musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > Can anyone find a list, or a link to a listing of all 75 films they are looking for?
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> http://www.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/75-list.html
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SansFin ;
Thank you for the link.
Very interesting site! It's great that they provide so much additional info on each film if one clicks on the title.
I have always been interested in British films, especially 1930's and 1940's obscure comedies and musicals. I am actually familiar with some of the films in that list (but no, unfortunately I don't have any of them!)
It seems surprising that the list of missing films should include so many from the 1960's, 1970's and even 1980's.
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> {quote:title=CelluloidKid wrote:}{quote}
> The British Film Institute has launched a search for 75 films which have disappeared from view. Top of the "most wanted" list is Alfred Hitchcock's second film as director, The Mountain Eagle (1926).
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Can anyone find a list, or a link to a listing of all 75 films they are looking for?
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> {quote:title=Big_Bopper wrote:}{quote}
> i have another blacklisted movie: "Blockade" 1938 by john howard lawson. I taped it off a local channel in the 80's. it stars Henry Fonda & Madelaine Carroll. its a paramount picture so its owned by universal. not a great pic but an example of john howard lawson as a writer.
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BLOCKADE (1938) was not a Paramount Picture. It was a Walter Wanger Production, distributed by United Artists.
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Thrilled to announce:
Shorts are back on the schedule!
Highlight: Thelma Todd & Patsy Kelly short BEAUTY AND THE BUS (1933) on early Wednesday morning.
Thanks, TCM !
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Thrilled to announce:
Shorts are back on the schedule!
Highlight: Thelma Todd & Patsy Kelly short BEAUTY AND THE BUS (1933) on early Wednesday morning.
Thanks, TCM !
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:}{quote}
> As for Ugaarte, I thought it was a month or so ago, but time goes by so quickly, it could have been a little longer ago. I do think it was within the last two months.....
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It wasn't hard to look back and see that Ugaarte's last post was in this thread, on April 3, 2010.
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> > {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote}
> > I say stick to takies from 30 - 59, with a silent movie night like they have now, and an specific night for post 59 movies that 'feel' like classics from the studio period.
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> ITA!!!
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What does ITA mean?
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> musicalnovelty, Wendy,
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> You'll get a kick out of this one. Three feisty Mack Sennet Bathing Beauties. While none of the gals are exactly what I would call Beauties, they did have nice legs. Oh the stories that these ladies could tell their Great Grand Daughters!
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Thanks!
The middle girl looks mad! But it looks like the one on the right is supposed to be writing them a traffic ticket. Perhaps she should complain to her "Sennetter"!
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks for the correction, Musicalnovelty.
> I got the info from the image itself as posted here:
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> It was I myself who made the error.
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Yep, I knew where you got it from! I visit Greenbriar Picture Shows regularly. John is a good friend and does a great job on that site(in fact I'll be seeing him in less than two weeks!)
I'm not sure exactly who found it first, but that picture of Orson with Stan & Ollie appeared on Leonard Maltin's website a few years ago, and also in the book "Laurel & Hardy From the Forties Forward, Second Edition" by Scott MacGillivray (another good friend!)
The original still also has JITTERBUGS actor Bob Bailey standing next to Stan playing clarinet.
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> Orson Welles joins Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel is some jazz on the RKO backlot
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Mongo:
Thanks for all the great pictures.
One minor correction, though:
That shot of Orson & Ollie & Stan is actually on the 20th Century-Fox lot, not RKO.
Orson is in his "Rochester" costume for his movie JANE EYRE visiting Laurel & Hardy on the set of their latest feature JITTERBUGS (1943) (both 20th Century-Fox Pictures).
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> musicalnovelty,
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> No, I had no idea what film the still was from. Thanks for letting me know. Did they run this picture at one of the festivals you attended?
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No, I could tell by the still number (336).
Unfortunately I have not seen that movie...but sure would like to!
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> Frank Loesser wrote "Jolly" and all the other songs for THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (except Cantor's standby "Now's the Time To Fall in Love"). It's a fun ditty tailored specifically for Flynn. Flynn is outstandingly whimsical in this number and it's surely one of the highlights of the picture. This is a fun, fun, fun film. Even my wife likes it - and THAT'S saying something!
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Ray,
So glad to hear that you appear to like THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS as much as I do.
Last night my Sunday night movie gang enjoyed a nice 16mm print of the 1936 Universal feature MYSTERIOUS CROSSING, one of Frank Loesser's very first songwriting jobs in Hollywood. All I can say is after you hear Andy Devine sing Loesser's immortal classic "The Railroad That Ran Through Our Land" (twice, even!) you knew that Loesser had nowhere to go in the business but up!
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> {quote:title=jackie.rose89 wrote:}{quote}
> So about 2-4 years ago I remember watching this movie on TCM from the late '20s or 1930s about this young naive bachelor in a hotel/boarding house/apartment in the Midwest and this blonde woman with a high voice who must have been like a call girl or prostitute and someone with definitely more experience than him, was going to teach him about women and how to be a playboy.I don't remember much besides that and all the double entendres and sexual innuendoes it had. It might have been Pre-Code romantic-comedy but I'm not sure. Does anyone know what this movie might be? I've been searching for months but I can't remember enough about it to find anything. Thanks!
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This probably isn't it, but your description reminds me of PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH (1931) starring Buster Keaton and Charlotte Greenwood.
Perhaps this plot summary will help:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=86275&category=Full%20Synopsis
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> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}
> It's likely that TCM believes that a "holiday weekend" presentation of *The Wizard Of Oz* offers a perfect opportunity for families to gather together and watch the film - just the way most of us watched the film years ago on CBS.
> Kyle In Hollywood
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Those were the good old days, weren't they? Watching THE WIZARD OF OZ once a year on network TV with your family. A real special event.
Even as excited as I was to get my first video tape of THE WIZARD OF OZ (the first one released, early 1980's, with that old silver box...and yes of course I still have it) I knew it was the beginning of the end of an era...now I could watch it any time I wanted.
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Thanks gagman for the (as always) nice pictures.
That Norma Shearer "Tigress" shot is from her 1928 feature "The Actress" (just in case by any chance you didn't already know).
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> {quote:title=ziggyelman wrote:}{quote}
> Scottman, I like her a lot too!
I have a Cd of a LP she did in the 50's. Her voice was quite different, but still quite nice. >
Thanks for all the great Lillian Roth pictures! She's one of my all-time favorite movie ladies, too.
In addition to many stills of her, I also have several of her records. She made two LP's in the 1950's: "I'll Cry Tomorrow" on the Epic label, and "Lillian Roth Sings" on the Tops label (released on CD in 1998 as "Beyond My Worth"). Also an EP on the Coral label (the songs included also being released on 78 and 45 RPM's).
She made another album in 1975 called "The Way We Were: A Musical Autobiography" that I have on a 1985 LP (possibly its first release).
Keep the Lillian Roth pictures coming!
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> {quote:title=Big_Bopper wrote:}{quote}
> you've heard me talk about how certain pix with names in the credits become rare. one such pic is The Clay Pigeon - 1949 by richard fleisher. the name in the credits is Carl Foreman & so TCM cannot show it. I copied it off AMC in the 90's & it is not on video in this country.
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> The Clay Pigeon [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
> Barbara Hale (Primary Contributor), Bill Williams (Primary Contributor), Richard Fleischer (Director) | Format: DVD
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> available from Spain! R.O. again worships the blacklist.
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THE CLAY PIGEON was released on home video in the 1980's by RKO, double-billed with something else that I don't recall right now.
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Thanks for the nice words.
But I must admit that I've never really thought much about that song...it's just one of the many ingredients in that good fun movie. But if I wanted to try to learn more about it, I suppose the first thing I would do, and anyone can, is just start with an internet search on the song's title. Then, check out books on Errol Flynn, Warner Bros., movie musicals, the songwriters, etc.
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> {quote:title=Moodri wrote:}{quote}
> I've noticed in the past couple of weeks that shorts have been listed in the TCM schedule with very little notice, usually the day before broadcast.
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They just did it again...at 5:24 A.M. (Eastern) an unlisted short is being shown:
BEYOND THE LINE OF DUTY (1942) - WB.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034511/combined
Followed by the 1950 MGM Pete Smith short CURIOUS CONTESTS.
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I've often thought of this, too. It would be nice if it could be done.
Although it hasn't popped up lately, the thread called "Seeking Hollywood Revue of 1929" is quite long, but the title became out-dated almost immediately. (Plus, annoying me every time I saw it, the original poster misspelled "Revue").
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> {quote:title=johnbabe wrote:}{quote}
> why is TCM devoting almost all of the day today to Ann Shirley....i never heard of her, and i go way back.......there must be another Queen of the B movies here besides Lucy Ball...at least we all know and love Lucy, but who is Ann Shirley?
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I like Anne Shirley MUCH more than Lucy.
Thank you TCM for Anne Shirley Day!
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Yes, that is one of the very best documentaries of its kind.
I also have the accompanying book and soundtrack LP.
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> {quote:title=markfp2 wrote:}{quote}
> Welcome to the boards. Do you happen to know what movie it followed or about what day and time it ran? Perhaps, somebody recorded the movie and got the short too.
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That short was shown on TCM on Tuesday night, June 22, after the feature "No Time For Sergeants".
Here's a little info on the short:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=400314&category=Full%20Credits
And more:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216325/combined
One reviewer there says the short is available as an extra on the DVD of the 1943 Warner Bros. picture "Thank Your Lucky Stars".
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Many of the pairings that we think never happened actually might have - but on radio, not film, in the radio series "LUX Radio Theater" (1934 - 1955).
Check out the numerous fascinating star pairings that never happened in films:
I have a Cd of a LP she did in the 50's. Her voice was quite different, but still quite nice.
"Bank Holiday", interesting movie...
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Margaret Lockwood is beautiful.
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> Nobody was posting messages during that movie. Everyone must have been watching it.
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I just finished watching it, too. I thought it was great! But I knew I would. That's just the type of British movie I look for, and would have been looking forward to it just as much even if it didn't have a famous director!
Apparently it was released in the USA under the title "Three on a Weekend". I'm glad TCM showed an original British print with the real "Bank Holiday" titles.
Thanks TCM for finding and running this!