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You know, even they aren't great movies, I like either the one that's one tonight, 'Til We Meet Again, or its earlier incarnation, One Way Passage.

Norma Shearer a can of worms? Well.

Then you will have to look for magic in different ways.

If you glance down at previous threads in this forum, you will see the artist and song identified. I'm too lazy to look.

Right it is Norma Shearer. Did anyone get it becasue they knew the site I got the pic from?

On Antenna TV this week: Surprise Package (1960--whew! just made it!) Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor Fire Over Africa (1954) Mureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey Beyond Mombasa (1957) Cornel Wilde, Leo Genn The Brigand of Kandahar (1966-oh, too late!) Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed . . . And Justice For All (1979-no comment) Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden Suspect (1987) Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, and ! Cher The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) Jack Nicholson, Ellen Burstyn (such a dear!), Bruce Dern The Fortune (1975) Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing

One more brianworm killed.

Something does not need to be heavy to be strong. It's all in the design. A piece of 3/4" plywood two feet wide and eight feet long is floppy. But if you screw a skirt of 2x4 lumber around the edge, it becomes rigid and easily able to bear the weight of the lady in question without flexing. Remember, she doesn't appear to be more than 150 pounds, and she's simply stepping to the side and back, not leaping. Legs attached to the top are not rigid, but some simple braces that make triangles will keep the platform stable. Triangles are used everywhere in building and furniture because it is a rigid form. It's easy to see this. Tape some sticks together to make a triangle and square and note the difference. If you think using wood still is too heavy or flexy, then a similar platform can be made of aluminum plate and tubes, connected with either bolts or welding. Also, simply look at the context. This wasn't a bazillion dollar epic. And it was only a small scene in it, not the final battle for the Death Star in Star Wars. They didn't spend a lot of money on it.

Rest easy. If you are bourgeois enough to set the damn thing to record at a certain time, you will be able to figure out how to edit a recording.

If you turn the niece into a nephew, it could be Auntie Mame, with Rosalind Russel: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67795/Auntie-Mame/ It's on 3 February, if you want to see it.

Your DVD recorder must have an edit function that allows you to split a recording.

I seen him lots of times, but never was intradoost.

And Rosemary Lane?

It was a toss-up, but Patty McCormack seemed to me to have played the older sister.

One of the Eunson daughters in All Mine to Give. I am guessing Yolanda White.

Of course! June Corvette!

Marion Davies?

Well, I was getting kinda discouraged, having others always confirm the identification of my pics. But musicalnovelty got it right, Spring Byington.

I was going to post some of the Lullaby of Broadway lyrics, but it just wasn't the same without hearing Wini Shaw sing it.

My grandfather's girlfriend.

Um. Aren't. You. Supposed. To guess? She became an nearly ubiquitous character actress in the 30s and 40s, almost never as a heavy, but always good, friendly, cheerful, and never over-done. Universally liked on and off the screen, everyone thought of her as their marmy. Oh, that's too obvious!

Manhattan women are dressed in silk and satin, Or so the fellas say; There's just one thing that's important in Manhattan, When you have just one day; Gotta pick up a date, Maybe seven or eight, On your way. In just one day!

Thanks, everyone for dredging up those wretched, soul curdling songs that I had even forgot I erased from my consciousness. Sigh, now it starts all over again. . . . But, since I'm now back in the fifth circle of hell, I might as well mention Born Free. Great tune, but about the schmaltziest lyrics of any film song.

You have to be quick. That Kid uses disappearing photo paper.

I think you're over analyzing this. A platform wide enough and strong enough to allow the actress to walk out and back a few feet while the camera is in on her would not need to be heavy or hard to build, requiring, maybe, one sheet of 3/4" plywood and some 2x4s. All you need is two, maybe four people to carry it in from the side, and carry it back out. After all, that's why the camera pulls in on her. The reason I referenced the Eleanor Powell film is to demonstrate what a whole lot of stuff can go on off screen to create the desired image, and how much is accomplished not with technology, but human muscle and effort.