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Roman Holiday

Leslie Parrish was in Li'l Abner with Julie Newmar

Nimitz, Adm. Chester W. - Henry Fonda in Midway

They Live By Night Brenda had always wanted to take a long vacation in Egypt, but she could never have anticipated she'd be running into...

Zukor, Adolph - produced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Orson, I really enjoyed reading your list of foreign-language directors. I'm ashamed I'm not more familiar with the work of Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez, who is arguably the greatest Mexican director to have worked during Mexico's Golden Age. I've heard that TCM played a bunch of Mexican movies from that period a few years back, but unfortunately I couldn't catch those then. I would _love_ if they could show them again. As for Satyajit Ray, his movies are now apparently out-of-print in North America, even though they've been recently re-released elsewhere. I have access to the OOP DVDs but I'd rather wait and see if any remastered editions are released here in the near future.

The height of a poster or photo would not stretch the thread across, but it might still make it difficult for people with smaller monitors to be able to see the entire image without scrolling. I think that to some people, vertical scrolling may be just as annoying as horizontal scrolling. It's always possible to simply provide a link for anyone who wants to see the image in full size - some message boards actually only ever let you post a thumbnail, regardless, and then you click on the thumbnail and you're taken to another window with the image in it.

In regards to the Mamoulian and Fleming versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there is a good thread going in the horror forum: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=133707&tstart=0 I would love to see them both back-to-back, because they're both so good in different ways and it is so hard for me to choose which one I like the best. *My favorite part was the historical chronology of his films, a veritable American history lesson!* That was one of my favorite parts, as well! Obviously Ford was a very patriotic man, even as he fondly remembered his Irish ancestry. I can't wait to make screencaps of the whole thing!!

Rainer, Luise

Pollyanna

Pratt, Judson

Night and Day (coming up Sunday)

I see that the subject of Victor Fleming has come up. Luckily, this time I'm very prepared. For the last few weeks I have been reading Michael Sragow's definitive biography, "Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master". It really is a very good biography, and at a little over 600 pages, a reasonably thorough one. According to the biography, Fleming started gaining experience with the camera as far back as World War I. As a First Lieutenant of the Signal Corps, he operated a Bell & Howell camera while acting as President Woodrow Wilson's personal cameraman with the Presidential Peace Party, in 1918. In addition to some of the other Victor Fleming movies that have already been mentioned, one that stands out imho is The Virginian (1929), starring an up and coming actor by the name of Gary Cooper.... According to Sragow, The Virginian is considered by some a Western milestone as influential as Ford's Stagecoach would be a decade later. *Message was edited by: HollywoodGolightly to make sure Fleming photo conforms to the new size limits.*

Lady L

Jezebel (coming up Saturday)

(The) Hallelujah Trail (on the schedule for Wednesday morning)

Dickie Moore was in Happy Land with Don Ameche

Anyone who enjoyed Lone Star might want to check out The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by Tommy Lee Jones from a script by Guillermo Arriaga (writer of Amores Perros and Babel, among others). There are many stylistic and thematic similarities, and from what I can remember, very similar locations.

What's New Pussycat? - Woody's film debut next: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

> {quote:title=scsu1975 wrote:}{quote} > It is nowhere near as painful as having six bullets pumped into you. Uh-huh. Just hope you're not speaking from experience...

A stagecoach, a wagon, what's it matter, the important thing is that they go. I didn't live in the Old West so maybe I can get them mixed up... at least once? But, thinking of the Old West, there is something to be said for all those great Sergio Leone westerns... with or without Clint Eastwood.

> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote} > My niche is film noir, not westerns. But I've never heard of "Stage Wagon." Who did John Ford direct in that? Ooopsie! I meant Wagon Master.

Escape From Fort Bravo

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > I agree with everyone that the new and longer one that TCM was involved in is the best version. It's great to hear contemporary directors talk about Ford's influence on them, especially since so many of them paid homage to him in scenes in their own films. I know, it's almost a sad commentary on the state of today's pop culture, but oftentimes when I'm talking about movies with many people my age, and the subject of John Ford comes up, I almost invariably feel the need to point out all the great things said about Ford by directors like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, because for people who came of age in the 80s, those seem to be among the few relevant points of reference. And I'm like "Scorsese _and_ Spielberg say all of these great things about him! He won 4 Oscars for Best Director! He made something like 140 movies!" - and the sad thing (for me) is that there doesn't seem to be any sense of awe in them, about Ford and the remarkable legacy that he left behind, about all the masterpieces that he left behind.

I wouldn't necessarily think it was all that surprising. The pressure to look impeccable during the shoots and when attending public events must have been a great burden. But I do think a lot of people who grew up in that era did like to look their best at all times. My paternal grandfather continued wearing suits and ties well after he had retired, even on weekends (I think he may have skipped the ties on Sundays).