HollywoodGolightly

> {quote:title=primosprimos wrote:}{quote} > HollywoodGoLightly, LoveFilmNoir, it is as jamesjazzguitar advertised, it is a real gem. A curl up on a comfy chair transport me back to the day of film noir gem. Thank you for the suggestion, it does sound like a great read - and excellent for reference, too. I'll be looking for a copy soon.

Well, I guess the date doesn't really have any relevance, but I don't think there's ever a bad day for a good classic pirate movie. Evidently, there used to be a lot more pirate movies back in the day; lately they seem to have been largely forgotten (except for the recent Disney trilogy). Though I still remember there were 2-3 movies about pirates in the early 80s, and at least two of them were based on the Gilbert & Sullivan musical.

Ives, Burl Ireland, Jill

Godse, Naturam - Horst Buchholz in Nine Hours to Rama

Cheaper by the Dozen

Q - Queens Logic

Elvis was in Viva Las Vegas with Ann-Margaret

Sydney, Sylvia

Titanic

You're correct, on one or two occasions it may have involved some error in the control room or something like that, but tcmprogrammr has assured us that when this has happened it was not intentional. So, it happens sometimes but TCM makes every effort to see that it doesn't. Occasionally something will slip through the cracks, but it's just by accident.

Yes, it was always like that. That also reminds me about all the movies that are either set in some important period in the past or involve time travel, and how whenever you see a TV or hear a radio, they're almost always going on about the major historical event that is just happening that very second!

The Jeremy Bratt series DVD set was a "Gold Box" special on amazon last week, but even then it was a bit pricey. However someone told me that the same set is available for a lot less from the UK. Since I already have a multi-region DVD player, that seems the way to go for me.

infinite1, As far as I know, their policy is and has always been to make every effort to show movies complete and uncut. The only time it doesn't happen is if it is due to circumstances beyond their control; for example, if the distributor sends them an edited broadcast copy. And they generally make an effort to correct that in subsequent showings.

Amen to that.

> {quote:title=mrroberts wrote:}{quote} > She was the star in the underappreciated Hitchcock film Sabotage in the 30s. She also appeared as Mrs Carlson in the first episode of WKRP In Cincinnati. Apparently that didn't go too well, in later episodes she was replaced by Carol Bruce. I totally agree regarding her appearance in Sabotage; regrettably, I never got to see her in "WKRP" or any other TV series.

I have never seen The Devil and the Deep, but I am definitely looking forward to it, just as soon as I get that boxset.

finance - you're absolutely right, Dustin Hoffman was indeed born in L.A. mrroberts - I'm not sure about Montana but let me look into that and maybe it could be possible to create a thread for the whole Northwest.

HarryLong, Thanks for mentioning the Milestone DVD - if TCM can't show the widescreen version of it, I'll just try and get that instead.

Perhaps it won't come as a surprise: I'd love to sound like Audrey Hepburn when talking, and have Marni Nixon's singing voice.

You should definitely watch it when it comes out, any Disney fan probably should. More recently I have finished reading a very interesting book, called "Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World" about how Walt launched the project to build Walt Disney World in Florida, which of course would not be completed until after his death. Obviously, his brother Roy and their closest employees had to work very very hard to try and keep Walt's dream and vision alive once he had passed away, especially because the project had to get started with great secrecy - they knew once it was known that the Disney Company was buying a lot of land in central Florida, the price of the land there would skyrocket. So the process to buy those hundreds of acres had to be carried out with the greatest secrecy, by Disney employees who carefully hid their true identities and affiliation while carrying out Walt's wishes. The book actually touches a few of the things that are also mentioned in the Waking Sleeping Beauty documentary, such as the bad condition of the Disney animation and movie division before they hired Eisner and Katzenberg to run the company in the early 80s. Obviously, Eisner also had a hand in updating the Disney theme parks and getting some new expansions going. A good, well-researched book, with a lot of good information about how Walt's company carried on and tried to preserve his vision after he had passed away.

Wouldn't have known about it if you hadn't mentioned it here. It's good to know their programmers have a sense of humor.

Fun facts about Sylvia Sydney: * Birth name: Sophia Kosow * She became the first star actress to be photographed in 'outdoor technicolor' when she starred in *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* (1936) in 1936. * Turned down the Casbah Girl lead in *Algiers* (1938) opposite Charles Boyer. Hedy Lamarr went on to fame in the role.

Young, Terence - directed From Russia With Love.

How Green Was My Valley

Allen Jenkins was in A Slight Case of Murder with Edward G. Robinson