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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote} > ....So, instead we bring you FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, a chiller from 1958..... Hey, I wouldn't have minded seeing that one!

> {quote:title=cujas wrote: > }{quote}Did RKO make musicals before 1933? Sure! Some of the early Wheeler & Woolsey features, for example, would certainly qualify as musicals.

Thanks for the detective work digging up the July schedule. Some observations and highlights: A highlight of the month (so far) is on the 24th - BERKELEY SQUARE (1933) - a real rarity that hasn't been on TV anywhere since the 1960's (if even then). THE GREEN HORNET (1940) serial starting on the 7th. THE GREAT RACE (1965) on the 26th - let's hope this time they'll show a print that isn't missing the dedication to Laurel & Hardy (missing the last two times the movie was shown on TCM). July 2 theme could be "Safari so good"! I see that the Christmas movie HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949) is coming up on the 6th. Oh, Christmas in July, I thought. Then sure enough, that movie is coming up later too, on the 22nd. On the 19th is LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT (1933) featuring the wonderful Lillian Roth. No further titles are listed at this time. I hope it will turn out to be a day of ALL Lillian Roth films! (Well, I can wish, anyway!) And look - we're getting more repeats of ON THE WATERFRONT and FACE IN THE CROWD. I'm so glad to see those again - NOT!!

Thanks Ray! I hadn't seen those before.

THE GREAT RACE is scheduled again on TCM on July 26, 2012. Let's hope this ptint will be complete with the dedication.

> {quote:title=bundie wrote: > }{quote}It struck me that the three stars of this film are still alive: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day. Unusual for a film made 62 years ago! > I think there was a thread about this a while ago: surviving cast members from old movies. One of my favorites is: THE UNDER-PUP (1939) - Universal. Gloria Jean's first movie. Still with us from that movie: Gloria Jean Dickie Moore Jean Porter Ann Gillis Payne Johnson Billy Lenhart Kenneth Brown And possibly others from the large cast of little-known extras playing girls at a summer camp. And, as she's always been a favorite of mine, worth mentioning: Shirley Mills, co-star in the movie, who passed just away two years ago (3-31-10). So, that's a pretty good survival rate for a movie made in 1939! Anyone think of any others?

> {quote:title=princessananka wrote:}{quote} > > "Bare Knees," starring the now forgotten Virginia Lee Corbin. > > > It's like watching a fun documentary about how flapper Virginia Lee Corbin moves in with her unhappy sister and her miserable husband--but being a flapper, Virginia Lee provides them with plenty of "pep" and she does it in a great wardrobe of jazz baby outfits and gowns. You get a glimpse of how our dancing daughters and our dancing mothers lived back in the Jazz Age. And those gowns are fabulous--all sequins and bangles and just hovering above bare knees. > BARE KNEES is scheduled to be shown on the big screen (in 35mm!) at the annual Capitolfest in Rome, NY on August 10, 2012. Here's info on the rest of the show: http://www.romecapitol.com/capitolfest.html

> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote} > > I thought Ginger was being held by two Klansmen while she was > being whipped, not tied to a post. That is correct. At least, that's how it looked to me.

> {quote:title=CLC wrote: > }{quote}Help! What is the name of the tune on the music box in this classic film?? I believe in the movie they said it is an old British lullaby. . Hello CLC, I have the original Universal Music Cue Sheet for DRESSED TO KILL, dated May 25, 1946 and so here's the official info right from the studio source. The tune played on the music box is "The Swag Man" (also known as "The Swagman") an old Australian folk song. The cue sheet gives writing credit to Jack Brooks, but actually he only adapted it into what we hear in the movie. He was a prolific songwriter who was active at Universal at the time, in fact also gets credit for the song "You Never Know Just 'Oo Yer Gonna Meet", also heard in DRESSED TO KILL. By the way, the Cue Sheet lists "The Swag Man" as being played in DRESSED TO KILL a total of 17 times.

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=finance wrote: ...}{quote} Judy Collins didn't write any of her own material, did she? > As far as I know, she just sang other people's songs, did not write her own. Her talent lay in singing, exhibiting good taste in her music selections... She actually did write some songs, but as you said she is best known for her hit versions of others' songs. One of my favorites of hers that she wrote herself is "My Father" written in 1968. It happens to also be the B-side of the 45 of "Someday Soon" released in early 1969 (and that had a YouTube link posted here recently). I poked around YouTube to see if "My Father" was available there, but found only a few live versions, not the original studio version that I know so well. But the live versions sound good, too.

In the movie THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT (1956) Gregory Peck and Marisa Pavan are riding in a truck (Marisa is driving) and Gregory sings "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" to her as they drive along.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote: > }{quote}These junior moments come unexpectedly... Junior moments or not, your posts are still among the most interesing, intelligent and informative on these Boards!

> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote: > }{quote}Sorry for being away. > > > > > > > > > > > ....one of the users here will be away for a month, allowing me just a little bit more time to hopefully 'respond', as well, instead of just 'scanning'. > > > > > > > > > > Good to see you here again. And good to hear that you'll be able to return more often.

> {quote:title=bundie wrote:... > }{quote}I've seen the brief chat she did...I forget if she was speaking about a specific actor or movie, in which case they would show it when that actor or movie is being featured. > The Joan Leslie interview clip that TCM shows has her talking about working with James Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.

> {quote:title=Arturo wrote: > }{quote}...RHAPSODY IN BLUE and CASANOVA BROWN had been filmed in 1943-44. CASANOVA BROWN? Joan Leslie is not in that. Could you mean CINDERELLA JONES?

For those who want to look forward into the future to late June, TCM has the Hal Roach short AT SEA ASHORE (1936) starring Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti scheduled for early morning June 28.

More clues: This should make it easy... I think! RKO Radio Pictures - 1930.

Mark said... Did anyone dig on Wheeler and Woolsey this morning in HIPS, HIPS HOORAY??? ABSOLUTELY! One of their best, and one of my favorites!

Booooo! The Laurel & Hardy dedication was again cut out of the print shown today, April 1, 2012. To some it may seem a small thing, but it kind of spoils the movie before it even starts.

In the 1933 Columbia short UM-PA ("Musical Novelty" series) Jack Osterman and Gloria Shea sing "You're the Only Girl I Love" (Con Conrad, Sidney Mitchell and Archie Gottler) while Jack drives Gloria through the city in his car.

Another on a train, not a car: At the end of HALLELUJAH (1929) Daniel Haynes sings "Going Home" riding on top of a train.

> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:}{quote} > Did Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett ever play Tarzan on screen? Bruce Bennett's two Tarzan movies are coming up on TCM on April 7 and 14.

> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote: > H}{quote}ow do you know for certain it's from 1959...because of the movies listed on it? I agree the flyer is from 1959. Checking a 1959 calendar all the dates and days of the week listed on the flyer correspond to 1959.

In the 1942 Universal Picture PRIVATE BUCKAROO The Andrews Sisters sing "Six Jerks in a Jeep" (Sid Robin) while bouncing along in a Jeep with Joe E. Lewis, Sidney Miller and Eddie Bruce. See the movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1wYaj2Y2FI

TOPPER (1937) In the opening scene Cary Grant and Constance Bennett sing "The Old Oaken Bucket" while driving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgijST_AwXQ&feature=related