LonesomePolecat

I know the character name is Olga. According to imdb she's played by Judy Landon, but I tend to take imdb with a grain of salt. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484924/

Dargo, that is awesome. I forgot about those characters. Just thought of one *1985* In this 1980s "cool" version of the classic novel 1984, Marty McFly and Doc goes back in time to defeat Big Brother, which in this case is Marty's annoying principal. He defeats him with his Delorean time machine, his life preserver, and his Van Halen rock music. "Our government can't handle this level of rock and roll!" This version is complete with lazers, lots of cussing, and a sex scene, just in case it isn't "cool" enough for the pre-teen near you.

I just realized this was SUTS and not SOTM, which is what I suggested. But in any case I think we all want more attention paid to great character actors!

Platinum Blonde -- both leads died very young

since mudskipper isn't back, anyone else want to put one in?

Isaacs, Jason

Marilyn Monroe was in ALL ABOUT EVE with George Sanders

> {quote:title=Dargo2 wrote:}{quote}*BAD DAY AT RED ROCK* > > > > "Are you SURE you don't wanna take the Pink Jeep up to Snoopy Rock, Mr. MacReedy?" > _____________________________________________________ > > Having found himself amid all those spacey "New Age" types in Sedona Arizona, grouchy John MacReedy(left) just can't seem to get it through the head of tour director Coley Trimble(center) that he's NOT interested in visiting any "vortexes" while he's passing through town. I enjoyed the 1960s Flinstones remake: *BAD DAY AT BEDROCK* in which Fred Flintstone takes on the Spencer Tracy character.

Friebus, Florida

Great list, aimalac. Which reminds me-- man, how could I forget HARVEY? Glad you mentioned it.

That sounds complicated. I'm glad I don't have to worry about all that. Much more fun to throw suggestions out there and watch and wait. Plus, as for making a good argument for preserving A TRIP TO THE MOON, I think our friend Marty Scorsese did that better than I ever could in his recent film HUGO.

You are all so kind. I'm sure enjoying this moment. They didn't show all the movies I sugged, but I understand how copyrights work and such, so I understand. I wish they were showing one I scheduled originally, the one love most, which was Alan Arkin in: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. That's a great one, though really emotional. RM-- I've never heard of that movie. I'll check it out and let y'all know. (I'm already inclined to love Dan Akroyd though) lz-- I don't usually "toot my own horn" either, but I've never had a theme be a featured month-long festival and I couldn't resist. I hope others will do the challenges because this stuff does happen a lot. TikiSoo-- Thanks! Missed you too! Congrats to Capuchin, too, not only for having a whole theme ripped off (which I know must happen to the brilliant Capuchin a lot), but mainly for getting one of my all time favorite scary movies on the air: The Last Man on Earth. So overlooked, so awesome.

So I just got my Now Playing Guide for October and saw that they are doing a whole month long look at how Hollywood portrays people with disabilities. Well, guess what-- that was my idea! I don't remember which one, but in one of my schedules for the TCM Programming Challenge, I did a whole night of "Deaf People in Cinema". I did it because I'm quite blind myself and am irritated at the way most blind people are portrayed--especially that blind humor isn't funny to me. I even suggested, I seem to recall, that this could be a whole month's study--to look at disabilities and cinema the same way that TCM does "Race and Hollywood." And next month they are! I'm so proud of me! Anyone else have TCM steal their programming challenge ideas in the past or coming soon?

I'm glad you feel that way, finance. LADY FOR A DAY is simply one of my absolute favorites--worth it for the ending alone--and to me is one of Capra's best.

Jones, Emmadel - Jane Wyman in HERE COMES THE GROOM

Yeah I figured out the "Robert Walker in Vengeance Valley"-- it was the "Joanna Dru" that was beyond my brain. But I got "Joe" which led me to "Joanna Dru". And I agree-- these things aren't that hard to write. They're just fun. I hope others try it too. Next stars and a film title (which for some reason has lots of '70s references): THE STING & JAWS actor _ Shaw Spencer Tracy was Capt. ___pepper In IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD and _ King Cole British expression "____ Ho!" SINGIN' IN THE RAIN song "_ You?" and ET's best friend 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN _ +and Peter Pan said, "To _ would be an awfully big adventure" _ OF GREEN GABLES In THE HUNGER GAMES, what fires when a tribute dies in "The __ Newhart Show" PAT _ MIKE "The _ Burnett Show" _ THEN THERE WERE NONE Mary Tyler Moore's anchor man _ Baxter HAROLD _ MAUDE + _ IN WONDERLAND Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 17, 2012 3:44 PM

Good to know that others read it the way I did. Now my problem is figuring out what an "American" film is. I mean David Lean is a Brit, of course, and makes British cinema, so he shouldn't qualify for the National Film Registry, yet Lawrence of Arabia is on there. And I know A Trip to the Moon was made by Melies but it's too important not to be in the NFR. That's how I feel about A Night to Remember (1958) as well. So I'll just send recommendations and let them figure it out. I followed everyone's recommendation to group it by "high recommendations" and "runners up", but not to narrow it to ten. Yeah right. That's impossible. So here is the list I sent. A lot of you may disagree with what is "highly recommended" vs "runners up", but remember these are my personal feelings. The "highly" section are films that I would be incredibly, tremedously angry and upset if they fell off the planet for the future generations, and the "runners up" are ones that I would only be really upset about. Basically the top list are films that I'm angry aren't on the list already and the bottom ones are, "well, I can see why these films need to wait their turn in line". Nominations for the National Film Registry, grouped by my own personal feelings towards them: Highly recommended: Ball of Fire (1941) Diary of Anne Frank (1959) The Dot and the Line (1965) The Great Escape (1963) Fort Apache (1948) Key Largo (1948) Lady for a Day (1933) Lost Horizon (1937) The Miracle Worker (1962) Mary Poppins (1964) Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Mister Roberts (1955) The Old Mill (1937) On the Town (1949) The Palm Beach Story (1942) Platinum Blonde (1931) The Quiet Man (1952) Seven Chances (1925) Shenandoah (1965) Stalag 17 (1953) Strangers on a Train (1951) To Have and Have Not (1944) White Christmas (1954) You Can't Take It With You (1938) High recommendations that may not count: A Trip to the Moon (1902) A Night to Remember (1958) Runners-up that are also recommended: American Madness (1932) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) The Birds (1963) Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Flowers and Trees (1932) The Great Race (1965) The Haunting (1963) Holiday Inn (1942) The Olympic Champ (1942) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) The Seven Year Itch (1955) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) Now I want to know what everyone else sent in!

I got "Robert Walker in Vengeance Valley", and I think the beginning is "Joanna Dru". Since I'm not sure if that's right, I hesitate- is that it?

Yes, mudskipper! Your thread!

Places in the Heart

The website said this: *For consideration, please forward recommendations (limit 50 titles per year) via email to: mailto:dross@loc.gov* ...which led me to believe we could recommend multiple films. If not, and if I misunderstood this, how could I narrow a list down to one? Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 14, 2012 7:44 PM

The way I interpreted the website was that we could suggest multiple films. Maybe I misunderstood that as well. Anything government run is usually fairly complicated.

filmregistry, As Carol Burnett said in Went With the Wind, "Well that's pretty but it don't answer my question." My question was, do our very long lists of nominations need to be in some kind of order? Like our top pick as #1? Or does it matter?

Mr Roberts is not on the list? Or the Diary of Anne Frank? Those to me are two of the great WWII movies of all time-- not only for their excellent cast, writing, filmmakingetc, but because they really personalize the war. Holy moley. I have a feeling the National Film Registry is going to get a sudden wave of nominations from TCM fans... If our National Film Registry friend will come back, do we have to rank our 50 films in order of preference or just submit a list? Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 14, 2012 3:42 PM

Without reading anyone else's posts (sorry if I repeat), here's what I would love: January: Danny Kaye (it's his 100th birthday that month) (Feb=Oscars of course) March: Dean Martin April: Alec Guinness May: George Sanders June: Peter Ustinov July: Eve Arden (Aug=SUTS of course) Sept: Ward Bond Oct: Peter Lorre Nov: Maggie Smith Dec: Edmund Gwenn (the greatest Santa of all time)