DownGoesFrazier
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Not to worry, midnight. Robert Osborne is well.
You see, these last few months he and Ozzy Osbourne have been in practice with their planned road show, now confirmed as "The Superfluous U and Not Tour", and which will entail Bob first presenting the Buster Keaton silent classic THE GENERAL...
...and with Ozzy accompanying the showing of it while playing a live version of his hit rock song "Crazy Train".
The tour is set to open in Hollywood at Grauman's...oh wait, it's now called the "TCL"(doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it) Chinese Theatre on August 1st of this year, and with subsequent showings scheduled nationwide beginning September 1st.
(...sorry...yeah yeah, I DO seem to have much too much free time on my hands lately, don't I?!)
You are joking, but when I was living in L.A, I once saw Robert Osborne, Ozzy Osborne, and Super Dave Osborne emerging from a movie theatre together. Obviously unwinding after a family reunion.
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He was great as Sam, Dargo but I guess that was so much earlier I wanted to pick a much later role for him.
Frank was also the Mayor in "Bye Bye, Birdie" too.
Just think, if Sam had not wired that he would advance 25,000 smackeroos to George Bailey to save the Building and Loan, Georgie might have ended up in the slammer with Violet.
But that's a whole other movie!
He was in PSYCHO as the guy whose money Janet steals. He is totally unrecognizable from his earlier roles.
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Someone else can fill in the blanks and they can take the thread.
Can we somehow wrap this one up?
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I guess it's thinking out of the box, but was a little surprised they did a prime-time tribute, on a weekend no less. At least it was a good opportunity to see DOWNSTAIRS again, although HH might've only had one.scene in that. I also enjoyed last night's Googie Withers tribute, better, in fact, since I had never seen.ON APPROVAL (I think that's the title) before, and really liked.the cast, and Withers in period clothing. Perhaps even better, would've been for TCM to show that.outstanding Fox noir,.NIGHT AND THE CITY, with Googie superb in this,as was the rest of the cast.
If it's the same old same old, we complain. If it's thinking outside the box, we also complain. Tough crowd.
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Whew! That was a close one..
I was admittedly more than half asleep from even before the beginning of the film, but my subconscious told me that it was absolute dreck. My subconscious could have been wrong.
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I actually liked Alice Adams less on a second viewing. I found it impossible to believe that Fred MacMurray's character could be attracted to Alice's affected, insecure, and pretentious character. Any redeeming virtues she has aren't displayed until the end of the film when she speaks out to her father's boss. I found the dinner scene hilarious, though, and I thought Stone was excellent.
At that time Hepburn was prettier than any of her "rivals" in the ffilm.
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If she uses the word "Really" one more time! I had to mute the television while her blurb was running, 'coz I "Really, Really, Really" just couldn't tolerate it! Is this is how it's going to be with younger hosts taking over? No standards for proper speech, even for on-air journalists and talking heads? That's just too much to expect, REALLY!!!
Gag me with a spoon.
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As mentioned, Hedda Hopper , along with Louella Parsons, was one of Hollywood's premier gossip columnists. A sort of the J.J. HUNSECKER of her day. And falling either into, or out of her favor often determined the course one's film career might take.
Her success, or failure as an actress in films still gave her the opportunity to know Hollywood as an "insider", and quite possibly too, an axe to grind.
But regardless, she STILL became, in her way, an important figure in Hollywood history. And as thus being an important name in that history, and in the era TCM purports to focus on I feel does deserve some attention.
If nothing else, it does give us both another perspective, AND a respite from the "frequent flyers" people in this forum often bellyache about.
Sepiatone
Apparently, Hopper was considered tougher than Parsons.
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Oh my God!
That's how Martin Milner died?!?!
Better than being devoured by a shark.
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Oh, okay. BUT, now this might beg the question:
Was there ever anybody IN your family's gene pool inclined to expand upon ideas, concepts and opinions beyond a few short and succinct comments?
(...or are your family reunions pretty much as I envision 'em...simple quiet little affairs devoid of any verbosity)
LOL
The rules are that you are given the floor for a maximum of 30 seconds.
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I've never seen him in any other film aside from Alice Adams. According to IMDB, he only has 18 film credits. His first film was something called Destiny: Or, the Soul of a Woman made in 1915, and his last film was The Westerner made in 1940.
Also according to IMDB, Stone was primarily a circus performer. He ran away from home in 1884, at the age of 11, and joined the circus. At the turn of the century, Stone paired up with another circus performer and they formed a song and dance team and were the hit of the burlesque and minstrel show circuit. In 1917, his partner died and he continued on without him--performing vaudeville shows with his wife. He also made quite a few silent Western films in the late 1910s and then left film. Alice Adams was his return to film. He finished out the 1930s appearing in a variety of Westerns, such as 'Westerner' and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. He died in 1959.
I'm not sure what he was doing between 1940 and 1959, IMDB doesn't say.
Strange that Stone wasn't given other opportunities for roles like in ALICE ADAMS.
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I saw an episode of "Columbo", with Jack Cassidy killing his writing partner, Martin Milner. Not bad, but that's not why I'm bringing it up. I looked at the ending credits, and, circa 1972, it was written by Steven Bochco and directed by Steven Spielberg. Certainly a precursor of things to come.
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I believe Fred MacMurray's first major role was in The Gilded Lily with Claudette Colbert, made the same year as Alice Adams. I believe 'Lily' was the film that boosted him to stardom, but I imagine, in conjunction with 'Alice,' it probably cemented his star status. I think MacMurray was very underrated as an actor. Nowadays, he's mostly known for My Three Sons and his Disney films, but there is so much more to him than his 1960s output. I think he was great playing the heavy (like in Double Indemnity and The Apartment). He's also a viable romantic comedy lead. I especially like his collaborations with Colbert and Barbara Stanwyck.
Fred Stone is the actor who portrays Alice's father, Virgil, in the film. I agree, I thought he gave an excellent performance as the patriarch who works hard to provide for his family--even though Alice and her mother want a higher status in society.
I love Alice Adams. I record it each time it airs. I watched it last night as well. I especially like the scene where MacMurray comes over to the home in the stifling heat and the family serves a heavy meal in an effort to impress him. The meal is a mess, but MacMurray is a good sport about the whole thing. I also thought Hattie McDaniel was hilarious as the messy maid who doesn't know what she's doing and is sweating profusely while trying to get this meal on the table.
I assume Fred Stone was primarily a stage actor. I don't recall his name from films at all. But there are more knowledgeable people who might.
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I'm certain it's already been aired a lot this month, but I only just saw Robert 0sborne's in between tribute to his friend *0livia De Havilland & it's a nice one indeed!
It must have been done quite a while ago.
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DGF - You've named two of the movies in which Howard Keel starred in characters originated by Alfred Drake on the Broadway musical stage. The third lead character was not in a movie but on the London stage. Also, if you name the show and the character Keel played on stage, please also name the characters he portrayed in the films "Kiss Me Kate" and "Kismet" and the thread is yours.
Someone else can fill in the blanks and they can take the thread.
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Well DGF, to paraphrase what little Mikey says to Suzy's mother in that early-60s Bayer Aspirin for Children television commercial...
"Nerds are like that. Yeah they are."
(...well okay...many of 'em anyway)
He was an uncle by marriage. There are no dishrag genes in my family's gene pool.
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If you would have told me when I started to study films that I would actually be paying money to see a Hedda Hopper Film Festival, I would have said you were crazy.
But that's exactly what I'm doing tonight.
The life of Hedda Hopper in connection with the Hollywood film industry is exciting. She was wonderful playing herself in Sunset Boulevard and I'm a big fan of her son in Perry Mason.
I've got nothing against her. But I just can't imagine how hard up this cable channel must be to Market their product in this way. But I guess this was one of their marketing specialist's bright ideas.
Hedda Hopper never would have become a gossip columnist if she'd been successful as an actress.
There's so many other more, should we say talented, Hollywood artists that they could feature in such a manner; but I guess Hedda does have a bit of a name with some of the old- timers.
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The films of actors and actresses treated for venereal disease by Docky,
Dr. Henry Martin, the husband of rival gossip columnist Louella Parsons?
You know, I think that might get some audience response and be a little fun.
Anyway, I feel as though there's nothing wrong necessarily with these films that she appears in, but there's gotta be a better way to organize it than this.
Somehow I get the feeling we haven't scrape the bottom of the barrel yet.
She and Louella Parsons were the most important Hollywood columnists for years.
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In MOVE OVER DARLING, Doris refers to that movie with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne where Dunne returns after being missing for 5 years. Sweet.
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The Peter Principle
TV movies--ouch
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Not bad. This was MacMurray's first major role, wasn't it? Did it make him a star? The actor who played Alice's father was very good . Who was he?
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I was not impressed by David Karger - I haven't seen him enough to access his wealth of knowledge but I wanted to wipe that smile off of his face and give him some gravitas - he looks like a host on Entertainment Tonight
You can't win. Others have complained that the guest hosts should smile more..
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Have you a film you try watching on numerous occasions and just find yourself always nodding out or falling asleep during it and never completely watch it? Mine is "The Front Page" (1931). Someday I hope to see it through.
Seems strange to nod off during a fast-paced film like that. Do you also nod off during HIS GIRL FRIDAY?
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OK, here's one:
A proposition regarding the p e n i s.
A well-known concept; title of a TV movie.
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Some Came Running
Martha Hyer
ALICE ADAMS
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Not me. A nurse who helped deliver me recognized me on the street the other day.