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Did anyone else notice a "goof" in KITTY FOYLE?
In a scene that was set in the early 1930's Dennis Morgan does an imitation of Ronald Colman. Okay so far...except that in doing so he quoted a bit from LOST HORIZON...which wasn't released until 1937!
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
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> Rare image of Olivia de Havilland & Stan Laurel cutting up
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Stan must have called for old pal Oliver, and someone thought he said Olivia!
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> {quote:title=Terrence1 wrote:}{quote}
> Help! I'm desperately trying to remember the title of a Ginger Rogers movie. It's not "Having Wonderful Time", although there are similarities. She plays a famous, over-worked singer who goes to the country for a rest, and falls in love. She has a terrific musical number with a lot of male dancers called "Easy Come, Easy Go." The whole movie is worth it just to see this dance routine. Any ideas?
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> Terrence.
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Could it be "In Person" (1935)?
Info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026525/combined
Plot summaries:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026525/plotsummary
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=225&category=Full%20Synopsis
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> {quote:title=Shemp wrote:}{quote}
> [June schedule|http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=N&timezone=EST&oid=6/1/2010]
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> ('Twas earlier... now, it's back to the ads.)
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Yes, it was there. Now it's gone!
But I examined it in detail.
Some highlights:
A few rarely seen Paulette Goddard movies on the 3rd, including "Paris Model" (1953).
Four Monogram Charlie Chans and four Lone Wolf movies on the 8th.
"Before Midnight" (1933 - Columbia) on the 17th.
"Legong (Dance of the Virgins)" (1935) and "The Bat Whispers" (1930) on the 23rd.
A day of Anne Shirley...must be her birthday.
Bowery Boys continuing on Saturday mornings, with four from 1949.
The military comedies that were bumped for a memorial tribute recently are re-scheduled.
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> {quote:title=Annabelle092 wrote:}{quote}
> Can someone please tell me what music Tom Drake played on the piano? I know I've heard it before. This is driving me crazy! Thanks
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According to the MGM music cue sheet for the movie, the tune is "Etude. Op. 10 #3" by Chopin. When Donna Reed plays it later it is listed as "Spinet Playing Chopin".
Here is a listing of the musical compositions in the movie, up to the scene in which she plays the tune.
1. Main Title (Nathaniel Shilkret)
2. I Don't Know Why (Fred Ahlert)
3. Main Title - Part 2 (Shilkret)
4. Jeannine I Dream Of Lilac Time (Shilkret)
5. The Shipping Room (Shilkret)
6. See You at Eight (Shilkret)
7. Violin Improvisation (Shilkret)
8. Tschort Tsoboi (Unknown)
9. Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)
10. Chunky Turns Off Light (Shilkret)
11. I Don't Know Why (Fred Ahlert)
12. Etude, Op. 10 #3 (Chopin)
13. How About You (Burton Lane)
14. L'Amour Toujours L'Amour (Friml)
15. I Don't Know Why (Fred Ahlert)
16. Love Is a Wondrous Thing (Shilkret, Max Terr, Ralph Freed)
17. Fixin' the Bower (Shilkret)
18. Chunky Enters Room (Shilkret)
19. Road to Paradise - Part 1 (Shilkret)
20. Road to Paradise - Part 2 (Shilkret)
21. In the Surf (Shilkret)
22. Radio on the Beach (Shilkret)
23. Spinet Playing Chopin (Shilkret & Chopin)
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> I'll be presenting some goodies in 16mm this year:
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> Grand National's HATS OFF with Mae Clarke and John Payne.
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> Too bad it's not the other HATS OFF, eh?!?
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Over the years I've liked to tease some friends with: "Hey, I finally found a copy of "HATS OFF"! , then show them the Mae Clarke feature. Okay, I know it's a cruel joke!
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Curly Howard's health was noticeably declining during the last two years of his Three Stooges shorts, 1945 - 1946.
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One of the worst cases of an actor looking sick on screen was Stan Laurel in the 1951 Laurel & Hardy movie "Atoll K". He looks so bad in parts of that film that some Laurel & Hardy fans refuse to watch it, which is too bad because the movie actually does have a lot of good stuff in it. Fortunately Stan recovered from his illness at the time and lived happily until 1965.
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> Sorry, mugs. Hands down it was Marc Lawrence.
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Have you seen his great bit in THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF (Universal - 1941)?
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> {quote:title=deadendkid wrote:}{quote}
> This weekend is the 30th annual Cinefest in Syracuse. I plan on attending, but can't get there until the last day, Sunday. In an effort to connect with any TCM board members here, is anyone planning on attending?
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Absolutely !!
This will be about my 20th and I still look forward to it as much, if not more than ever.
Yes, I'm curious also, how many other TCM Message Board regulars will be there? I do know of four, but let's hear from everybody...who's going?
And if you can, but don't plan to, change those plans and come!
Here's info:
http://www.syracusecinephile.com/
deadendkid, we just missed each other last year...see you this time?
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> {quote:title=wickett_one wrote:}{quote}
> When I was small I remember seeing a movie in which a Lion was God and he sent peoples pets back to earth in human form but with their animal abilities to help their human owners. Im thinking the movie was made sometime in the middle to late 50's. Thank you in advance for any help.
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You Never Can Tell, but that movie could be the 1951 Universal comedy YOU NEVER CAN TELL starring Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, and Joyce Holden.
Plot description here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=96471&category=Full%20Synopsis
More info here:
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> {quote:title=mylifeinruins wrote:}{quote}
> So, about fifteen years ago my mother and I saw a super cute movie on TCM and missed the first fifteen or so minutes of the movie so we never caught the name. Unfortunately, I do not know any of the actors. ANY HELP that can be offered on figuring out the name would be great.
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> This is a black and white. The plot, essentially, is that a guy becomes a teacher at an all-girls school. He is not allowed to be married, have romance, or children. Somehow he obtains a baby, I think it had been abandoned or something (it happened in the first part of the movie that we did not see). He tries to hide the baby. The students find out he has the baby and helps him take care of it and also keep it hidden from everyone else at the school.
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> The guy may have a love interest with one of the other teachers, I just cannot remember that too clearly.
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> ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THIS MIGHT BE?
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That sounds like the 1940 MGM movie "40 Little Mothers" starring Eddie Cantor.
Plot description here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=75474&category=Full%20Synopsis
More info:
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> I saw RAFTER ROMANCE, which apparently is a found rarity. Interesting that the two male leads. Norman Foster and George Sidney, are both primarily known as directors.
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The George Sidney who was an actor in RAFTER ROMANCE was not the George Sidney who later was a director. Different guys, same name.
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> {quote:title=mooveeluvr wrote:}{quote}
> Many years ago, I was watching a film on TV with my dad. I was probably about eight years old and I don't remember the title but I do remember a bit about the story.
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> There was a woman (a teacher i think) who took care of a lot of little children. At one point early in the film, one of the little boys was terribly frightened of a thunder storm and she consoled him. THen, years later, she went to her doctor and recognized him as being that little boy. and she said to him, 'are you Johnny' (I think his name was John) 'the little boy who was afraid of lightning?'. Then, he somehow got all the kids that this woman took care of and invited her over. And when she walked into the room, she look at all the adults and started seeing their faces of when they were youngsters (or babies?). Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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That movie could be "Cheers for Miss Bishop" (1941) starring Martha Scott.
Plot summary here:
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
> I can think of five films with two-headed characters:
> The Manitou
> The Manster
> The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
> The Thing With Two Heads
> The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
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> But, I'd bet there are more! What are they?
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In "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules" (1962) The Stooges battle a two-headed cyclops.
http://threestooges.net/episode.php?id=216
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> According to Wikipedia, 42ND STREET was never colorized.
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I know for sure that it was.
1. Leonard Maltin's movies book says so.
2. IMDb says so (not that they're always right!).
And the best reason: I saw it! I still have a tape of it somewhere.
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> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote}
> Great Movie, Great Musical, Great cast. First film for Ruby Keeler { she had appeared in a cameo with hubby Al Jolson" in 1930 "Showgirl in Hollywood" }.
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Ruby Keeler also starred in a one-reel Fox Movietone short called "Ruby Keeler" (1928).
Although I've been searching for it for years unfortunately I don't think we'll ever see it.
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
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> I wonder how these early Berkeley numbers would've looked in Technicolor. I'm surprised these films were not colorized during that craze in the 80s.
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There was a colorized version of "42nd Street".
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote}
> How many Corcoran kids were there in the business? There was Noreen of Batchelor Father and Kevin aka Moochie from the Disney factory but I did not know of Donna until I saw her in Angels in the Outfield. Any more to look for? I know Kevin is a producer; where are the rest?
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This IMDb entry lists the other Corcoran kids and you can click onto each name to see their films listed and other info:
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks. Are any of these versions available to consumers?
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Through a film collector friend I was able to see all the shorts on 16mm. But they're not available commercially on video or DVD, nor have they ever been shown on TNT or TCM, to my knowledge.
The 1931 feature has been on TCM, and will be again, we can hope.
I saw the 1923 version at The Library of Congress.
So, most of them are "out there", but not necessarily easy to find.
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks, and I do have the Penrod film set for DVR recording this evening. There were three Penrod short films that the Mauch brothers made. This is one of those.
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The three Penrod short films that The Mauch brothers made were actually features, not shorts. They were relatively short features, averaging about 65 minutes each, but were features, not shorts. But that's probably what you meant. I just wanted to clarify, because there also were Penrod shorts made, and some people may confuse them.
In 1931 and 1932 seven Penrod one-reel shorts were made by Vitaphone / Warner Bros. These starred Billy Hayes as Penrod. Also appearing in most entries were future Dead End/ East Side/Bowery Boys Bobby Jordan and David Gorcey. Penrod's father was played by Ray Collins, almost ten years before most people think he made his debut in "Citizen Kane".
Other regulars kids in the shorts were Jackie Kelk, Paul White, and Ed Edwards. Penrod's Mom was played by Lucille Sears. Other familiar character actors turning up in the shorts included Donald MacBride, Tammany Young, James C. Morton, Edward Gargan, John Dunsmuir, Mildred Gover, and Harry T. Morey. One short was directed by Roy Mack, and the remaining six by Alf Goulding.
Other feature versions were made in 1922, 1923 and 1931.
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> {quote:title=JarrodMcDonald wrote:}{quote}
> Thank you! I think the original ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD greatly benefits from its roster of character actors: Lewis Stone, Spring Byington and Ellen Corby.
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No discussion of the 1951 "Angels in the Outfield" and its great cast can be complete without praise for the charming and talented Donna Corcoran.
More on Donna and her several acting siblings:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2076146/bio'>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2076146/bio'>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2076146/bio'>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2076146/bio
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2076146/
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In honor of their double feature on TCM tonight, let's not forget to mention:
Twins Billy and Bobby Mauch.
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> {quote:title=Marysara wrote:}{quote}
> Maybe it was the Bette Davis movie Jezebel.
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I agree.
That sounds like "Jezebel".
Plot summary here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=673&category=Full%20Synopsis
TCM celebrates Motown's 50th anniversary with movie marathon! Yeah!
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> Major Motown fan here...Supremes, Four Tops, Temptations, Martha Reeves, Marvin Gaye, Marvelettes...have a huge CD collection.
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Me too. Have a huge 45 and LP collection.