HollywoodGolightly
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The)
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Gail Patrick was in My Favorite Wife with Irene Dunne
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Anyone catch the TCM sketch on SNL last night? I thought it was funny they chose to have someone playing Ben rather than Robert Osborne, and I'm sorry Bill Hader didn't do a better job of it, especially since he'd have been good trying to be a bit more casual - everyone should know Ben almost always does his intros standing up.
Bill Hader as Ben Mankiewicz in SNL sketch
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Easy to Wed
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...pation!
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Linda Darnell was in My Darling Clementine with Victor Mature
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West Side Story
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Jane Wyman was in Tail Spin with Alice Faye
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The Searchers
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Fun facts about Eva Marie Saint:
* At the beginning of her career she turned down a role in *Quo Vadis*.
* Although the part of Edie Doyle in *On the Waterfront* properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed Eva Marie Saint as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination. The ploy worked, and she won the Oscar.
* Won the part of Edie Doyle in *On the Waterfront* (1954) over Elizabeth Montgomery. Director Elia Kazan, in his autobiography "A Life," says that the choice of an actress to play the part was narrowed down to Elizabeth Montgomery and Saint. Although Montgomery was fine in her screen test, there was an air of finishing school about her. Kazan thought this genteel quality would not be becoming for Edie, who was raised on the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ. He gave the part to Saint, and she went on to win cinematic immortality, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, in the part.
* Considered for the female leads in *Friendly Persuasion, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Eddy Duchin Story, Cimarron, Psycho, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Will Penny* and *The Thomas Crown Affair*.
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Gary Cooper was in Beau Geste with Ray Milland
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They Were Expendable
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Warriner, Jerry - Cary Grant in The Awful Truth
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Mae West was in I'm No Angel with Edward Arnold
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I don't know, but I'd love to go to a "Picnic" like that one.
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Cool, thanks!
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I haven't seen it in a long time, but I will be recording for sure. It seems when Sony Pictures released the DVD, they did not use a widescreen version. At least the one scheduled to show on TCM today is supposed to be letterboxed...
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> {quote:title=MaxvonMayerling wrote:}{quote}
> I have always enjoyed Alan Ladd's films. I hope TCM will run "Hell on Frisco Bay" (1955), with a wonderfully dastardly Edward G. Robinson as Ladd's nemesis!
I'll second that - I've never seen it, but I hear some good things about it. And it's never been available on any home video format AFAIK.
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Novak fans, don't forget about Picnic this afternoon...
*Picnic* (1955) 4pm ET
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg Dir: Joshua Logan C-113 mins, TV-PG
This movie probably doesn't show up as often as it used to on TCM.
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> {quote:title=clore wrote:}{quote}
> It will air Saturday, May 22 on FMC.
Got it, thanks!
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Well, since that showing on TCM was rescheduled due to some memorial tribute, I ended up watching this on DVD. The presentation on the DVD is good, although unfortunately it doesn't have any extras.
The movie itself is pretty good, although I can only imagine how much funnier everything must seem if you watched it with a large audience in a theater. Was this a really big hit back in 1958? I guess it must have done fairly well, though I haven't looked into that.
My favorite sight gag was the thing that Andy Griffith's character does to the toilets in the latrine to "salute" the general when he comes to check on the barracks. The look on the poor general's face is just priceless.
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Some great noirs coming up Sunday and Monday...
*_SUNDAY, MAY 16_*
*Night and the City* (1950) 10am ET
Jules Dassin's film noir classic follows a conniving wrestling promoter's (Richard Widmark) shady dealings with the London underworld.
Cast: Richard Widmark, Herbert Lom, Hugh Marlowe. Director: Jules Dassin
*Cry of the City* (1948) 12pm ET
A New York police lieutenat (Victor Mature) walks a tightrope as he tracks tracks his former best friend, who is now a cop-killer.
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Fred Clark, Tommy Cook. Director: Robert Siodmak
*_MONDAY, MAY 17_*
*Somewhere in the Night* (1946) 8am ET
An amnesiac (Hodiak) returns from WWII trying to discover his lost identity and learns that he may be a murderer.
Cast: John Hodiak, Richard Conte, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
*Pickup on South Street* (1953) 2pm ET
A petty thief (Richard Widmark) gets in above his head after he steals the purse of a woman (Jean Peters) who's under suspicion of being a communist spy.
Cast: Richard Widmark, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Thelma Ritter. Director: Samuel Fuller
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Val,
I don't pretend to be an expert on TV licensing rights, but I do believe that even though Canada is a part of the British commonwealth, a lot of the rights to movies and TV shows are negotiated so as to include both Canada and the U.S., since it makes it easier to reach all English-speaking viewers in North America (not trying to disparage French-speaking Canadians, mind you).
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