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> {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:
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> 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.
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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...)
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> {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.
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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.
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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!
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote}
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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!
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> {quote:title=classicstarletsfan wrote:
> }{quote}Here is a small picture of the lobby card to OUTSIDE THESE WALLS:
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Outside_These_Walls_lobby_card.jpg
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Cool prison...green bricks!
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:
> }{quote}Perhaps someone can provide us with Jimi Hendrix' quote about never hearing surf music again?
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It's in this classic Hendrix song from 1967:
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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.
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> {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
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
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> He (Harold Lloyd) (and Keaton) was a far better actor than Chaplin and L&H, as well.
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Actually Oliver Hardy was an excellent actor. But he's also so funny that it isn't always noticed.
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> {quote:title=RowanMartin68 wrote:}{quote}
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> I think Ben has been doing an excellent job hosting the past few nights with Tom Lisanti giving interesting facts and tidbits about each film.
Yes, Ben and his co-host have done a SUPERB job! Thanks guys!
And regarding that photo above, I've been re-discovering the classic TV show "Mission: Imposible" recently on MeTV and had to look up that guy's name - I recognized he's a regular on that show! (But he was using some different name in the beach movie).
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> {quote:title=NewYorkGuy wrote:
> }{quote}I've enjoyed catching up on these films this week, but -- sigh -- yet again we apparently have studios that won't license the letterbox versions to TCM. Grrrrrr...
The only one I noticed that wasn't in wide-screen that certainly looked like it should have been was BEACH BALL. Looked terrible - all pulled up close and very awkward looking.
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I'm most excited about the RARELY (if ever) televised movie BERKELEY SQUARE (1933) on July 24.
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> {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
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> {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?
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I've seen worse.
But it does feature something I'm not sure I've seen before: a gunfight in the pouring rain.
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> {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).
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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).
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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.
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> {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.
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> {quote:title=Lori3 wrote:
> }{quote}Gosh is it "attack Lori day?"...
> ....and I love cats!
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Hey, she loves cats!!
She's all right with me!
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}With all due respect to Jonathan Frid, it's surprising to me that he's getting more play on these boards than Dick Clark.
Not from me!
The loss of Dick Clark is major news, while personally I have never felt the desire to waste one second of my life thinking about (let alone watching) anything or anyone involving "Dark Shadows"* (with all due respect, as they say, to the show's fans).
*Even with old favorite Joan Bennett apparently in the cast, I never had any interest in the show.
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> {quote:title=wouldbestar wrote:
> }{quote}Now I've read where we've lost Greg Ham of *Men at Work* at age 58. What is going on here?
At least Robin Gibb is still hangin' in there (at least I haven't heard anything different in several days).
And here's wishing him the best!
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> {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.
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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".
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:
> }{quote}These films are as rich a source of music cameos as "The Girl Can't Help It!", etc. were in their day. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Righteous Brothers, The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Leslie Gore and others all trod the hallowed halls of the 60's teen exploitation film...
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.
But the producers of these movies sure seemed to like them.