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Here's a list of Hollywood endorsements in the 1940 presidential election, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was attempting to win a 3rd term against Republican Wendell Willkie:
(Sorry about the formatting, but all the names in the left column were for FDR, while *ALL* names to the right of them were for Willkie. For example, Pat O'Brien was for Roosevelt, and Eve Arden and Ann Sheridan backed the Republican.)
*FOR ROOSEVELT* *FOR WILLKIE*
Pat O?Brien Eve Arden Ann Sheridan
Walter Huston Edward Arnold Ann Sothern
Robert Benchley Fred Astaire Preston Sturges
Priscilla Lane Lionel Barrymore Mrs. Spencer Tracy
Jane Wyman Richard Barthelmess Lee Tracy
Frank Capra Wallace Beery King Vidor
Katherine Hepburn Joan Blondell
Henry Fonda Mrs. Humphrey Bogart ("Sluggy")
Betty Grable Charles Coburn
George Cukor Gary Cooper
John Ford Broderick Crawford
Rosemary Lane Donald Crisp
Andy Devine Bing Crosby
Thomas Mitchell Cecil B. DeMille
Charles Bickford Walt Disney
Humphrey Bogart Irene Dunne
Melvyn Douglas Nelson Eddy
Garson Kanin W.C. Fields
Bud Schulberg Corinne Griffith
Jerome Kern Margaret Hamilton
James Cagney Hedda Hopper
Stu Erwin Edward Everett Horton
Rosalind Russell Allan Jones
George Bancroft Guy Kibbee
Claude Rains Harold Lloyd
Eddie ?Rochester? Anderson Fred MacMurray
John Garfield Leo McCarey
George Raft Joel McCrea
Michael Curtiz Hattie McDaniel
Dorothy Parker Zeppo Marx
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Adophe Menjou
Dorothy Lamour Una Merkel
Edward G. Robinson Ray Milland
Miriam Hopkins Robert Montgomery
William Wyler Dennis Morgan
Billie Burke George Murphy
Ira Gershwin Edna May Oliver
Anita Loos Franklin Pangborn
Dore Schary Mary Pickford
Jack L. Warner, Jr. Dick Powell
Billy Wilder William Powell
John Huston Randolph Scott
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Lot (most?) TCM viewers do not go on the TCM website very often, if at all.
Are you kidding? I've subscribed to Now Playing for years, but it took me about 15 minutes to realize that you can't always count on it for 100% accuracy.
Your best bet is to copy and save the monthly online schedule as a Word document, and to check the daily schedule each day to see about any changes. This takes no more than 30 seconds to do, unless you're a very slow reader.
Among other things, this stops you from recording movies in the middle of the night that turn out not to be what you expected.
I'm also not a big fan of cancelling previously scheduled movies to make way for memorial tributes to actors or actresses whose films show up all the time anyway (like Shirley Temple), but I also realize that my viewpoint on that subject is in the minority.
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I think I'm getting that he wants to show more silents and more movies from the early 30's, and that he thinks that Mostly Martha is a prelude to TCM's selling the farm. But it's hard to wade through all that verbiage without getting bogged down.
And the reason for not enough silents (a point I agree with) isn't films like Mostly Martha, which generally are one and done. The much bigger reason for the relative lack of silents are those TCM contracts that oblige them to show movies like Splendor in the Grass and Rebel Without a Cause so often that they crowd out movies that lack equal capacity for attracting the "I just *LOVE* old movies but I don't want to watch anything I've never heard of" crowd.
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I did not mean it to be taken seriously. I guess I should have used
the blink of the eye instead of the frown, but I suppose I was feeling
the members' pain at the very thought of not getting their hard-earned
goody bag.
And in turn I was probably feeling the effects of posting a comment on four hours sleep.
My apologies for the misread, which is doubly embarrassing since I usually appreciate the deadpan cracks more than any other. -
I think it was something like this:
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Don't you think Morris might've been making an Ellen-esque joke there?
I hope so, and if so I apologize for the misreading. It might have been clearer if he'd ended with
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Based on the originally posted TCM March schedule, I was looking forward to the seldom seen *Woman Against The World,* a 1937 drama, which was listed for 10:30 this morning. I now see that this was a misprint, and the movie to be shown is one called *Woman Against Woman,* a 1938 Mary Astor divorce comedy. Just one more reminder never to take TCM's schedules for granted.
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I heard that if Academy members didn't vote for 12 Years a Slave
they wouldn't get their goody bags.
That's a fairly damning piece of innuendo, to put it mildly.
But being as how that was Morris Steele replying to Morris Steele, ;perhaps Morris Steele would like to introduce some actual first hand or second hand evidence to back up that statement, evidence that might include one or two names of Oscar voters who are willing to be quoted for the record in defense of that rather scurrilous charge. Or is that too much to ask?
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I can't wait for the movies of directors Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart to come out.
For politically interested pro football fans of a certain age, it would be like the time in the early 70's when the NFL featured three African American players named *Drew Pearson, Dwight MacDonald* and *Ralph McGill,* who just a few years earlier were known only as an aging white scandal columnist, an aging white movie critic and political commentator, and the esteemed and equally aging white editor of The Atlanta Constitution. It took me quite a while before that lovely series of multiple identies got fully digested.
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Also, how can you justify a 75th anniverary salute to "The Wizard of Oz" when it didn't even win Best Picture in 1939? Why didn't they celebrate the diamond anniversary of the greatest movie year ever....?
Probably because Le Jour Se Leve was in French, and Hollywood is still a bit Europhobic.
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What?! Did you REALLY think they were going to award it to a special effects-laden SPACE movie, which while being a technical marvel and thus winning numerous awards for THAT, contained little if any "social significance" in its story???
The only thing that surprised me about 12 Years a Slave winning the Best Picture Oscar was that many voters in the past have sometimes seemed to be overly influenced by box office numbers and flashy production values. And in a year where none of the nominees were outright jokes, I was pleased to see that *that* sort of "bias" was overcome.
As for Jake's right wing Investors' Business Daily's sour take on the movie, my reaction to that is simply "Consider the source".
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TikiSoo, I know this is a belated response, but when I read your Feb13 comment I just had to quote back to you one of my all-time favorite TCM Forum moments, which was when you wrote this some time back:
*"My biggest concern for kids today is not thinking ahead "that cute little hummingbird tattoo on your breast is gonna be a stork by time you?re 50"."*
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Just when I thought this may be the worst month ever, with whitebread supreme Rock Hudson cluttering up the schedule (worst choice since Esther Williams and Mickey Rooney), along comes two great Jeanne Moreau movies to the rescue on the 15th. Of course they're being shown back-to-back in the middle of the night, but with a bit of luck I won't wake up to find one of those Emergency Test announcements right in the middle of the picture:
*2:00 AM*
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*Lovers, The (1959)*
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*A married woman bored with her life decides to escape.*
*Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau , Alain Cuny , Jean-Marc Bory .*
*BW-89 mins,*
*3:45 AM*
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*Elevator to the Gallows (1958)*
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*A businessman kills his boss to cover up his affair with the man's wife.*
*Dir: Louis Malle Cast: Jeanne Moreau , Maurice Ronet , Georges Poujouly .*
*BW-91 mins, Letterbox Format*
Elevator to the Gallows is one of the greatest French noirs ever, but The Lovers is the film that put Jeanne Moreau on the map. If it's not a TCM premiere, it hasn't been shown in many years, and I'm excited to be able finally to see it.
And then on the 18th there's this, which I've never even heard of before:
*3:45 PM*
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*Jump Into Hell (1955)*
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*This film reenacts the battle of Dien Bien Phu, focusing on the struggles of the French troops stationed in Vietnam.*
*Dir: David Butler Cast: Jack Sernas , Kurt Kaszner , Arnold Moss .*
*BW-92 mins,*
and that's followed by an entire evening of classic French films, something I can't recall ever having been done. That'll make up for all those Pillow Talks, etc. And in fact the entire second half of the month is absolutely terrific, which proves once again that TCM is like the weather: If you don't like it today, there's always tomorrow.
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Since they don't seem to want to go with first time choices like Sanders or Hayward, I'll take a wild stab and say Robert Mitchum, who's been honored twice but not since 2007. Just *please* no more cowboys or dancers for another few years.
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Those Leonard Malkin ratings are still showing up on my schedule for the films that he reviewed.
Or do you mean ratings as in "G", "PG-13" and "R"? I don't ever remember those being shown anywhere but on the TV screen right before the movie begins, but maybe that's because that'd be the last thing I'd care about one way or the other. But anyway 90% of the films TCM shows were released before that ratings system was instituted.
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*We had an open forum to begin our 10th grade history classes, and for an entire month one student got up in front of the class each day, armed with photos and Magic Markers, and tried to prove that the Russians' photographs of the dark side of the moon were faked. That was 55 years ago, and to this day he can't explain what had gotten into him.*
I find it incredible that you stayed in touch with him all these years. Unless, of course, YOU were that kid!
This kid was a very good friend of mine, with whom I spent much of my time arguing about politics, since his dad (Ralph de Toledano) was a close friend of then-VP Richard Nixon. But after going to Georgetown for his BA, my friend went out to Berkeley for his law degree, and once he was separated from his National Review family (that was his father's social set), the cobwebs began to peel from his eyes. Eventually he wound up running for Congress as a Democrat in Orange County, CA.
It was a long journey from his personal dark side of the moon back in 10th grade, but he's a pretty good example of why politics should never intrude upon friendship. And hell, even his father wasn't that bad once you got to know him: His main contribution to National Review outside of politics was a jazz column.
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I am wondering if UNDER MY SKIN has ever aired on TCM, and what about BODY AND SOUL or FORCE OF EVIL...?
*Force of Evil* was last shown on 9/8/2010, and was also played during his 2006 SUTS day AND during his SOTM tribute in 2003. The other two were NOT shown any of those times, although I'm pretty sure that *Body and Soul* has played at least once, because I got my copy through a swap with someone who said he'd gotten it from TCM
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Many come here, only to find out that this isn't the Yahoo! message boards, where one can say any dumb, unsubstantiated thing like "the earth is flat!" or that the moon doesn't exist (*) and hardly be challenged! I mean to say this generally, and not to single out any one person. . . .
(*) Somebody actually said that on Yahoo!, and was hardly challenged!
We had an open forum to begin our 10th grade history classes, and for an entire month one student got up in front of the class each day, armed with photos and Magic Markers, and tried to prove that the Russians' photographs of the dark side of the moon were faked. That was 55 years ago, and to this day he can't explain what had gotten into him.
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Fred, in the old days gallons were a lot bigger than they are today.
And back then the Atlantic Ocean was really something.
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... what movies do you find so dated that their appeal and fame is utterly incomprehensible to you?
John Wayne's The Green Berets would be my Red States entry in that contest, and Last Tango In Paris would be the Butter Belt challenger.
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So Toronto is a cultural mecca, while Philly is a mecca for thugs and cretins? Maybe.
I'm talking about the general *perception* of the Philly of Rizzo's era, which had pretty much been shaped by Rizzo himself, both as a police commissioner and as a mayor. I wasn't talking about Ben Franklin's Philadelphia, or of the Philadelphia of today. *Those* Philadelphias are best described as Cities of Brotherly Love. (pun not intended, Mr. Hanks)
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How about Philly's Frank Rizzo? I'll match him against anyone......Remember, "I'll make Attilla the Hun look like a ****"........He used to show up at formal events with a nightstick in his cumberbund. (he was a former cop).
My favorite Rizzo quote was when he volunteered to take a lie detector test, and said *"The lie detector lied"* after he failed it!
But the point about Ford isn't just that he's a porno addicted, drug addicted, racist clown, it's that he's from *Toronto,* not some city like 1970's Philadelphia (PA) or 1960's Philadelphia (MS), or even some separatist stronghold in Quebec, where you might almost figure it came with the territory. And anyway, while Rizzo was certainly a racist supreme, there's no evidence that he was a connoisseur of either drugs or porn.
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Americans seem to be more interested in Ford than Canadians...
Well, it's not as if Americans haven't elected their share of porno seekers / drug addicts / angry racists, but Ford wasn't elected by write-in votes from Michigan.
The American stereotype of Canadians is that they're above all calm and rational and don't elect flamers to their highest office. And about the only thing that really upsets them is when we down here use "Americans" interchangeably with "U.S. citizens".
And when the mayor of *Toronto,* of all places, performs the hat trick of being a porn lover, a drug addict, *and* a flaming racist all in one fell swoop, as well as having one of those Christielike tum-tums for comic effect, then you really can't blame us "Americans" for being attracted to the spectacle like moths to the flame. If he'd been a Frenchman or a German, we might have shrugged our shoulders and say "What do you expect?", but coming from a city we think of as an outpost of civility and sanity, he might as well be a Martian.
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I think that this is what some people seem to expect when they start offering their opinions around here.
My apologies for the misread, which is doubly embarrassing since I usually appreciate the deadpan cracks more than any other.
The Oscar elephant in the room...
in General Discussions
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*Adjusted for inflation the greatest movie of all time with greatest*
*gross.*
*http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm*
So much for the general public's taste in movies. Other than The Godfather, The Best Years of Our Lives and Rear Window, there's not a single movie in that list of 200 that I'd cross the street to watch a second time. And other than GWTW, all that list shows is how much ticket prices have outpaced inflation. A much better measure of popularity would be would be number of admissions divided by the population at the time, a list which I'm sure would make GWTW pull even further away from the pack.