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Alice White sings "I've Got My Eye On You" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zif0mSEgld8

Donald O'Connor was in MISTER BIG (1943) with Shirley Mills.

Virginia Weidler (Yay!!) was in THE UNDER-PUP (1939) with Gloria Jean.

There was a musical comedy movie in which the young lovers sing their love song in a normal traditional setting, nothing unusual or surprising. But then, later in the movie the song is reprised in a most unusual way. It is sung over a radio and the young lovers stand at each side of the radio and just look lovingly at each other while listening to the song being sung on the radio. I really don't think I've ever seen anything else quite like it in any film but this one. Name the movie, The stars, The song ...or any of the above.

> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote} > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ...That's how far I've gotten so far. I'm sorry if this is amazingly boring, but it helps my understanding of what I've read to type it out. (Plus I have to tell somebody.) > Hey, it's not boring. Keep searching & researching and reporting back on what you learn. And I will, too. I'd also like to learn more about her later (post-movies) years.

> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote: > }{quote} > I'm trying to get a sense of how hard she was trying; whether she could have, for example, been the neighborhood girl helping the Bowery Boys out of a scrape but that that was something she and her mother just weren't willing to settle for money wise or artistically. > Virginia Weidler working with The Bowery Boys? That would be unlikely - Leo Gorcey probably wouldn't want to tangle with her again! Remember in BORN TO SING she punched him out! (I have a great still of her socking him in that scene - MGM #1218-12. Wish I was able to post it here...)

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote: > }{quote}All those look-alike movie doubles were very interesting. Some looked like the real actors. For example...the Victor McLaglen character. I thought it was the real Victor McLaglen. > Coincidence about this movie and the doubles seen in it: The Victor McLaglen double was Victor's real brother Arthur. Then, to keep the family reunion going, after the movie TCM ran their John Wayne tribute in which Victor McLaglen's son Andrew was seen talking about Wayne.

This was on TCM once before, on Nov. 21, 2008. It was a very rare film before that, apparently never on TV before, and in fact, never reissued or available on any kind of home video format. Basically never out of the vaults since 1937. So, why did Columbia finally dig it out all these years later? Because Samuel Fuller was one of the writers. Well, that's great for Sam Fuller fans. But what about all the dozens of other overlooked and forgotten Columbia movies of the 1930's (and 1940's) that may not have a future-famous writer involved? Too many of those are still sitting locked away and unavailable. Thanks to Columbia for this one and to TCM for showing it!

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > I like Carney and Brown, they can't hold a candle to Abbott and Costello.... But you can be sure that if they did, Costello would see it moving, but it would stop when Abbott looked!

> {quote:title=classicstarletsfan wrote: > }{quote}Here is a small picture of the lobby card to OUTSIDE THESE WALLS: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Outside_These_Walls_lobby_card.jpg > Cool prison...green bricks!

In the 1942 MGM movie KATHLEEN Gail Patrick leads Shirley Temple and Herbert Marshall in a song while driving. In the 1931 MGM movie CUBAN LOVE SONG a marine is driving a car and a lot of others jump on too and they all sing "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along" while driving away.

> {quote:title=mudskipper wrote: > }{quote}Is that Max Baer Sr. or Jr. ? Max Baer, Sr. And also add to the list: Eddy Duchin Harry James Elvis Presley Dinah Shore

> {quote:title=finance wrote: > }{quote}Also NO TIME FOR COMEDY. Yours, mn. I thought of that one, but the question said no comedies, and I sort of recall that one as a comedy. Anyway, new question: Name something that all of the following performers have in common: Max Baer John Barrymore Clark Gable Al Jolson Danny Kaye Hedy Lamarr Dorothy Lamour Kim Novak Red Skelton Robert Taylor The Three Stooges

> {quote:title=cujas wrote: > }{quote}Moving on--Classic Tap Number set in an opium den. So, it looks like everyone has given up on my previous question... I even mentioned one of the performers in one of my clues: Bert Wheeler. The answer is Bert Wheeler & Dorothy Lee singing "I Love You So Much" in the 1930 Wheeler & Woolsey movie THE CUCKOOS. Is the answer to your new question: "Shanghai Lil" from FOOTLIGHT PARADE?

I've seen worse. But it does feature something I'm not sure I've seen before: a gunfight in the pouring rain.

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > Never saw this movie. But if Gabor's in it, nobody should have been surprised at it's cheeziness. Zsa Zsa fans can see her again this coming Wednesday, April 25 in the TCM premiere of PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966).

In PAJAMA PARTY (1964) Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk sing "There Has to Be a Reason" while driving in a car (Annette is doing the driving).

Sure enough the next entry in the series, BIKINI BEACH (1964) starts out again with Frankie, Annette and the gang singing the title tune while driving.

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote: > }{quote}Try Picture Mommy Dead, with Martha Hyer as the demented little girl, though she doesn't sing it in her playhouse. I agree that the movie being asked about is probably PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966) but it was actually Susan Gordon, not Martha Hyer who played the girl. And she wasn't really a "little girl" in the movie, but a teenager (she was just under 17 when it was filmed). And I'm not sure I'd exactly call her character "demented" as much as just a bit disturbed. The movie is getting its premiere showing on TCM next week: Wednesday, April 25 during an afternoon of Martha Hyer movies.

> {quote:title=Lori3 wrote: > }{quote}Gosh is it "attack Lori day?"... > ....and I love cats! > Hey, she loves cats!! She's all right with me!

> {quote:title=Edgecliff wrote: > }{quote}I believe both films were independent productions and FOX just made a deal to release the films to theatres. I guess somehow WB picked up the rights to the films when FOX's deal with the production companies expired. Yes, that's probably just the explanation of the situation.

Just like in BEACH PARTY, the next one in the series, MUSCLE BEACH PARTY (1964) starts off with Frankie, Annette and most of the rest of the cast singing while driving their cars. The song this time is "Surfer's Holiday".

How about: The Human Comedy (1943) The Comedians (1967) King of Comedy (1983)

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > I think this is blondes on the beach week. Hey Fred, I'd guess your name here is most probably inspired by Humphrey Bogart's character name in the classic 1948 movie we all know, but did you know there is another Fred C. Dobbs? This morning I saw an episode of the TV show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" and in it there was a character named Fred C. Dobbs! It was in the episode entitled "The Magnificent Failure" (1962).

> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote: > }{quote}This often happens if the film was remade by another studio - they'll buy up the rights to the original. That is how Paramount's "The Letter" wound up in the Warner Archive. Yes, I know all about that...but that ain't the case with those two Fox movies.