musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=mitali77 wrote:
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Maybe you haven't been keeping up with them.
When Warner Archives started I believe they stated there'd be no restorations or extras. But there have been more and more over the last few years. First of all, there have been many double features - that's like getting a whole second movie as an extra! Many ARE new restorations (or Remastered as they put it). Quite often extra material is included such as trailers (sometimes not even noted on the packaging, but they're there). And one of my favorites: on the recent DVD of the 1934 movie HOLLYWOOD PARTY they included 38 minutes of rare previously unreleased audio material - deleted or alternate takes of the musical numbers.
Just today I got a Warner Archives New Releases announcement including the 1951 MGM movie WESTWARD THE WOMEN and for extras on that disc they're including the MGM promotional short for the movie and an audio commentary track.
They've even been upgrading the cover images on the DVD boxes since the series started.
So, yes they most certainly are including extras.
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All very true and interesting about the RKO trailers and prints.
But actually in the original post the complaint was about the trailer for SWING FEVER which is MGM, not RKO.
And by the way, I've also seen some of those Kay Kyser Lucky Strike shorts - good fun stuff!
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> Unfortunately, however, you won't be able to see it when you "see" it. As far as I can recall, this is absolutely the worst print (far worse then The Santa Fe trail shown just ahed of it) of any movie that I have ever seen in my entire lifetime! So all of you out there stop fawning over it and ask for something that is worth your effort to wish for!!!
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To many of us who have seen a lot worse, it wasn't THAT bad. Having seen much worse, I was perfectly fine with it. I appreciated TCM bringing it to us.
I guess when it comes to cases like the 1930 CHARLEY'S AUNT where this may be all there is, you have to decide "Would you rather never see it at all or see it in less than perfect quality?"
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ON BORROWED TIME (1939) - MGM
Lionel Barrymore and Bobs Watson sing "Casey Jones" while Lionel is driving them in a car.
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Sorry to hear that you're disappointed in the DVD.
Big Kyser fan here too, and I enjoyed your book very much.
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> ....So, instead we bring you FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, a chiller from 1958.....
Hey, I wouldn't have minded seeing that one!
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> {quote:title=Arturo wrote:
> }{quote}Of course they are. How could I have screwed that up?!
Yes, I knew you knew, and this was just a typo.
I was only clarifying for anyone who may have been confused by the post.
But keep up the good work in reminding us of upcoming Fox Movie Channel highlights. Sometimes I forget to check them myself, so your posts are appreciated.
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> {quote:title=cujas wrote:
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Sure!
Some of the early Wheeler & Woolsey features, for example, would certainly qualify as musicals.
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Those are actually upcoming Tuesday on Fox Movie Channel, not on TCM.
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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!!
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Thanks Ray!
I hadn't seen those before.
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THE GREAT RACE is scheduled again on TCM on July 26, 2012.
Let's hope this ptint will be complete with the dedication.
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> {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!
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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?
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> 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.
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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:
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> Does anybody know the status of the much talked about but almost never seen 1929 total delight, "Sunnyside Up"?
It ran on TCM on:
December 21, 2010
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March 16, 2011.
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> {quote:title=filmlover wrote:
> }{quote}And just as a little plug, it got its TCM debut showing at the first TCM Film Festival in 2010. I am looking forward to what forgotten treasures we will see next week at the 3rd Film Festival (only 1 week away now!!!).
I'm still waiting for NIGHT FLIGHT (1933) to show up on TCM.
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That is correct. At least, that's how it looked to me.
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> {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.
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> > {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.
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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.
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Junior moments or not, your posts are still among the most interesing, intelligent and informative on these Boards!
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Good to see you here again. And good to hear that you'll be able to return more often.
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> {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.
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The Joan Leslie interview clip that TCM shows has her talking about working with James Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
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> }{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?
WARNER ARCHIVE DROPS BALL ON KAY KYSER DVD
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> ...If TCM has released these two films, PLAYMATES and SWING FEVER as a "testing ground" for more Kay Kyser films to come...encourage that TCM will have plans to create a Kay Kyser Movie Box Set...
Those movies were released on DVD through Warner Archives, not by TCM. They're not the same thing.