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According to Wikipedia, the Hilton twins did not die on the same day. January 4, 1969 is the day their bodies were discovered in their home in Charlotte, where they worked as grocery clerks, both having succumbed to the Hong Kong flu. According to an autopsy, Daisy died first, followed by Violet two to four days later. My God, think of what that second poor sister must have gone through at the end, slowly dying alone, attached to her dead sister.
They had such miserable lives of abuse and exploitation right from childhood, their deaths only continuing the pattern of their sad lives.
Boy that would make for one creepy scene in a film!
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I think perhaps Christopher Lee's Dracula was a bit more on the megalomaniacal side than the Bela Lugosi version. What do you think?
Lee's Dracula seems more consumed with his own persona and more dangerously segregated from society than the world-weary sophistico Count played by Bela.
Of course they are both psychotic.
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SKIPPY --- another movie about Jackie Cooper and a dog -- is scheduled to air on TCM on July 25.
Yes. Very rare too. I won't tell you how much I paid for a rotten bootleg copy of that one.
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I thought CBS' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman was very good when I saw it in 1974 and that Cicely Tyson was marvellous.
i wouldn't mind seeing this again one day to see how it stands up.
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Same here with regards to Deadline at Dawn. I didn't notice that this was a noir that TCM was showing in the series that I hadn't seen. But unlike what I did with Women on the Run, I'm not going to read about the film in my noir book Film Noir (Silver \ Ward). I did look up who directed the film and who was cast but stopped after that (which was very hard to do!).
PS: Love your avatar photo. But at the same time it is kind of creepy.
Thanks. Doc says the bandages stay on for a few weeks then it will be a new me.
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Friday, June 12
7:30 a.m. Another screening of Preminger’s Laura (1944) There has been much discussion lately about its alternate ending.
5 p.m. This is the one for me. Deadline at Dawn (1946) with Susan Hayward. I’ve never seen it.
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"We put all the rotten eggs in one basket"
- Hannes Messmer as Oberst Von Luger in The Great Escape
Hannes turned 91 May 17th - NOT
*****Edit****** A fellow member kindly pointed out to me in PM that Messemer passed away some time ago. He didn't wish to publicly embarrass me for this faux pas. I guess the imdb doesn't know everything!
So dear old Hannes won't be celebrating any more birthdays, I'm afraid. I enjoyed his performance in General Della Rovere too by the way.
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Mad Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. Love triangle in Hong Kong with Jennifer Jones, William Holden and Peter Lorre.
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Come Back Little David and Bathsheba.
Shirley Booth stars in this biblical epic. While out looking for her little lost dog, Bathsheba encounters the King and a torrid illicit affair ensues.
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If I could see this cast AGAIN at Second City in Toronto I'd be there in a heartbeat....
John Candy
Joe Flaherty
Gilda Radner
Dan Ackroyd
Harold Ramis
Eugene Levy
Catherine O'Hara
Dave Thomas
Martin Short
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Nicely cut little tribute but that music is just dreadful!
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Tough Guy (1936) with Jackie Cooper and Joseph Calleia. It had been on TCM a while ago and I recorded it.
Well it was kind of silly fun made worthwhile by the performances of both Calleia, in familiar gangster role and the young Cooper - who gets to cry about his dog.
One has to suspend all belief in the plot. At the start Calleia is intent on rubbing out young runaway Cooper because he is a witness to a crime he has just committed. But then a common love bond develops for Cooper's dog, who happens to be Rin Tin Tin, Jr. and Calleia does a miraculous if somewhat unbelievable 180. He soon becomes a big brother to Cooper and even does battle with the other baddies to protect him.
The good thing about most of these cliche ridden oldies is that they go by quickly.
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I've seen this one three times but wouldn't mind copying it if it ever comes up without commercials.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) with Jack Palance and Denholm Elliott. Directed by Charles Jarrott.
At that time I thought Palance made the best Jekyll and Hyde that I had seen. My cousin and I sometimes were inspired to imitate his transformation in this film. We loved everything about horror movies.
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About 1980 or so at a dubbing theatre in Toronto Valerie Perrine showed up for some work. Hot I tell you.
Well the guys were talking about her in the coffee room and some dude said, "Valerie Perrine, boy would I like to (blank) her!"
And of course, you guessed it. He turned around and there she was standing right behind him. What a riot. She just smiled gracefully and helped herself to a coffee.
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And now your use of the children's program host here Bogie has reminded me of the time years ago(around '78, I think) I checked-in Shari Lewis for a flight out of LAX.
As I handed her her boarding pass I told her of the big crush I had on her as a little kid while watching her Saturday morning TV program, and even admitted to her that my crush was SO big that I once remember walking up to our family's old Philco TV set one early Saturday morning while my parents were still in bed and planting a kiss on the TV screen while she was on it.
Shari laughed at that and thanked me for telling her this story, saying she found it very sweet.
(...nice lady, and just as I had hoped she would be all those early Saturday mornings years earlier)
Oooo ... Shari sock puppet dreams.
Excuse me. Where was I?
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I remember hearing the news that day too.
I have quite a number of good Wayne roles to add to your impressive list, Rey
The Long Voyage Home (1940) even with that jumpin' jimminy accent
Three Godfathers (1948)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Oscar nomination for the Duke
Rio Grande (1950)
Hondo (1963)
I think the Duke was at his best when there was a tragic element in the character such as in The Quiet Man and They Were Expendable.
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Triple Bill ...
In Cold Blood (1967) with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson
followed by
Capote (2005) with Philip Seymour Hoffman
followed by
Infamous (2006) with Toby Jones
Who is the best Capote? Hoffman or Jones?
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Recently in the Basil Rathbone thread there was some great contributions from Tom and Nakano about Basil's fencing skills. Rathbone took particular pride in being able to out fence people even in his advanced years.
There is a very good interview with Lee in the Three/Four Musketeers dvd set where he proudly says very much the same thing. That he was required to fence with actors just about half his age in that film. You may recall that the final duel in Four Musketeers goes on and on and on requiring great stamina I'm sure.
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"No Prisoners!"
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"Nothing Is Written"
- Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia
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Here is the RECENTLY RESTORED ending to HORROR OF DRACULA, which contains footage thought to be lost that was included in the Japanese release of the film- The Count's death scene is now longer and more graphic (something like 20 seconds not seen in the American version.)
I saw this restoration no the big screen in London a while ago. If you play Lorna's clip you may notice some interesting things going on with the soundtrack. No sound of footsteps when Dracula ascends the stairs or runs across the hall. When Helsing enters it is clomp, clomp, clomp as one would expect.
And Christopher Lee's grotesque death sounds really help sell the somewhat cheesy shots of the body disintegrating.
A really wonderful restoration.
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Here, lafitte, from the imdb site about the gaffe with the little boy at Mt Rushmore. maybe the one you're thinking of..
From imdb.com: During the scene in the diner at Mount Rushmore, a young extra boy in the background anticipates the surprise gun shot, fired by Eve. The diners are supposed to be unaware this is going to happen but the young extra boy covers his ears way before she draws the gun. The young extra boy must have known there would be a loud bang from the blank-filled pistol from previous takes and therefore covered his ears on the "printed" take.
Not many people are aware that the young boy was played by the Amazing Kreskin.
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Did the term Palooka come from the character Joe Palooka or was that character derived from the term?
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Interesting story, bogie.
My father was a printer, and occasionally he did some printing at home for the printing company he worked for. One day he told me he had these cards he was printing, and he asked me "who is Robert Wise?" I said "he's a director. He did West Side Story and The Sound of Music." Well, it turns out my Dad was printing a ton of invitation cards from the AFI for potential members. Each card had a "personal" invitation from some Hollywood bigshot. Besides Wise, another was from Heston, and there were two more, but I can't recall who those people were. Ironically, a few weeks later, I got one of those cards, from Heston, asking me to join AFI. Hey, who was I to turn down Moses? Of course I joined.
I also have a "To ..., from Robert Wise" autographed photo that a friend of mine bought from Robert Wise at some convention for me. Terrible shot of the guy sitting in a chair in a photo studio. Dumpy looking with a Captain Kangaroo haircut and a plaid shirt. He really looked nerdy.
What Two Major Hollywood Co-Stars Died One Day Apart?
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A big three day apart event was:
Elvis August 16, 1977
and
Groucho August 19, 1977
Though I don't think they were film co-stars. Just trying to broaden the scope of this thread a little.