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Mott, Ernie - Cary Grant in None But the Lonely Heart
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Sturges, Preston - directed The Lady Eve (great comedy, btw!)
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Beulah Bondi
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Another Lupe V?**** movie is on the schedule for Thursday, as part of the Eddie Albert birthday tribute. This one, I don't think I've seen before - really looking forward to recording this!
*Ladies Day* (1943) 3:15pm ET
To save their team, baseball players try to get their star pitcher married to the right woman.
Cast: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly. Dir: Leslie Goodwins. BW-62 mins, TV-G
(This photo may not be from Ladies Day, but it seemed like a great photo)
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> Anyways, I was hoping to see, at least, Sean Connery and Roger Moore back in action...as best they can at their age.
I don't know, I think it might be kind of hard to convince them to come out of retirement.
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> TCM should have worked with 20th Century Fox to use some of her classic 30s films (other than The Little Princess), since they now seem to be showing more Fox films generally.
I couldn't agree with you more, Arturo. My best guess is that the rights to those movies were either unavailable or just too expensive for TCM's programming budget to cover.
Maybe in the future they'll be able to work out a better deal - we can always hope!
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Thanks!! And it's nice to see you around again - you were missed around here
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> Exactly the point of these movies, as a form of escapism and vicariously living what the haves had back in those havenot days. To paraphrase Ann Sothern in A Letter To Three Wives "did I put enough haves in?"
And movies do excel at that - escapism is always such a great relief when we are going through hard times, even the recent meltdown appears to confirm that. Of course, back at the time, there was also the memories of Prohibition, I'm sure that must have also had a bit of influence in the way alcohol consumption was depicted in the movies.
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Winninger, Charles
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Frances Dee was in If I Were King with Ronald Colman
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San Antonio
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Fredric March was in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Miriam Hopkins
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Ustinov, Peter
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Bite the Bullet
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> I love the scenes in this saloon as well, except it's in Tombstone, not Dodge City.
Sorry, you're right - I should have said Tombstone.
> One of the pleasures of classic films are all the scenes in nightclubs, etc. I especially like contemporary films from the 30s, possibly showing art deco interiors, but always impossibly large spaces. Those mentioned from The Thin Man and The Awful Truth (my favorite for Cary's reactions to Irene Dunne and Ralph Bellamy dancing-priceless!) came immediately to mind, but there are so many others. And what about that endless lobby at the Waldorf Astoria (?) where the scavenger hunt is taking place in My Man Godfrey.
That scene from My Man Godfrey was really amazing, how it must have stood out for audiences watching the movie during the Great Depression!
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Streisand, Barbra
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Dudley - Cary Grant in The Bishop's Wife
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Irene Dunne was in I Remember Mama with Barbara Bel Geddes
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The Sand Pebbles
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Quinn, Anthony
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Picnic
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He'd definitely have made an interesting Insp. Clouseau!
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Could MGM's constant turmoil finally achieve what neither Blofeld nor any SPECTRE villain ever accomplished - finally capping the career of James Bond?
For the time being, the only thing that is certain is that the next Bond movie is on hold - indefinitely.
Will 007 be back? Only time will tell. Perhaps the next installment could be called simply 007-3D.
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The Big Picture
Patrick Goldstein on the collision of entertainment, media and pop culture
*Putting the brakes on the James Bond franchise: Not a moment too soon?*
I guess it's hardly a surprise that James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have suspended development indefinitely on their next Bond film, known as "Bond 23," since MGM, the franchise's home studio, is in total turmoil, having so far been able to find a buyer for its library and other assets. The studio has become something of a laughingstock in Hollywood, releasing tacky B-grade movies and enduring a never-ending round of executive hirings and firings.
But I'd argue that suspending development on a new Bond film is an idea whose time has come. In fact, if I were at the Bond helm, I'd put the franchise in suspended animation for a while. If you were unlucky enough to see the last Bond entry, the unbelievably awfully titled "Quantum of Solace," you'd know that it's time to send the series back into the shop. The 2008 film cost far more than any of its predecessors, but actually made less money (in worldwide grosses) than 2006's "Casino Royale," though of course when you still make $576.3 million, it's nothing to sneeze at.
But the franchise felt tired. In fact, it looked like an aging hipster with a bad face lift, especially when you tried to imagine Bond competing with all of its younger, sleeker offspring, films like "Iron Man," "Wanted" and "The Bourne Identity" series, which all are deeply rooted in the Bond adventure hero mystique, but have updated both the tone (more irony) and technology (even more gadgets) of the story. With Hollywood in the midst of a torrid love affair with 3-D, it might be a good idea for the Bond folks to sit on the sidelines and see how the 3-D mania plays out.
If the 3-D novelty fades, then Bond could return with a renewed momentum, playing up its roots by saying that what is old is suddenly new again. And if 3-D has staying power, with virtually every big summer and holiday behemoth being made in 3-D, then the producers would have time to re-engineer the franchise to take advantage of all of 3-D's vivid visual magic. Either way, it's a good time for Bond to stay out of the fray. I don't know if Mr. Bond ever had an opportunity to utter this aphorism in any of his many films, but sometimes discretion is better than valor.
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