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Hey, there's Stymie Beard (of Our Gang) in this movie!

Irving Bacon And yes, he certainly was a man of many roles. When he was still a young man in the early 1930's he appeared in a lot of comedy shorts in which he played an old man (and did it well!)

Important parts of the movies are set in basements?

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote: > }{quote}Hi musicalnovelty! > > We talked about choreography, *MGM and the Stooges*. Here's a film short I hope you and everyone else will click on! > > The two musical numbers were taken from earlier films. "The Story of the Lady in a Fan" was originally filmed for the uncompleted *March of Time (1930),*and "The Woman in the Shoe" I regret not being able to find stills of the chorus girl scenes. Adding them made for a highly unusual Three Stooges film! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *NERTSERY RHYMES (1933)* > > *MGM w/ Ted Healy and "Howard, Fine and Howard"!* > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTjkKhEqjy8 > > *Full Technicolor short in 2 parts* > Here are the stories behind the two Technicolor numbers in NERTSERY RHYMES: "The Woman in the Shoe" was originally part of the 1929 MGM feature LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY. The song was written by Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed. The singer was Ethelind Terry with The Rounders doing the male backing vocals. It has been speculated that a very young Judy Garland appears as one of the children in the number. But I haven't been able to confirm that and frankly I doubt it. The number that Ted Healy introduces erroneously as "The Lady in the Fan" was, as you noted, originally to be part of the scrapped 1930 MGM musical revue feature THE MARCH OF TIME. The very first, original (and technically correct) title for the song is actually "The Fan Episode" as it was intended as literally an episode in the 1930 revue movie. Other titles it has been given over the years by those who don't know its proper title include "The Turn of a Fan" and "The Lady and the Fan". The song was written by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey. The singer is Lottice Howell. The lead dancers are The Dodge Twins (also known as The Dodge Sisters) - Beth and Betty.

> {quote:title=metz44 wrote: > }{quote}ok mr. music..i am sure you know this character > the bridge keeper in IAWL > see post below Okay, just saw this. Looks like Tom Fadden

> {quote:title=LuckyDan wrote: > }{quote}I just watched Kiki with Mary Pickford and I can't recommend it - even for Buzz Berkeley fans. I was all set for a fun showbiz, backstage comedy, with pretty dancers, snappy dialogue, and a little 30s cheesecake. I got none of it. > > The lone dance number at around the 15 minute mark plays like an "I Love Lucy" bit, only without the humor. Mary Pickford's french accent is so obviously phony, I kept waiting for her character to admit it was all a con job and that she was really from St. Louis. > > > Reginald Denny plays his part as if he were a straight man for the Three Stooges. Neither how nor why he falls in love with Kiki is ever explained. If he found her charming in any way, he was the only one who did. All the other characters were at odds with her the whole way through. Her childish histrionics were more a nuisance than an endearing quirk. I actually started to miss Susan in Bringing Up Baby. I was even prompted to look up definitions for Kiki, half-thinking it might be French for pain in the ***. > > > This was a remake of a 1926 attempt that fared no better, though the play it was based on was apparently successful. (Live action farce is always more entertaining when done well, because the actors must have flawless timing. Translations of this sort to film lose that live quality.) > > > There is nothing for Berkeley fans in it, very little glamour and nothing much funny. I did however meet Margaret Livingston, who played Paulette, Denny's ex-wife and Kiki's rival. > > > > > > She is better known for the Murnau silent, Sunrise. > I agree with you on this 1931 version of KIKI. I also found it disappointing. But I've always been a Margaret Livingston fan...so thanks for posting that beautiful shot of her!

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > > Albertina Rasch > > From Daughter Of Blue Heaven number in Lord Byron Of Broadway > > > > > > *DAUGHTER OF BLUE HEAVEN from LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY (1930)* > > > Thelma: I've been seeing Albertina Rasch's name in movie credits for decades but somehow it never occurred to me to wonder what she looked like. So glad you showed us! And it may be too late now to go back and edit the post, but to be exact, the musical number you're referring to here is entitled "Blue Daughter of Heaven", not "Daughter of Blue Heaven".

Saw it today at The West Newton Cinema, Newton, Mass. (and the place was packed!) Highly recommended!

Some of your description sounds like the 1941 Columbia movie PENNY SERENADE starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Here's a detailed plot summary: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5818/Penny-Serenade/full-synopsis.html I hope this can help to determine if PENNY SERENADE is the movie you're looking for.

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > > > > > > > Did you notice that this poster and lobby card are for the 1944 reissue of the movie? Note the prominent billing for George Raft, who got no such billing in the original 1931 promotional paper. Another case where they tried to cash in on the popularity of a player who had become a bigger star since having a small role in the movie earlier in his career.

> {quote:title=AndyM108 wrote: > }{quote}Alex North's theme that was first used in the 1931 Street Scene (at the 00:01:00 mark) was recycled so many times (most prominently in I Wake Up Screaming ) that it became unofficially known as "the Fox Anthem". . You mean Alfred Newman, not Alex North. Here's more info on the music: http://clarku.academia.edu/MatthewMalsky/Papers/76693/Sounds_of_the_City_Alfred_Newmans_Street_Scene_and_Urban_Modernity

> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote} > > Yoko Ono with Listen, The Snow Is Falling. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO36ZW2eJcY > One of the few Yoko songs that actually has some musical merit! (B-side of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas" 45).

> {quote:title=jamesjazzguitar wrote:}{quote} > I'm somewhat surprised to see anyone remember Yes. I like the band and they were a transition band for me - taking me from rock to jazz a few decades ago. > > Their songs are not easy to play. > BIG Yes fan here. Their first 5 albums are favorites of mine (including the song "Starship Trouper" of course) but they started to lose me in the mid-1970's. I still continued to get all their albums anyway (and all those numerous solo albums too) but the later stuff wasn't quite as interesting (to me anyway).

Is she Margaret Hamilton?

Happy New Year to Paul Hurst! (And to you, too, Metz!) Paul Hurst tivia: He played big dumb lugs in lots of films, sometimes unbilled. But he actually had his own starring shorts series in the early 1930's. They were produced by Tiffany Studios and he starred as a prize fighter in the films. Probably all lost. IMDb apparently knows nothing about them - they're not listed.

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote: > }{quote}Hi musicalnovelty! > > Thank you very much and same to you! > > I always look forward to your posts, I learn from them! > > Here is an MGM Technicolor short featuring *Curly Howard*, where he is billed as "Jerry Howard": > > *ROAST BEEF AND MOVIES (1932)* > > *MGM w/ Curly, Albertina Rasch Dancers* > > This short features some very Busby Berkeley looking dance sequences. I don't know if he worked on this, as I don't see it among his credits. This one is definitely worth watching! > Happy Nooo Yeeer Thelma! Thanks for the nice words! The choreography in that number from the MGM short ROAST-BEEF AND MOVIES (1934) was by Albertina Rasch and the musical number was another taken from an older MGM feature and stuck into this Technicolor MGM short. The song (although billed as "Chinese Fantasy") is actually entitled "Blue Daughter of Heaven" and it was sung off-screen by James Burroughs. The music was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin (who was married to choreographer Albertina Rasch). It was taken from the 1930 MGM feature LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY. And, yes, I'm groovin' to all the great Lillian Roth images - thanks!

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote} > *The Stooges worked for MGM before going to real fame at Columbia, and appeared in some films and shorts that bore no resemblance to their more famed Columbia shorts. One of them,* *Plane Nuts (1933),* *featured elaborate Busby Berkeley type chorus girl sequences and was done with an obviously bigger budget than their later Columbia two reelers. * Regarding a bigger budget for the MGM Three Stooges short PLANE NUTS (1931), actually it was probably the cheapest budgeted of all the Stooges' MGM shorts. It's all shot on a stage. And if the two big elaborate musical numbers look like Busby Berkeley productions, there's a good reason: they really are. They were clipped out of an earlier MGM feature for which Berkeley created the numbers: FLYING HIGH (1931). In fact, players Kathryn Crawford and Gus Arnheim & his band from that feature can be seen in the clips. But it is interesting that in one scene in the Stooges short a couple of chorus girls are on stage with Ted Healy, and they're wearing what appear to be costumes from the musical numbers from two years earlier. MGM must have saved some of the costumes. And, may I say: Happy New Year, and Happy birthday!

Big fan of William Powell, too and certainly agree he deserved to be Star of the Month. The only problem I had with it was that NONE of the William Powell films TCM showed in December were surprises at all. All been on before. No silents or any of his rarely seen early thirties Paramounts.

> {quote:title=metz44 wrote: }{quote}NO dont think that would have helped. Only kidding! I didn't think so! But it's true, we share the same birthday. By the way, nice picture of you, posted recently. I can see a slight Rodney D. resemblance. But I hope you get more respect than he did! It took a bit of searching, but I found the old thread in which my picture was posted (if anyone cares). It's here, March 31 at 8:40 A.M. by TikiSoo: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8508363? Or, try here: (from TikiSoo) - Just thought I'd share a photo of myself & MusicalNovelty taken in the Palace Theater. Remember, this was day 3 of 16 hour days of movie watching, so neither of us look our best. Dig that purple Vitaphone t-shirt! http://home.earthlink.net/~streamliner/MusicalSoo.jpg

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote} > ...Q107 - a Toronto-based FM station that absolutely refused to play any Michael Jackson track.... I'd have liked that station!

> {quote:title=yanceycravat wrote:}{quote} > Were any changes made to this years, TCM REMEMBERS since it started airing? > > I know in years past they've added and corrected versions. > No, I am pretty sure there have been no changes made to it this year. I have been watching it especially closely each time I see it, as I have been suggesting and hoping that they would add actress Susan Gordon who passed away on Dec. 11. But it looks like by this time they are not going to do it.

> {quote:title=MilesArcher wrote: > }{quote}It's Herbert Mundin. He was in "Cavalcade", "Mutiny On The Bounty", and "The Adventures Of Robin Hood". I passed on answering this until at least a little time had gone by. But I was going to give this clue: he has the same birthday as I have (although he was quite a bit older!). So, would that clue have been any help?

> {quote:title=Roberta109 wrote: > }{quote}Nice to know Janet Gaynor has another fan here, musicalnovelty. > Thanks for the comment. My friend Louie is also a MAJOR Janet Gaynor fan. If you do a little searching through older posts on his blog, you can find some great rare Gaynor stills and info: http://www.elbrendel.com/

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote: > }{quote}I just have to say that I totally dig on THE MAN FROM PLANET X!!! I think it's one of the best sci-fi flix!! I actually like it, too. I really didn't mean in my earlier post to give the impression that it don't.

> {quote:title=mudskipper wrote: > }{quote}Judy Collins had a big hit with the song "Both Sides Now" by Tim Buckley from the 1969 movie "Changes". Pardon me if I'm misunderstanding what you said, but are you saying that the song was written by Tim Buckley? Actually it was written by Joni Mitchell.