musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}You can still make a living without a forehead. I have NO idea what that's supposed to mean!?

> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}Do we really need a third thread about Winona? But in this one at least her name is spelled correctly!

Unlisted short on TCM Wednesday morning (eastern time) after SEVEN DAYS IN MAY: CRASHING THE WATER BARRIER (1956) - Warner Bros. Info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049102/combined

> {quote:title=ClassicFilmMan wrote:}{quote}*....Day 4:* > > *John, Ethel and Lionel -* aka* The Fabulous Barrymores * *Hollywood's Royal Family* > > Grand Hotel {with John and Lionel} (1932) > Arsène Lupin {with John and Lionel} (1932) > Rasputin and the Empress {with John, Ethel and Lionel} (1932) > Dinner at Eight {with John and Lionel} (1933) Hey, if we're programming Barrymore movies on TCM, don't forget that the recently rights problem-cleared NIGHT FLIGHT (1933 - MGM, starring John & Lionel B.) still has not been on TCM.

> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > She was being coy. > > > > How long has it been since you've met a coy girl? Have you ever met a coy girl? > > > > > > Not all of us like to meet hard cold femme fatal dames all the time. > > > > > > > I think someone is smitten with Miss Ryder. > Hey, FredC might have some competition there! I too thought Winona was absolutely charming, did a good job, and I'd like to see her return to TCM. Fred and I have something in common here: He stated on the other Winona thread that he hadn't seen much of her work before. Same with me. As I am not really interested in new/recent (post-1960's) movies I knew almost nothing about Winona. Some friends who are Louisa May Alcott fans invited me to see the Winona version of LITTLE WOMEN when it came out, and I liked it and liked her, but wasn't inspired to seek out any more of her work. So, as I understand FredC to have also indicated, we watched Winona on TCM last week with no great knowledge or prejudice about her career or alleged offscreen antics. And Fred has said, we saw a pretty, polite and charming young lady who we'd not mind seeing again.

> {quote:title=flashback42 wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}"I went hunting one fine day and my bullets were made of lead..." > > > > Name song title, movie & performers (or as much as you can...) > > > Need more. Okay, some clues: The song was sung by the popular (relatively) comedy team who were the stars of the film, then others joined in. Another clue: It's a film that has been shown on TCM. More clues later if necessary.

> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote}The Barrymores were part of a Star of the Month ...... You could even throw in a film by John Drew, Diana & Drew as well. I'd love to see some (or all!) of Diana Barrymore's movies on TCM, especially one of my favorites, BETWEEN US GIRLS (1942) which has similarities to but PRE-DATES the unfairly more well-known THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR.

> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}I love The Lemon Drop Kid. I actually don't think it's very well known. Speaking of not very well known: How many have seen the 1934 version?

> {quote:title=icanjuggle wrote:}{quote}I'm looking for the entity that currently holds the rights to Vitaphone film shorts... in particular > {font:Arial} > *The Juggling Fool* (Vitaphone: Lloyd French) bw-7m-(DC: Vitaphone Variety [bobby May|http://forums.tcm.com/])-May 14, 1938 > > I am working on a video project and would like to enquire about using a clip from this film. > > thanks > > {font} *Here's an enlargement of what you wrote that somehow came out microscopically tiny:* *"The Juggling Fool* (Vitaphone: Lloyd French) bw-7m-(DC: Vitaphone Variety [Bobby May|http://forums.tcm.com/])-May 14, 1938 I am working on a video project and would like to enquire about using a clip from this film. thanks"

> {quote:title=sfpcc1 wrote:}{quote}Has there ever been a classic film about Father Damian, the priest who aided the lepers of Molokai Island? I googled "Father Damian And Movie" and found two films; one made in 1980 and one made in 1999. I'm curious if there's one made before 1970. The short starring Tom Neal was called THE GREAT HEART (1938). It's an "MGM Miniature" short. It shows up on TCM occasionally. Here's info on it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030201/combined

> {quote:title=bOb39 wrote:}{quote}12/12: LITTLE GIANT? Abbott & Costello? Oooooh, I hope so! I've been wanting to see that one again for a long time. That's the one where A&C does that crazy arithmatic routine and Lou sells vacuum cleaners. > Coming in the middle of a day of Edward G. Robinson movies, I think we can be sure that the LITTLE GIANT scheduled on TCM on Dec. 12 will be the 1933 Warner Bros. comedy starring Edward G. and not the 1946 Abbott & Costello movie. But tune in anyway - the 1933 LITTLE GIANT is a fun spoof on Eddie G's gangster films and it's always nice seeing Eddie G. playing comedy and sending up his tough guy image. And it doesn't turn up on TCM as often as I wish it would.

"I went hunting one fine day and my bullets were made of lead..." Name song title, movie & performers (or as much as you can...)

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}".....in Webster's dictionary....".........Song? Film in which introduced? "Too Marvelous for Words" introduced in READY, WILLING AND ABLE (1937).

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} > > *{quote:title=TomJH wrote:....T}{quote}o return to my original question when I created the thread, does anybody know if that is Harpo Marx making an inside joke appearance at about the 43 minute mark of the film?* > *I agree with Ray:* > *Definitely not!* > > > > I'm not saying you're wrong but may I ask how you guys can be quite so definite? For one thing, if nothing else, something like a previously undocumented appearance by someone as famous, popular and well-researched as a Marx Brother in a film as well-known and accessible as this one would just be extremely unlikely to be not yet noticed and documented at this late date. There are many Marx Bros. experts, lots of books and articles and there are many who love this movie and know it well (may I say humbly I'm one!) who would have noticed and reported long ago if someone like Harpo was in it. Sure, new discoveries are always being made, but a previously unknown Harpo credit in a movie as popular and familiar and often-seen as this is just too unlikely.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:....Hones}{quote}tly, there is very little television that I consider worth watching - let alone recording. I haven't watched a network drama or sitcom in years. > I'm definitely with you there!

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}"PLAYMATES", 1944 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkHL89xyfgs > > The good stuff starts about 1:17 into this film clip. > > This is a "soundie". These were early video jukebox films on machines that were located in bars for a few years in the 1940s and early '50s. Thanks for the chance to see this one again. I've always liked Soundies and this is a good one - catchy song, and the visuals ain't bad either! But I always thought it strange that the title is PLAYMATES when the song is "Playmate".

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}Hahahahahahahahahaahaha. . . > > > > We agree to disagree. What is you favorite number? Can you post a youtube of it? I have never gotten through the first 20 minutes, so hopefully it's from something later in the movie RayFaiola's post touches upon some of my reasons for loving this movie, too, but there are so many more... I'll have to get back later when I've given it more time to think of everything.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}TCM or PBS? > > > > Next Sunday I still gotta choose between the first night of Buster Keaton's "Star Of The Month" stint or the first night of Ken Burns' "Prohibition". Phooey! > http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/ Aren't most PBS programs like this repeated several times over night and during the following week of their premieres? So unless one feels he has to see it "live" the first time it's shown, just catch a repeat. And regarding Buster in October on TCM, I got a "confidential tip" about the films scheduled for Oct. 9 - DON'T miss them that night!

possibly...? Helen Twelvetrees?

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:....T}{quote}o return to my original question when I created the thread, does anybody know if that is *Harpo Marx* making an inside joke appearance at about the 43 minute mark of the film? I agree with Ray: Definitely not!

> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}It should be noted that the film was released in the U.K. as HALLELUJAH, I'M A TRAMP, since the term "bum" has an entirely incompatible meaning to Britons. And so one thing cool about that is for Jolson fans & collectors we get an interesting rarity: the alternate recording of the title song with the changed lyric.

> {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=TomJH wrote:}{quote} Gandhi died in January, 1948, and the boys did their "Mah Ha" routine in Three Little Pirates released the previous year. I guess they did it just in time before it would have been considered to be in poor taste. > The Stooges' first film performance of their "Maharaja" routine actually was in the Columbia feature film TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM, filmed in February & March 1941, and released in June. > > This version is highly recommended for Stooges fans who may have seen only the performance of the routine in the 1946 short THREE LITTLE PIRATES. In the short Curly is in very poor health and his performance suffers because of it, although admittedly not as bad as in some of his other 1946-era films. But in TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM Curly is in his prime, energetic and full of life, giving a top performance. > > > Musicalnovelty, wow, that's great information! I did not know this! I will have to seek this film out, and maybe, just maybe, TCM might air it too?? > > > TCM has shown TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM before, the last time was on April 12, 2010 as part of an all-day Ann Miller birthday tribute. It probably will be on again.

> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:}{quote} > Dear MusicalNovelty ... > > > > I so Remember when you had Posted this ... It's been nearly 2 years and you were able to pull up this old thread with this valuable information ... > I remember @ that time, attempting to go through each of the titles on Youtube, but must have lost track somehow . . . I'm going to start over again, from the bottom of the list, this time ... Bear in mind, if looking for this tune in any of the films I listed, that the composition will not always necessarily be performed as a complete number in every film. Sometimes it will be heard for just a few seconds when a radio is turned on. Or it may be the barely audible piano music playing in the background in a speakeasy or some such place. But have fun hunting!

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, John Garfield and Maria Montez pay their respects on President Roosevelt's birthday in 1943. Looks like Eleanor at the right, next to Maria Montez. And what's up with Lucy & John Garfield holding hands?!

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}The music and theme song from *Woman Haters* is catchy and wonderful! I like playing it, orchestral style (the version in the intro ), on the piano. I get people gushing to me: "That's great!! Where did you get that?" When I tell them, especially the women, you could see the look of bewilderment and disappointment on their faces! They have become so programmed, so closed minded and self convinced, that there can't possibly be anything of aesthetic and cultural value to be found in a Stooge film! As you probably know, the short WOMAN HATERS did not start out originally as a Three Stooges short when released in May of 1934. It was the 5th short in a series called The Musical Novelties produced by Columbia for their 1933 - 1934 season, the creation of composer / writer / director Archie Gottler. There were eight shorts in the series but only the first four had all-new original music scores. Probably to save on costs entries 5 & 6 had scores compiled from the pre-recorded scores of the first four shorts. The last two had less music and more comedy. So would you believe, listening to the music score for WOMAN HATERS that every note of music in the short was patched together from the scores of four earlier shorts? Yes, it's a very good job of editing isn't it? Even the "Rock-a-Bye Baby" and "Wedding March" music heard in WOMAN HATERS was taken from earlier films in the series. The song you mentioned from WOMAN HATERS was written for and introduced in the first Musical Novelty short entitled UMPA, released November 24, 1933 (actually the first one filmed but the second one released). The original title of the song as sung in UMPA was "At Last" and it was sung by Lois January. Of course, it was an entirely different song with different lyrics. But the original music track without the vocals was used for WOMAN HATERS with new lyrics added for The Stooges to sing. So bear in mind when you watch WOMAN HATERS that every note of the music score was patched together from the music scores of four earlier shorts, and take notice of how expertly it's done. As you may guess, the shorts in the Columbia Musical Novelty series are among my top favorites ever and I've done much research on them for many years. Hmmm...MusicalNovelty...how about that for a screen name?