musicalnovelty
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Good to see you back here, Mark!
I don't know if you've had the chance to see HOLLYWOOD BARN DANCE yet, but here's a comment I posted on another thread:
I LOVED it!
Give me a rarity like this over all the over-played big pretentious MGM & WB classics any time (especially post-1960!)
THANK YOU, TCM for digging this up for us!
I'd never seen it before and it's a highlight of the TCM month for me.
Dig this corny dialogue:
Ernest Tubb & his boys: We need money to rebuild a church.
Earle Hodgins: You guys don't look like the church-building type.
Ernest: But we're the guys who burned it down.
Hodgins: Arson?
Ernest: Well, the boss said it was arsonine!
(Quoted from memory...I didn't rewind to get the words exact).
Love that kind of stuff!
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> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:}{quote}
> *WHITNEY HOUSTON*
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With all due respect to the lady and her fans,
NO!
NO!!
NO!!!
NO!!!!
NO!!!!!
NO!!!!!!
A thousand times NO!!!!!!
I come to TCM to ESCAPE from this kind of...(I'll be polite and just say "stuff").
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> {quote:title=TopBilled wrote:
> }{quote}*POLLY ANN YOUNG*
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I'd also like to see those on TCM.
I just watched Polly Ann Young in the 1932 Universal mystery short THE CIRCUS SHOW-UP. She's a trapeze artist who falls to her death - accident or was it murder? (Well, it wasn't no accident!) And co-starring is sister Sally Blane...one of the suspects. Who's guilty?
And I'm sure you KNOW who was their more famous real-life sister!
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I LOVED it!
Give me a rarity like this over all the over-played big pretentious MGM & WB classics any time (especially post-1960!)
THANK YOU, TCM for digging this up for us!
I'd never seen it before and it's a highlight of the TCM month for me.
Dig this corny dialogue:
Ernest Tubb & his boys: We need money to rebuild a church.
Earle Hodgins: You guys don't look like the church-building type.
Ernest: But we're the guys who burned it down.
Hodgins: Arson?
Ernest: Well, the boss said it was arsonine!
(Quoted from memory...I didn't rewind to get the words exact).
Love that kind of stuff!
And thanks very much Kyle for all the background info and images!
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}"Stayin' Alive" couldn't carry "Freddy's Dead"'s jockstrap.
I agree! (Although I can't say I'd have thought to put it quite that way!)
"Stayin' Alive" is okay, but its being way too much overplayed has killed it a bit for me.
I'd MUCH rather hear "Freddie's Dead" any time.
Curtis Mayfield was GREAT and I still don't think he's received all the appreciation he deserves.
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> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:
> }{quote}Speaking of my dad... He used to tell all my little friends he was Glenn Miller, the bandleader. He was a terrible tease at times.
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> For dad:
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> [People Like You and Me|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekH4uRSWbCE]
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"People Like You and Me" - ! - Thanks!
Quite possbly my all-time TOP fave Glenn Miller performance!! (and I'm a big fan, got hundreds of records by them so it's not easy to pick one favorite!)
And they never even recorded it for record (Bluebird or Victor), only for the film soundtrack of ORCHESTRA WIVES.
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!
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Frank Conroy? (It looks like, from "The Ox-Bow Incident").
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Mongo,
May I also add my best wished for a Happy University (as Stan Laurel might have said).
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One of my top favorite Chicago songs, one that is still fresh since (unlike stuff like "Saturday in the Park") it hasn't been beaten to death on oldies stations:
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Could she be
Sally Forrest?
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}(Eddie Kane)
> can you remember one of his films?
So many! But stangely enough one that came to mind first is one of his most unusual roles (and a very rare movie that a lot of people probably have never seen) - THE COHENS AND KELLYS IN AFRICA (1930) in which Eddie Kane appears in blackface as the chief of the tribe of African natives!
Another Eddie Kane role that I am always reminded of when his name comes up is the all-star 1931 short THE STOLEN JOOLS in which Eddie (using his real name) is the detective out to solve the theft of jewels from Norma Shearer.
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Looks like Lon Chaney, Jr.
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Yes, there is some music in the movie that's not written by Henry Mancini, but he arranged those selections for the movie.
The tunes used for the start of the race (and used again several times later in the movie) are a medley of:
Hail To the Chief
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean (D. Shaw & T. Becket)
Dixie (D.D. Emmett)
America the Beautiful (K. Bates & S. Ward)
The Caissons Go Rolling Along
I've Been Working on the Railroad
(Mancini's "The Great Race March" is played in between each of these).
Other music in the movie that was not written by Mancini:
The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein 2nd)
Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (J.S. Bach)
It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight (Harry Williams & Egbert Van Alstyne)
Blue Danube Waltz (J. Srauss)
Tales from the Vienna Woods (J. Strauss)
Jenny Lind Polka (Wallerstein)
America (sung briefly by Natalie Wood)
The Prophet (Meyerbeer)
The Marseillaise (R. De Lisle)
All of the pie fight music is original by Mancini, and it's called "Pie in the Face Polka" (I actually have two 45 RPM records of it by Henry Mancini and by The Boston Pops Orch. Also a 45 of Johnny Mathis singing "The Sweetheart Tree" song from the movie).
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That would be
The Easy Aces.
Stars:
Goodman Ace & wife Jane.
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> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:
> }{quote}...I wish they had shown some films for Robert Montgomery's birthday that aren't seen very often such as "So This is College"...
SO THIS IS COLLEGE is also a Joel McCrea movie so I expected it to be shown in May.
It's an MGM that has been on TCM before, so presumably there should be little or no problem in acquiring it.
But at least a nice print of it is available through Warner Archives for those who can't wait for it to come on TCM again.
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Cinefest 2012 is coming up in just two weeks (starting March 15).
Info (including several film titles) here:
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:
> > }{quote}You know him (Leonard Maltin)........in person!!!! Wow I envy you! How did you accomplish that?!?!?!?
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> I attend the annual film festival Cinefest in Syracuse, New York every March. Leonard is always there too. So I've had the pleasure to have met and chatted with him many times during my more than 20 years of Cinefests.
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> Leonard's article on this this year's Cinefest:
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> http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/archives/cinefest_a_little_slice_of_heaven/
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> Info on Cinefest:
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> http://www.syracusecinephile.com/node/5
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This year's Cinefest is coming up in just two weeks!
Info here:
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The complete May schedule is now posted:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/monthly.html?tz=est&sdate=2012-5-01
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> {quote:title=PhygLeGuy wrote:}{quote}
> (Our methodical friends at TCM managed to get *Picture Mommy Dead* on their schedule a mere 136 days after Susan Gordon took her unrecorded ride behind the rainy windshield.)
Yes, that's great that TCM will be running a Susan Gordon movie on April 25, and I'd like to think of it as a planned tribute by them (especially since I'd suggested it several times on these Message Boards shortly after she passed away on Dec. 11). But since PICTURE MOMMY DEAD is being run as part of an afternoon of Martha Hyer movies, maybe that's why they acquired it. And in the afternoons they don't have a host to introduce the movies, so even if this was intended as a Susan Gordon tribute there may be nothing said about it on the air.
But thanks to TCM for scheduling it. It's a wacky but fun movie, one that I always expected if TCM ever did run it, it would be a natural for "TCM Underground" late Friday nights.
And to link this to the Davy Jones/Monkees topic:
Coincidentally, last November I returned to the place and event where I first met Susan Gordon years ago (and became a good friend from them on) and met Peter Tork there this time. So, there can be links anywhere if one looks for them!
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:
> }{quote}Yeah, not only the Brill Building talent, but weren't several of their hit songs written by Mickey Dolenz? Maybe he was just the singer, but I thought he wrote some too.
> Great songs that have definitely endured.
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Hi, Soo,
I'm sure you're thinking of Mike Nesmith. He was definitely the most talented songwriter in the group. He wrote many songs for them (and quality stuff, too). He was also the most talented musician and had probably the most successful solo career, starting with his pioneering country-rock group The First National Band in 1970.
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Part of that is getting very close.
I'll give the answer soon if nobody gets it.
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Billy DeWolfe?
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That's
Eddie Kane.
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> {quote:title=yanceycravat wrote:
> }{quote}Have the Dr. Christian films ever been shown on TCM?
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> Since the Humanitarian Oscar is named in Jean Hersholt's honor shouldn't the Dr. Christian films be part of the celebration?
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> What is the status of these movies?
> Yancey
I don't believe any of the Dr. Christian movies have ever been shown on TCM. But I'd like to see them shown.
They are all Public Domain because RKO RADIO Pictures (the studio that made them) didn't renew their copyrights.
I took a quick look on Youtube and found four of them there:
MEET DR. CHRISTIAN (1939)
THE COURAGEOUS DR. CHRISTIAN (1940)
DR. CHRISTIAN MEETS THE WOMEN (1940)
THEY MEET AGAIN (1941)
There may be others there if one searches further.
You may also be able to view some of them on the site Archive.org. There are a lot of Public Domain films there. I haven't checked for the Dr. Christian movies, but those are the types of films they have a lot of.
No Dedication to Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy in THE GREAT RACE!!
in General Discussions
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> {quote:title=Nicko wrote:
> }{quote}Hi All,
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> Can somebody please tell me why the title card featuring the words "For Mr.Laurel and Mr. Hardy" was cut from the opening title sequence in your recent showing of THE GREAT RACE? It was blatantly skipped over after the Overture was finished.
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> Inquiring minds want to know.
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> Thanks,
> Nick Santa Maria
> Laurel and Hardy Fan
Hi Nick,
Yes, I noticed that too! I thought I was imagining it! - Thanks for confirming.
I'd never seen that cut from the movie before.
Very strange (and very disappointing!) But I'd be surprised if the reason really is the Harmon possibility. But I can't think of any other reason. Just very strange...