she recalled, "and I walked right into them."
Three days later, Boyd asked her to marry him. "He said, 'I would have proposed the first night except I was afraid I'd scare you to death,' " she recalled.
They were married three weeks after they met, Grace Bradley becoming the fifth ? and last ? Mrs. William Boyd.
As Republic Studios director William Witney once put it: "She met a Prince Charming on a big white horse."
Despite the age difference ? he was 42; she was 23 ? she said, "We were absolutely right for each other."
Grace Boyd soon abandoned her own acting career to devote herself to her husband.
After producer Harry "Pop" Sherman ceased production of the Hopalong Cassidy films in 1944, William Boyd set about purchasing the rights to the old movies and the Hoppy character.
To help raise the $350,000 to purchase the rights, the Boyds sold their ranch home north of Malibu and moved into an apartment in Hollywood.
"We were," Grace Boyd recalled in a 1991 interview with The Times, "down to absolutely nothing."
In 1946, William Boyd formed his own production company to begin turning out new Hoppy movies.
But the Boyds' investment paid off in a big and unexpected way.
In 1948, the old Hoppy films began appearing on KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles and on a station in New York City. NBC soon began airing them nationally and Boyd then started making new 30-minute episodes for television.
As America's first real television hero, the wise and tough cowboy with the friendly grin became a show-business phenomenon.
More than 2,000 products were manufactured bearing Hoppy's name and likeness, and Boyd, as Hoppy, appeared on the covers of Life, Time and Look magazines. During a 26-city tour, a million fans turned out to see him.
"I made a point of being in the background," she said in the 1976 interview. "As far as the kids were concerned, Hoppy was Hoppy. He didn't have a wife or family. When the young ones would ask, 'Who are you?,' I'd say, 'I'm Hoppy's mommy.' "
William Boyd retired from the screen in 1953 and died in 1972 at 77.
At a loss after his death, Grace Boyd began her more than 35 years of volunteer work at the hospital in Laguna Beach where her husband had spent his final days.
But Hopalong Cassidy always remained part of her life, including winning a two-decade legal battle stemming from a copyright infringement suit, and appearing at Hoppy tributes.
"Everybody I talk to is looking for a hero," she said at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 1995. "They say, 'If only we had Hoppy again,' or somebody like that. The children don't have role models. Who do we have?"
Boyd had no survivors.
A private service was held Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, where she was interred next to her husband.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
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> >She was a very sharp business woman and had started a very successful cosmetics and clothing company.
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> Constance Bennett even starred in a short film called Constance Bennett Presents Her "Daily Beauty Rituals". It was filmed in Cinecolor at Hal Roach Studios in early 1937 while she was making TOPPER there. Accompanied by a music score of familiar Leroy Shield tunes from recent Roach productions she takes us through her daily skin care routines. Although she doesn't come right out and say it, if one is aware that she had her own cosmetics products line, the film comes across as a commercial for her products.
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> The short is shown occasionally on TCM. Perhaps they will find a spot for it on October 22 between some of her movies being shown that day.
> It can also be found here on YouTube:
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It's coming up on TCM this Sunday morning, Sept. 26.
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Congratulations CineMaven...ANOTHER Complete Package!
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Anyone who wants to prowl on over here, there are some more good discussions on THE PROWLER:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=147635&tstart=0
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> {quote:title=MyFavoriteFilms wrote:}{quote}
> There were a few implausibilities in the script.
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> And I didn't think the voice of the husband (in the scene where he gets shot on the lawn) matched the radio announcer's voice.
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I know some people in radio and know that radio personalities often have a "radio voice" they use that's different from their regular voice.
But in the case of our movie, the radio voice of John Gilvray was actually provided by uncredited screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, not by the actor who played John in the scene when he went outside to investigate the prowler.
Looking for an OLD French war movie. (1900-1960?, has been aired on TCM b4)
in Information, Please!
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> This is very weird. This post was in Foreign Films last night, and I posted the answer, Rene Clement's 1952 film *Forbidden Games*. Now the post has moved here, and my reply is gone. Well, at least you got your question answered...
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I think when I answered this, it was in the "Ask Robert Osborne a Question" forum. Then some time after I answered it, it was moved here. If it was also in Foreign Films I never saw it there.
Just wanted you to know I didn't "copy" your answer!
Now we have to hope that the original poster thinks to look for the answer here.