musicalnovelty
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> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:
> }{quote}Wouldn't mind seeing it again after all these years. How do we recommend it to TCM again?
Go here:
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That reminds me of when a few months ago TCM did an Ernest Borgnine tribute and at the top of the site they promoted him as "Ernest Borgine". Nice artwork, very well-done graphics...but they misspelled the star's name!
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There is apparently a 59 minute version and a 78 minute version. TCM just showed the shorter one, allowing time for an unlisted short, which is THE TRANSATLANTIC MYSTERY (1932) - Vitaphone (Van Dine series).
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Unlisted short on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at about 4:10 P.M. -
THE TRANSATLANTIC MYSTERY (1932) - Vitaphone. (Van Dine series).
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> {quote:title=HenryF5400 wrote:
> }{quote}Just saw the end of year 2011 TCM Remembers tonight. Nice job as usual.
I haven't seen it yet, but I hope they didn't forget Barbara Kent.
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Sig Arno?
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Joseph Downing?
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> {quote:title=Moodri wrote:}{quote}
> (I would have simply added this to my previous message, but the Edit icon didn't appear.)
We have only 24 hours to edit posts.
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It is coming up on TCM on Tuesday night, Dec. 13.
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> {quote:title=singsong wrote:
> }{quote}*Please please please does anyone know the song that is played on Linus' portable phonograph after "Yes, We Have No Bananas?" It's the one that sadly reminds Linus of his past lover.*
According to the Paramount music cue sheet for the movie (dated April 23, 1954) the song "Yes, We Have No Bananas" is used briefly five times in the course of the movie (some usages as short as 2 seconds) and the songs that follow it are "My Ideal" (Leo Robin, Richard Whiting and Newell Chase) and "La Vie En Rose" (Louinguy, Edith Piaf, Mack David).
I hope that will help.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}Johnny Carson's only film appearance was in LOOKING FOR LOVE (1964).
He also made a brief gag appearance in the 1972 Bob Hope movie CANCEL MY RESERVATION.
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> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:
> }{quote}Carrie Henn: Newt from Aliens, I'm not sure if she was in another movie.
The October 14, 2011 issue of the magazine "Entertainment Weekly" has a Reunion feature on casts of some movies and TV shows including the cast of ALIENS. There's a picture of Carrie Henn as she looks now at age 35 and an article revealing how she feels about being in the movie, her co-stars, and what she's doing now (she's a fourth grade teacher).
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:}{quote}
> Another Mae Murray portrait. Hope I don't another stupid "Zombie Eyes" remark. I worked on toning down the glare from the eyes for hours.
I don't know, but I think I saw her comin' outta the barn!
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:
> }{quote}musicalnovelty,
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> Really it exists? ("The Little Wild Girl", 1928)
Yes...I was there and saw it!
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> {quote:title=gagman66 wrote:
> }{quote}Very Colorful Lobby-card for a film I'd never heard of.
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> *Lila Lee-The Little Wild Girl (1924)*
Nice lobby card. Thanks for posting.
Recognize Boris Karloff behind Lila?
You'll be happy to learn that this film exists (at least in 16mm). It was shown at the annual Capitolfest in Rome, NY on August 8, 2008. The print, I believe, came from The Library of Congress.
And by the way, it's from 1928, not 1924.
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> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:
> }{quote}A Christmas carol from Mary Hopkin:
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Thanks for posting that one. I've always (since 1968!) been a Mary Hopkin fan.
It's not Christmas-related, but here's one of my favorites. It came out in 1970 in England and was a big hit. When it finally was released in America in 1972 it went nowhere (but it sold at least ONE 45...to me...and of course I still have it!)
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A favorite "forgotten Christmas gem" of mine is a 1986 TV-movie called CHRISTMAS SNOW. The stars were Katherine Helmond, Sid Caesar and Melissa Joan Hart (the future "Sabrina" star putting in a good performance here at only age ten).
There is some especially good dramatic work by Sid Caesar.
Recommended!
Copies of this movie were almost impossible to find for years unless one had taped its original broadcast on Dec. 20, 1986. But now there are very affordable DVD's of it available (on eBay by searching the movie's title). Some of them even come packaged with a bonus CD of Christmas songs.
From the more classic movie period, other favorite "Christmas gems" that sometimes seem to be forgotten, or at least not mentioned enough are:
BEYOND TOMORROW (1940)
SCROOGE (1935 version of "A Christmas Carol").
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Fritz Feld?
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> {quote:title=calvinnme wrote:...
> }{quote}There was an entire thread about this a few weeks back.
This is it:
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:
> }{quote}*Larceny Inc.* is quite a fun film. For some reason I thought Jean Arthur played the female lead, but in point of fact it is Jane Wyman. They are not at all similar, don't know why I got them mixed up.
Perhaps you were confusing it with another Edward G. Robinson gangster comedy, THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, in which Jean Arthur is the female lead.
Both great fun movies.
I add to the recommendations not to miss LARCENY, INC. on TCM tonight!
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> {quote:title=ValeskaSuratt wrote:}{quote}
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> Frances Farmer was .....a brilliant actress. (See Come and Get It with Edward Arnold, Paramount, 1936, which I think is her screen debut. )
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Interesting post. Thanks!
Clearly she could have been a successful writer if not getting into acting.
But for accuracy, let me say that actually COME AND GET IT was not a Paramount Picture, but a Samuel Goldwyn Production released by United Artists.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027459/companycredits
And it was not Frances Farmer's screen debut. She had appeared in three Paramount movies before COME AND GET IT.
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> {quote:title=Dmallon wrote:
> }{quote}Having watched the 1938 version again on TCM I came away thinking that the film seems almost to be rushed. I don't know if it is the editing or the script, but I think an additional 15 minutes might have improved the movie. Coming in at 69 minutes, there would seem to be space for a some additions.
If you think it seems rushed at 69 minutes, you should have seen the "MGM Parade" show (just aired early this morning) in which they condensed the entire movie to about 12 minutes!
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> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote}
> Clark Gable poses with Mickey Rooney, who played his younger self in "Manhattan Melodrama"
Gable is visiting Mickey Rooney on the set of Rooney's 1940 MGM Picture YOUNG TOM EDISON.
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:
> }{quote}As for "Jeanne Eagles", it looked to me like Universal was trying to give it some kind of Douglas Sirk/ "Tarnished Angels" spin that didn't work.
You mean, I'm sure, Columbia not Universal. It is a Columbia Picture.
Does Anyone Know This Movie?
in Information, Please!
Posted
There have been a few different versions of the story, but this is probably the one you're thinking of:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050100/synopsis
THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (1957), also known as PARADISE LAGOON.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050100/combined