LonesomePolecat

King Arthur - Richard Harris in CAMELOT

audrey- Another great schedule! Fun and creative. Great cinema in there. Way to pick Maureen O'Sullivan (don't think she's every been SOTM, has she?), but especially to schedule some lesser known films, which is what I always love to watch from my SOTMs. Favorite part though was the Debussy section. I love that man and his music, and it does seem like he's used fairly often but never given much credit. Lovely, lovely work.

Fedya, Great schedule-- great ideas-- great variety of films-- great films. I'm so glad you chose Peter Lorre as SOTM-- he was on my list of possible SOTMs. He deserves more attention with his vast filmography. The most genius moment though was the "Not Quite Blaxploitation Cinema" section. I mean, "plaquespoitation?" "Taxploitation?" "Waxploitation?" Genius! But my favorite is DINNER AT 8 for "backsloitation"-- I wish I thought of that one! Good thing I'm out of the running anyway because I couldn't have beat this schedule.

> {quote:title=countessdelave wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=B-BOOP wrote:}{quote}Hello everyone, > > > > I really don't want to come off sounding like a total beeee-otch but.. > > > > > > > > > > > > 8:00pm *THE ESSENTIALS: Tales of Manhattan* (1942) George Sanders & Edward G Robinson, dir Julien Duvivier FOX 118min (EXEMPT PREMIERE) > > > > > > > > > > > > I asked beforehand and I was told that *THE ESSENTIALS* time slot did not qualify as an Exempt Premiere. > > > > > > > > > > > > Q: Is the TCM Essentials movie exempt from the premieres? > > A: The Essentials is not exempt. > > > B-BOOP, > You are absolutely correct that the Essential is NOT exempt from the Premieres rule. I don't know how I missed that. I think that I was so delighted that Lonesome Polecat was making some slight changes to the schedule in order to comply with the rules. I counted the premieres and there are now eleven, which is one more than the allowed ten. There is still time for LP to change that Essential or delete another Premiere before midnight (pacific time) on Monday. Are you kidding me? I messed up again? Sorry, in past challenges ESSENTIALS has been a free premiere and I didn't even bother to check this time. Well it would be pretty easy to just put LURED back in as the essentials (thus cutting out poor TALES OF MANHATTAN but I guess that movie's been bounced around a lot on this thread and surely the programmers noticed it), but with a deadline two days away, I really have no time to re-do the schedule and my notes and the schedule "headline". So I think the only course of action for me right now is if you all just don't vote for me. (I don't want to win anyway because then I won't be able to write a schedule next time). Sorry everyone! Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 1, 2012 5:44 PM Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Sep 1, 2012 6:05 PM

Funny that you posted this because I just watched *ROPE* yesterday and thought, "I wonder what other movies that comes up in..."

Capuchin, That quote totally made my day. It's nice when they steal from us (I've had some ideas used before) but it's really nice to have them admit it and tell the world. Go us!

Queen of Hearts- Verna Felton in ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951)

--------------------LP’s Notes: Version 2.0----------------- *CHANGES FOR VERSION 2.0* Because of an oversight on my part, I scheduled a Fox film called *TALES OF MANHATTAN* as one of my Columbia premieres. Therefore I had until The Deadline to shuffle the Joseph Walker tribute section of my schedule a bit to insert a new Columbia premiere, *WHAT A WOMAN!* I had to change a couple of Joseph Walker films for timing reasons. (Don’t ask me which ones, I forget, since Joseph Walker made way too many amazing classic movies to keep track of.) Then *TALES OF MANHATTAN* sounded so interesting and a few people mentioned they wanted it shown on TCM, so I took advantage of my SOTM George Sanders’ presence in the film and made *TALES OF MANHATTAN* the Essentials (so I could get an extra premiere in there), thus bumping *LURED* down in the schedule and *HANGOVER SQUARE* out. Other than that, the schedule is exactly the same as posted previously, since it would have felt like cheating to go crazy improving the schedule I first posted. Sorry about all that, mates! Carry on NOTE: If you have read these notes the first time I posted them, there is almost no difference from here on out *CELEBRATING THE LLOYD BRIDGES & DANNY KAYE CENTENNIALS* Can you believe I found a week with TWO classic movie star centennials? Not just one, but two! Both Lloyd Bridges and Danny Kaye turn 100 this week in January 2013. Both are completely awesome in completely different ways. So I just had to pick this week. It was too good to pass up. Danny Kaye hasn’t been SOTM and should be, but I made him SOTM last time, so this was the perfect way to highlight one of my favorites. *A Dick Van Dyke Show Cast Reunion* We start off with a look at the cast of the classic DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. I’ve been wanting to do a tribute of his show for a while, partly because it was out 50 years ago, but mostly because the show rocks. With this set of films we can see that the show’s amazing cast was one of its greatest assets. All those awesome people in one TV show. One cast member, Jerry Paris, is featured as a director (directing his TV wife, Anne Morgan Guilbert) because this series kick-started his directing career. Rose Marie is shown both as she is in the DICK VAN DYKE SHOW and as Baby Rose Marie. Finally, out of all the movies the show’s headliner was in, I chose WHAT A WAY TO GO, partly because I always find a way to schedule this movie (call it a superstition or tradition, either one), but mostly because Dick Van Dyke is great in this. It shows off his genuine acting, his likeability, and especially his skills as a silent film comedian. It also highlights the talents of other ‘60s stars like Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, and Gene Kelly. *POETRY IN MOTION* These are films that feature poetry and poets. Highlighted in this bunch is my import for the night, IL POSTINO (which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995). This is hands down one of my favorite foreign films ever made—right up there with Kurosawa’s best for me. It’s a beautiful film in terms of music (Best Score 1995), acting, writing, cinematography (gorgeous Italian landscape), and poetry. It’s the story of a postman on a tiny Italian island whose one client is none other than Pablo Neruda. Everyone should watch it. Can’t say enough. The last poet in this section is Longfellow Deeds, who just happens to also fall in the next category… *HAIL COLUMBIA CHALLENGE* *Tribute to Joseph Walker, Columbia’s Amazing Cinematographer* I used this challenge as an excuse to highlight one of Early Sound’s best cinematographers: Joseph Walker. This man is such a brilliant DP. At a time when other films looked stagey and horrible, his camera was free and his lighting was impeccable. Think of that gorgeous shot of Robert Williams kissing Jean Harlow through that very Art Deco fountain in PLATINUM BLONDE, or the African American guy taking his hat off to Abraham Lincoln in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, or the frightening run on the bank in AMERICAN MADNESS, or thousands of other memorable moments. He was Capra’s favorite DP, so this section is very thick with Capra’s best (I’m quite a Capra fan), and some of his lesser known films as well. I can’t believe there are Capra films, for example, that have never been shown on TCM before. Get on that, TCM. *75th ANNIVERSARY of 1938* Because one of Joseph Walker’s films, the best picture winner YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, is 75 years old, I had to highlight other great movies from that same year. Too many greats to list, so I took just a small sampling. The late 30s-early 40s were a wonderful time—one of the best—and must be celebrated, don’t you agree? *Oh to be a Botanist* These films feature botanists—an odd profession to have in a movie, but nonetheless interesting. A NEW LEAF has the funniest botanist: Elaine May. Great movie that she wrote and directed herself about Walter Matthau’s pursuit of a wife dumb enough to marry him after he loses his entire fortune. *TAKE-YOUR-SON-OR-DAUGHTER-TO-WORK DAY* We know there are many talented people in The Film Industry whose sons or daughters (or beyond) went on to make great careers of their own. (Not unlike our friend Lloyd Bridges.) But rarely do they work together in the same film. And when they do, I think it’s pretty nifty (and sometimes Oscar worthy). So these films are specifically ones in which a parent and child(ren) are all working together on the same project. Often they’re all actors (as with the O’Neals, Careys, Fondas, and Emma Thompson & her mom). And sometimes dad is the director (Hitchcock & Minnelli), or maybe Junior is directing Dad (McLaglen & Huston). But rarely do we get the feat we do in THE OUTSIDERS, which really should be subtitled: A COPPOLA PRODUCTION. We got Francis directing, we got most if not all of his kids working on the film in one way or another, and to make it even more special, Francis’ dad is writing the score. Three generations in one film. Oh the fights there must have been! *Well, of course they look alike* These films are all about random people and their doppelgangers—not relatives, but just look-alikes. They’re tales of “say, you look just like…” which lead to the doppelganger switching places with their famous counterpart. In all cases, both characters are played by the same person (that must have been so much fun), which leads me to say, “Well of course they look alike!” *You Can Con Me Anytime* Here we have a small sampling of cinema’s most likeable con artists. These are all swindlers, thieves, and crooks who are so likeable they make the seemingly straight-laced public root for them, laugh with them, and love them. If Robert Redford and Paul Newman lied in my face and I knew it, I’d probably still let them rob me blind. And if Robert Morse’s J Pierpont Finch was gunning for my job, I’d just give it to him. In the case of GOODBYE CHARLIE the liar is Debbie Reynolds who is a dead male jerk come back to life is a female’s body, and uses that to his/her advantage. I think it’s one of Debbie’s best performances, so here it is. *SESAME STREET IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY…* For those of you who don’t remember, Sesame Street, being privately funded, was always “brought to you by the letter E” or “the number 2”. So these are movies with only numbers or a single letter for a title. (I’m a child of the 80s—I have to tribute the Muppets somehow). *SO I MARRIED A FEMME NOIR* These three films involve Femme Noirs and people dumb enough to marry them. Then they have the nerve to be shocked when they get killed. Wow, really, people? *THE ART OF COLLABORATION: CINEMA’S GREAT SONGWRITING TEAMS* Because TCM has been doing these “Art of Collaboration” interviews, I decided to run with that idea and highlight great songwriting teams. Many tune writers and lyricists flitted about writing songs with different people, but these people stayed with their partners over multiple projects to great success. It must be tough to depend on someone to write half your song. Some teams wrote directly for the screen (from the early sound era to Disney’s heyday), some took Broadway by storm, and some wrote popular songs that were later put into films. Of course I picked films that included my favorites of their songs, although our TCM Underground pick LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is actually the only one I can legally show (thanks, Ebenezer Disney). In the case of MARY POPPINS and CAROUSEL, I chose what I think to be the teams’ best scores overall. Many of these films also feature their respective teams’ Oscar-nominated or –winning songs. A special shout out to the Damon Runyon film THE LEMON DROP KID which, unbeknownst to many, features the first appearance of Livingston & Evans’ most recorded song: “Silver Bells.” *STAR OF THE MONTH: GEORGE SANDERS* Finally we end the night with our SOTM, George Sanders. How could this amazing Oscar-winning actor with one of the top 10 voices of all time never have been SOTM before? This guy ‘s films could easily be broken up into a whole evening of him as The Falcon, then The Saint, then the rest. What I have here are my favorite performances of his (except the one I can’t show: THE JUNGLE BOOK) which just happen to comprise of two Best Picture Winners, his Oscar-winning performance, a Hitchcock film, and two of the best Halloween movies. The reason I put the SOTM on a Saturday (which doesn’t really happen, but it wasn’t part of the rules!) was to make one of his films the Essentials. LURED blew my mind the first time I saw it. It’s a murder suspense film but I couldn’t predict who the killer was immediately! How cool is that? You really can’t tell until the film wants you to know. That is quite a feat. Plus it has a great cast. And for me, The Essentials is best when it highlights great films that many people haven’t even heard of let alone seen. So in this case it’s, “Okay, you’ve all seen REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO, so here’s a great not-so-famous thriller you need to see.” And with that bizarre slogan, it is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to all our friends at the TCM Message Boards. NOTE: Because of my Very-Typical-of-Me mistake, TALES OF MANHATTAN is now my Essentials pick, but it still holds the same principal of being quite a good film that not too many people have seen and might be overlooked otherwise. It’s pretty lucky for me I could schedule the movie elsewhere and not have to delete any of my premieres. George Sanders saves the day again --LP

Okay I finally fixed my schedule. LonesomePolecat’s schedule Version 2.0 *Week of January 13-19, 2013* STAR OF THE MONTH : *George Sanders* SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS : *Cyrano di Bergerac* (1925) TCM IMPORTS : *Il Postino* (1994) TCM UNDERGROUND: *Little Shop Of Horrors* (1986) THE ESSENTIALS: *Tales of Manhattan* (1942) PREMIERES: 1. *The Abductors* (1957) 2. *Carousel* (1956) 3. *The Daring Young Man* (1942) 4. *Goodbye, Charlie* (1964) 5. *Mary Poppins* (1965) 6. *Much Ado About Nothing* (1993) 7. *A New Leaf* (1971) 8. *Viva Max* (1969) 9. *What a Way to Go* (1964) 10. *What’s so Bad About Feeling Good?* (1968) COLUMBIA PREMIERES: 1. *He Stayed for Breakfast* (1940) 2. *Say it with Sables* (1928) 3. *Submarine* (1928) 4. *What a Woman!* (1943) -----------------------SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013------------------- *A Dick Van Dyke Show Cast Reunion* 6:00am: Morey Amsterdam (Buddy Sorrell) in *Beach Party* (1963) dir William Asher AIP 101min (p/s) 7:45am: SHORT: Rose Marie (Sally Rogers) in *Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder* (1929) dir Bryan Foy, WB 8min 8:00am: Rose Marie (Sally Rogers) in *Top Banana* (1954) dir Alfred E Green UA 100min (p/s) 9:45am Anne Morgan Guilbert (Millie Helper) *Viva Max* (1969) dir Jerry Paris (Jerry Helper), Columbia 93min PREMIERE 11:30am: Richard Deacon (Mel Cooley) in *The Young Philadelphians* (1959) dir Vincent Sherman WB 136min (p/s) 2:00pm: Carl Reiner (Alan Brady) in *The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!* (1966) dir Norman Jewison 126min MGM (p/s) 4:15pm: Mary Tyler Moore (Laura Petrie) in *What’s so Bad About Feeling Good?* (1968) dir George Seaton UNIVERSAL 94min PREMIERE 6:00pm: Dick Van Dyke (Rob Petrie) in *What a Way to Go* (1964) dir J Lee Thompson FOX 111min PREMIERE *Poetry in motion* 8:00pm *The Barretts of Wimpole Street* (1934) Norma Shearer & Fredric March, dir Sidney Franklin MGM 109min 10:00pm *The Petrified Forest* (1936) Leslie Howard & Bette Davis, dir Archie Mayo WB 82min (p/s) 11 :30pm *SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS: Cyrano di Bergerac* (1925) Pierre Magnier & Linda Moglia, dir Augusto Genina KINO 113min EXEMPT 1:30am *TCM IMPORTS: Il Postino* (1994) Mossimo Troisi & Philippe Noiret, dir Michael Radford Miramax 108min EXEMPT ----------------MONDAY JANUARY 14, 2013-------------------------- *HAIL COLUMBIA CHALLENGE* *Tribute to Joseph Walker, Columbia’s Amazing Cinematographer* 3:30am *The Awful Truth* (1937) Irene Dunne & Cary Grant, dir Leo McCarey 91min 5:15am *Say it with Sables* (1928) Francis X Bushman & Helene Chadwick, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 70min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #1 6:30am *His Girl Friday* (1940) Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell, dir Howard Hawks, Columbia 92min (p/s) 8:15am *It Happened One Night* (1934) Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 105min (p/s) 10:00am *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939) James Stewart & Jean Arthur, dir Frank Capra 131min 12:15pm *American Madness* (1932) Walter Huston & Pat O'Brien, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 75min (p/s) 1:30pm *He Stayed for Breakfast* (1940) Loretta Young & Melvyn Douglas, dir Alexander Hall, Columbia 86min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #2 3:00pm *Platinum Blonde* (1931) Jean Harlow & Robert Williams, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 89min (p/s) 4:30pm *What a Woman!* (1943) Rosalind Russell & Brian Aherne, dir Irving Cummings 94 min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #3 6:15pm *Submarine* (1928) Jack Holt & Dorothy Revier, dir Frank Capra Columbia 103min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #4 *75th ANNIVERSARY of 1938* 8:00pm *You Can’t Take It With You* (1938) Jean Arthur & James Stewart, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 126min (p/s) 10:15pm *The Lady Vanishes* (1938) Margaret Lockwood & Michael Redgrave, dir Alfred Hitchcock, Gaumont /PD 96min (p/s) 12:00am *Bringing Up Baby* (1938) Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn, dir Howard Hawks RKO 102min (p/s) 1:45am *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938) Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland, dir Michael Curtiz & William Keighley WB 102min (p/s) 3:30am *Angels With Dirty Faces* (1938) James Cagney & Pat O'Brien, dir Michael Curtiz WB 97min (p/s) 5:15am *The Dawn Patrol* (1938) Errol Flynn & Basil Rathbone, dir Edmund Goulding WB 103min (p/s) 7:00am *Jezebel* (1938) Bette Davis & Henry Fonda, dir William Wyler WB 105min (p/s) -----------------------TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013----------------- *CELEBRATING THE LLOYD BRIDGES CENTENNIAL* (born January 15, 1913) 8:45am *The Rainmaker* (1956) Burt Lancaster & Katharine Hepburn, dir Joseph Anthony, Paramount 122min (p/s) 10:00am *Last of the Comanches* (1953) Broderick Crawford & Barbara Hale, dir Andre DeToth, Columbia 85min (p/s) 11:30am *A Walk in the Sun* (1946) Dana Andrews & Lloyd Bridges, dir Lewis Milestone, FOX 117min (p/s) 1:30pm *High Noon* (1952) Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly, dir Fred Zinnemann, UA 85min (p/s) 3:00pm *The Goddess* (1958) Kim Stanley & Lloyd Bridges, dir John Cromwell, Columbia 104min (p/s) 4:45pm *The Daring Young Man* (1942) Joe E Brown & Marguerite Chapman, dir Frank R Strayer, Columbia 73min PREMIERE 6:00pm *The Happy Ending* (1969) Jean Simmons & Shirley Jones, dir Richard Brooks UA 117min (p/s) *Oh to be a Botanist* 8:00pm *A New Leaf* (1971) Walter Matthau & Elaine May, dir Elaine May, Paramount 102 min PREMIERE 9:45pm *Five Came Back* (1939) Chester Morris & Lucille Ball, dir John Farrow 75min (p/s) 11:00pm *Ball of Fire* (1941) Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck, dir. Howard Hawks, RKO, 112 min (p/s) 1:00am *Grand Illusion* (1937) Jean Gabin & Erich Von Stroheim, dir Jean Renoir, Criterion 114min (p/s) ---------------------WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 2013------------------------ *TAKE-YOUR-SON-OR-DAUGHTER-TO-WORK DAY* 3:00am *The Outsiders* (1983) C. Thomas Howell & Matt Dillon, dir Francis Ford Coppola WB 91min (p/s) 4:45am *Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948) Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston, dir John Huston WB 126min (p/s) 7:00am *A Matter of Time* (1976) Liza Minnelli & Ingrid Bergman, dir Vincente Minnelli 97min (p/s) 8:45am *Strangers on a Train* (1951) Robert Walker & Patricia Hitchcock, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, WB, 101min (p/s) 10:30am *On Golden Pond* (1981) Henry & Jane Fonda, dir Mark Rydell, Universal 109min (p/s) 12:30pm *Red River* (1948) Harry Carey Sr & Jr, dir Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson UA 133min (p/s) 2:45pm *Paper Moon* (1973) Ryan & Tatum O’Neal, dir Peter Bogdanovich, Paramount 102min (p/s) 4:30pm *The Abductors* (1957) Victor McLaglen & Gavin Muir, dir Andrew McLaglen FOX 80min PREMIERE 6:00pm *Much Ado About Nothing* (1993) Emma Thompson & Phyllida Law, dir Kenneth Brannagh, Samuel Goldwyn, 111min PREMIERE *Well, of course they look alike* 8:00pm *The Whole Town’s Talking* (1935) Edward G Robinson & Jean Arthur, dir John Ford, Columbia 93min (p/s) 9:45pm *The Scapegoat* (1959) Alec Guinness & Bette Davis, dir Robert Hamer, MGM 93min (p/s) 11:30pm *Callaway Went Thataway* (1951) Howard Keel & Fred MacMurray, dir Norman Panama & Melvin Frank MGM 82min (p/s) 1:00am *The Great Dictator* (1940) Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard, dir Charles Chaplin UA 126min (p/s) 3:15am *The Great Race* (1965) Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, dir. Blake Edwards WB, 160m (p/s) ---------------------THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 2013------------------------ *You Can Con Me Anytime* 6:00am*How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying* (1967) Robert Morse & Michele Lee, dir David Swift, UA 122min (p/s) 8:15am *The Lady Eve* (1941) Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda, dir Preston Sturges, Paramount 94min (p/s) 10:00am *The Sting* (1973) Robert Redford & Paul Newman, dir George Roy Hill, Universal, 129min (p/s) 12:15pm *Animal Crackers* (1930) The Marx Brothers & Margaret Dumont, dir Victor Heerman, Paramount 97min (p/s) 2:00pm *The Music Man* (1962) Robert Preston & Shirley Jones, dir Morton da Costa WB 150min (p/s) 4:30pm *Road to Morocco* (1942) Bing Crosby & Bob Hope, dir David Butler, Paramount 83min (p/s) 6:00pm *Goodbye, Charlie* (1964) Tony Curtis & Debbie Reynolds, dir Vincente Minnelli FOX 117min *PREMIERE* *SESAME STREET IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY…* 8:00pm *1776* (1972) William Daniels & Howard Da Silva, dir Peter H Hunt, Columbia 142min (p/s) 10:30pm *8 ½* (1963) Marcello Mastroianni & Anouk Aimee, dir Frederico Fellini, Columbia 138min (p/s) 1:00am *M* (1931) Peter Lorre & Otto Wernick, dir Fritz Lang, Paramount 111min (p/s) 3:00am *-30-* (1959) Jack Webb & William Conrad, dir Jack Webb WB 96min (p/s) ---------------------------FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2013----------------------------- *CELEBRATING THE DANNY KAYE CENTENNIAL* (born January 18, 1913) 4:45am *The Court Jester* (1956) Danny Kaye & Glynis Johns, dir Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, Paramount 101min (p/s) 6:30am *Hans Christian Andersen* (1952) Danny Kaye & Farley Granger, dir Charles Vidor, Samuel Goldwyn 112min (p/s) 8:30am *Wonder Man* (1945) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Bruce Humberstone, Samuel Goldwyn 98min (p/s) 10:15am *The Inspector General* (1949) Danny Kaye & Walter Slezak, dir Henry Koster WB 102min (p/s) 12:00pm *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty* (1947) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Norman Z McLeod, Samuel Goldwyn 110min (p/s) 2:00pm *A Song is Born* (1948) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Howard Hawks, Samuel Goldwyn 113min (p/s) 4:00pm *Up In Arms* (1944) Danny Kaye & Dana Andrews, dir Elliott Nugent, Samuel Goldwyn, 105min (p/s) 5:45pm *White Christmas* (1954) Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby, dir Michael Curtiz, Paramount, 121min (p/s) *SO I MARRIED A FEMME NOIR* 8:00pm *Leave Her to Heaven* (1945) Gene Tierney & Cornel Wilde, dir John M Stahl FOX 110min (p/s) 10:00pm *Double Indemnity* (1944) Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray, dir Billy Wilder, Paramount 107min (p/s) 12:00am *The Postman Always Rings Twice* (1946) Lana Turner & John Garfield, dir Tay Garnett, MGM 113min (p/s) ---------------SATURDAY JANUARY 19, 2013-------------------- *THE ART OF COLLABORATION: CINEMA’S GREAT SONGWRITING TEAMS* Alan Menken & Howard Ashman 2:00am *TCM UNDERGROUND: Little Shop of Horrors* (1986) Rick Moranis & Ellen Greene, dir Frank Oz WB 94min (exempt) Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown 3:45am *Singin’ in the Rain* (1952) Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor, dir Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly MGM 103min (p/s) Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe 5:30am *Gigi* (1958) Leslie Caron & Louis Jourdan, dir Vincente Minnelli, MGM 115min (p/s) George & Ira Gershwin 7:30am *Shall We Dance* (1937) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, dir Mark Sandrich, RKO 109min (p/s) Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn 9:30am *Robin and the 7 Hoods* (1964) Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin, dir Gordon Douglas, WB 123min (p/s) Harry Warren & Al Dubin 11:45am *Gold Diggers of 1933* (1933) Ruby Keeler & Joan Blondell, dir Mervyn LeRoy WB 97min (p/s) Jay Livingston & Ray Evans 1:30pm *The Lemon Drop Kid* (1951) Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell, dir Sidney Lanfield, Paramount 91min (p/s) Richard & Robert Sherman 3:15pm *Mary Poppins* (1965) Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke, dir Robert Stevenson, Disney 139min PREMIERE Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II 5:45pm *Carousel* (1956) Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones, dir Henry King FOX 128min PREMIERE *STAR OF THE MONTH: GEORGE SANDERS* 8:00pm *THE ESSENTIALS: Tales of Manhattan* (1942) George Sanders & Edward G Robinson, dir Julien Duvivier FOX 118min (EXEMPT PREMIERE) 10:00pm *All About Eve* (1950) Bette Davis & George Sanders, dir Joseph Makiewicz, FOX, 138min (p/s) 12:30am *Rebecca* (1940) Laurence Olivier & George Sanders, dir Alfred Hitchcock UA 130min (p/s) 2:45am *Lured* (1947) Lucille Ball & George Sanders, dir Douglas Sirk UA 102min (p/s) 4:30am *Foreign Correspondent* (1940) Joel McCrea & George Sanders, dir Alfred Hitchcock UA 120min (p/s) ------------STATS--------------- 1920s- 3 1930s- 21 1940s- 23 1950s- 19 1960s- 13 1970s- 5 1980s- 3 1990s- 2

Iselin, Mrs - Angela Lansbury in MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

> {quote:title=TCMfan23 wrote:}{quote}MARLON BRANDO IS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED ACTORS IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY. > > his best films > on the waterfront , a streetcar named desire , the wild one , the godfather. > > On the waterfront : his best acting. his greatest movie. > > You are wrong for calling him a bad actor. He's quite the opposite. > > "i could of had class. i could of been a contender. i could of been somebody". - Brando - on the waterfront. > > Last week , i watched on the waterfront. I thought it was one of the greatest films i ever seen. Brando's acting shined through. Well, it finally happened. Someone took me seriously and didn't read my first post. The Grand Thread Llama can now delete this thread and I can say I did my bit to get some excitement going. (Psst, TCMfan-- I was kidding--even spelled his name wrong to make muself laugh--I think Brando rocks--was making an outrageous statement because MissWonderly was bored, but MW never checked my thread, so it was all for naught.)

Wow there are some hilarious titles on this thread, but GUNGA DINNER AT 8 made my day. So funny.

Oh I thought it was Marlynn Brandeaux

Lionel Barrymore was in TWENTIETH CENTURY with Roscoe Karns

Ewell, Tom

Yolanda - Lucille Bremer in YOLANDA AND THE THIEF

By the way, misswonderly, I posted this for you-- to get some exciting fights going-- but it didn't work: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8672737#8672737

that's true

> {quote:title=dpompper wrote:}{quote} > Frogs in the spring ( "peepers", they're called) > > Crickets > > > > > > > > > Could be that "Night of the Hunter" features both, but I'd have to watch again to be doubly sure. > > > > > > > > > (Sorry for party crashing. I didn't read down far enough to get the gist of the game. ) > Not party crashing at all-- this is not a game thread it's an "I'm Bored" thread, so you're welcome to be bored with the rest of us.

I think Aline MacMahon is best and most memorable in GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933

I accept misswonderly's challenge. I'll bet I can think of movies that have SOME of these sounds in them-- do they all have to be classic though? Someone else can fill in what I can't. Call it a Sound Relay. > {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > + +"I know this isn't about movies, but I'll bet all ten of these sounds have been featured in a film or two:<br / > + +TOP TEN FAVOURITE SOUNDS: (not counting music) > + > 1 Songbirds <---I just watched *THE HUNGER GAMES *literally yesterday so that's what comes to mind+ > +2 Water: sea or lake waves breaking on the shore <--among other films, *SOUTH PACIFIC* (Bali Ha'i will call you...)+ > +3 Water: the sound of a river <--- I always think of *THE FUGITIVE* when Harrison Ford gets washed down river+ > +4 Cicadas <--- this sound is featured in the great french film *MY FATHER'S GLORY (LA GLOIRE DE MON PERE) *which actually mentions cicadas by name+ > +5 Frogs in the spring ( "peepers", they're called) <---sorry, I live in The City so I don't really know what this sounds like, and the only thing I can think of is a MONK episode when the frogs are a plot point. So someone else can fill that in...+ > +6 A baby laughing <-- well, *MONSTERS INC *is the obvious one here+ > +7 The wind in the trees <--I keep thinking of a film with lots of nature in it: *ON GOLDEN POND*+ > +8 Rain <--- most Capra films, so let's just say *IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT</strong </em> > +9 Crickets <--- this is such a common sound I can't think of a specific film, so I leave that for someone else as well+ > +10 Train whistle < <---- *IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE* (A quote came to mind that I may mess up but you get the idea. GEORGE: "Do you know what the +3 most exciting sounds are?" BILLY: "Yep. Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner" GEORGE: "No, no, no. Anchor chains, plane engines, and train whistles!") > <em</p> > 11 Cat purring <--- a childhood favorite, *HOMEWARD BOUND*+ +(the '90s remake of THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY) > > Almost Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Aug 23, 2012 5:08 PM

> {quote:title=RMeingast wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ginnyfan wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}LOL. Did you misspell his name on purpose? > > And his brother Sal was a rotten 3rd baseman, too. > I think he meant Marlon Bandito... Who was in that spaghetti western... Yeah, I thought it would seem more "troll-ish" to misspell his name. Although since today is Gene Kelly's 100th birthday I should have said "GENE KELLY IS THE WORST" but no one would believe that.

Well misswonderly said things were getting dull around here (see http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=166052&tstart=0) so I just decided to make an outrageous comment to get everyone's blood boiling. I actually think Brando's a great actor, but let's start a fight anyway! How's that, misswonderly?

(The) Philadelphia Story

As a Los Angelean, or Los Angelite, or whatever you call it, my "hometown" gets mentioned (and of course shown) a lot. And I recognize most places around LA when they show up in movies. It's especially funny when a place is supposed to be really far away from another place, but I can tell they are both houses in San Marino or both parts of San Bernadino. For me it's more exciting when my actual town gets mentioned. They never mention my specific town because it's itty bitty and only 50 years old, but I jump if I hear "Pasadena" or "Santa Anita Race Track" or anything nearby. Often they film things around here so even in old movies I get excited when I recognize a view of the San Gabriel Mountains as seen from my window.