musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote}
> You must be in the Mid-Atlantic stretch where they got pounded. I lucked out here in Massachusetts, for the most part.
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Me, too. I'm in Massachusetts too, and almost feel guilty for missing (so far) all those big storms that have caused so much trouble for my mid-Atlantic friends.
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And continuing TCM's "snow day" we are looking forward to:
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Snowball.
The Snowshovels of Navarone.
Snowball Fight on the Bounty.
The Greatest Snow on Earth.
Our Vines Have Tender Snowballs.
Guess Who's Coming to Shovel Snow.
and Joe McDoakes in So You Want to Shovel Snow.
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> I think RayFaiola is right.
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> It sounds like this:
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> Starting at 5:45 into this clip, and played more slowly:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adyc2sBQ4Wg
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Okay, now that we've identified it, let's have some fun with it:
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> But...but..but Rich - It's got Eddie Smith's baby's father in it!!!!
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I know...Don Dillaway.
I was just never fond of Ethel Merman. I'm not saying she hasn't got talent. She's just too too too LOUD! Talking or singing I just find her irritating.
But yes I agree that George Sanders was great in CALL ME MADAM. Nice to hear him sing.
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Ethel Merman made a series of one-reel musical shorts at Paramount in the early 1930's that I can tolerate. But as far as she goes, I will just say that CALL ME MADAM is a good Donald O'Connor & Vera-Ellen movie.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> > Yes, only Universal used that phrase as far as I know. That studio seemed to run end credits a lot. Some of their 40s horror films end with very upbeat music which sounds totally at odds with the mayhem depicted in the final reel.
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Here's a link to a thread on this topic from last year, and some info I posted that identified and gave some additional details about that familiar Universal end cast list music:
http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8272978
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> {quote:title=fredagay wrote:}{quote}
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>Although I realize it wasn't Jane Powells fault, but the foolishness of the authorities who made the movie, I don't think Jane Powell should have been used, especially when the star who was to have it originally, Esther Williams worked and dreamed so hard to have the role which was really made for her. I can't remember the name of the film, but it was about a family of people who thought excersize, strength and sports ability was their Heaven.
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The Esther Williams movie about a family who was into exercise and sports was DANGEROUS WHEN WET (1953).
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks, CineMaven. It's been a long time since both Shirley & Ginger appeared together ("I'll Be Seeing You" in 1944) at which time I heard that they didn't get along too well. Who knows?
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Shirley you jest!
Or should I say Mongo you jest!
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I think TCM needs to have a "snow day". Let's see, they could show these classics:
Snow Man of Her Own.
The Snows Came.
Singin' In the Snow.
A Hatful of Snow.
Snow Dark the Night.
A Hard Day's Snow.
Snow Big.
Snow Greater Glory.
Gone With the Snow.
Snow Dear to My Heart.
The Blizzard of Oz.
Snow Way Out.
Snowtree County.
Okay, I know...this is Snow Time For Comedy!
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And that frequently sighted Bird Man was on again last night. Fortunately if there had to be a movie during which my cable company saw the need to conduct TWO Emergency Broadcast System tests just a half hour apart, this was it.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> musicalnovelty ,
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> Thanks for clearing this matter up. Have you seen the movie, or where you able to identify the picture based on the production stills code?
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I did get to see THE FLAMING FOREST a few years ago (in a 35mm print at The Library of Congress) but must admit that I don't clearly recall the scene in that still. It was the still number (267) that confirmed it for me.
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Interesting trivia (I think):
For British release prints of STAGE DOOR CANTEEN the "Machine Gun Song" was replaced by a different song: "Be a Good Soldier (While Your Daddy's Away)" written by Irving Caesar, Al Koppel, and Gerald Marks.
(Info from the original United Artists music cue sheet for STAGE DOOR CANTEEN, dated June 18, 1943.)
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> So the ones in this set are not Monograms?
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Yes, these are all Monograms.
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> {quote:title=joefilmone wrote:}{quote}
> Landis looks a bit too relaxed and glamorous for a woman who is running away from dinosaurs.
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She always looked great! I don't blame them dinosaurs for chasin' her!
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> You might want to post this in the technical issues forum, and hopefully the person at TCM in charge of the technical stuff could give you a better answer than any of us can.
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> Maybe it was just a glitch...
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Yes it must have been just one of those glitches...you know like always happens when your house is haunted and there's a little girl trapped inside your TV set....or computer monitor.
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> Here's a curious photo from a film that clearly stars Renee Adoree, but thatis all I can identify. Is the actor with her Antonio Moreno and could the film be *The Flaming Forest* (1926)? If so, why is Antonio Moreno running around the Canadian forests dressed as a bellhop or an usher?
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> *Renee Adoree and Antonio Moreno?~large version*
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Yes, I can positively confirm that still is definitely from THE FLAMING FOREST.
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> *Oldest WGA member Aleen Leslie dies*
> Veteran screenwriter and playwright was 101
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> Screenwriter and playwright Aleen Leslie, the oldest living Writers Guild member, died Feb. 2 in Beverly Hills. She was 101.
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> Leslie started writing for Pennsylvania's Pittsburg Press at the age of 17. After moving to Hollywood, she talked her way into Universal Studios and began writing two-reelers for the Three Stooges.
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The Three Stooges never made any two-reelers for Universal.
And Aleen Leslie didn't write any of their Columbia shorts, although did contribute to at least one Charley Chase Columbia short, and its remake with Andy Clyde.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
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> Mark,
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> What film is airing on the 22nd? Did I miss something someplace?
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He must mean "Hollywood Revue of 1929", the film this thread is named for. That is scheduled for TCM on the 22nd.
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Hey TCM, I want to see GOBS AND GALS and GLAMOUR BOY!
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> Just curious - how many people who might otherwise be watching TCM on any given Sunday will be watching the Super Bowl this year?
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Absolutely NOT! I could not possibly care less. I don't like football, don't understand it, never liked it, never understood it. Just a lot of pointless aimless dumb boring running around.
The only good thing about the "super bowl" is that as far as I know it's the last game for a long time and we can get a break from football for a while...although not long enough. It always seems to creep back way too soon again.
Even the grocery store sales flyers have little footballs pictured all over them and numerous reminders of "The Big Game". I want to take a big magic marker and write across every one SOME OF US DON'T CARE!!! and mail them back to whoever designed them!
But have fun, whoever's planning on watching it.
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
> I've seen it before naturally but wow, what a flick! William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon, and the inimitable Frank McHugh! Such a great pre-code! So poignant, and so crisp! Thanks for airing it this month, TCM!
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ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932) has always been a favorite of mine, too, for all the reasons you mention, and for the nice musical score.
The movie has memorable theme tune used all through it, which I think adds a lot to the film. I had always wondered about the tune: what was its title, and who composed it? I did some research a few years ago and found that the title of the tune is "Love Theme" and although it's officially credited to Leo F. Forbstein, the real composer was W. Franke Harling.
In 1940 Warner Bros. remade ONE WAY PASSAGE under the title 'TIL WE MEET AGAIN and brought back that same memorable theme music. This time they decided to add lyrics and give it a new title and see if they could turn it into a hit song. And that they did: the tune was retitled "Where Was I?" and lyrics were written for it by Al Dubin. And once again the tune was a big factor in making the new version of the movie almost as good as the original. And the song did become a hit. It was recorded in 1940 by several of the popular bands of the day, including those of Charlie Barnet, Wayne King, and Ray Noble, and by singers such as Tony Martin.
And, not unexpectedly, Warner Bros. recycled the tune in other films, notably the cartoons MALIBU BEACH PARTY (1940) and HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT (1941).
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I love it, too!
No matter how many hundreds of times I've seen it, it'll never get old.
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I look forward most to the release of the announced but postponed set of Columbia Charley Chase shorts (1937 - 1940).
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/charleychasecolumbiashorts/
Please Sony release these shorts!
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> {quote:title=HollywoodGolightly wrote:}{quote}
> People always love hearing about celebrities being caught red-handed or doing something totally stupid.
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I don't.
"Gladiator" - Yey or Ney?
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> > And I know many here would be very happy with 1955 being the last year movies made would be able to be shown on this channel. So much for "Marty", "The Searchers", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Vertigo", "Some Like it Hot", "Psycho", "Judgement at Nuremberg", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Great Escape", and so many more classics from the 1960's onward.
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But those movies are much more likely to turn up on other channels. So it's not like we'd never see them if TCM didn't show them. Although I know it won't happen, I'd still be delighted with a TCM that showed nothing newer than 1955 or 1960.