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Fun facts about June Allyson:
* Birth name: Eleanor Geisman
* In 1945, Harvard Lampoon voted her worst actress of the year. That year's worst actor was regular co-star Van Johnson.
* When she was eight years old, she was crushed by a falling tree limb while riding a bicycle. She wore a back brace for four years and taught herself to dance by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. She was told that the accident would prevent her from having children. Her first child, Pamela Powell, was adopted in 1948. In 1950, however, she gave normal birth to her son, Dick Powell Jr..
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In the Line of Fire - Clint as bodyguard
next: The Bodyguard
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It's a great thing that they've restored it, and like you said, hopefully there'll be a new video release soon (maybe in time for Halloween?) and if they also release it on blu-ray, even better!
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A nice, old-fashioned poster for a nice, old-fashioned comedy (which I like a lot btw).
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Just in case anyone hasn't checked this out on the TCM website yet:
http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/boutique.asp?section=FilmFestival
TCM is offering limited edition T-shirts, baseball caps, and tote bags with the TCM Film Festival logo for those who may be interested.
I'd imagine many of these may sell out before the festival.
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The great Ann Miller receives a 9-film birthday salute on TCM this Monday, April 12th - seems to include quite a few of her lesser-known movies, too.
*_ANN MILLER BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE 4/12_*
*Radio City Revels* (1938) 6am ET
Burned-out songwriters find man who composes while asleep.
Cast: Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Ann Miller Dir: Ben Stoloff BW-90 mins, TV-G
*Go West, Young Lady* (1941) 7:45am ET
A sheriff's girlfriend tries to unearth the identity of a masked bandit chief.
Cast: Penny Singleton, Glenn Ford, Ann Miller, Charlie Ruggles Dir: Frank R. Strayer BW-70 mins, TV-G
*Time Out for Rhythm* (1941) 9am ET
The producers of a musical each hire different women to star.
Cast: Ann Miller, Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Allen Jenkins Dir: Sidney Salkow BW-75 mins
*Reveille With Beverly* (1943) 10:15am ET
A tap-dancing lady disc jockey finds herself torn between a wealthy man and his former chauffeur.
Cast: Bob Crosby, Freddie Slack, Ella Mae Morse, Duke Ellington Dir: Charles Barton BW-78 mins, TV-G
*Carolina Blues* (1944) 11:45am ET
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
Cast: Kay Kyser, Ann Miller, Victor Moore, Jeff Donnell Dir: Leigh Jason BW-82 mins, TV-G
*Jam Session* (1944) 1:15pm ET
A Texas girl wins a trip to Hollywood, but the best job she can get is as secretary to a writer.
Cast: Ann Miller, Jess Barker, Charlie Barnet, Louis Armstrong Dir: Charles Barton BW-77 mins, TV-G
*Eve Knew Her Apples* (1945) 2:45pm ET
A radio star tries to escape the limelight in the car trunk of a reporter who is eager for a story.
Cast: Ann Miller, William Wright, Robert Williams, Ray Walker Dir: Will Jason BW-64 mins, TV-G
*The Thrill of Brazil* (1946) 4pm ET
A theater producer is torn between his leading lady and his ex-wife while staging a show in Rio.
Cast: Evelyn Keyes, Keenan Wynn, Ann Miller, Allyn Joslyn Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-92 mins
*Texas Carnival* (1951) 5:45pm ET
A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller Dir: Charles Walters C-77 mins, TV-G
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I didn't notice this movie on the schedule until right before going to bed Thursday night. However it seems this is considered a noir, so I eagerly set the DVR to record. Anyone else watch it or record it?
*The Secret Fury* (1950)
A mysterious figure tries to stop a woman's marriage by driving her mad.
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Jane Cowl, Paul Kelly Dir: Mel Ferrer BW-86 mins, TV-PG
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Yellow Submarine
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Ustinov, Peter
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Viva Zapata!
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Hightower, Robert Marmaduke - John Wayne in 3 Godfathers
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Sellers, Peter
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Time After Time
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W - How the West Was Won
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Fogg, Phineas - David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days
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George Segal was in King Rat with James Fox
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Quayle, Anthony
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Rebel Without a Cause
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April 9, 2010
*Christopher Cazenove, Suave British Actor, Dies at 66*
By MARGALIT FOX
Christopher Cazenove, a debonair British actor best known to American audiences as Ben Carrington, the scheming brother of Blake Carrington on the ABC prime-time soap opera ?Dynasty,? died on Wednesday in London, where he lived. He was 66.
The cause was septicemia, which he had contracted in late February, his agent, Lesley Duff, said.
As Ben, the estranged, calculating brother who returns to make trouble for Blake, Mr. Cazenove appeared on ?Dynasty? from 1986 to 1987. Blake was played by John Forsythe, who died on April 1.
Mr. Cazenove was cast frequently as upper-class men of military bearing, traits that dovetailed neatly with his own background. As a young actor, he came to wide notice as Charles Haslemere, the charming, caddish aristocrat in the BBC series ?The Duchess of Duke Street.? The series was broadcast in the United States on PBS?s ?Masterpiece Theater? from 1978 to 1980.
In 1989, Mr. Cazenove starred opposite Margaret Whitton and Ernie Sabella in the critically praised but short-lived ABC series ?A Fine Romance.?
His film credits include ?The Proprietor? (1996), directed by Ismail Merchant and starring Jeanne Moreau; ?Three Men and a Little Lady? (1990); ?Heat and Dust? (1983), directed by James Ivory; and ?Eye of the Needle? (1981).
Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove was born in Winchester, England, on Dec. 17, 1943. In the 19th century, his family, of Huguenot origin, founded what became Cazenove & Company, a major British investment bank. The company is known today as J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
Christopher?s father, Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove, was a brigadier in the Coldstream Guards and later an aide-de-camp to King George VI. Christopher studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School and began his career as a stage actor.
Mr. Cazenove?s marriage to Angharad Rees, a Welsh-born actress who starred in the BBC series ?Poldark? in the 1970s, ended in divorce. Survivors include their son Rhys and Mr. Cazenove?s companion, Isabel Davis. Another son, Linford, from his marriage to Ms. Rees, died in an automobile accident in 1999.
In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Cazenove appeared on stages throughout North America as Professor Henry Higgins in a touring production of ?My Fair Lady? directed by Trevor Nunn. Reviewers praised his performance, pointing out a conspicuous difference between Mr. Cazenove and Rex Harrison, who had originated the role on Broadway in 1956: Mr. Cazenove could sing.
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> {quote:title=AllenJenkins wrote:}{quote}
> i'm impressed with how early and how late everything starts
I know the feeling, it's like that at Telluride, too - the earliest screenings are at 8am and the last ones start around midnight.
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The Newspaper Series at the NYC Film Forum starts Friday!
April 8, 2010
*The Fearless Press, and Other Legends*
By A. O. SCOTT
The clatter of typewriters and the rattle of whiskey bottles in desk drawers; the haze of cigarette smoke in the air; the fedoras and notepads, the sleeve garters and eyeshades; the cries of ?Copy!? and ?Get me rewrite!?
Remember newspapers? Neither do I, to tell you the truth, even though I?ve been working at this one for more than 10 years. But you have to go back a lot further? nearly half a century ? to sample the sights, sounds and smells that still evoke the quintessence of print journalism in all its inky, hectic glory.
Or you could go to Film Forum, where a 43-movie monthlong series called The Newspaper Picture opens on Friday with Billy Wilder?s ?Ace in the Hole.? The program is a crackerjack history lesson and also, perhaps, a valediction. Not a day goes by that we don?t read something ? a tweet, a blog, maybe even a column ? proclaiming the death of newspapers, either to mourn or to dance on the grave. And even if those old newsprint creatures survive, say by migrating to the magic land of the iPad, they sure ain?t what they used to be. Where are the crusty editors and fast-talking girl reporters of yesteryear? I?m peeking over the cubicle wall, and all I see are Web producers and videographers.
But maybe those old-school newshounds are mythical creatures after all. Maybe no newsroom couple ever talked as fast or flirted as sharply as Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns, played most memorably in 1940 by Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in ?His Girl Friday.? The same characters were played, with a bit less sparkle, nine years earlier by Adolph Menjou and Pat O?Brien in ?The Front Page.? Both versions are naturally part of The Newspaper Picture ?how could they not be??and they mark out one area of this vibrant and protean genre.
A newspaper, as envisioned by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in their 1928 play, ?The Front Page,? and as set in motion first by the director Lewis Milestone and then (though not for the last time) by Howard Hawks ? is a hive of clashing ambition, hectic incident and (especially in Hawks?s rendering) nonstop talk. The perfect setting, in other words, for a comedy.
But those same traits also make newspapering a scene of ethical drama, dark intrigue and even tragedy. ?Citizen Kane? may transcend the newspaper genre, but it also fulfills its implicit promise both by dwelling on the details of the journalistic enterprise and by allowing that enterprise to attain Shakespearean gravity and complexity. And the grandeur of Orson Welles?s conception of the American press in its heroic late-19th-century phase is answered by the stylish scrappiness of Sam Fuller?s ?Park Row,? from 1952.
Fuller had been a reporter and retained a jaundiced affection for his old trade. His 1963 thriller, ?Shock Corridor? ? strictly speaking perhaps more of a loony-bin picture than a newspaper picture ? turns a reporter?s investigative zeal into a perverse cautionary tale. And while it is fashionable these days to rhapsodize about the civic spirit and democratic value of traditional journalism, a survey of the movies that explore that tradition reveals a more shaded, ambiguous, even cynical picture.
Reporters are crusaders after truth and scourges of corruption, for sure, but they are never squeaky clean. Observe Hildy nonchalantly paying bribes, massaging quotations and spinning sources in ?His Girl Friday,? and you will in essence witness the ethics handbooks of any decent paper going up in flames. The urge to get the big scoop can be noble but also unscrupulous, and the moral tension between candor and exploitation emerges, especially after World War II, as one of the newspaper picture?s great themes.
Consider Chuck Tatum, played with exhausting, exhilarating intensity by Kirk Douglas in 1951?s ?Ace in the Hole.? A onetime big-city hotshot exiled to a sleepy paper in the Southwest, Chuck stumbles across a mishap ? a guy trapped in a cave ? and turns it into a media spectacle. In the process he risks an innocent man?s life and his own soul, and the movie acutely maps the queasy terrain where the public?s desire for information bleeds into something more predatory.
Movies like ?Ace in the Hole? and Alexander Mackendrick?s ?Sweet Smell of Success? (1957) might have been a bit too cynical for 1950s audiences, but in the gossip-mad, fake-news atmosphere of the present they seem stringent and prophetic. There is power in being a champion of the underdog, and we all know power corrupts, just as institutions proudly devoted to the truth can become magnets for liars.
The Film Forum series will close, four weeks from now, on a high note of idealism, with Alan J. Pakula?s ?All the President?s Men,? from 1976. It?s an old favorite of mine, and also by a good decade the most recent selection in the program. Only a small handful of the newspaper pictures in The Newspaper Picture were released after the 1950s, and the years between the introduction of sound and the rise of television were clearly the genre?s heyday. Like the western, it survives in somewhat ghostly, self-conscious form, since an on-screen newspaper job can still provide action, laughter and intrigue. Jennifer Aniston has one in ?The Bounty Hunter,? which I have now evoked in an article that also mentions ?Citizen Kane.? Get me rewrite!
But if the historical parameters established by Film Forum define a golden age of print journalism on celluloid, this marvelous series also suggests a sequel. Start with ?A Face in the Crowd? and work forward to, say, ?Wag the Dog? and you could fill a month with something not yet widely known as The Television Picture. And maybe 50 years from now there will be a retrospective devoted to the Web News Aggregator Picture. By then, thankfully, I?ll be as dead as dead-tree journalism.
The Newspaper Picture series runs through May 6 at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, west of Avenue of the Americas, South Village; (212) 727-8110, filmforum.org.
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Androcles and the Lion
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Everett Sloane was in Sirocco with Zero Mostel
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Oberon, Merle
TCM tribute to Virginia O' Brien - Thursday 8th
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> Loved, loved, loved seeing her all day! In a few shots in Merton she was a dead ringer for Hedy Lamarr!
I did, too, but I have to confess I never noticed the resemblance to Hedy before.