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*Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson*
The couple does beautiful work in films like HENRY V and DEAD AGAIN.
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*JIMMY LYDON AS HENRY ALDRICH*
HENRY ALDRICH FOR PRESIDENT (1941) with June Preisser, Martha O'Driscoll & Rod Cameron
HENRY ALDRICH, EDITOR (1942) with John Litel
HENRY AND DIZZY (1942) with Charles Smith & Carl Alfalfa Switzer
HENRY ALDRICH HAUNTS A HOUSE (1943) with Charles Smith & John Litel
HENRY ALDRICH GETS GLAMOUR (1943) with Frances Gifford, Diana Lynn & Gail Russell
HENRY ALDRICH SWINGS IT (1943) with John Litel & Mimi Chandler
HENRY ALDRICH, BOY SCOUT (1944) with Darryl Hickman
HENRY ALDRICH PLAYS CUPID (1944) with Diana Lynn
HENRY ALDRICH'S LITTLE SECRET (1944) with Charles Smith & John Litel
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*THE ADVENTURES OF TARTU (1943)*
From Agee on September 25, 1943:
THE ADVENTURES OF TARTU disguises British Agent Robert Donat as a Rumanian whose business it is to destroy a Nazi poison-gas plant and escape the consequences with Valerie Hobson. It is so easy to enjoy that it is easy to overrate: that is, it gave me nearly as much simple fun as thrillers a dozen times better; but not quite.
You are seeing all it has, and bald spots as well, the first time around, whereas with a good Hitchcock or even a good Carol Reed, even the pleasures visible at a first seeing stand up, or intensify, under a third and a fifth; new ones turn up with each seeing, and it is a long time before the whole work wears thin or takes on the staleness of a classic indulged too often.
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The original poster seems to want to be able to control the way the Warner Archives offers prints to the public. It's a negative thread that in my opinion lacks class.
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*Intended for Another*
David Selznick had originally purchased DARK VICTORY with Greta Garbo in mind. Garbo didn't want to do it, so he sold it to Warners who used it for Bette. Around this time, Margaret Sullavan stepped in at MGM to do THE SHOPWORN ANGEL which would have starred the late Jean Harlow.
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*TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST (1946)*
From Agee on August 31, 1946:
The film would be fair enough as a piece of straight sea-melodrama. The performance of Howard da Silva as the Captain and the presentation of the claustrophobia that is developed aboard the ship, made in wartime entirely ashore, are better than fair.
What I object to is Paramount presenting this heavily hopped-up piture of what a merchant seaman was up against, a century ago, as if it were historical fact vouched for in Richard Henry Dana's book. Dana, if they would care to tell the truth about it, said that he would have hated to command a crew of that sort unless the law gave him flogging rights.
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*RUTH WARRICK*
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941) with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
OBLIGING YOUNG LADY (1942) with Joan Carroll & Edmond O'Brien
PETTICOAT LARCENY (1943) with Joan Carroll
THE IRON MAJOR (1943) with Pat O'Brien & Robert Ryan
GUEST IN THE HOUSE (1944) with Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy & Aline MacMahon
MR. WINKLE GOES TO WAR (1944) with Edward G. Robinson & Ted Donaldson
SECRET COMMAND (1944) with Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis & Chester Morris
CHINA SKY (1945) with Randolph Scott, Ellen Drew & Anthony Quinn
SONG OF THE SOUTH (1946) with Bobby Driscoll
PERILOUS HOLIDAY (1946) with Pat O'Brien
DRIFTWOOD (1947) with Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger & Charlotte Greenwood
DAISY KENYON (1947) with Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews & Henry Fonda
SWELL GUY (1947) with Sonny Tufts & Ann Blyth
MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM (1949) with Jerome Courtland & Ron Randell
THE GREAT DAN PATCH (1949) with Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell & Charlotte Greenwood
THREE HUSBANDS (1950) with Eve Arden & Billie Burke
BEAUTY ON PARADE (1950) with Robert Hutton & Lola Albright
LET'S DANCE (1950) with Betty Hutton, Fred Astaire & Roland Young
SECOND CHANCE (1950) with John Hubbard & Hugh Beaumont
ONE TOO MANY (1951) with Richard Travis
ROOGIE'S BUMP (1954) with the Brooklyn Dodgers
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You are tapping into a whole other area with made-for-TV remakes (and it probably requires a separate thread for discussion).
Speaking of Cloris Leachman, she costarred with Fred MacMurray, Kurt Russell & Harry Morgan in a Disney version of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE called CHARLEY AND THE ANGEL. It was not a remake per se, but you could say it is very much inspired by the earlier picture. Leachman played MacMurray's wife, and Morgan was the angel. It was produced in 1973.
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*Letters*
This love note is signed with a bullet. Jeanne Eagels and Bette Davis both take turns firing one off to their intended.
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*WILLIAM EYTHE*
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943) with Henry Fonda & Dana Andrews
THE EVE OF ST. MARK (1944) with Anne Baxter & Michael O'Shea
WING AND A PRAYER (1944) with Don Ameche, Dana Andrews & Charles Bickford
A ROYAL SCANDAL (1945) with Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter & Charles Coburn
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE (1945) with Jennifer Jones & Charles Bickford
WILSON (1945) with Alexander Knox & Geraldine Fitzgerald
THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (1945) with Lloyd Nolan & Signe Hasso
CENTENNIAL SUMMER (1946) with Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde & Linda Darnell
COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID (1946) with Charles Coburn & Joan Bennett
MEET ME AT DAWN (1947) with Stanley Holloway & Hazel Court
MR. RECKLESS (1948) with Barbara Britton
SPECIAL AGENT (1949) with George Reeves
CUSTOMS AGENT (1950) with Marjorie Reynolds
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I think I'LL GET BY is scheduled again later this month on FMC.
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*WITHOUT RESERVATIONS (1946)*
From Agee on June 8, 1946:
Claudette Colbert learns about life in the course of a transcontinental romp with a couple of men in uniform, John Wayne and Don DeFore. Messrs. Wayne and DeFore have kinds of hardness and conceit, in their relations with women, which are a good deal nearer the real thing than the movies usually get.
Miss Colbert does another one of those tipsiness acts of hers which do more toward reducing me to Pepsi-Cola than any number of Lost Weekends ever could.
The whole business is fairly smooth and spirited without attaining to any of the charm, or for that matter much of the corn, of IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. One thing I really enjoyed in it was the flooding of landscapes past the train windows, which were the most satisfying that I remember seeing in any American movie.
Late in the film Louella Parsons appears, in person, at her microphone, also in person, with all the bewildering force of a chenille sledgehammer.
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THE CORSICAN BROTHERS with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is currently scheduled for July 9th.
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There was no dedication to Ginger last year, and it was the centenary of her birth. They honored her as SOTM back in March 2010, so maybe they felt they did enough for her already...?
I am never unhappy when Stanwyck dominates the schedule. She's a crowd-pleaser in every sense of the word. Even in mediocre pictures, she is excellent.
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Thanks for the note. His birthday is in June, but it's always nice to see his Zanuck films on FMC. They air ELOPEMENT sometimes, too.
His career is rather interesting. Lundigan was initially signed by Universal in the late 30s, and after a series of B-films and occasional parts in A-pictures (such as a Deanna Durbin vehicle), he wound up at Warners/First National where he was once again headlining B-films. He eventually worked his way up to an occasional A-picture, then he went over to MGM where he was once again in B-films.
The war interrupted his motion picture career, but when he returned to Hollywood he was signed by RKO, this time doing leads in routine noir programmers. Zanuck signed him next, and he was an A-lister from this point on. After his contract with Fox came to a close in the mid-50s, he freelanced and his output slowed considerably.
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*Elliott Gould & Donald Sutherland*
After their earlier success with M*A*S*H, the two s*t*a*r*s find more asterisks and jokes four years later as S*P*Y*S.
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*CASBAH (1948)*
From Agee on June 19, 1948:
The old reliable garbage of Pepe Le Moko and Algiers turned into a likably unpretentious semi-musical. Disconcertingly straight work by Tony Martin and Yvonne de Carlo.
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*ANNE KIMBELL*
THE GOLDEN IDOL (1954) with Johnny Sheffield
MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR (1954) with Stuart Wade
GIRLS AT SEA (1962) with Guy Rolfe
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There are a lot of ways to link films together. It's fun to make the connections!
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It's possible she didn't notice, but how could she not notice?
It's interesting that when a housekeeper is called for in her comedies, they do not even get a black actress for that...they call up Thelma Ritter and give her the job!
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*Unlikely Duo: Randolph Scott & Cary Grant*
HOT SATURDAY is Cary's first movie as leading man, and the other leading man in the picture is Randolph Scott. They also costarred in MY FAVORITE WIFE eight years later.
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*WILLIAM LUNDIGAN*
THAT'S MY STORY (1937) with Claudia Morgan
THE LADY FIGHTS BACK (1937) with Kent Taylor & Irene Hervey
STATE POLICE (1938) with John King & Constance Moore
FRESHMAN YEAR (1938) with Constance Moore
THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN (1939) with Sigrid Gurie & Eve Arden
THEY ASKED FOR IT (1939) with Joy Hodges & Michael Whalen
THE CASE OF THE BLACK PARROT (1941) with Maris Wrixon
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1941) with Nan Wynn & Ricardo Cortez
SAILORS ON LEAVE (1941) with Shirley Ross
SUNDAY PUNCH (1942) with Jean Rogers & Dan Dailey
APACHE TRAIL (1942) with Lloyd Nolan & Donna Reed
HEADIN' FOR GOD'S COUNTRY (1943) with Virginia Dale
NORTHWEST RANGERS (1943) with James Craig & Patricia Dane
DISHONORED LADY (1947) with Hedy Lamarr & Dennis O'Keefe
MYSTERY IN MEXICO (1948) with Jacqueline White & Ricardo Cortez
THE INSIDE STORY (1948) with Marsha Hunt & Charles Winninger
STATE DEPARTMENT FILE 649 (1949) with Virginia Bruce
I'LL GET BY (1950) with June Haver & Gloria de Haven
MOTHER DIDN'T TELL ME (1950) with Dorothy McGuire
ELOPEMENT (1951) with Clifton Webb & Anne Francis
LOVE NEST (1951) with June Haver, Frank Fay & Marilyn Monroe
I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN (1951) with Susan Hayward & Rory Calhoun
DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS (1953) with Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne & Gloria de Haven
INFERNO (1953) with Robert Ryan & Rhonda Fleming
SERPENT OF THE NILE (1953) with Rhonda Fleming & Raymond Burr
THE WHITE ORCHID (1954) with Peggie Castle
TERROR SHIP (1954) with Naomi Chance
RIDERS TO THE STARS (1954) with Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson & Martha Hyer
THE UNDERWATER CITY (1962) with Julie Adams
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*TENDER COMRADE (1944)*
From Agee on May 6, 1944:
TENDER COMRADE is one in the eye for widows, with plenty for mere war wives too, and nothing I can imagine for anyone else except the hardiest of misogynists, for whom it should prove the biggest treat and the most satisfying textbook in years.
TENDER COMRADE gets along without dry ice and well-fed ghosts; its comfortable realism suggests an infinitely degraded and slickened LITTLE WOMEN.
The highest-salaried tender comrade is Ginger Rogers, hilt-deep in her specialty as a sort of female Henry Fonda. She is a girl named Jo. In flashbacks, we are given her courtship, marriage, tiffs, etc., with her tender comrade who is now away at war.
Jo is waiting out the war in a rented house with four other female comrades, of whom three are working in an aircraft plant. The fourth shows how any decent refugee can meet the servant shortage by refusing any pay for house-keeping; the others prove their Americanism by splitting their wages with her.
Miss Rogers consistently addresses these companions as kids, and her baby as little guy or Chris boy. At the climax, getting news of her husband's death, she subjects this defenseless baby to a speech which lasts twenty-four hours and five minutes by my watch. It is one of the most nauseating things I have ever sat through.
It is terribly pitiful, to choose the mildest word, to think how much of America the picture as a whole is likely to move, console, corroborate, and give eloquence to. When you see such a film as this you have seen the end.
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That's right...he does sort of repeat the deep sea diving bit in RED WITCH. I love both those films and consider them among his best!
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*Violence on Screen*
How much trouble could The Three Stooges cause as wedding singers in TURN BACK THE CLOCK...? Their kind, gentle nature is also on display in ROCKIN' IN THE ROCKIES.