HollywoodGolightly

TCMWebAdmin, Thank you _VERY MUCH_ for the new limit on the width of photos that are posted on the forums. Many threads with extremely w-i-d-e photos had become nearly impossible to read comfortably. This change is a very good idea! Fred has done a very good job of explaining how to resize photos, so I think it should be very clear to everybody.

Thank you for all your hard work, Renee!

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > The closest Fred came to not having good chemistry was with Joan Fontaine in "A Damsel in Distress"(1937). It's kind of forgotten, and did nothing for developing Joan's reputation. Sounds vaguely familiar, I'm not 100% that I've seen it. Overall, while I don't intrinsically like Fred Astaire, I'm also very much in awe of him for his amazing ability and consummate professionalism - and of course I love his dancing. He's not someone I think I would have liked to know in person, but I absolutely _adore_ watching him in almost any movie he ever made. I wonder how Audrey and Fred got along on the set?

Cavalcade

John Sturges is the 5th director featured in TCM's "Great Directors" month-long tribute in June, and it struck me as interesting that all but one of the JS movies being shown are westerns. It seemed therefore more appropriate to start this thread in the Westerns sections - Ice Station Zebra has already been discussed quite a bit in the Films & Filmmakers forum, IIRC. _MORNING/EVENING SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 3_ *The Hallelujah Trail* (1965) 6am ET Indians, soldiers and temperance women fight to control a wagon train hauling whiskey across the West. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin Dir: John Sturges C-155 mins, TV-PG *Escape From Fort Bravo* (1953) 9am ET The Civil War complicates the Cavalry's battle against Indians. Cast: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest Dir: John Sturges C-99 mins, TV-PG *Hour Of The Gun* (1967) 11am ET Wyatt Earp tracks down the survivors of the Clanton Gang after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Cast: James Garner, Jason Robards Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi Dir: John Sturges C-101 mins, TV-14 *The Eagle Has Landed* (1976) 12:45pm ET German paratroopers land covertly in England during World War II. Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter Dir: John Sturges C-136 mins, TV-PG *Ice Station Zebra* (1968) 3:15pm ET A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship. Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown Dir: John Sturges C-152 mins, TV-PG *Sergeants 3* (1962) 6pm ET Three adventurous Cavalry officers and their bugler take on a renegade chief. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford Dir: John Sturges C-113 mins, TV-PG

The Paradine Case Hitchcock's favorite barrister next: The Little Prince

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > I just can't stand listening to her. Listening to her speak, or singing? Hey, it's OK, not every person is going to like every single movie star ever. I'm still glad to have recorded Woman's World earlier today, and not because of JA; Lauren Bacall also stars in it. And I've yet to hear of anyone who didn't like listening to her. Plus the FMC print is nicely letterboxed _and_ closed-captioned.

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > If she's just Audrey Hepburn, I could think of worse things to be. Well, yeah, I guess so. I've only ever seen Audrey and Wendy Hiller play the part, so I don't have much to compare her to. I think either Keira Knightley or Anne Hathaway are supposed to play the part in the upcoming remake - but I don't want to take the discussion off-topic, so I won't go into that. Back on topic: I think Audrey was very lucky to make a movie with Fred Astaire, and I genuinely can't think of anyone Astaire didn't have good chemistry with, on-screen. He was just a great partner for everyone!

Austin Pendelton was in Catch-22 with Alan Arkin

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > The thing to keep in mind about the Bogdanovich documentary is that it started out in smaller form. It was originally a piece to honor Pappy at the very first AFI Lifetime Achievement Award dinner. That made it somewhat easier to get film clips and participation by many of Pappy's "stock" company. > > The original documentary came out of that and then when TCM and Bogdanovich restored it a few years ago, the new interview footage was added with contemporary directors and the old interview footage and film clips were restored. Lynn, Were you ever so lucky as to watch this Bogdanovich documentary in its original 1971 version? As much as I hope that the original version might be included with the upcoming DVD release, it hasn't been announced and I don't expect it to happen. But the 2006 version is definitely the best, I think, and as a TCM viewer I'm very proud that TCM played a large role in making it happen (from what I see in the credits of the restored version). All in all, with the release of Directed by John Ford and Wagon Master on DVD, it's going to be a nice Fall for us Ford fans.

Wasn't it from Ford's Pilgrimage ?

Great news! Warner Home Video has just announced the release of 5 musicals with Dick Powell and/or Ruby Keeler as part of its made-to-order Warner Archives program: The musicals are: Colleen, Flirtation Walk, Happiness Ahead, Ready, Willing and Able, Shipmates Forever.

Great news on the new WAC titles starring Gary Cooper - hope they'll get around to releasing the other two movies at some point. As for the set, 6 movies for $60 seems like a pretty good deal to me. P.S. Just a reminder that TCMWebAdmin has asked that we please keep any photos posted to a maximum size of 600x600 pixels.

Warner Bros. has added 11 more WAC titles to the list, in what classicflix called the "Cooper, Powell & Keeler" wave: _Cooper titles_: *Bright Leaf, One Sunday Afternoon, Operator 13, Saratoga Trunk, Task Force, Today We Live.* _Dick Powell and/or Ruby Keeler musicals_: *Colleen, Flirtation Walk, Happiness Ahead, Ready, Willing and Able, Shipmates Forever.* *Here is the updated list of all WAC titles - NOT including the so-called "Amazon exclusives". The 11 latest titles are bolded:* Abdication, The Abe Lincoln in Illinois Above and Beyond Actress, The Adventures of Huck Finn (1939) Adventures of Mark Twain Ah, Wilderness! Al Capone All Fall Down All the Brothers Were Valiant Along the Great Divide Angel Baby Baby Maker, The Badman?s Territory Bamboo Blonde, The Barricade Beast of the City Beggar's Opera, The Betrayed Bhowani Junction Big Circus, The Big House, The Billy the Kid Brainstorm (1965) Break of Hearts (Hepburn, Boyer) Breakfast for Two *Bright Leaf* Broadway Rhythm Bye Bye Braverman Cain and Mabel Canyon River Captain Nemo and the Underwater City Captain Sinbad Carbine Williams Carson City Castle on the Hudson Cattletown Chained Christopher Strong (Hepburn) Church Mouse, The Citadel, The Close to My Heart *Colleen* The Command El Condor Convicts Four Countdown Crescendo Crime and Punishment, USA (1959) Crisis The Crowded Sky The D.I. Dance, Fools, Dance Darby's Rangers Defector, The Devil Is a Sissy, The Distant Trumpet, A Doc Savage: Man of Bronze Dream Lover Dream of Kings, A Dream Wife Drums of Africa Dude Goes West Dusty and Sweets McGee Edison the Man Emma Enemy of the People Exit Smiling Fallen Sparrow, The *Flirtation Walk* Forsaking All Others Four Daughters Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) Freebie and the Bean George Raft Story, The Goodbye, My Fancy Grasshopper, The Great Garrick, The *Happiness Ahead* Hard to Get Having Wonderful Time H.M. Pulham, Esquire Heart Beat Homecoming **** Tonk I Was A Communist for the FBI I Was an American Spy Ice Follies of 1939 Idiot's Delight Interrupted Melody Invitation, The It's Love I'm After John Loves Mary Johnny Eager Joy of Living Just the Way You Are Kaleidoscope Kidnapped King of the Roaring 20's Kiss, The Laughing Sinners Lepke Lion in the Streets, A Little Drummer Girl, The Little Minister, The (Hepburn) Lost Boundaries Love (1927) Love on the Run Luxury Liner Mad Miss Manton Made in Paris Magnificent Yankee, The Malaya Man from Galveston Man from God's Country Man Who Loved Cat Dancing Mannequin (1937) Mating Game, The Meet the People Men in White Money Trap, The Moonlighters, The Mr. Lucky (1943) Mrs. Parkington My Blood Runs Cold Oklahoman, The On Borrowed Time Once Upon a Honeymoon One on One *One Sunday Afternoon* One Trick Pony *Operator 13* Orphans Outlaw Blues Oxford Blues Painting the Clouds with Sunshine Party Girl Payment on Demand Possessed (1931) Pride of the Marines Princess O'Rourke Private Lives Promises in the Dark Purple Hearts Quality Street Quentin Durward (1955) Rage Rain People, The Rasputin and the Empress *Ready, Willing and Able* Red Lily, The Red Mill, The Return of the Bad Men Room for One More Roughly Speaking *Saratoga Trunk* Scaramouche (1923) Sergeant, The Shining Hour, The *Shipmates Forever* Shopworn Angel, The Single Standard, The Sins of Rachel Cade Skin Game Smart Set, The Soldier in the Rain So This is Love Somewhere I'll Find You Souls for Sale Spitfire (Hepburn) Spring Fever Strange Interlude Sunrise at Campobello Sweet November (1968) Tarzan and the She-Devil Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) Tarzan's Peril (1951) Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) *Task Force* Temptress, The They Only Kill Their Masters This Woman is Dangerous Thousands Cheer Three Comrades Three Sailors and a Girl The Toast of New York *Today We Live* Tom, Dick and Harry Too Hot to Handle (1938) The Trail of '98 Trail Street Tugboat Annie Two Girls and a Sailor Voices We Were Dancing Westbound When Ladies Meet Wichita Wild Orchids Wisdom A Woman Rebels Yes, Giorgio Young Tom Edison

The 2nd director to receive a prime-time salute during TCM's "Great Directors" month is Frank Capra - whose distinctive style gave birth to the term "Capracorn", and who also won 3 Oscars as Best Director between 1935 and 1939. PRIME TIME SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 2ND - FRANK CAPRA *It Happened One Night* (1934) 8pm ET A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns Dir: Frank Capra BW-105 mins, TV-PG *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939) 10pm ET An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption. Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold Dir: Frank Capra BW-130 mins, TV-G *You Can't Take It With You* (1938) 12:15am ET A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker. Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold Dir: Frank Capra BW-126 mins, TV-G *Arsenic And Old Lace* (1944) 2:30am ET A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson Dir: Frank Capra BW-118 mins, TV-G *Platinum Blonde* (1931) 4:30am ET A heartless heiress seduces a hard-working reporter into a disastrous marriage. Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes Dir: Frank R. Capra BW-89 mins, TV-G

Always!

That's a very cute dog, TikiSoo!! Looks very lovely. :x As for the "greed" of animals, yes, that is also greed of a different kind, I suppose. But it's not the same as in humans, I think, especially those who already have everything they need and don't have to worry about going hungry and are still trying to amass more and more and more, like so many of the Wall St. financiers who have been so prominently in the news in the last few months. Seems to me a bit different from animals which are legitimately worried about survival, even those which store food for the winter, because they just want to have enough to get by, right?

Gotta love Captains Courageous, featuring Spencer Tracy's wonderfully sentimental performance as Manuel the sailor: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=204978 Another great Fleming movie is the remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is one of my favorite scenes: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?o_cid=mediaroomlink&cid=236816

It is definitely a possibility, but I hope it wasn't the only reason.

I'd sort of forgotten about the dog... which reportedly was the same canine star which played "Asta" in the Thin Man series.

Nothing Sacred - Reporter seeks redemption Next: Woman's World

Heh, sorry to hear that. I hope I didn't add much to the confusion, seeing as I got confused just looking at the cast list.

> {quote:title=movieman1957 wrote:}{quote} > Has anyone seen "The Woman In The Window"? Yes! It is one of my _favorite_ noirs. I think the ending is one of those things that you either go with or you just don't accept at all, so sorry to hear you didn't care for it. I am always happy to hear the reactions of people who have watched it for the first time, so today you really made my day, Chris!

(The) Alamo

Speaking of the beautiful and talented June Allyson, Fox Movie Channel is showing Woman's World today at 10:30am ET. *Woman's World* (1954) A witty romance about an automobile industrialist (Webb) who must decide which employee will become his new general manager. The candidates-and their wives-all play games of business politics. Cast: Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred Macmurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde. Director: Jean Negulesco