musicalnovelty
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> {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"!
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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:
> }{quote}A couple of favorite songs about the movies:
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> "Since Mother Goes To Movie Shows":
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> "Ever Since The Movies Learned To Talk":
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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).
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> {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.
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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.
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> {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!
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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:
> }{quote}Sly & The Family Stone:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLfHo9QAnQ
Not their biggest hit, but always a favorite of mine (from 1968):
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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote}
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> 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?
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No, that's not it.
But, some clues:
It is in color, pre-code, and involves playing a sport.
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> {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?)
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> {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.
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> {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.
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> 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).
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> {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.
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Susan Gordon's final movie (before retiring at age 17) PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966) is getting its TCM premiere Wednesday, April 25, 2012 during an afternoon of Martha Hyer movies.
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No, nothing like that.......
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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.
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Donald O'Connor was in MISTER BIG (1943) with Shirley Mills.
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Virginia Weidler (Yay!!)
was in
THE UNDER-PUP (1939)
with Gloria Jean.
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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.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}
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> > I always found it interesting that, of all the performers who appeared in these films, The Hondells and Dick Dale were in so many of them. Because even with all that exposure they apparently really didn't have many hit records at all (45's that is) (according to the Billboard national Top 100 singles charts). "Little Honda" by The Hondells made the top ten but that was the only one that did well on the charts.
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> > But the producers of these movies sure seemed to like them.
> > Dick Dale was an innovator, who practically created "surf music" by himself, because he wanted to express what surfing was to him. He may not have had many top 40 hits, but to anyone who really knows the music, he was a god, and still is, I guess.
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I am certainly aware of and do appreciate Dick Dale's importance as an innovator and influence, etc. It just always seemed strange that he really didn't have any big "Top 40" hit records.
So it's great (and a valuable thing too) that we can see him in these movies.
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> ...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.)
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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.
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> {quote:title=kriegerg69 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=RowanMartin68 wrote:}{quote}The Girls on the Beach was pan-and-scan as well.
> Technically, it would not be pan-and-scan because that movie was filmed in a 1.85:1 ratio which more often than not is achieved by filming in what is termed "open matte"...the movie was filmed full-frame/full-screen, but composed for the intended ratio and shown theatrically with the projectionist using a plate in the projector to mask the top and bottoms of the frame...so the audience never sees the unintended areas. What you would have seen on that film would have been the entire film frame as it was filmed.
> "Pan-and-scan" would apply to the other movie that was mentioned, because that film was shot in a 2.35:1 ratio, which is generally achieved with special anamorphic lenses that "squeeze" the image down into the film frame area. Such a movie would actually be "panned-and-scanned" and have the ends of the image cut off to make it full-screen.
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Thank you for pointing that out and explaining it so well.
When I said that the print of BEACH BALL shown on TCM was not in wide screen I was basically also saying that GIRLS ON THE BEACH was. Since they were shown in sequence the night TCM ran them it was easy to see the difference. As I pointed out, BEACH BALL looked awful, but GIRLS ON THE BEACH looked fine to me.
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> {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.