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Priscilla Lane

I'm really looking forward to the daytime/afternoon schedule TCM has lined up for Thursday, with a great salute to the fabulous Miss Deadpan herself, Virginia O'Brien. She made barely over a dozen movies before MGM let her go, and after that would only make two more movies - Francis in the Navy and Disney's Gus. Here are the movies TCM is bringing us today : *Hullabaloo* (1940) 9:45am ET A radio star creates a national panic when he announces a Martian invasion. Cast: Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey Jr., Billie Burke Dir: Edwin L. Marin BW-78 mins, TV-G *Lady Be Good* (1941) 11:15am ET Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show. Cast: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore Dir: Norman Z. McLeod BW-112 mins, TV-PG *The Big Store* (1941) 1:15pm ET A detective and his zany pals take over a failing department store. Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin Dir: Charles Riesner BW-83 mins, TV-G *Ringside Maisie* (1941) 2:45pm ET A Brooklyn showgirl sets pulses racing at a boxers' training camp. Cast: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling, Virginia O'Brien Dir: Edwin L. Marin BW-95 mins, TV-G *Meet The People* (1944) 4:30pm ET A fading stage star tries to revive her career by taking a job in a shipyard. Cast: Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien, Bert Lahr Dir: Charles Riesner BW-100 mins, TV-G *Merton Of The Movies* (1947) 6:15pm ET A star-struck hick goes to Hollywood to become a star. Cast: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames Dir: Robert Alton BW-82 mins, TV-G

> {quote:title=faceinthecrowd wrote:}{quote} > Kino has a DVD of PETER PAN from 1924. Betty Bronson plays the title role, Anna May Wong is Tiger Lily, and Ernest Torrence is Captain Hook. I should like to watch that one some day. Just now I was watching the "Be a Clown" number from The Pirate - it's always a treat, what a shamefully underrated MGM musical, and from one of their best directors, too.

Marvin, Lee Moreno, Rita

O'Connor, Frank - writer, The Rising of the Moon

K - Kansas City Confidential

Frank McHugh

That's it, precisely! Thanks for helping me remember. Boy, The Spanish Main sure shows up plenty on the TCM schedule.

Now it's just 2 more hours.

Fun facts about Eleanor Powell: * Birth name: Eleanor Torrey Powell * Took dancing classes as a child to overcome extreme shyness. * With a preference toward ballet and acrobatics (notably her splits), she did not initially tap in her early career. In fact, she disliked the style which she considered lacking in grace. It was when she lost a number of musical roles in New York that she realized the need to learn. Due to her aerial style, she learned to tap by wearing army surplus belts with sandbags attached to ground herself.

If anyone's interested, Fox Movie Channel will be showing Son of Robin Hood (1959) tomorrow at 11:30 am ET. *SON OF ROBIN HOOD* In order to battle an evil nobleman (Farrar) bent on capturing England, a crusader (Hedison) assumes the identify of Robin Hood's son. He soon joins forces with the famous hero's true offspring (Laverick). Cast: Marius Goring, June Laverick, David Farrar, Phillip Friend, George Coulouris

Next-to-last TCM screening coming up tomorrow night in Washington, D.C.: The Avalon Theatre in Washington, D.C. ? Thursday, April 8, at 8 p.m. ? *The More the Merrier* (1943) Ben Mankiewicz and producer George Stevens Jr., founding director of the American Film Institute, will introduce this highly entertaining film directed by Stevens? father. Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea star as a pair forced to share a D.C. apartment during a wartime housing shortage. Charles Coburn won an Oscar for his deliciously comic performance.

Billie Burke was in The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland

Irene Dunne

Wallace Beery was in Min and Bill with Marie Dressler

Rex Harrison

Robert Donat

Sorry I meant to say Clark Gable, of course.

Deborah Kerr

H - Hawaii

Doris Day was in Teacher's Pet with Clark Gable

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > But you can't jump from version to version. Fair enough. Let's pick up with the 1946 version Ava Gardner

Cattle Queen of Montana

> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote} > Reagan wasn't in THE KILLERS Yes, he was - in the 1964 version

E - East of Eden