musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}
> I haven't seen IT'S A WODERFUL LIFE on NBC lately, but I don' t know if they're botching it for HD/Widescreen etc etc.
Good info, as always, Ray! Thanks!
Warning:
If you're a purist and love the movie, don't watch how they butcher the presentation of the end cast listing. Spare yourself the pain and frustration!
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}They should show films on New Year's Eve that have New Year's Eve themes in their plots. THE APARTMENT is one of these. What are some others?
A favorite of mine is REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947) -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039761/combined
It gives Joan Leslie a chance to do more dramatic acting than Warner Bros. was giving her, especially in her last few years there.
Another:
The just-shown AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936).
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> Right after the Code went into effect, all films released under it had a very large MPPDA logo and a serial number. I've been trying to watch for low numbers, such as "Treasure Island", which I think is #8. I've also seen a couple of other numbers under 20.
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> I think by the next year they reduced the size of the logo.
Fred,
Did you see my post on this thread on Dec. 19?
I've been logging those numbers for decades and have a complete listing of the first 1272 numbers, then many more from then on.
I can post some lists of the lowest numbers, if anyone else is interested....
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}aw cmon everybody knows her.
> marx bros foil.
How do ya like that!?...I passed on Margaret D. because it was too easy...then you needed to give a clue when no one else got it.
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}lana sure knows how to pick em.
I was going to be a wise guy and say Agnes Less-head (not Moorehead) or "Half-head".
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:
> }{quote}Man, if you've never seen them, or all of them...or if you have and just totally dig 'em like I do, TCM is airing the entire Thin Man series--6 flix--count 'em!!! All night tonight (Thursday), and in prime time! Over night, into the morning hours!!!
And watch for Shemp Howard (of The Three Stooges) in ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939).
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> {quote:title=Bolesroor wrote:}{quote}
> As a result of starting this thread, Winona did in fact call me, and we've been out several times...
You didn't say...Winona who?
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Here's a recently published obituary for Susan Gordon, more detailed than those in the links I posted earlier:
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> {quote:title=Sepiatone wrote:}{quote}
> As far as cinematics go, the thing that first impressed me about the '51 film was that it LOOKED as if they actually DID film it back in 1845 or whenever the story takes place. As an ameture photographer, I thought the look was stunning!
Have you seen the 1935 version (starring Seymour Hicks)? I think that version captures what you're talking about as well or even better than the 1951 version.
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> {quote:title=racketbuster wrote:}{quote}
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> I just watched *Music In Your Hair*, and it was very much in the style of pre-code movies (to me it looked more like it was made in '31 than '34). and there were sexy dancers, and a speakeasy. so yeah, i think it fits the genre.
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MUSIC IN YOUR HAIR was released on June 2, 1934 and was filmed a few months earlier. So....yes, it can officially be regarded as pre-code.
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> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> It would be nice if TCM could edit Susan Gordon into the TCM Remembers 2011 as soon as possible. She deserves the tribute.
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I haven't had the chance to see the "TCM Remembers" in a few days. Dare I hope that they have edited Susan Gordon into it?
If not, please consider it, TCM. If it runs as usual through about the end of the year, that's still more than a week and a half away. She should be honored with inclusion in the tribute.
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}musical novelty knows it
Yes, I'd have said Helen Twelvetrees, but skipped this one to give someone else a chance.
But now that someone has guessed Helen T., I'll say I agree.
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:
> }{quote}musicalnovelty, you left out one very important detail about the 5-Man Electrical Band: they're Canadian.
Yeah, you know, I almost did say that, and even more boring trivia...but I was afraid I was rambling on off-topic too much already!
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> }{quote}Signs, signs, everywhere the signs - blocking out the scenery, messing my mind (1969)?
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> Yeah, well that was nothing, 5-Man Electrical Band.
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That song was a hit in the summer of 1971. It hit most charts about May of that year. It came out originally on the MGM record label but then was switched to an MGM subsidiary called Lionel. Then it became a big hit and all the millions that sold were on Lionel. So copies on the MGM label are rare.
I know, more than you wanted to know...
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> {quote:title=allaboutlana wrote:
> }{quote}Walter Catlett, from *Bringing Up Baby??*
That's who I thought it is.
We'll let Metz confirm.
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> {quote:title=willbefree25 wrote:}{quote}
> I only happened upon the Yiddish comedian doing a blah blah blah blah song in Delicious and moved on. He was disgusting.
The comedian you're referring to is El Brendel and his character was Swedish not Yiddish. He wasn't really Swedish in real life, that was the character he was stuck with playing in just about every film in his career, even when a Swedish accent wasn't necessary to the character. He became popular in the early talkie period with the Swedish character (although he actually did also appear in several silent movies in the mid-to-late 1920's). He was versatile and could have done much more, but was rarely given the chance.
It's okay that you apparently didn't like him, but he did have a lot of talent and does have a lot of fans even today.
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Some fun facts about the MGM short LA FIESTA DE SANTA BARBARA (1935) - MGM (latest film posted on your original thread) -
The short is a sort of "unofficial sequel" to the 1934 RKO Radio short LA CUCARACHA also featuring actor Paul Porcasi (to whom The Garland Sisters sing their song "La Cucaracha" in this MGM short).
Judy Garland and her sisters appear billed as The Garland Sisters. It is generally been stated that only Judy changed her name from Gumm to Garland when she went solo. But this short proves that at this time the sisters were using the name The Garland Sisters (they get onscreen billing as The Garland Sisters).
When Ted Healy and his Stooges split in 1934 Ted had a successful solo career at MGM but occasionally for events such as live performances he still used stooges. So he hired replacement Stooges when needed, one of whom is the James Brewster he appears with in this short. They also appeared together in the 1936 MGM feature SAN FRANCISCO in which Ted (with and without his new Stooges) had more to do than was left in the film after the final editing was done.
Later Ted hired three different new Stooges to work with him in some radio appearances he did in 1937.
Buster Keaton was rather famously fired from MGM in 1933 or '34 and a lot of sources would have us believe that he didn't come back and appear in an MGM film until 1949 (IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME) (after years of working as a gagman, writer and occasional shorts director). But here he is in 1935 already back at MGM in LA FIESTA DE SANTA BARBARA. This was probably because the Technicolor all-star shorts in this series were produced independently by Louis Lewin so if he used a fired guy like Buster whom reportedly Louis B. Mayer didn't want appearing any more at MGM, it's possible he could "sneak" him by the bosses in a short film like this.
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}delightful reply..thank you..happy new year
Thanks!
A clue to the latest picture posted (if I'm correct) -
I have an early 1930's autograph from him in which he drew an elaborate cat face in the middle of his name.
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> {quote:title=Aranxa wrote:
> }{quote}Mr. Magoo!
> With razzleberry dressing!
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Another fan!
Get your "pencible" and take this down:
"Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" will be shown on the channel called Me-TV twice on Christmas eve and again in the afternoon on Christmas Day.
I know that it's not difficult any more to find the program on video or DVD, but still I am always happy to see it being shown somewhere on TV each year.
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> > And regarding the above listed titles, actually I'd seen three of them before....and liked them all.
> With me sitting nearby most likely.
> Films like these are often better appreciated in a theater setting with an audience, rather than on TV....
Yes, I know you were nearby for our March 25, 2010 Cinefest viewing of THE VALIANT. As I recall, everyone I heard from liked it (myself included, of course!), so I have been a bit surprised at the negative comments the movie has been getting from some TCM viewers since it was shown last week.
I guess it just supports your comment that films are better appreciated in a theater setting with an audience.
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> {quote:title=ziggyelman wrote:}{quote}
> July 1, 1934 is the date the code was finally really enforced. Of course to add to the confusion, I just read that the John Ford film,The World Moves On was the very first film to get the new seal of approval. But, IMDB says the film was released August 31st,1934!
Ever since I got interested in old movies I began to take note of the MPPDA (and MPAA after 1946) Production Code Numbers. I started logging them (starting in the mid-1970's!) before long I was able to use these listings to determine info such as release dates (in those old days before the internet and before I acquired many reference books and other material from which I could learn such info).
I obviously got many thousands of numbers logged (features, shorts, cartoons, serial chapters) and in 1991 I found out where the original Production Code Authority documents are in which the numbers were logged as they were assigned. I got to visit the place and copy down all the numbers I didn't already have (for lost & rare films I'll never see and never otherwise learn their numbers). I had a lot already logged myself but now have every number up to #1272 (when I ran out of time there). I have many thousands of other numbers logged from after that point, but that is as far as my absolutely complete listing goes as of now. In addition to the listings of the films and numbers there was a lot of other interesting stuff to learn from those original documents, such as numbers assigned to films that ultimately were never released, etc.
One of the major challenges in reading the Code Numbers is when they are difficult or impossible to read in a film's credits...printed too small or unclear. Also, the Code Numbers were printed before films' credits for about the first year (mid-1934 through mid-to late 1935, depending upon each studios' way of doing it). And that part of the films' leader with the Code Number has been cut off and lost over the years on most of the films from that period, making it impossible to know the number. I learned which Trade Paper reviews of the period sometimes included the Code Numbers, and other clues to figure out unknown numbers.
I had always known what Code #1 was but had also always wondered what films got numbers
1000
10,000
20,000
Number 10,000 was easy, it's a movie that I'd get to see often on television: DRAGON SEED (1944).
Without access the original documents I'd probably never have known #1000. It turned out to be a chapter in a 1935 Tarzan serial.
Number 20,000 remained unknown to me for many years until TCM started running the movie often. Once I saw it and examined the credits I found that #20,000 is the 1962 movie LOLITA.
I don't watch many new movies, but traditionally go with some friends to see the Harry Potter movies when they come out, and so (naturally) I stay to the end of the credits to see the MPAA Number. So the highest number I have logged is for the most recent Harry Potter movie: 46713 (yes, they're still numbering new films).
There were actually two different numbering systems with two separate sets of numbers. The other list was for films produced at east coast studios (Vitaphone shorts, Fleischer cartoons, etc.) and certain British or other foreign-produced films. These numbers started with a zero. For example, the 1940 Vitaphone short DOUBLE OR NOTHING is #02434. The 1939 British feature THE FOUR FEATHERS is #02457. Unfortunately I was told that the original documents and listings of these East Coast numbers are lost - apparently never saved.
Regarding your comments about the discrepencies between the numbering and the release dates of films, I learned early on that they didn't exactly correspond. A film's production dates, the date its MPPDA Number was assigned, and the film's release date were approximately chronological, but not exact.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Of the bands I'm familiar with, I'd say the Bonzo Dog Band were the funniest,
> something of an earlier musical version of Monty Python.
Thanks for mentioning them, from another big Bonzos fan!
Got all their LP's (British & U.S.) and several 45's too.
Also have various solo LP's by Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall, with the the two Roger Ruskin Spear solo albums being particular favorites.
Here's where to read more, for anyone not familiar with them:
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> {quote:title=TikiSoo wrote:}{quote}
> .....Now the only thing left is to figure out what movie she may have worn that crazy outfit in. If she was a dancer, then I'd be certain it was her. In many older photos she's brunette!
So.....what, no prize for being the first to correctly identify her?
And, thanks for the clue about the date 1934. That should be helpful in identifying the film (hopefully!)
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> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:
> }{quote}you know them all..i hate to ask but would you please let another answer or two before replying>>thank you and Merry Christmas.
Actually I do skip a lot that I could answer.
And I've been known to get some wrong.
And honestly, Marc Lawrence was just a lucky wild guess.
And I'm 100% sure I know this latest one you posted, but will pass on it to give someone else a chance.
And Merry Christmas to you, too!
Need title for film clip in TCM Remembers montage
in Information, Please!
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> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote}
> That doesn't even look like Cliff Robertson. It looks like a scene that was just thrown into the montage - there are a few other scenes thrown into the montage which don't seem to relate to any of the deceased persons.
I was just going to say that, too. The clip may not actually be from a Cliff Robertson movie.