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I had great success as an ensemble member of one of America's classic sitcoms in the 1960's. And I did lots of TV in the '50's and 60's. But I actually started in movies--I appeared in a Gregory Peck movie, a movie starring Jack Lemon and supported Dick Powell in his last film role. You may not remember my name, but everybody knows my face. Do you know me?

This is definitely a post World-War II noir film about small time crooks in America's biggest city. They inadvertently get involved with a foreign spy ring, who are warriors in the "Cold War".

*Funny Girl* Next: Shrimps

Hate to be a stickler on this one--but the actress I'm referring to was only 16 in 1939 when she first starred opposite Ty Power and became one of his 20th Century Fox Leading Ladies.

Everybody knows that the veddy American Bob Hope was born in England.

*My Man Godfrey* next: cheap nightclubs

You're hot because you've probably got the Matinee idol--from the look of your guess-- But the teenage actress in question was 10 whole years younger than Miss Young.

Could be nobody else. She carried every movie she appeared in. Now the Wonderful Miss Lavenderblue 19--

Pre-WWII Hollywood would place us around 1938-1941.

BIG hint--Depardieu is in the cast.

That phone that's tied up for hours, It's all about love, it's all about love If you don't know it's a thing to have a brawl about "You know nothing, at all, about love." My childhood Eddie Fisher favorite 45rpm--remember those? Mack"Chattanooga Choo-Choo- Gordon wrote the lyrics and Josef Myrow wrote the music. Miles you got 2/3 of it and Miss Lavender--you love Debbie and Eddie too--you got the movie title--"A Bundle of Joy" Movie was a remake of Ginger Rogers' "Batchelor Mother". Miles, you may have this thread, but if you're too busy, you can give it to Miss Lavender. Some day soon--Miles is up--

Monsieur Dobbs--you have excellent taste! Depardieu's Cyrano was his best performance. And "Le Salaire de la peur" made Yves Montand a movie star. Of course "La Grande Illusion" speaks for itself. The only French films I'd add to your list would be: Le quai des Brumes (Carne) Diabolique & Le Quai des Orfeveres (Clouzot) and several Truffaut films like La Femme d'a cote and The Last Metro-- but I think women like Truffaut more than the men.

When I went to Montreal in 1996/7? with my passport--la douane was overwhelmed--they thought I was strange--Americans never had passports. Edited by: cujas on Apr 2, 2011 4:38 PM

that is "American Woman" Guess Who? "I don't want your ghetto scenes "I don't want your war machines--

It's a famous noir film--but not by WB. 1st hint--a film about a cannon, a man, not the boom-boom kind. Edited by: cujas on Apr 2, 2011 4:54 PM

Take all the lyrics and clues--and remember this singer was very recently in the news all over the world, even though he is deceased.

Do you remember the 4/5 that you liked?

Another Ozu film I saw in France was a mid-50's entry called "Ohayo!" This was a heartwarming family comedy about how 50's technology was changing Japanese society. And there was a universal quality to it--2 little boys are angry because their parents won't buy a TV so they can watch wrestling. It could have been done in any industrialized country in the 50's. It has all the same qualities of the family dramas--with some poignancy but mainly humourous. Edited by: cujas on Mar 31, 2011 6:47 PM

Was Turhan Bey the Warren Beatty of the '40's?

Well, Fred, I've got to say that I've actually seen 50 to 100 French Movies and I simply don't like this Malle film, "L'Ascenseur a l'Echafaud". In fact I gave my VHS away. I found the film too cold, mean and impersonal. Having said that I duly recognize that this film began the great New Wave--La Nouvelle Vague--movement. And that Malle's use of Miles Davis' Jazz Improvisation for the soundtrack was an absoulute groundbreaking venture. And of course, this film made Jeanne Moreau a star. Having said all that I still hate the film--but Louis Malle is a great French Film Director, who had the courage to shoot in English with American actors and made top quality films. But as the French say, Chacune a son gout. (Each to his own tastes.)

George is an Original American Musical Genius--He has successfully fused: Blues--John Lee Hooker RnR--Chuck Beery C&W--Hank Williams Into an American genre of Funky Blues, Country Rock. If you ever get to hear his "Willie & the Hand Jive", you'll hear the history of American Rock.

This actress, while still in her teens, romantically starred opposite the greatest matinee idol in Pre-World War II Hollywood.

This is an American film--to steal a Woody Allen title--les escros pas trop--about small time crooks who inadvertently get invovled in international espionage. Edited by: cujas on Mar 31, 2011 6:01 PM

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Hint--This character actress has carried her share of movies and supported the top stars--including: Susan Hayward, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and Bette Davis.