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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:
> }{quote}*(musicalnovelty wrote): I just received the new Kino Video catalogue and on page 3 they describe the movie as "A cornerstone of the screwball comedy genre."*
> *So there you are!*
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> Actually, musicalnovelty, that may be just a case of Kino continuing to carry on a long tradition of labelling this film a screwball comedy. I strongly suspect that Carole Lombard's presence in the film has much to do with that, whether the designation is correct or not. Screwball comedy or satire, I hope that the new DVD release will be from a Technicolour print, if one still exists. Difficult to call the version recently shown on TCM real Technicolour.
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Oh, I wasn't saying the Kino comment should be considered the last word...just submitting it to the discussion.
Regarding their new DVD release, here's what the catalogue entry says:
"Mastered from original 35mm nitrate prints from the David O. Selznick Estate, preserved by the Motion Picture Department of the George Eastman House."
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:
> }{quote}It looks like Cinecolor to me. It remains to be seen whether the December 20 release of the Kino DVD will be any better.
I just received the new Kino Video catalogue and it says that their new release of the movie will be "Mastered from original 35mm nitrate prints from the David O. Selznick Estate, preserved by the Motion Picture Department of the George Eastman House."
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> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:
> }{quote}Perhaps this is a rather academic point but does anyone else question the categorization of Selznick's Nothing Sacred as a "screwball comedy?"
> So my question to you: is Nothing Sacred a screwball comedy, or should it not , instead, be referred to as satire?
I just received the new Kino Video catalogue and on page 3 they describe the movie as "A cornerstone of the screwball comedy genre."
So there you are!
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:
> }{quote}Kicking off this week...TCM will be featuring the "Lone Wolf" series of flix, starring the inimitable Warren William... we are going to be treated with the Columbia series which featured my main man, Warren William.
Mark,
When you see THE LONE WOLF MEETS A LADY (1940) watch for an unbilled Shemp Howard!
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> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:
> }{quote}With the American Thanksgiving coming up and all, I thought it might be nice to listen to XTC's Harvest Festival. (Although XTC are very English, not American - but the autumn-ish feel is the same...)
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrZfhcpTIM
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XTC - also one of my very TOP favorites!!
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> {quote:title=onamunson wrote:
> }{quote}i dont know it anyone has realized it but hollywood party that crazy extravaganza wirh jimmy durante has just been released this month on warner brothers. it has always been one of my personal favorites.i dont think anyone could not enjoy durante as schnarzan with lupe velez as his jane.warner brothers.com has it for sale for 14.95 with free shipping this month ...
HOLLYWOOD PARTY is a long-time favorite of mine too, and the new Warner Archive release is definitely essential for the movie's fans because it includes lots of extra material. There are several deleted and alternate takes of the songs and musical numbers (audio only) that have never been released publicly before.
This is fascinating stuff and it's great that they are making it all available, especially when it was said when they started the Warner Archives series that there would not be extra material on the discs.
So, a big Thank You to the folks doing the work at the Warner Archives for this and here's hoping they keep more of it coming.
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[}{quote}Apparently not for very long, as I don't see them! And here I thought Moodri was going to be able to retire from keeping us updated.
|http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-11-20]
Sometimes you need to look at the weekly listing not the daily one to find the shorts:
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-11-20
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Line from an old movie song:
"Tillies and Flos and Kates and Sadies..."
What's the song title, movie, and can you even name the singer?
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As far as I'm concerned the only change The Fox Movie Channel needed to make was to run more of the old stuff (pre-1950's, preferably pre-1935, especially the many titles they've never run at all).
We'll have to see what happens with this upcoming change.
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Unlisted short after the unlisted short LAND OF THE UGLY DUCKLING after feature CHASE A CROOKED SHADOW, Friday night, Nov. 18:
GRANDAD OF RACES (1950) - WB.
Info on the short here:
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> {quote:title=JackFavell wrote:
> }{quote}Heard this one this morning on Radio Dismuke and just loved it! I've listened to it three times in a row now. Very peppy and makes you want to foxtrot all around the house.
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> Gonna Get a Girl by The Six Jumping Jacks
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdXDk0GR5Q
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> By the way, Radio Dismuke is a wonderful station that plays all sorts of 20's and early 30's hits. I stream it to my computer through Loud City. I highly recommend it:
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I LOVE Radio Dismuke! Have it on often.
I also know that song. Got a few 78's of it by others from 1927, plus a nice version from much later (1948) by Hoagy Carmichael on a Decca 78.
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}"....can slip right through your fingers.....". Song and movie title? Singer?
"April Love"
Pat Boone movie & record hit in 1957.
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
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> Somewhat like the old saw about how Paul smoothed John's rougher edges
> and John made sure Paul didn't get too sappy, maybe they did the same thing
> with grammar, one helping the other's weak points. When they went solo, their
> mistakes wouldn't be corrected by the other.
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> I don't know if it was bad grammar or maybe they felt it sounded better with the
> incorrect word. Man We Was Lonely sounds a bit more desperate than Were.
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Good point about John and Paul's solo songwriting.
I realize of course that bad or at least slightly improper or slang grammar is an important part of a lot of rock music. And we wouldn't want it any other way, would we!
I really wasn't picking on Paul and John about using it, assuming they were aware that they were using unusual wording and doing so to make a point, not through ignorance of the proper terms. (Well, unfortunately I'm not so sure about the grammatical goof I mentioned in Paul's song "Wonderful Christmastime". I have a feeling that was a real error, not intentional).
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> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
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> Ain't That a Shame sounds better than Isn't That a Shame.
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Did you know that on the original 1955 single by Fats Domino the song was entitled "Ain't It a Shame"? On later reissues the title was usually the more familiar "Ain't That a Shame".
Some examples:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=fatsdominoain%27tshame&_sacat=306&Speed=45%2520RPM&_dmpt=Music_on_Vinyl&_odkw=fatsdomino+ain%27t&_osacat=306&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
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DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," has died. He was 93.The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 15 in a suburban Atlanta hospital, said Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. According to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.Slover was best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins' band but also had other roles including a townsman and soldier in the film, said John Fricke, author of "100 Years of Oz" and five other books on the movie and its star, Judy Garland. Slover was one of the tiniest male Munchkins in the movie.Long after Slover retired, he continued to appear around the country at festivals and events related to the movie. He was one of seven Munchkins at the 2007 unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to the little people in the movie. Only three (some sources say four) remain of the 124 diminutive actors who played the beloved Munchkins."He has a genuine immortality," Fricke said. "Of the 124 little people, he's one of the handful who got to enjoy this latter-day fame, to have people know who he was and be able to pick him out of the crowd in the movie."Slover is the first of the three trumpeters to herald the Munchkin mayor when he makes his entrance. Slover had been cast to play the second trumpeter but switched when another actor got stage fight during filiming, said longtime friend Allen Pease, the co-founder of the former Munchkinland Market Days outside Chesterton, Ind."Karl didn't know what stage fright meant," he said.
Slover was born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech Republic and he was the only child in his family to be dwarf sized."In those uninformed days, his father tried witch doctor treatments to make him grow," Fricke said. "Knowing Karl and his triumph over his early life, you can't help but celebrate the man at a time like this."He was buried in the backyard, immersed in heated oil until his skin blistered and then attached to a stretching machine at a hospital, all in the attempt to make him become taller. Eventually he was sold by his father at age 9 to a traveling show in Europe, Fricke said.Slover continued to perform into his late 20s, when he moved to the United States, changed his name and appeared in circuses as part of a vaudeville group known as the Singer Midgets. The group's 30 performers became the nucleus of the Munchkins.He was paid $50 a week for the movie and told friends that Garland's dog in the movie, "Toto," made more money.
The surviving Munchkin actors found new generations of fans in the late 1980s when they began making appearances around the country."It wasn't until the Munchkins started making their appearances in 1989 that they all came to realize how potent the film had become and remained," Fricke said. "He was wonderfully articulate about his memories, he had anecdotes to share."Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Karl Slover also had a brief but memorable role in the 1938 Laurel & Hardy movie BLOCK-HEADS. -
Slightly related "Wizard of Oz" news:
WIZARD OF OZ actor Karl Slover passes away -
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," has died. He was 93.The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 15 in a suburban Atlanta hospital, said Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. According to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.
Slover was best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins' band but also had roles as a townsman and soldier in the film, said John Fricke, author of "100 Years of Oz" and five other books on the movie and its star, Judy Garland. Slover was one of the tiniest male Munchkins in the movie.Long after Slover retired, he continued to appear around the country at festivals and events related to the movie. He was one of seven Munchkins at the 2007 unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to the little people in the movie. Only three (note: some sources say four) remain of the 124 diminutive actors who played the beloved Munchkins.
"He has a genuine immortality," Fricke said. "Of the 124 little people, he's one of the handful who got to enjoy this latter-day fame, to have people know who he was and be able to pick him out of the crowd in the movie."Slover is the first of the three trumpeters to herald the Munchkin mayor when he makes his entrance. Slover had been cast to play the second trumpeter but switched when another actor got stage fight during filiming, said longtime friend Allen Pease, the co-founder of the former Munchkinland Market Days outside Chesterton, Ind."Karl didn't know what stage fright meant," he said.
Slover was born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech Republic and he was the only child in his family to be dwarf sized."In those uninformed days, his father tried witch doctor treatments to make him grow," Fricke said. "Knowing Karl and his triumph over his early life, you can't help but celebrate the man at a time like this."He was buried in the backyard, immersed in heated oil until his skin blistered and then attached to a stretching machine at a hospital, all in the attempt to make him become taller. Eventually he was sold by his father at age 9 to a traveling show in Europe, Fricke said.Slover continued to perform into his late 20s, when he moved to the United States, changed his name and appeared in circuses as part of a vaudeville group known as the Singer Midgets. The group's 30 performers became the nucleus of the Munchkins.He was paid $50 a week for the movie and told friends that Garland's dog in the movie, "Toto," made more money.
The surviving Munchkin actors found new generations of fans in the late 1980's when they began making appearances around the country."It wasn't until the Munchkins started making their appearances in 1989 that they all came to realize how potent the film had become and remained," Fricke said. "He was wonderfully articulate about his memories, he had anecdotes to share."Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Karl Slover also had a brief but memorable role in the 1938 Laurel & Hardy movie BLOCK-HEADS. -
> {quote:title=mavfan4life wrote:
> }{quote}If anyone knows of another discussion that really is on AFI's Master Class, point it out and I'll post there.
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> Tonight's program was outstanding.
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Yes, it was pretty interesting.
But couldn't it have occurred to Mr. Spielberg to remove his hat for the show?
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*I'LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN! (1941)*
*Columbia Pictures w/ The Three Stooges*
*A sequel to You Nazty Spy!, this was made 5 months before Pearl Harbor.*
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Actually, about 8 months before. The short's shooting dates were April 15 through 18, 1941.
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That sounds like MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937) - Paramount.
Some info here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029192/fullcredits#cast
Here's a plot description:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82469/Make-Way-for-Tomorrow/full-synopsis.html
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C. Bogle wrote:
This is a pretty easy one: Which Beatle had the best grades in school?
> {quote:title=C.Bogle wrote:}{quote}
> Yes, Paul was the star student. I don't think you could call him a grind, but
> he seemed to like school work or maybe it made him feel good about himself.
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Paul may have been a good student (and of course, an excellent songwriter) but he still was responsible for such grammatical atrocities as:
"Man We Was Lonely" (song title from his 1970 solo album).
"I thought you was a lady..." (lyric from hit song "Jet").
"A choir of children sings their song" (lyric from song "Wonderful Christmastime". Correct grammar: "A choir of children sings its song".)
But Paul wasn't the only one to write that way:
In John Lennon's 1971 song "How Do You Sleep?" he wrote: "Those freaks was right when they said you was dead".
Maybe it's a British thing...
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> {quote:title=finance wrote:
> }{quote}I assume that THE LINEUP was the basis for the TV series.
Has anyone heard of a 1929 short called THE LINE-UP? It's a dramatic / gangster short released by a company called Classic Pictures, and has no relation to the later movie or TV series.
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> {quote:title=Rickey wrote:}{quote}
> A little trivia about You're Darn Tootin'. The original title was The Music Blasters, even though it was changed to You're Darn Tootin' the prints sent to England still had the old title attached to them.
As I'm sure you know, the main reason why films are released in England (or other countries) under different titles is the concern that the original U.S. title may be a confusing or unfamiliar slang term that they wouldn't understand in the foreign country. I always figured that was the reason for the title change in this case ("You're Darn Tootin'" being a slang term that they thought would be unfamiliar in England).
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> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:
> }{quote}I'll have to check that out! Maybe we'll luck out and it will be another of the Inspector Carr mysteries that have been popping up lately!
Yes, they did run one of the Van Dine Vitaphone shorts after THE MYSTERY OF THE BLACK CAT. But I caught just the end of it, so I'm not sure which one it was. But I'm sure someone will be able to tell us the title soon.
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> {quote:title=Robert Israel wrote:
> }{quote}Hello Musicalnovelty (great moniker),
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> I prepared eight new scores for the eight short films. I am very pleased that you enjoyed my work. Thank you very much.
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> Sincerely,
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> Robert Israel
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Hello again Robert,
Thanks for the response.
When you said you prepared scores for eight films, does that mean that after the second four are shown on TCM this coming Sunday night, that will be it for silent Laurel & Hardy shorts on TCM (at least for the near future) until arrangements are made to do more?
These shorts have been very welcome and appreciated and I do hope there will be more coming.
Again, I want to say thanks for participating here on the TCM Boards. Many of us silent comedy fans like your work very much and are interested in your comments and info.
By the way, it was great meeting you (hope you recall, though too little time to chat much) on October 23 of last year at the Capitol Theatre in Rome, NY when you played for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. I enjoyed discussing some of what interests me most: Photoplay music, Victor Pict-Ur records, and composers such as Mel Kaufman. Hope we can do it again some time!
The vast majority of the January schedule
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> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:
> }{quote}Shorts scheduled:
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> Thursday
> 7:40 pm Let's Talk Turkey (1939) - MGM
Our Gang fans don't miss Tommy Bond (who was Butch" in the Our Gang shorts) in the 1939 Pete Smith short LET'S TALK TURKEY on Thursday.