DownGoesFrazier
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Yes, it was Matthau, learning his craft as the old expression goes.
And he was very believable in that part. Maybe that would have
been a bit different if he already had a much different screen
persona. I suppose that were a lot of English actors working in
Hollywood, so why not let them keep their accents and have the
episode set in merry olde England.
This show's collection of past and future stars in its casts dwarfs "The Twilight Zone".
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Natalie never looked lovelier or was more appealing than in LWTPS. If there's any film character I would have wanted to marry, Natalie's character in this film would have been near the top of the list.
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I answered Miles' question because it's Miles' Turn.
Whatever happened to my question?. I was looking for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme as Sinatra's favorite opening act. (I thought you awarded the thread to me?
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Gee, I think I'll get in line at the theatre right now.......Seriously, I am about as much a fan of Lady Gaga as I am of June Allyson.
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The only thing that matters when you make Hollywood movies is Cinematic chemistry and box office clout.
If it works it makes money. And even if it doesn't work, if somebody will pay money to see one of them no matter what - - that's what counts.
I remember when I was a kid I went to see Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins in Five Miles to Midnight. Some people would say they were an odd couple but I was willing to pay money to see Sophia Loren in anything. And I'm sure Tony Perkins had his fans who were there as well. Together I don't know if they worked or not.
The people were in the movie theater paying money and buying concessions.
And I got to see Sophia on the big screen and I had a good time-- I got my money's worth.
They did not. That is a prime example of lack of chemistry. They could no more be a couple than Wallace Beery and Sandra Dee.
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No, this marriage goes back further. It was notoriously tumultuous.
The husband is deceased, but the wife is still living.
I should know this, but I don't. Hint?
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Peter Brown, of Lawman and Laredo fame.
DGF: Is it Tom Dreesen?
No. I'm thinking of vocals.
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Model and the Marriage Broker
Thelma Ritter
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open thread
What act was generally thought to be Sinatra's first choice for his opening act, and his favorite opening act?
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Except if the man is in his twenties. The wife would have to be in single digits.
I stole this concept from a line in MARTY from one of Marty's cronies.
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Ooooooh...don't let the TCM programmers hear you say THAT, Janet!
Word is once this SUTS thing is over this month, those people are just ITCHIN' to present North by Northwest to us again!
(...and you certainly wouldn't want to disappoint those folks by having them think you'd purposely skip THAT, now would ya?!)
How much was Hitchcock himself generally involved in the selection of material, scripts, casting, and production?
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The B-52's Kate Pierson sang on Iggy Pop's song "Candy".
Your turn
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BTW-- The Dinah Shore show was called the Chevy show and, also on NBC was George Montgomery's western series called Cimarron City.
You both did a great job - -
I was a big fan of both Dinah and Cochise--
Since Fra was first, he can have it--
Establish a connection between Iggy Pop and the B52s.
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Ideal wifes age should be 20 yrs younger than husband and I for shure don't want to see a romance w/a 60yr old woman either.
Except if the man is in his twenties. The wife would have to be in single digits.
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I saw that one with Gene Barry. As soon as Coleman was on the screen I said to myself 'hey I know that guy', but I couldn't place him. So I hit the 'info' button on the remote and saw the credits.
One think about the show is that Hitchcock often closes with a Production Code type statement; that the guy that gets away with the crime in the show (typically murder), doesn't really get away with it because the law catches up with them after 'the end'. I wonder if the network imposed these unnecessary silly statements (I mean that guy wasn't a real person!!!!) or if Hitchcock was so used to Production code ending 'clean up' that he just couldn't stop himself.
You actually recognized him? I'm at a loss.
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Grant Tinker and Mary Tyler Moore
Correct. Your turn.
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what years was it on tv must be before my time.
'62 to '65
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I watched about 10 episodes over the weekend. One of those was the one with Gavin as an MD and Dors as a nightclub singer. The music was great with a jazz trio of piano, guitar and bass.
My favorite one starred Ray Milland as doctor in a mental institution.
One of the episodes I saw starred Gene Barry as a newspaper columnist. The credits listed Dabney Coleman as playing a friend if his. If so, he was totally unrecognizable from the Coleman I remember 20 years later in, e.g., TOOTSIE.
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The husband was a TV producer and network executive. The wife was a TV sitcom star and film actress. Who were they?
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Lloyd directed "The Jar". He's interviewed in some documentaries on AH. I recall he talked about the wraparounds AH did. They were written by James Allardice, who kept coming up with more and more outrageous things for AH to do. Lloyd would read Allardice's scripts and say to himself, "Oh Hitch will never do this". But as Lloyd added, "He did them all". Like deMille, Hitchcock was something of a frustrated actor.
IIRC Friedkin met AH exactly once during his job, and all Hitch said to him was a complaint that he wasn't wearing a tie.
Years later Friedkin was at an Oscar party after winning for French Connection and saw Hitchcock there. He yelled out, "Hey Hitch! I'm wearing a tie!" But AH apparently didn't remember what he was referring to.
Reminiscent of, "Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your necktie", from FRENZY.
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Bonita Granville was in It's Love I'm After with Eric Blore.
Blore was in TOP HAT with Edward Everett Horton
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I liked a lot of them, but for reasons of a personal nature and the times of their airings, didn't get to see any of the marathon.
Two of my favorites are "The Peeping Tom" with Bruce Dern as a young man who's suspected of making obscene phone calls to a woman in his neighborhood.(I forget the actress who did her) and after in fright, she shoots him, the phone rings and it's the CALLER again!
Another involves BOB NEWHART as a milqtoast-like guy who plots to get rid of his wife( Jane Withers). He sets it up to make it look to HER that he's trying to kill her, and manages to make it look to the cops and a jury that it was HER trying to kill HIM. After she's carried off to prison, he's shown arriving at the back stage door of a burlesque house to give candy and flowers to a stripper named "Peaches and Cream". The episode was called "How To get Rid Of Your Wife."
Sepia
The Newhart one was one of the ones that I caught a couple minutes of, but didn't have time to watch. There were more recognizable actors in these episodes than any other series I can think of.
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Don't think I've seen that one. I have see the one where Gavin is a cop who is suspended for killing a suspect and takes a job as a night deputy in a lake resort. This episode was the first Hollywood directing job for a young William Friedkin, and he goes into considerable detail about it in his recent memoir.
A large number of the episodes were produced by Hitchcock's good friend Norman Lloyd.
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Sophia Loren and Grace Kelly were repeatedly subject to age gaps of 25-30 years from their leading men. They both appeared opposite Cary Grant and Clark Gable for instance. Kelly was opposite Bing Crosby twice, but then again, in his second marriage Bing Crosby was going home to a woman 30 years younger.
Audrey Hepburn was another one who was frequently opposite males considerably older such as Astaire, Grant, Bogart and Gary Cooper.
Sophia had a gap like that with her real-life leading man.
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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..and the detective in DIAL M FOR MURDER.