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13 minutes ago, Thompson said:
Loved the legs of the mystery reader roommate. Sexy for sure.
Here is an early Christmas gift for you. The actress was Jeff Donnell.
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14 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
i forgot someone mentioned NEWTON-JOHN a few posts ago and for a good while after reading this, all I could think to myself was "DeHAVILLAND???!!!!"
Olivia had only one boyfriend.
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12 hours ago, LuckyDan said:
Jack Marshall composed the music for The Munsters. Jack was a jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. He had a younger cousin who came to him for advice on taking up guitar. Jack suggested he begin by studying classical. His cousin was Christopher Parkening, who would become what many consider America's most gifted classical guitarist.
This is the second season version of the theme, which features a surfy-sounding electric guitar part. I can't confirm who played it. Maybe Jack. Maybe Tommy Tedesco. Maybe Howard Roberts.
I believe it was Howard Roberts that is the guitar player. Marshall used Roberts a lot and produced some of Robert's albums like this one: (see the J.M. is a nut!).
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1 hour ago, Polly of the Precodes said:
Could you be thinking of Housewife (1934)? In this movie Dvorak pours herself and her husband (George Brent) a few and urges him to go into business for himself.
You're likely correct that the Dvorak film where she gets tippy with a boyfriend is Housewife.
This Dvorak \ Bette Davis 1934 film wasn't very good. I believe that was due to the film being made in 1934 but not ready for release until August after the Code was being enforced in July.
Nothing compared to the gritty pre-code Three on a Match that also featured Dvorak and Davis (along with Joan Blondell and Bogart).
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44 minutes ago, NoShear said:
I saw Tommy Tedesco a few times when he would play at jazz clubs in Hollywood. He was a chain smoker and he would smoke while playing. A few times the ash would drop off into his beard.
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I've always been a big fan of Jeff Donnell so I watched The Blue Gardenia, yet again, mainly for her.
I assume Donnell is known by noir fans as the cop's wife in the Bogie\Grahame, Nicholas Ray film In a Lonely Place.
An interesting later role for Donnell was in the noir The Sweet Smell of Success as the secretary of scumbag Tony Curtis.
I find Jeff to be a cutie who always played second fiddle to other actresses.
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5 hours ago, laffite said:
Speaking of tipsy scenes, Ann Dvorak in an early movie was attempting to get a boyfriend to buckle up and get out and look for a job. She was tipsy and positively brilliant. I have been wondering about this one for ages. Anyone know it?
A movie where Dvorak has a tipsy scene, but it isn't an early one, is the Lana Turner movie A Life of her Own (1950).
Dvorak has a small role at the start of the film, as an aging model, and mentor of the up-and-coming Turner, that is very gritty.
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Clifton Young has an uncredited role as an irate baseball fan in the Warner film That Way with Women with Martha Vickers, Dane Clark and Sydney Greenstreet.
Young had a few uncredited roles in WB films during the 40s where he only gets a line or two. He was under contract with WB and like most contract actors had to be at the lot 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, regardless if he had a role in a film or not.
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I'm watching The Houston Story on MOVIES (noir Thursday). It features Gene Barry and Barbara Hale. (much different role than that of Della Street).
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1 hour ago, NoShear said:
As I previously suggested, jamesjazzguitar, it was a combo of reasons. Had Dave Roberts not overpitched Yu Darvish while, conversely, underpitching Alex Wood, and there had been better bat control displayed by players such as Cody Bellinger, I think the Dodgers well could've rendered whatever sign stealing that took place moot.
I see that you know what went down in that series. Sorry if I got a little defensive since I've been a Dodger fan since I was a kid.
Clearly Roberts should have pitched Alex Wood more.
As for Darvish: Wasn't he one of the pitchers that was most impacted by the sign stealing (or did this wind-up motion give away his pitches and one doesn't need to steal signs against him?
Yea, bat control is an issue with Cody; He is young so hopefully he can improve his eye and get more patience.
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13 minutes ago, NoShear said:
This response is off-topic, but then so was Ben Mankiewicz's aside about the 2017 World Series during the introduction to the evening's celebration of Norman Lloyd, a fan of "Dem Bums"...
Los Angeles lost the 2017 World Series to Houston not because of the Astros' sign stealing but because of reasons such as manager Dave Roberts' mismanagement of the Dodgers pitching staff and players such as the brilliant-but-stubborn rookie, Cody Bellinger, who set a World Series record of striking out 17 times, and the physically-imposing Yasiel Puig whose bark was worse than his bat. Collectively, Bellinger and Puig averaged a pathetic .145 for that Series!
It is silly to claim there is only ONE reason the Dodgers lost to Houston in the 2017 World Series. Few things in life are that black and white;
Roberts' did make some bonehead moves as manager and the Astros stole signs and cheated. More than two things can be true at the same time.
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4 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Blithe Spirit (1945) TCM 8/10
A man and his wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
A first time viewing for me, I loved it. Noel Coward brings his acerbic wit to this version of his play. It was well directed by David Lean, prior to his becoming known for his epics. Rex Harrison is at his witty best and Constance Cummings is fine as his exasperated current wife. Kay Hammond is deliciously catty as the ghost. Margaret Rutherford steals every scene she is in as the eccentric medium who contacts the spirit. The humor is surprisingly adult for the 1940s. The final gag is hilarious, and ends in kind of a ghostly ménage a trois!
Viewed Blithe Spirit for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it. Witty screenplay and as you noted the actors were in fine form.
Always good to see a 40s film on TCM I haven't seen before.
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3 hours ago, Det Jim McLeod said:
Hitchcock did not think Cummings was right for the part since he thought he had a "comical" face.
I also find Cummings to have a comical face; I.e. a look that for me makes it hard to take him seriously when the character he is playing is trying to be serious.
(great face for romantic comedy like Princess O'Rourke (and he aged well).
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3 hours ago, ElCid said:
In crafting my new book, Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics, I started with a list of over 300 films ranging from Charlie Chaplin’s 1915 short By the Sea (“a classic of girls, the seashore and the good old summer time”) to the recent superhero movie Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019). There is a wide range of experiences, settings and themes in summer films, and this night of programming exhibits a nice sampling from the book, of which I’ll discuss with TCM host Dave Karger.
Moon Over Miami (1941)
“It’s always June in Miami Beach!” So proclaimed billboards to lure frostbitten Northerners to the sunny shores of South Florida in the early 20th century. Here, star Betty Grable travels with her sister and aunt to find a millionaire husband and ends up finding herself in a tuneful love triangle with Don Ameche and Robert Cummings.
Gidget (1959)You can divide the history of surfing into pre-Gidget and post-Gidget eras. The story of a budding California teenager (Sandra Dee) who ingratiates herself with the local beach bums brought the sport into mainstream consciousness and led to a new film genre: the beach movie.
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)French comedian Jacques Tati put his mark on the summer movie with this breezy depiction of a week at a seaside resort. Here, his iconic character Hulot makes his debut as a hapless but nonchalant tourist who gets himself into all sorts of leisurely hijinks.
Key Largo (1948)
A look at the dark side of summer, John Huston’s crime film features the muggy Florida Keys, a violent hurricane and a pack of gangsters intent on offloading a batch of counterfeit currency. This was the last movie to pair Bogie and Bacall, and it also features memorable turns by Edward G. Robinson and an Oscar-winning Claire Trevor.
You’re Only Young Once (1937)
This early entry in the Andy Hardy series follows the Hardy family to Catalina Island for a much-needed summer vacation. Mickey Rooney stars as one of cinema’s most iconic teenagers who gains a new perspective on love while soaking up some California rays.
Summer Stock (1950)
When is your book being released?
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Here is Django with Beryl Davis:
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9 minutes ago, Stallion said:
I think The Long Hot Summer was just on a week or two ago, probably this month.
Yes, TCM showed the film last week. Of course that doesn't mean they will not show it again.
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4 hours ago, ElCid said:
June 21 will feature 'Sun-Drenched Summer Classics. I don't like musicals, but I do like Moon Over Miami with Carole Landis and Betty Grable.
Key Largo is also being shown, but not sure how a B&W Film Noir fits into "Sun-Drenched."
Is The Long Hot Summer being featured? It should be just for Welles and the almost-dark-face make-up!
"you've been getting too much sun,,,, you're darker than those stogies!".
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9 minutes ago, Shank Asu said:
36 Hours (1965) Liked it. Watched a few James Garner films the past year and surprised he wasn't more popular.
Just wonder why you believe James Garner "wasn't more popular".
While I don't know how to determine what others believe is popular or not, Garner was one of the top cross-over actors; one who would go from films to T.V. Shows without the reason that their film career was sunsetting so T.V. was their only option.
In fact I can't think of another actor that was as successful in both film and T.V.
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I went with To Catch a Thief because it was the only one of the films I hadn't seen in the theater before and it was on a weekend.
To Catch a Thief would be a good film to see in a theater on a big screen. Lot of nice outdoor shots of southern France.
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16 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:
BARNEY KESSEL again...! Cool.
I knew Kessel had recorded Sweet Sue. I couldn't think of anyone else that did so yea, we get Kessel again.
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51 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Switching gears: did anyone notice that Eddie mentioned that Dennis O'Keefe had transitioned from light comedies and musicals in his earlier career to more serious, darker work? And that he compared that career switch to that of Dana Andrews? Was that a mistake? Did he mean Dick Powell?
Yea, I noticed that and I found it odd. OK, so Dana Andrews did State Fair after Laura and before Fallen Angel but a review of his pre-Laura films doesn't include many light comedies (e.g. Ball of Fire, but his character is a gangster in this) and musicals! Dennis O'Keefe was in a lot of light comedies and musicals before he started doing crime\noir roles after the war. Thus I hope Eddie just made a mistake and said Andrews instead of Dick Powell (even if I find a comparison between Powell and O'Keefe to be kind of lame since Powell was a much bigger star when he made his career change).
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4 hours ago, HelenBaby2 said:
Before Sven went over the cast, I told my SO that the main character played by Robert Harris was on Perry Mason a lot. Sure enough, that was the running gag throughout the host segments. I was cracking up.
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I know what my fav scene is from TEDS: the jazz band scene where Duchin's son and his friends come in and jam!
I'm a big fan of the film. Of course there is the music but the overall story is touching without being overly sad (well except for the ending but the piano duet with his son keeps it from getting depressing).
Fine acting by all but I especially like the performance of Victoria Shaw. Shaw wasn't in many films, but 3 years after TEDS she was in the Sam Fuller noir\social awareness film The Crimson Kimono. Below is a promo still with the 3 leads.