musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=ziggyelman wrote:}{quote}any ideas on who this lovely lass might be??? > That is Doris McMahon in the 1934 RKO Radio Picture HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY!

Okay let's see if this can wrap this one up: It's Paramount, 1930.

Nothing to do with "Laugh-In" or George Sidney. Hey, any Three Stooges fans here? (That could be a hint!)

Just bumpin' the question so it'll be easier to find: Name something that all of the following performers have in common: Max Baer John Barrymore Eddy Duchin Clark Gable Harry James Al Jolson Danny Kaye Hedy Lamarr Dorothy Lamour Kim Novak Elvis Presley Dinah Shore Red Skelton Robert Taylor The Three Stooges

> {quote:title=FredMertz wrote: > }{quote}And early on Sunday, April 29, is another possible TCM premiere: > > 6:41am ET – *Campus Cinderella* – musical with Penny Singleton; 18 minutes. > I agree, I think that's a TCM premiere. But it was released as an extra on a DVD of some Warner Bros. feature a few years ago. I don't recall without searching, just what the feature was.

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > I'll try to add another clue later or tomorrow. > > But it's looking like this may be one where if you know it, you know it. And if not, no amount of clues will help short of eventually just giving the answer. I won't be posting again till Monday the 30th. So everybody keep on ponderin' this one!

It could be TIMBER! (1942) - Universal. Detailed plot description here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93342/Timber/full-synopsis.html More details on the movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035442/combined

Coming up on TCM on Saturday afternoon, April 28, 2012 at 1:04 P.M. (eastern) - Vitaphone short that I believe is a TCM premiere: SCRIPT GIRL (1937).

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote} > > musicalnovelty wrote: > > On George Harrison's 1970 album "All Thngs Must Pass" there's a song (on the "extra" third disc) called "It's Johnny's Birthday". The tune was ripped off from this Cliff Richard song. I've actually never seen this pointed out anywhere ever by Beatles experts or anyone else. I only noticed it way back then because I know both of the songs. > Thanks for that tidbit. I'll have to listen to my copy of "All Things Must Pass" again. I didn't check, but I wouldn't be surprised if "It's Johnny's Birthday" is on YouTube.

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote: > }{quote}That is true. I still have my laser copy. Including the preposterous typo on the cover in which Chaney's character "Dead Legs" is printed as "Daddy-Legs"!

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote: > }{quote}A couple of favorite songs about the movies: > > Billy Murray: > > "Since Mother Goes To Movie Shows": > > > "Ever Since The Movies Learned To Talk": > Thanks for the links. Love that good old stuff (have WAY TOO MANY 78's!) but also stuff like Beatles, Cliff Richard, Sly & Family Stone (to name three mentioned in other recent posts).

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote: > }{quote}No idea what the connection would be. On George Harrison's 1970 album "All Thngs Must Pass" there's a song (on the "extra" third disc) called "It's Johnny's Birthday". The tune was ripped off from this Cliff Richard song. I've actually never seen this pointed out anywhere ever by Beatles experts or anyone else. I only noticed it way back then because I know both of the songs.

No, nothing political or anything like that. I'll try to add another clue later or tomorrow. But it's looking like this may be one where if you know it, you know it. And if not, no amount of clues will help short of eventually just giving the answer.

> {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote: > }{quote}Were they portrayed by, or impersonated by other actors and actresses in movies? No...and not on postage stamps either. Okay, another clue: I said that the films they are connected to are comedies. Now I'll state that they're comedy shorts.

> {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote: > }{quote}Pre-code and in color? Is the entire movie in color, or just a segment? If it's the entire movie, the ones that come to mind are "King Of Jazz" and "Manhattan Parade" Could it be one of those movies? Good job on picking up on those two clues together - pre-code and in color certainly narrows it down quite a bit. Yes, it is pre-code and all-color (not just segments). But it's not either of those two titles you mentioned. Another clue: It's a rare movie (well, rare in that it's never been shown on TV or released on video or DVD) but it's not a lost movie.

> {quote:title=FranklinPangborn wrote:}{quote} > Were they portrayed in a cartoon? Animated versions of them? No, but I guess that's getting closer than any guess so far!

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote: > }{quote}Sly & The Family Stone: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLfHo9QAnQ Not their biggest hit, but always a favorite of mine (from 1968): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOB5vw7aNGc

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote} > > Cliff Richard: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fteIXHQlS9E Here's a 1968 Cliff Richard hit (in England anyway) that has an indirect Beatles connection. Know what it is?

No, that's not it. But, some clues: It is in color, pre-code, and involves playing a sport.

> {quote:title=finance wrote: > }{quote}Did they all work with a certain actor or actress? No, not physically in films, but the thing they all have in common does involve a certain set of actors. More clues to come as needed (if I can think of any) but sometimes I do want to let the question sit a day or 2 or 3 before adding more clues, to give everyone a chance to see the question and try to guess (assuming that there are a lot of people looking at these posts and trying to guess) (or are there actually only the couple of you who are posting guesses?)

> {quote:title=mr6666 wrote: > }{quote}how about a hint for my guess?? Hints aren't easy to think of for this question. But I'll try to come up with some... The thing all these performers have in common (for this question) involves comedy films. And none of these folks actually appear in the films in question.

> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote: > }{quote}The Archive label has just released 4 long awaited Lon Chaney Silents today on DVD-R. All are officially available for the first time ever on home video. > > > > WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1928), with Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. If the term "home video" can be considered to include laser discs, actually WEST OF ZANZIBAR was released by MGM/UA on laser back in 1993 (packaged with the 1930 version of THE UNHOLY THREE).

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Pier Angeli and her son, Perry via Vic Damone in 1956 Thanks for the Pier Angeli photo. I've always liked her. That photo is a publicity shot taken while making her 1956 movie SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME.

No, nothing like that.......

Thanks, TCM for adding some new Vitaphone shorts to the schedules recently. In the past week or so we have seen several that appear to be TCM premieres, and not available on DVD either, such as: BROADWAY BALLYHOO (1936) ALIBI MARK (1937) ON THE AIR (1939) THE WISHING STONE (1935) HIT PARADE OF THE GAY NINETIES (1950) ARE ANIMALS ACTORS? (1945) ALEX IN WONDERLAND (1940) And a few new MGM's appear to be premiering too, such as some Pete Smith shorts and LIFE IN SOMETOWN USA (1938) which was directed by Buster Keaton.