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It could be the 1941 movie PENNY SERENADE starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Here's a detailed plot summary:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5818/Penny-Serenade/full-synopsis.html
Read it through and you should be able to tell if this is the movie you're asking about.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:
> }{quote}...and that includes misuse of words such as people using "prolly" (which, even though it's an accepted "internet word", I can't stand) and "probually", etc., instead of probably...which is THE word they should be using instead of the two I just described. It's annoying as all heck not only for the understanding of myself and others, but also because the idiocy of such obviously glaring misues really bothers me.
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You said it!
I too hate seeing those annoying "new words" instead of the word they should be using.
Another that really irks me is the use of the irritating non-existant fake new word "allot" when they mean "a lot". (There is one regular poster on these boards who uses this one all the time...I wonder if he'll see this comment).
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:
> }{quote}Saboteur...It could have been worse - it was Universal and just might have been cast with Robert Paige and Diana Barrymore.
Hey, I might have liked that!
I'm a big fan of Diana Barrymore (and she did prove herself in her dramatic role in NIGHTMARE, 1942). Big fan of Robert Paige too, who could handle any kind of role.
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> > {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}A while back a member wrote about hearing that TCM was going to run many Mack Sennett shorts in the fall. I forget who it was that had learned about this Spotlight but I've been hoping they would return and fill us in with some specifics on the shorts that have been announced. At least, this member seemed to be ratehr knowledgeable about Sennett and the films being acquired by TCM.
> Paging MusicalNovelty!
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Who, me?
Yes, I posted that back on January 9 (when at that time the Sennett films were scheduled for August).
Although I'm good friends with the guy who's restoring these films, I've not been bugging him about what's coming up, figuring I'll wait and see like everyone else. But like Kyle I also hope there'll be some Harry Langdon titles, also some stuff from the late 1920's and even some of Sennett's talkie shorts.
I'll check and see if I can learn any more about what's going to be shown in the still-unknown September dates of the 20th and 27th.
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> I betcha that the Coca Cola was 10 cents in 1950?
> Reminds me of me and my late brother Ralph.
If one looks at just the movie titles in this picture it could be either 1933 or 1950!
This is obviously from 1950 but Paramount also released two movies (unrelated) entitled EAGLE AND THE HAWK and NO MAN OF HER OWN in 1933 (the latter actually released at the very end of 1932).
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I'd like to see TCM run a marathon (or even just one) of the Columbia features produced in Canada in the late 1930's by Central Films, Ltd.
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> {quote:title=flashback42 wrote:}{quote}
> "♫...far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm...♪"
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> Irving Berlin's I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm) sung by Judy Garland in *Easter Parade... a* cartoon short, supposedly a lecture on Michigan, made use of the song.
The song was also used memorably in the 1931 Laurel & Hardy movie PARDON US.
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> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}
> TCM is about to show *Plane Crazy (1933),* a 20 minute short mentioned earlier on this thread when I did a *Bubsy Berkeley* tribute.
Actually, it's not the same film.
The short mentioned earlier as part of the Busby Berkeley tribute was PLANE NUTS the 1933 MGM short starring Ted Healy and his Stooges. The one TCM showed Saturday morning was PLANE CRAZY a 1933 Vitaphone short starring Dorothy Lee and comedians Arthur and Morton Havel.
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What I'd like to see TCM show is the first "Crime Doctor" movie, THE CRIME DOCTOR (1934), an RKO Radio Picture starring Otto Kruger and Karen Morley.
Unrelated to the later Columbia series, this RKO movie is apparently tied up in some rights issues and as far as I can research, has never been available to television.
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:
> }{quote}That's a hell bent Shirley Mason (I guess) contemplating plugging wily Lewis Stone the habitual Womanizing Cad in DON JUAN'S 3 NIGHTS (1926)...
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I believe that's actually Gertrude Astor, not Shirley Mason.
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> {quote:title=bOb39 wrote:}{quote}
> While we're in that vault (Paramount)...
> ...while we're there, grab those Joe Palooka movies, too.
You won't find the Joe Palooka films in any Paramount vault. They didn't produce them.
There was one feature in 1934 released by United Artists. A series of Joe Palooka shorts was produced by Vitaphone/Warner Bros. in the mid-1930's, then a series of Joe Palooka features was made by Monogram in the late 1940's.
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The link in my older post doesn't seem to work any more, so here's what I wrote about James FitzPatrick:
James A. FitzPatrick (1894-1980) started his series of one-reel travel shorts in 1930 and released them independently. He also produced other film shorts series, such as the "Movie Horoscope" series, "American Holiday" series, and "Music Master Series". He even got into feature film distribution in 1930 with his American release of the 1928 British silent movie "The Lady of the Lake", with sound effects added.
The "Movie Horoscope" shorts were one-reelers entitled "People Born in January" through
"People Born in December". Twelve were produced, one for each month, and released each month in 1930.
The "American Holiday" series consisted of ten shorts, each only three minutes long, focusing on a certain holiday. Each was released in time for the corresponding holiday, commencing in September 1930 for Labor Day, and covering ten holidays through Independence Day 1931.
The ''Music Master Series" was a series of 9 one-reel shorts featuring orchestral renditions of works by composers Bizet, Brahms, Liszt, Handel, Chopin, Beethoven, Strauss, Verdi, and Mendelssohn. They were released between September and December 1930.
In 1931 FitzPatrick started releasing his TravelTalk shorts through MGM. He discontinued those other three series (after all, he had pretty much run out of material, unless he wanted to cover more composers). He continued to release his Technicolor TravelTalks shorts through MGM at the rate of at least eight a year through 1951. Then for some reason MGM started calling the series "People on Parade". That lasted only a year, and so in 1952 it was back to the name "TravelTalks". Then, on February 12, 1954 MGM finally released the final entry in the long-running series, "Glimpses of Western Germany". The studio reissued six older entries over the next year, then finally retired the series.
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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:
> }{quote}My back issues of Classic Images arrived. Once again, thanks to MusicalNovelty for pointing them out to me.
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I'm glad to hear that you ordered and received them. I wasn't sure how available certain back issues still are. I was ready to offer to send you copies of the articles from my old original issues if necessary.
You should continue to check out "Classic Images". It's a quality publication (despite my occasional contibutions! - most recently in the Feb. 2012 issue where I wrote a detailed article/tribute to one of my favorite child actresses, Susan Gordon, who became a good friend of mine over the years).
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:
> }{quote}*Douglass Montgomery* had a solid career in the early/mid 1930s. After Little Women he played the lead in Little Man, What Now ? and Music in the Air (I think he sang in that film, including the hit song, "I've told every little star"). And he was excellent as Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1935.
He also acted under the name Kent Douglass.
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HEADPIN HINTS is scheduled again on TCM on Sunday afternoon, May 20 at 1:21 P.M. (eastern).
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All of the movies are named for hit songs:
Donald Pleasance - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely HeartsClub Band
Michael Landon - Legend of Tom Dooley
James Best - Ode to Billy Joe
James Broderick - Alice's Restaurant
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> {quote:title=anhedoni3 wrote:
> }{quote}I have been watching the Saturday morning Boston **** films and enjoying them immensely. Does anyone know if they are on DVD? I doubt it as they are being shown without closed captions. I somehow see an opportunity here for TCM to issue a boxed set--unless I'm the only one who likes them.
Coincidentally, just today I received notice from Warner Archives that SONY Choice Collection has released two Boston **** movies on May 12:
ONE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT (1944)
A CLOSE CALL FOR BOSTON **** (1946)
From the New Release announcement:
*SLEUTHS:*
ONE MYSTERIOUS NIGHT (1944)
Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane) enlists **** (Chester Morris) and his sidekick The Runt (George E. Stone) to help find the culprit behind theft of the Blue Star of the Nile. But a beautiful blonde (Janis Carter) gums up the works with curves and cracks, and **** gets arrested despite his deal with the Inspector. Directed by noted western director Budd Boetticher.
A CLOSE CALL FOR BOSTON **** (1946)
**** gets entangled with a former girlfriend, the murder of her husband, and a possible kidnap-extortion plot! Gerry Peyton (Lynn Merrick), ****?s former flame, shows up with her baby and asks the two to protect him from her recently paroled husband. The Runt takes the baby, and **** takes on the husband. Soon the chase is on, with Inspector Farraday and Sergeant Matthews (Frank Sully) at their heels.
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> {quote:title=SansFin wrote:
> }{quote}The movies are in the Public Domain so the quality of the prints will vary wildly.
I really doubt the Boston **** movies are Public Domain. I don't have one of the Copyright Renewal books handy right now to look them up, but I'm sure Columbia renewed each of the movies' copyrights when their times came up.
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> > THE DEFENSE RESTS (1934)
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> > Stars include... Jean Arthur...
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THE DEFENSE RESTS has just been released on the new "Jean Arthur Drama Collection" DVD set. So we can expect it to possibly show up on TCM some time.
The similarly very rare Columbia Jean Arthur title THE PUBLIC MENACE (1935) was on TCM recently for the first time ever, after coming out first on the Jean Arthur Comedy Collection DVD set.
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> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:
> > }{quote}A super-rare Universal feature: THE UNEXPECTED FATHER (1932) will be shown in 35mm on the big Capitol Theater screen at the annual Capitolfest in Rome, NY the week-end of August 12. Info here:
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> > http://www.romecapitol.com/capitolfest.html
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> I wonder if "Unexpected Father" has the same story as "Little Accident", a Universal from 1930.
Being familiar with both of those movies and their many relations, here's the story:
Those two films are not related (beyond being from the same studio and being about babies, and both featuring Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts).
The 1932 version of THE UNEXPECTED FATHER was a remake of the silent Universal feature THAT'S MY DADDY (1928) (starring Reginald Denny and Barbara Kent). Coincidentally, a very young Andy Devine appeared unbilled in both.
A 1939 Universal Picture also entitled UNEXPECTED FATHER (starring Dennis O'Keefe, Shirley Ross and Baby Sandy) is no relation to the earlier movie of the same name.
The 1930 version of LITTLE ACCIDENT (starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Anita Page, and as noted Slim and ZaSu, but not as a team this time) was remade in 1944 by International Pictures, distributed by RKO Radio. International was soon to merge with Universal to become Universal-International. This version was called CASANOVA BROWN, starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright.
To further confuse matters (and future researchers) Universal produced another comedy feature in 1939 also entitled LITTLE ACCIDENT (this one starring Hugh Herbert, Florence Rice, Richard Carlson and Baby Sandy). This movie was no relation to the 1930 Universal picture of the same title (except, again for being about babies).
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Here's something I've posted elsewhere about James FitzPatrick (originally way back on Feb. 23, 2009 when someone asked a question about one of the films):
I hope you'll find it interesting.
James A. FitzPatrick (1894-1980) started his series of one-reel travel shorts in 1930 and released them independently. He also produced other film shorts series, such as the "Movie Horoscope" series, "American Holiday" series, and "Music Master Series". He even got into feature film distribution in 1930 with his American release of the 1928 British silent movie "The Lady of the Lake", with sound effects added.
The "Movie Horoscope" shorts were one-reelers entitled "People Born in January" through
"People Born in December". Twelve were produced, one for each month, and released each month in 1930.
The "American Holiday" series consisted of ten shorts, each only three minutes long, focusing on a certain holiday. Each was released in time for the corresponding holiday, commencing in September 1930 for Labor Day, and covering ten holidays through Independence Day 1931.
The ''Music Master Series" was a series of 9 one-reel shorts featuring orchestral renditions of works by composers Bizet, Brahms, Liszt, Handel, Chopin, Beethoven, Strauss, Verdi, and Mendelssohn. They were released between September and December 1930.
In 1931 FitzPatrick started releasing his TravelTalk shorts through MGM. He discontinued those other three series (after all, he had pretty much run out of material, unless he wanted to cover more composers). He continued to release his Technicolor TravelTalks shorts through MGM at the rate of at least eight a year through 1951. Then for some reason MGM started calling the series "People on Parade". That lasted only a year, and so in 1952 it was back to the name "TravelTalks". Then, on February 12, 1954 MGM finally released the final entry in the long-running series, "Glimpses of Western Germany". The studio reissued six older entries over the next year, then finally retired the series.
FitzPatrick did other film work before the TravelTalks series, and occasionally during its run, but this basically covers his work on that series
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That short is HEADPIN HINTS (1955) - RKO-Pathe Sportscope series.
Info on it here:
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> {quote:title=Terrence1 wrote:
> }{quote}My guess is that both are associated with the title "Night Has 1,000 Eyes."
Correct!
It was a 1962 hit record for Bobby Vee and the title of a 1948 movie starring Edward G. Robinson.
The movie and song were unrelated.
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Okay...
Name something that 1960's pop singer Bobby Vee has in common with classic actor Edward G. Robinson.
hoping to find a movie
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> {quote:title=berggirl37 wrote:
> }{quote}i also am hoping to find out the title of a movie i watched as a child... i do not remember a whole lot about the movie thou...i would love to watch it again as an adult i have been trying to find it for years i watch tons of old movies trying to come across it but no luck yet it was in black and white set in a rural scene it kinda follows a family threw their ups and down in life it was a real sad movie it ended with the main charectors infant passing away any help anyone could give would be wonderful sorry I could not remember more but it has been 30 years
Could be PENNY SERENADE (1941) starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Detailed plot summary here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5818/Penny-Serenade/full-synopsis.html