musicalnovelty
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PICTURE MOMMY DEAD (1966).
Plot summary here:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/28383/Picture-Mommy-Dead/full-synopsis.html
Stars:
Susan Gordon, Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Wendell Corey, Signe Hasso, Maxwell Reed, Anna Lee.
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> }{quote}Wow, the one about Enrico Caruso, just ending now, was fantastic. The credits said it was actually Caruso's voice we were hearing. Evidently from his old recordings.
Yes, they mentioned in the opening credits that they'd be using real Caruso records and even gave the name and numbers of the Victor Records album. And I could hear the record's scratchiness on the film's soundtack when the guy playing Caruso started to "sing".
You're right, that was a good show. I always liked Sandy Descher and she did her usual good job in this show.
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> The oldest movie I can find with a reference to it is: *Thieves' Highway* (1949).
One that's older than that:
SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD (1944)
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SENSATION HUNTERS (1933) - Monogram
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Don't Be Nervous (1929)
Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)
Le Roi des Champs-Elysees (1934)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
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Robert Greig?
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> Mary Murphy and John Payne have a good time on the set of "Hell's Island"
Mary Murphy must have decided that riding around on motorcycles with Marlon Brando was too dangerous, and that this is safer.
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I believe
GRANT MITCHELL
is in all four of those movies.
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Hey, there's Stymie Beard (of Our Gang) in this movie!
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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!)
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Important parts of the movies are set in basements?
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> 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!
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> *NERTSERY RHYMES (1933)*
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> *MGM w/ Ted Healy and "Howard, Fine and Howard"!*
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTjkKhEqjy8
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> *Full Technicolor short in 2 parts*
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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.
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}ok mr. music..i am sure you know this character
> the bridge keeper in IAWL
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Okay, just saw this. Looks like
Tom Fadden
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> {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.
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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!
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> *DAUGHTER OF BLUE HEAVEN from LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY (1930)*
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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".
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Saw it today at The West Newton Cinema, Newton, Mass. (and the place was packed!)
Highly recommended!
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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.
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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.
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> {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:
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One of the few Yoko songs that actually has some musical merit!
(B-side of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas" 45).
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> 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.
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> Their songs are not easy to play.
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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).
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Is she
Margaret Hamilton?
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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.
Belle Starr says, "Fiddle-de-de! Ah hate Yankees!"
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:
> }{quote}Boolsrore(sic) is NOT alone! Recently I had to move AND downsize. Left behind a TON of VHS tapes, which means I STILL have about a ton of 'em.
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> AND I still use a VCR! I still tape things to watch later.
> So, there are TWO "last men with VCR's" in America on this forum.
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I'm another...and still have thousands of video tapes.