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7 minutes ago, NoShear said:
You'd expect a show about a fictional pop group to yield a memorable theme song:
You might already know this NS, but the two surviving members of this group have anounced their Farewell Tour dates for later in this year...
THE MONKEES ANNOUNCE FAREWELL TOUR DATES | monkees.com
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Another composer of note for some of the most memorable TV series theme songs from the distant past (speaking of "Old School" here NoShear...and, thanks for holding down the fort here in my absence
) would be Nelson Riddle (1921-1985).
Among his best I always thought were the following two...
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1 minute ago, NoShear said:
I was wondering when you were going to poke your Buntline into this thread, Dargo!
Loved the reference to my avatar here, NoShear.
(...good work)
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1 hour ago, NoShear said:
I'm transmitting this one down to Mike Nelson:
Ah yes! And in the background behind Lloyd here, the cliffs of beautiful Palos Verdes, California.
(...I remember them well, and along with the now long gone Marineland of the Pacific which sat on those cliffs nearby, and which sponsored this TV series)
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Five pages in this thread already and evidently I'M the only one here who remembers the works of the great jazz composer, arranger and record producer Pete Rugolo (1915-2011).
For the uninitiated here, Mr. Rulogo wrote the TV theme songs for MANY television programs back in the 1950s-'70s and such as for Leave It to Beaver, Thriller, Checkmate and many more, and with MY personal favorite of his being the following...
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Fredric March in just one of the many great scenes in The Best Years of Our Lives, and in which in this case he's acting in a fatherly protective manner towards his daughter...
(...although on the flip-side of this, I suppose it could ALSO be said of his character in this film that his son would go missing half way through it, and yet he never seemed to care about THAT at all!)
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1 hour ago, txfilmfan said:
Ron Howard and Henry Fonda were in The Smith Family, largely forgotten today. It came between Howard's stints on TAGS and Happy Days.
It ran for 1.5 seasons on ABC and came from the same team that did Family Affair and My Three Sons. It also used similar production techniques as in the other two shows to minimize the amount of time Fonda would have to spend in the studio.
7 minutes ago, Sepiatone said:Hey! I DO remember that show. Kind of contrived and not well written(most of the time). And I noticed when A&E, when they had that show BIOGRAPHY, and did Ron Howard's biography, somehow managed to leave mention of that show out of the bio. Not sure if it was A&E's oversight, or if it was at the behest of Ron Howard.
Sepiatone
All I remember of the show was that I thought Darleen Carr who played Fonda's daughter in it was cute as hell.
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31 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
No mention of that, and I only caught the first 15 minutes, where her appearance is limited to comforting Ladd in the hospital. I did see it once before, though I guess I didn't find her acting egregious enough to stick in my long-term memory!
Oh, it got worse as the story unfolded, sewhite. Trust me.
Her reactions at the end of this flick and when rich and spoiled Michael Callan's "hoodlum" character confronted her while she was alone at home were "priceless".
(...and listless, to say the least)
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30 minutes ago, sewhite2000 said:
I noticed in his intro to 13 West Street, Ben says Alan Ladd runs out of gas "on a street. West Street", and then 15 minutes into the movie we learn West Street is actually the street he lives on when one of the teenage assailants reads his driver's license.
After watching this one last night, I thought there was something else Ben might've mentioned about it, but didn't.
(...and that being that Dolores Dorn who played Ladd's wife in it, gave about the worst acting performance you're ever likely to see)
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AND, seein' as how we're on the subject of Eddie never mentioning this "rabble" around HERE...
I'm sure I've made MY feelings known about this whole thing. Nope, I can't agree with those who sound as if we already have a nice little group of knowledgable cinephiles and so don't need any "new blood".
Nope, I say BRING ON the "new blood", as we core members around have ALWAYS found a way to weed out the "less-desirable element" who have occasionally shown up on these boards. Well, EXCEPT for maybe in MY case, anyway! LOL
(...and so in OTHER words, HEY EDDIE, how about mentioning THIS place TOO, you ol' Czar of Noir, you?!)
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11 hours ago, misswonderly3 said:
Good point, TikiSoo, but I venture to guess that trolling and illiteracy is not limited to this TCM discussion site. In fact, I would not be at all surprised if Twitter and Facebook were at least equally blanketed with such undesirable behaviours. Can't say for sure, though, since I never visit Twitter or Facebook. Maybe they are havens of intellectual sophistication and decency.
LOL
Well MissW, even though I'm in the same boat as you are here by never venturing into the whole "Twitter-sphere" thing, but I DO know that for about four years there was ONE regular contributor to that social media site which in NO manner of speaking could have EVER been described as EITHER an "intellectual sophisticate" OR of practicing "decency"!!!
(...but enough about...well...YOU know!!!)
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Not to belabor a point earlier made by others here about James Garner and after Shank Asu earlier said the following...
On 6/15/2021 at 10:07 AM, Shank Asu said:Watched a few James Garner films the past year and surprised he wasn't more popular.
...but it reminded me of an episode of 'Jeopardy!' that I watched a few months back, and during which none of the twenty/thirty-something in age contestants even offered up a guess as to whom the actor in question was and even AFTER a face shot of James Garner was shown to them while the question about the TV series 'The Rockford Files' was asked. Katie Couric was the guest host as I recall, and she seemed genuinely shocked that none of the young nerds knew the answer.
(...see?!...it's like I always say..."The classics are LOST on these damn kids now days!")
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2 hours ago, Moe Howard said:
SO where do we put the helo pad?
Oh, I dunno. Perhaps on top of Bell Rock, and which is right next to the aforementioned Courthouse Butte here?...
(...although, word is some of the locals around here believe the top of Bell Rock has already been pre-reserved for when the alien mother ship will finally land to pick up its intergalactic travelers)
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Here's one, Sans...
(...btw, Courthouse Butte which these two characters are standing in front of here is pretty much in my backyard)
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On 6/15/2021 at 8:42 PM, SweetSue said:
Hey everyone!
So to make a long story short I am starting to write a speech about silent film and its significance to the overall history of film to present day cinema for one of my classes and need to gather recent (oldest being 2 years) expert sources to cite. I'm on the lookout for some, but please if you know of any feel free to link them, it would be a great help!
Besides that, please feel free to discuss any thoughts about the silent era and its significance today that you may have!
I look forward to your responses!
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Here's another good reference source for ya here, Sue. If, that is, you've never run across it before.
It's Rich's (long time TCM board member 'scsu1975') "Now Playing 100 Years Ago" thread that he's had running for over 2 years now in the "Films and Filmmakers" forum section of this website:
NOW PLAYING (100 YEARS AGO) - Films and Filmmakers - TCM Message Boards
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This thread ALSO reminds me of what JUST the transaxle off James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder that he died in went for recently on the 'Bring a Trailer' online classic and collectable car auction site...
A cool $382,000.
And whereas in 1955, Dean paid around $6,800 for the entire car.
(...yes, a lot of money for any car back then, but still, put $6,800 in 1955 dollars in an inflation calculator, and it would "only" be about $68,000 in 2021 dollars)
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This thread reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quote:
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
(...NOT that I'm calling anyone here a cynic, mind you)
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1 hour ago, Hibi said:
It makes sense to me to pronounce Angeles like Angel with the soft G. Hearing it pronounce with a hard G in ANGLEles just sounds weird. Was wondering if it was the time period or what.
Yeah, I think it was especially up to and during the time period this movie was filmed in (the 1940s) and up until about 1960 or so, many people, especially it seemed to me those in and from the Midwest and such as my parent's family members who were from Indianapolis, would pronouce it with that hard-G as you said here, Hibi.
We had relatives who would visited us from Indiana almost every summer when I was a kid in the '50s and '60s and wanting us to take them to Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, Marineland of the Pacific (which no longer exists) and Hollywood, and many of them pronounced "Los Angeles" with that hard-G.
(...and with most of 'em I'm sure long gone now)
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16 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:
Many Brits pronounce Houston as Who-stun, rather than the American way: Hew-stun
To be fair, we mispronounce their place names with more regularity than they do ours...
Well then, I'd say it's a good thing that Dean Martin wasn't a Brit then, eh Tex?!
(...or else one of his big hits of the 1960s probably wouldn't have even made it into the Top 40, and 'cause no one would've known what city he was singin' about, huh!)
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34 minutes ago, Hibi said:
I've noticed Los Angeles pronounced this way sometimes in old films. Can it be pronounced both ways? (Tomato; Tomahto?)
Well, I suppose people can pronounce it anyway they want Hibi, but you'll never hear it being pronounced in that "old fashioned" manner much anymore at all.
(...I've heard, but don't know if it's really true, that the way Jack Webb pronounced it during his opening narration of his original Dragnet series, "This is the city...'Los AN-gel-us', California", went a long way toward "codifying" its pronunciation throughout the country)
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7 minutes ago, Moe Howard said:
Like Jed Clampett ? Wilshire Blvd. = wellSHY-ER.
Yep! Just like THAT, Moe!
Btw, of course one can hear the "Los ANGLE-les" pronunciation being said in many an old movie, and seems the present "accepted" pronunciation of the city's name has only really come about within the last 50 years or so.
(...although, I'll be even happier when someone can get young Brit James Corden to quit pronouncing it on his Late Late Show as "Los Angel-LEES", too!)
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6 minutes ago, Shank Asu said:
It IS possible to shake the good girl Disney image- best example is Lindsey Lohan and then probably Miley and Demi.
Yeah, but remember here that these three being able to shake that image has come about decades after Haley was saddled with it.
Back in the day it seemed once an image was set into the minds of the public, it was there for good, and with a prime example of this being someone such as Sandra Dee.
(...btw, you also might remember that for a time there was a trend for actresses who were stuck with that image would pose nude in Playboy magazine in a effort to break from it)
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Okay. I just now finished watching my recording of Walk a Crooked Mile, and first let me say that it reasonably held my interest for the entirety of it.
Secondly, I thought all the acting in it, and yes even Dennis O'Keefe's, was pretty good.
But thirdly AND perhaps most importantly...GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST!!! Did I hear Perry White, okay, actually actor John Hamilton who played the editor of The Daily Planet newspaper in the '50s TV program 'The Adventures of Superman' and who played the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco in this movie, pronounce the name of Los Angeles as "Los ANGLE-les" in this flick???!!! HELL, He's playin' the head of the FBI field office in San Francisco for cryin' out loud, NOT some damn HICK!!!
(...have I mentioned this sort'a thing has always grated on my ears???...oh, I HAVE?...never mind then)
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3 hours ago, noah80 said:
At least now we know her book won't go beyond 1967. I would have liked to get her opinion why her film career did not go so well in the late 1960's and the 1970's. (Roy Boulting probably partly to blame)
"Her memoir will tell her story up to age 21, "because that’s when my life became my own — it’s the bit that went before that I want to take back", she said. The story will be "told with characteristic warmth and filled with many fond memories" but will also explore mismanagement, bankruptcy, strained family relationships and dislocation."
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hayley-mills-unique-memoir-golden-age-hollywood-goes-wn-1227087
And here I always thought her career petered out by the mid-'70s was because of her squeaky-clean image and during a time a counter-culture zeitgeist had replaced much of it in both film and in real life. In other words, her inability to shake such an image.
(...remember, this was during a time in which Disney movies and anything associated as "clean cut" became very "un-hip")
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) would be Nelson Riddle (1921-1985).
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Yeah, I do remember seeing the high diving stunts at Marineland, and along with seeing Corky the Killer Whale and other attractions back in the '60s.
(...as you might know, Corky was moved down to SeaWorld in San Diego when Marineland was closed in the 1980s and to where this high dive Wide World of Sports episode was filmed)