musicalnovelty

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Groucho Marx just hanging around in his BVDs And all this time we thought The Marx Brothers appeared only in features, not shorts!

> {quote:title=Sprocket_Man wrote:}{quote}The only two heads on a pillow I can think of belong to Ray Milland and Rosey Grier: That's an image I'll try to keep out of my head while watching the movie on TCM Wednesday night!

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}I couldn't watch it. It was too painful. To think of all the great scripts out there, and they made this! Do you mean to say you didn't like it??? I'm shocked!!! It's always been one of my very top favorites EVER!!!

> {quote:title=JakeHolman wrote:}{quote}Stevie Wonder... > > > > > > > > Jake in the Heartland Love Stevie Wonder too. Here's one of my favorites by him, that's not heard often enough on the radio any more: It's a song in two parts so this is the whole thing, although I recall most fondly the first half only as that's what was released on the original 45 in 1972.

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}The absence of those credit "details" is why I am particularly fond of this poster. It lets the artwork get all the attention. > > One of these days I am going to gather up all the posters for other films which are strikingly similar to this one. Each one uses big, "stone-like" lettering for the titles. I think there are at least half a dozen of them. > > Kyle In Hollywood > And have you ever noticed how much 1950's posters & lobby cards loved to use the color yellow!?

> {quote:title=casablancalover wrote:}{quote}More McCartney: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9QVN0bpa4 Always tending to favor the obscure and unusual, here's one of my favorite Paul McCartney songs:

> {quote:title=ThelmaTodd wrote:}{quote}*CHILD BRIDE (1941)* > > > > *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByU-DkHXsIU&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1* > > > > *Full movie* The release date for CHILD BRIDE is often listed incorrectly. Although reissued at least twice (in 1941 and 1944) it was originally produced and released in 1938.

> {quote:title=ugaarte wrote:....M}{quote}y Love for them is not so much for the 'Slapstick' as it is for their Musical Entertainment ...... > In "Disorder in the Court", the boys play a tune (name unknown) but the same tune is played in the movie, 'Reefer Madness' ... Ugaarte: I recall you mentioning this tune in an old thread, and I responded with some info on the music and a listing of other films in which I have found it to have been used. I found the old thread and here it is: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=149004&start=15&tstart=0 Here's the post: ugaarte: Since you mentioned the music from the Three Stooges short DISORDER IN THE COURT I thought I'd share some research I've done on the tune. Several years ago I started researching all the incidental music that is used in the Three Stooges Columbia shorts. I wanted to learn all the titles, composers, origins, and other film usages. As there is no known source for this info I had to do it all myself. I know of no online source, book, or article (except those I've written myself on the subject) that provides this information. After years of digging I have identified the title of the DISORDER IN THE COURT music, its composer, and a total (so far) of 33 films in which it was used. The music is a song entitled "Push 'Em Up" and it was written by Howard Jackson. The tune could be performed many different ways in all these different films: from solo piano to a full band. The meaning of the title "Push 'Em Up" is still unclear, as there has been no evidence there were ever any lyrics to the song. So here you go, find these films and listen for "Push 'Em Up"... ANN CARVER'S PROFESSION (5-26-33) - Columbia feature. SING SINNER SING (8-1-33) - Majestic feature. SAILORS, BEWARE (9-15-33) - Paramount short. ABOVE THE CLOUDS (10-24-33) - Columbia feature. HOLD YOUR TEMPER (12-15-33) - Columbia short. RADIO DOUGH (2-5-34) - Columbia short. GLAMOUR (4-9-34) - Universal feature. THE PARTY'S OVER (5-15-34) - Columbia feature. BLIND DATE (7-20-34) - Columbia feature. BEYOND THE LAW (7-31-34) - Columbia feature. GIRL IN DANGER (8-29-34) - Columbia feature. HOLLYWOOD HERE WE COME (8-29-34) - Columbia short. THE BEST MAN WINS (1-15-35) - Columbia feature. RENDEZVOUS AT MIDNIGHT (2-11-35) - Universal feature. STONE OF SILVER CREEK (4-15-35) - Universal feature. LADIES CRAVE EXCITEMENT (6-22-35) - Mascot feature. MEN OF ACTION (7-13-35) - Conn feature. UNKNOWN WOMAN (7-14-35) - Columbia feature. MURDER BY TELEVISION (10-25-35) - Imperial/Cameo feature. THE LONESOME TRAILER (10-26-35) - Warner Bros./Vitaphone short. MANHATTAN BUTTERFLY (11-25-35) - Major/Cameo/Imperial feature. THE CALLING OF DAN MATTHEWS (12-10-35) - Columbia feature. FEDERAL AGENT (4-10-36) - Select Productions/Republic feature. THE DRAG-NET (4-15-36) - Burroughs-Tarzan feature. DISORDER IN THE COURT (5-20-36) - Columbia short. THE FINAL HOUR (7-7-36) - Columbia feature. SMASHING THE VICE TRUST (11-36) - Real Life Dramas Productions/International/Willis Kent Productions feature. LET'S GET MARRIED (3-25-37) (Trailer only) - Columbia feature. ONE MAN JUSTICE (7-1-37) - Columbia feature. ASSASSIN OF YOUTH (9-21-37) - B.C.M./Grand National feature. VERBENA TRAGICA (TRAGIC HOLIDAY) (8-38/3-12-39) - Columbia feature. TELL YOUR CHILDREN ("REEFER MADNESS") (1938) - G&H feature. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (5-15-39) - Columbia feature.

> {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.

> {quote:title=metz44 wrote:}{quote}absolutely correct mr. novelty > he was the perfect villain to cause trouble for stan and ollie > more tomw Walter Long could play a nasty bad guy well but was also great at playing comical nasty bad guys in comedy films.

> {quote:title=TomJH wrote:.....}{quote} people whose tastes are so varied that they get tremendous satisfaction out of, not only the low art film preferences of "the masses" ...but can also have their spirits soar when they watch The Red Shoes..... You mentioned The Three Stooges and the movie THE RED SHOES. Trivia: any Stooges fans know the Stooges reference to that movie in one of their shorts?

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > Adorable Joan Blondell munches on some lunch Joan is having lunch on the set of her 1941 Universal Picture MODEL WIFE.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > Friday also includes a showing of the most obscure Greer Garson/Walter Pidgeon pairing: Scandal at Scourie, directed by Jean Negulesco. > I saw it for the first time today, and I think it is a wonderful film. > > What an awful set of problems for the little girl and her adoptive parents. > Go to the Sept. 23rd post here for a nice poster featuring the girl, Donna Corcoran...and oh yeah, Greer & Walter, too: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=116507&tstart=0

That charming gentleman is Walter Long (in a scene from the 1932 Laurel & Hardy short ANY OLD PORT!) Reportedly he was a very nice guy in "real life"...just excellent at playing nasty bad guys on screen.

> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote} > > Friday also includes a showing of the most obscure Greer Garson/Walter Pidgeon pairing: Scandal at Scourie, directed by Jean Negulesco. > What an awful set of problems for the little girl..... Wasn't she good? Donna Corcoran (older sister of "Bachelor Father"'s Noreen Corcoran). She's also so good in other movies we see on TCM such as Angels In the Outfield, Don't Bother To Knock, Dangerous When Wet, Million Dollar Mermaid, and a starring role in Gypsy Colt (1954). I hope she's well and happy and knows she has fans here among TCM viewers!

They're still running the trailer for it. I saw it today. So maybe it really will be on as scheduled. There's another thread about it here: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161810&tstart=0

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote} > Here's another painting/artwork by the same artist unattributed to a particular film - though it sure looks like Kay Francis to me. > > > > > > Any guesses on what film it might be for? > > Kyle In Hollywood > I believe that's Clive Brook and Kay Francis in artwork promoting the 1931 Paramount feature 24 HOURS. I have some stills from it that are very similar.

Two of my favorites are both from Monogram Pictures and are both accompanied by the same music: THREE OF A KIND (1944) - the montage showing Shemp Howard and Billy Gilbert working as cooks. LUCKY LOSERS (1950) - The Bowery Boys learning gambling and card tricks from Harry Tyler.

So....has anyone seen this movie? I have! About 20 years ago a local channel ran it and I (of course!) watched it and recorded it. The print had the fake title "Love Can't Lose" replacing the real title. It's a minor but charming comedy-drama and I recommend it especially to fans of obscure rare B-movies. I'm looking forward to TCM's showing of it in what promises to be a better print than my old copy. Thanks TCM for digging this one out!

> {quote:title=hlywdkjk wrote:}{quote}Wednesday, September 14th > > > > > Studio-created Artwork for *The Story Of Temple Drake *- Use Unknown This image was used for this lobby card: (Used with this article): http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/02/18/the-story-of-temple-drake-a-faulkner-adaptation-supressed-by-the-production-code-screens-this-weekend

> {quote:title=Capuchin wrote:}{quote}There's a Japanese tv series I knew I wouldn't like. It's anime, it's gory, and it's little girls. Someone had to bribe and force me to watch an episode. I fell in love with it! ..... > So far, I've only been able to get one other person to watch it (and she, too, fell in love with it). I'd feel perfectly justified to use my estate to coerce someone else to watch it, because even if they don't like it, it would at least make them realize they shouldn't judge things by the previews. What is it?

> {quote:title=RayFaiola wrote:}{quote}My wife and I went to a Halloween party back in the 90's and I went as Imhotep. Full makeup. On the subway. Nobody noticed. > Everyone must have just assumed it was Mummy's Day!

Very nice still. Thanks for scanning it. I have some material from that movie but don't believe I'd seen that still before. The other actors in the shot include Claude Gillingwater, Sr. as the tall man at the left clapping his hands, and James Hall as the young man. I believe the older lady is Aggie Herring. The number on the still (159-148) is the studio's code number for identifying the film the still is from. The 159 is the First National Pictures production number for the movie SMILING IRISH EYES while the 148 is the number of this particular still. Colleen Moore was delightful and special and it is a tragedy that so many of her silent films (including this one) are considered lost.

Don't miss him in the 1929 Frank Capra movie THE YOUNGER GENERATION. It's one of my favorite roles of his.

Hal Roach short coming up on TCM: MAID IN HOLLYWOOD (1934) - Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly. Tuesday morning, Sept.13 after MERTON OF THE MOVIES.