HollywoodGolightly
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Adolphe Menjou
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> {quote:title=cubswin1984 wrote:}{quote}
> Can you tell me what the exact title of Universal's program is (On Demand, Archives, etc.) because I have been searching gor this online and could not find it...or what that MGM..hmmm.
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> Anyway..THANKS Holly!
With the Universal titles, you could do a search for "Universal Vault Series". For the MGM series, try looking up www.amazon.com/mgmcollection
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Fun Facts about Janet Leigh:
* Birth name: Jeanette Helen Morrison
* Was 'discovered' by Norma Shearer from a photo on the desk of Janet's father.
* Actually made *Touch of Evil* (1958), with a broken arm. Her arm was in a cast when she showed up for production, so they took her arm out of the cast and used every trick they could to hide it.
primosprimos - your mother must be absolutely lovely. And though I cannot see you, I sense you're a beautiful person.
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Otto Kruger was in Magnificent Obsession with Rock Hudson
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Rita Hayworth
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Thornhill, Roger O. - Cary Grant in North by Northwest
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T - Texas Across the River
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Phil Silvers
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Gail Patrick was in Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth
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Ure, Mary
Ustinov, Peter
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Richmond, Dick - William Holden in Miss Grant Takes Richmond
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Q - Queens Logic
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Quine, Richard - directed The Solid Gold Cadillac
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Skip Homeier was in The Tall T with Randolph Scott
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Ginger Rogers
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Emerson, Hope
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Vigil in the Night
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Fearless Fagan is coming up next. A nice, goofy comedy from MGM from what I remember, with a great "performance" by the title lion.
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I have never seen these, but they sound pretty groovy, thanks for the heads up!
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Tortilla Flat - flat Steinbeck adaptation
next: The Old Man and the Sea
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I guess it's not everyone who can say they have a parent with movie-star good looks, you're very lucky!
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> {quote:title=cubswin1984 wrote:}{quote}
> I hear that Universal and MGM are releasing some titles (The Fastest Gun Alive and The Best Man being titles I am interested in purchasing), but I am not exactly sure of the quality of these products.
Well, the Universal Vault titles are available either on tcm.com or amazon, while MGM's are only available through amazon, I think. The quality is bound to vary, but it is almost invariably better than what you'd get if you got a bootleg. Many of these made-on-demand titles are available from rental in a few places, so you may also want to rent one or two before deciding if you want to buy any.
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A real-life hero who inspired one of the best-known movies of the 60s. RIP.
*John 'Jack' Agnew dies at 88; his World War II unit inspired 'The Dirty Dozen'*
The private first class was part of the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial, ill-behaved Army unit said to have loosely inspired the novel and the 1967 film starring Lee Marvin.
Associated Press
April 12, 2010
John "Jack" Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the novel and movie "The Dirty Dozen," died of heart disease Thursday at a hospital in Abington, Pa. He was 88.
Agnew belonged to the Filthy Thirteen, an unofficial unit within the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
On D-Day, the Filthy Thirteen parachuted into France to take a bridge over the Douve River. It was "a mission that would cost most of the men their lives," according to an article in the winter 2008-09 edition of American Valor Quarterly, a publication of the nonprofit American Veterans Center.
Before the Battle of the Bulge, Agnew and other members of the unit were requested for pathfinder duty and parachuted into Bastogne, which was besieged by German forces. Agnew operated a beacon to help guide in planes carrying badly needed supplies.
Tales of the unit's exploits and a Stars and Stripes military newspaper photograph are said to have inspired the novel "The Dirty Dozen" by E.M. Nathanson not because any of the unit's members were convicts like the novel's characters -- they weren't -- but because of their reputation for brawling, drinking and spending time in the stockade.
In interviews, Agnew, who was a private first class during the war, said that came directly from the unit's leader, Jake McNiece.
"We weren't murderers or anything, we just didn't do everything we were supposed to do in some ways and did a whole lot more than they wanted us to do in other ways," he told the quarterly. "We were always in trouble."
Agnew was among those interviewed in a documentary, "The Filthy Thirteen: Real Stories From Behind the Lines," that was included in a 2006 special edition DVD of "The Dirty Dozen."
The 1967 movie, about an Army major who has to train and lead 12 convicts into a mission targeting German officers, starred Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and Jim Brown.
Agnew was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1927 and at age 5 immigrated with his family to the United States, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
After World War II he worked as an installer for Western Electric in Pennsylvania.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth; two daughters, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a brother.
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Hi,
Is there some new rule pertaining to YouTube links that I didn't know about? If so, my apologies. That video simply happened to be one of the last public appearances by Mr. Carroll. It wasn't meant to "advertise" anything, merely to honor the memory of a beloved entertainer who has passed away.
Be that as it may, I apologize again if that is now against the rules.
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Sal Mineo was in Rebel Without a Cause with Natalie Wood