musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote} > I remember one time...running across *High Noon...* > The original score was replaced by something that sounded more like the music you'd hear in a late '60's Sergio Leoni "Spagetti Western", Heavily fuzzed electric guitar and all! > > Any of you run across anything like this before? > > > Sepiatone > That kind of thing was done to some of the mid-1930's public domain John Wayne movies that I saw on Encore Westerns a few year ago (and being a fan of those, I HATED what they did to them!!). But I've never seen (heard) it done to HIGH NOON or any more famous or non-PD films the way the John Waynes were ruined by that added "music".

> {quote:title=GRASLA wrote: > }{quote}Can anyone please tell me where I can buy this 21 minute short, on either VHS or DVD? > > > > It starred Dawn O'Day, aka Anne Shirley, and Hal Le Roy. No, it did not! The Dawn O'Day who appeared in this short is NOT the same Dawn O'Day who changed her name to Anne Shirley. But it's a great fun short that turns up on TCM occasionally. Unfortunately I don't think it's out on DVD yet. I believe there's been talk of a set of Hal LeRoy shorts being considered for release by Warner Archives, but nothing so far.

On March 8, after his closing comments on the movie PRETTY POISON at about 11:50 P.M. (eastern) Robert Osborne held up the new DVD set of UPA cartoons, talked about them a little and then they ran the 1951 UPA cartoon ROOTY TOOT TOOT.

Charles Trowbridge

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Orson Welles takes a break from playing Rochester in "Jane Eyre" to jam with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on the set of "Jitterbugs", on the 20th Century Fox lot in 1943. Cropped off the right side of the original picture is Stan & Ollie's JITTERBUGS co-star Bob Bailey on clarinet. You can just see his fingers and shoe here.

See Shemp Howard (in 1954) doing his Liberace imitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sJX6Dm2bs&feature=related

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > > *Lee Tracy* .... Audiences found him amusing and endearing despite his occasional duplicity. > Most movie fans I know do like Lee Tracy. But one good friend HATED him. Too much arm-waving and hand-gesturing, he thought. And he especially hated one thing Tracy sometimes did: the way he'd kick his leg back while going through a door. My friend swore that once in the 1950's he saw Tracy in some live TV program and he did that kick thing and actually kicked over the scenery!

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote: > }{quote}Wow musicalnovelty, great story! > Funny too that every scene the child was in, I marveled at her acting ability. When the nanny was holding her and she cried, "Mommy, mommy, I want to go with my mommy" I sat there wondering just HOW did they got that kid to do that? Was the real mother just off stage? > > That child seemed way too young to "act" or even understand acting. She was an outstanding crier. It was totally believable acting, really outstanding job. > Thanks for putting it in perspective! I guess I just enjoy her happy roles (like the Laurel & Hardy movie) so much that it bothers me to see her acting so sad and hurt in MOLLY LOUVAIN...and doing it so believably. But as you said, that's because it was such good acting!

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote: > }{quote}That was a great youtube video. Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. By the way, you may have noticed what looks like a puddle of water on the floor during the number. Although I do have a copy of that complete show, I can't recall right now why that was, but let me just say that Abbott & Costello were also guests on that show and had just done a sketch, so that should explain it! Here's Uncle Bill introducing The Sauter- Finegan Orchestra in another great performance from that same show (a 1954 Colgate Comedy Hour). This is an Eddie Sauter composition with lots of wild percussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87bIc6Vls1c

> {quote:title=slaytonf wrote: > }{quote}Yes, musicalnovelty, I would be very interested in hearing about her impressions of Ann Dvorak, and Lee Tracy, too. But maybe she never met him. I don't recall any scenes they were in together, except perhaps at the end. Okay, here's what Jacquie Lyn told me about THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOUVAIN: Her first meeting with Ann Dvorak must have been while Ann was filming the early scenes when she is in her undies waiting for nylons to be delivered. Jacquie said "I do remember being introduced to Ann Dvorak before my part was filmed. My impression of her is pleasant, but not very friendly. I didn't particularly like her. She was just someone on the set, and I gather she felt the same. I do remember, though, that she must have been filming when we met, because she was wearing that teddy and gown from the first couple of scenes, and I remember thinking how rude she was to meet strangers in her underwear!" About her own performance, Jacquie said: "Dear me, was I really that stilted and priggish as a child? To see ourselves as others see us, I guess." She didn't comment on Lee Tracy, so as you suggested, she may not have met him.

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote: > }{quote}I would have never looked at this except for markbeckauf's thread....I recorded it & watched it last night too. > Mark was right, it certainly was worth seeing. > > Dvorak is gorgeous and we often see her in teddies or thin flowing robe-bonus! Gotta love those pre-codes. > Frank McHugh was my bonus in the film. > That movie has always been special to me for a unique reason: Remember the little girl who played Ann Dvorak's daughter in the movie? I met her and became good friends with her for the final ten years of her life (she passed away in 2002). Her name was Jacquie Lyn (at least that was her movie name). Although she cried and whined rather obnoxiously in MOLLY LOUVAIN I would have to say that her peformance in the 1932 Laurel & Hardy feature PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES has got to be just about the most charming and adorable of any child ever! She had been out of the movie scene and public eye since about 1933 (when she was only 5 years old) but in the early 1990's was "found" by Laurel & Hardy fans who invited her to their 1992 Convention where she got to meet fans and see how well her work was remembered and appreciated. After meeting her at that time we stayed in touch and I was able to find copies for her of most of her films that she either never had or didn't have good complete copies of (and in some cases had never even seen after completing her acting roles in them way back as a child in the early 1930's). She thought she had made only five films (the L & H feature, two Our Gang shorts, WICKED - 1931, Fox and PROSPERITY - 1932, MGM). So it was a real thrill to surprise her with a copy of MOLLY LOUVAIN back in about 1993. She had no memory or documentation at all of having made that movie. Note: she really did have a good memory of her brief film career even though she'd have been only 3 to 4 years old at the time. For example, she told me about scenes and incidents she recalled from her first movie, WICKED (1931) involving actresses Elissa Landi and Irene Rich that turned out to be accurate when I found stills that confirmed her memories (unfortunately that was the only one of her films I was unable to find for her. I knew and still know where a print is stored but can't get a copy). Memories from her other films also turned out to be accurate. Back to MOLLY LOUVIAN: Once she saw the copy I sent her, she did recall a few things about the making of the movie and told me some interesting memories about meeting Ann Dvorak, her impressions of her, and a criticism of her own performance (I'll post those later if anyone is interested). Jacquie Lyn was a very nice lady and as mentioned regarding her performance with Laurel & Hardy, a delightful child performer (given the right role!). It was a pleasure to be able to find and send her not only copies of her films but other material on her films and career. Ironically, just a few years ago I came across a seventh Jacquie Lyn movie that she didn't know about and unfortunately didn't live long enough for me to tell her about and provide her a copy.

Tallulah Bankhead?

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > A film that has been posted to the *filmography thread* is about to be aired on TCM: *UNTAMED YOUTH with Mamie Van Doren*. She has a cult following with her low end Marilyn Monroe knock off appeal > > My link to it has been yanked; I'll have to find another if possible. I was poking around YouTube a couple days ago and all I found was clips from it. Another that would be right at home in this thread is on TCM right now: DEATH IN SMALL DOSES (1957). I hope all "exploitation" fans are tuning in for it.

For a comic drunk: Definitely Arthur Housman (sort of preceded Jack Norton in the 1930's). Hilarious with Laurel & Hardy. And there are some Thelma Todd / Patsy Kelly shorts (such as DONE IN OIL and TREASURE BLUES) in which he is just excellent - he seemed to have a special chemistry with them.

Musician supreme Peter Mintun recreated what the opening titles for CONVENTION CITY might look like: My own research has confirmed that the music played over the opening titles for CONVENTION CITY was actually the tune to the song "Lonely Lane" (introduced and sung by Dick Powell in the 1933 Warner Bros. movie COLLEGE COACH, released just before CONVENTION CITY).

Unlisted short shown on Tuesday, March 6 at 5:18 P.M. (Eastern) after BIG HEARTED HERBERT (1934) - THROTTLE PUSHERS (1933) - MGM (Pete Smith - "Sports Champions" series)

Just about all the info on the film and the search for it (including up-to-the-minute news of evidence that it was shown as late as 1942) is all rounded up here: http://www.jazzage1920s.com/conventioncity/conventioncity.php Lots of nice stills too! Here's hoping that on next March 6 TCM will give us another full day of birthday boy Guy Kibbee's movies and by then CONVENTION CITY will be included!

Okay, here's one: Today on TCM celebrating Guy Kibbee's birthday we are enjoying a whole day of mostly pre-code Kibbee flicks. In three of them we also have Evalyn Knapp co-starring. Question: What has Evalyn Knapp in common with The Three Stooges?

2) One of the last surviving cast members, Shirley Mills (played "Ruth") passed away March 31, 2010.

Here is how it was SUPPOSED to look:

> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote: > ...}{quote}I learn a lot about history via old movies, especially fashions & social morality of a time past. Hi Soo, I learned Roman Numerals by trying to figure out the copyright dates on Three Stooges shorts when I was young. (Or, is that not quite what you meant?)

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > Casablancalover, > You mentioned your Dad's Glenn Miller connection...well I have one, too - I'm very proud that my uncle was a writer/arranger for Glenn Miller (& others before & after his time with Glenn) but his Miller connection is what I think is so cool. I still always get a little thrill seeing his name on the records. After getting out of The Service he went with Tommy Dorsey, then in the early 1950's started his own band which was very successful. > > > He passed away in June of 2008 at age 91. He was a very interesting and nice guy. And very smart about lots of other things in addition to music. > I went to his funeral. Many of his surviving old bandmates were there. Oh, the stories those old guys told! I wish I could have recorded them! > I didn't mean to appear so "mysterious" by not mentioning who my uncle was! I'm proud of him! Here's Uncle Bill with his partner Eddie Sauter introducing one of their most famous tunes, from a May 1954 "Colgate Comedy Hour" show: Bill was an excellent musician (even if he's better known for his writing and arranging). I love his solo near the end of this number! (You can tell they had a sense of humor too!) Anyone else remember this band and their innovative recordings?

"Strangers on a Train"?

Lee J. Cobb?

Not sure if this should actually be in the "Do you know this song?" thread, but it's a musical question, so here goes: In a certain old movie the young romantic couple finish their love song eating apples. Name: The movie The two stars The song Or any of the above...