midnight08
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"Oh where oh where has our bansi4 gone. Oh where oh where can he be".
Joe where are you? You said you'd be gone from the board for a few days. It's now been 3 weeks.
It seems like 6 months.
We miss you! We've lost track of celebrities' birthdays and we miss all those wonderful rare candids you post here. Please come back soon. This thread was my absolute favorite till you left.
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I'm certainly looking forward to the Shirley Temple movies, some of which are TCM premieres.
Tonight I'm especially looking forward to "Now and Forever" with Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper
and "Curly Top" with John Boles.
Incidentally, if I remember correctly Dorothy Dell (who appears in "Little Miss Marker" ) was supposed to co-star with Cooper until her tragic fatal auto accident. So Carole Lombard took over her part. Ironically less than 8 years later Carole died tragically in a plane crash.
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Please give us updates of the event in August. Would like to hear more about the fun you will all be having!
I'll be happy to give a report on the festivities at Capitolfest. I'm even more excited now that I know there
are other TCM forum members who will be there.
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Simply said, this was a blatant example of miscasting. Why in the world the powers that be selected Lucille Ball for this role is beyond comprehension.
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Nancy Carroll will be the featured star at the 2015 Capitolfest in Rome, New York. It runs from
Friday August 7 thru Sunday August 9. This year will be the first year that I'll be able to go so I'm
quite excited. Some of her films they are showing are extremely rare. I'm especially looking forward to
seeing "Illusion" , "The Shopworn Angel" and "Follow Thru". I wish they would have also offered
"Close Harmony" but you can't have everything.
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I hope Joe gets back soon to this forum. It sure is lonely here without him.
This is my favorite thread; anytime I visit the boards I come to this thread.
Hope everything is ok with him and his move.
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I'm glad someone started a thread for Don Ameche. I watched some of his movies last night and
really got an appreciation for his talent. I remember him from a show he hosted when I was a kid; it had circus acts from all over the world. I also remember that my Dad liked him immensely.
He seemed like the "all-around good guy". He could play comedy and drama equally and he was a good singer. He was married only once for over 50 years till his wife died and he had six kids. You never heard of any scandals or gossip about him.
It would be nice to showcase him as SOTM but I doubt it due to his long tenure at 20th Century Fox.
Bigger stars at 20th Century such as Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Betty Grable have never been featured as SOTM.
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Call Her Savage is very interesting--and another example of the casual racism of those 30's films--Bow is "savage" becasue she's half Native American? Really? But she's fun to watch...
She's also fun in her last film, Hoop-la, where she plays a chooch dancer in a circus sideshow who casually bets that she can make the owner's sheltered son fall in love with her.
Clara in one of her costumes:
Hoopla is another great pre code sadly neglected as it's a Fox film rarely shown (other than an occasional film festival).
It was restored some years ago and TCM presented the restored version at one of their past film festivals.
The crowd that came to watch it was so huge that TCM presented a second showing for those who couldn't make it in the first time.
I had hoped that this would have brought the film to Turner Classic Movies but unfortunately it didn't.
The film is not only risqué but shows Clara Bow in the skimpiest of outfits for her final curtain call.
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If I'm correct "The Trial Of Mary Dugan" was aired only once on TCM; it was sometime soon after their
inception in 1994. From what I've read there has since been some type of legal litigation going on which has kept this film from being aired.
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From.a long list to chose from, I would have to go With CALL HER SAVAGE.
It's a shame that Call Her Savage isn't as well known as some of the other pre codes. Probably because it's a Fox film and isn't as
widely seen. Several years ago I went to Film Forum in NYC where they had a film festival of Fox pre codes. What a rare treat it was to have seen some of these films, most of which have never made it to TV or any type of distribution.
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Wow! Two very beloved actresses born on the same day. Both Judy Garland and Hattie
McDaniel were awesome!
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My three top pre codes of all time are Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Baby Face with
Barbara Stanwyck and Call Her Savage with Clara Bow.
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I'm also ready to read about 1930 and 1931 whenever you're ready to post it.
I love reading about the years from 1926-1936 in film.
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How do you get directed to the August schedule?
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I know that this is probably not the thread to ask this question but I wondered if anyone knows why Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan divorced? From what I read they were only married 2 months.
They even appeared in a movie a few years after their divorce so I would assume they remained cordial.
As always the birthday photos are fantastic!
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The photo of Barbara Hale looks a lot like a young Betty White, dimples and all.
I wonder what Barbara looks like now. Her and Betty White are also the same age.
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Fact #9 isn't a fact. LOL. Carl died in 1939, not 1937.
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I had to chuckle while thinking about Loretta Young. It seems her strict Catholic upbringing would have prohibited her from having an abortion but it sure didn't prohibit her from having sex with a married man (Gable was still married to Ria Langham at the time). It also didn't prohibit her from inventing an elaborate plot of lies to go away, have the baby, return, "adopt" this baby and keep the lie going for decades and decades. Her adultery along with her web of lies didn't prohibit her from attending Mass
and acting prim and proper in the public eye.
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Which two? I know that I've seen THE BANK DICK, IT'S A GIFT, and (I believe) MY LITTLE CHICKADEE on TCM.
I looked thru my notes and counted nine W.C. Fields films which TCM has shown. They are: My Little Chickadee, It's A Gift, Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, If I Had A Million, Her Majesty Love, The Bank Dick, The Big Broadcast Of 1938, David Copperfield and
The Bank Dick. TCM also showed the silent short "The Pool Shark" from 1915 at one time.
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What reason did TCM ever give, if indeed they DID ever give one?
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I don't believe TCM ever gave a reason for this. I remember when word was going around that TCM had some kind of deal with Universal to lease their films (both their Universal and pre 1948 Paramount films). This was around five years ago. I was very hopeful that TCM would begin showing some of these rare films but other than a trickle of movies here and there it seemed like the deal fizzled.
When viewers asked about what had happened they were told (by other viewers via this forum) that it was probably taking Universal longer to get these old films into digital format. But all the fanfare about this deal died down and I've never heard anything from the TCM programmers as to what happened.
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I watched all 5 documentaries last night on TCM. I have to admit that I didn't plan to watch them all but they were so interesting and informative that I couldn't shut them off.
What I liked was that they weren't like many documentaries where you have a ton of other celebrities talking about the subject. They were very intimate and showed home movies of the subject.
Each one had their special moments. The one I enjoyed the most was Katherine Hepburn. I was never a big fan of hers; I thought of her as haughty with a self inflated ego. But watching her and listening
to her telling her life story changed my opinion of her. I admire her for respecting Spencer Tracy's wife by not talking about her relationship with him till after she died. I couldn't believe it when I watched her rowing in a boat, carrying wood on her shoulders, bicycling, weeding on her hands and knees and playing tennis at 85. She was a hardy soul.
So did anyone else catch these documentaries? What did you think?
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Sadly Joi Lansing was another buxom beautiful blonde who tragically died young. I believe she died of cancer. I remember her from "The Beverly Hillbillies" when she played the wife of either Earl Flatt or Lester Scruggs. She had a good singing voice too.
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I was surprised to hear that Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was virtually penniless when he married Joan
Crawford. He had already been in some silent films and was appearing in several movies that very year for not only Warner Bros/First National but Universal and Columbia. I know that one of the problems with their marriage was the fact that she earned a hell of a lot more at MGM than he did at WB but I still wouldn't have thought him so destitute.
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I had thought that someone might have started a thread for this movie but I was wrong.
I wondered if this was a TCM premiere but it wasn't mentioned so maybe it was shown before (although it had to be at least 10 years ago).
I personally enjoyed the film. As was stated in the TCM intro it was intended as escapist entertainment during the first days of WWII. This was the film that introduced "White Christmas" and I much prefer it to the film "White Christmas" from 1954. Lots of other good songs and Fred Astaire did some great dancing. Bing Crosby looked young and handsome. I really didn't know of Marjorie Reynolds till I saw this movie. I'm surprised she never became a bigger star as she was pretty and had lots of talent.
The practical side of me wondered how Bing could afford to have the Inn open only on select holidays and how he could afford all the beautiful sets, costumes and people he employed for these holidays. Then I realized this was pure "escapist" entertainment so I simply enjoyed the movie for what it was with its dancing, singing and happy ending.
Those who will never be Tcm SOTM
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But TCM could possibly have access to these two films as they have been shown before. In fact, Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein, Son Of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and Dracula's Daughter (all Universal films) have all been shown on TCM. I wish they'd show Dracula and The Werewolf Of London. I don't recall those two films ever shown on TCM in the 20+ years
I've had the station on my cable line-up.