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It's right up there above this post of yours here, Sepia.

I'll give ya the Reader's Digest version here then... John Wayne: "Ya know, they're gonna HATE you throughout this country for what you're about to do in this scene, don't ya?!" Bruce Dern: "Yeah, but they're gonna LOVE me in Berkeley!" (...told ya it was funny, now didn't I?!)

Yeah, ya THINK?!!! (...and which somehow reminded me of what Bruce Dern told John Wayne just before they filmed Wayne's death scene in The Cowboys...you know THAT one don't ya, Cid?!...that story STILL cracks me up every time I think of it)

Funny, but I don't remember Asner's character Bart Jason, a wealthy land baron, bein' any sort'a "socialist" there, cowboy! (...land barons usually don't lean that way, ya know)

And... Joyce Bulifant 83* (...well, with 11 appearances on the show, and that being only 2 less than John Amos, I think she deserves a mention here TOO, Jim)

LOL Yep, pretty much.

Yes, yes, they're still saying the word "actress" here. In fact, just the other day I distinctly heard Ben say the word. (...although of course the way HE said it and as he ALWAYS says it, it sounded more like "AAACK-tress")

Through my connections with TCM (or whatever the name of the channel is going to be starting in a couple of days), I've got a copy of what the hosts are gonna say in their intros for each one of these flicks. And so without further ado... They Died with Their Boots On (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1941) ..."The portrayal of George Armstrong Custer in this movie doesn't really show how the guy was an out and out egomaniac. Courageous to be sure, but not the best battle tactician the West Point Academy would ever produce." Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1948) ... "The small role that Jay Silverheels plays in this one was originally offered to Mickey Rooney, but Rooney felt his talents might better be utilized to play a Japanese-American man later in his career and in the event one might be offered to him. And so having refused the role, Silverheels would get the part of a Native-American man by default. The Barkleys of Broadway (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (MGM, 1949) ..."This film presents the last paring of Astaire and the woman who so effortlessly and gracefully was able to dance backwards and in high heels to every move Astaire ever initiated, and something HE could have never done even if his life depended upon it." Mogambo (Clark Gable, Ava Gardner) (MGM, 1953)..."Ava Gardner is sure hot as hell in this movie you're about to watch, and a hell of a lot sexier than white bread Grace Kelly is." (okay, so this one is really what I'd like Ben Mankiewicz to say...in that nasally voice of his) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (Columbia, 1967)..."We're not about to mention the out and out racist mindset that the actor who plays Sidney Poitier's father in the film you're about to watch to shown expressing. And because, well because, THAT wouldn't be very 'woke' of us, now would it?!"

Uh-huh sewhite, and thus yet ANOTHER reason why I personally start so few threads around here. (...I don't want 'em to come back and haunt me like this)

LOL Well, ONLY if Jimmy, ahem, I mean if GEORGE had never been born, of course. Btw and as you might know Allhallows, while Beulah was usually cast as the more doting motherly type, she was REALLY good at playing what you just called her here in 1941's The Shepherd of the Hills...

Beat THIS one! Beulah Bondi...and all in one movie and even as the very same character! And in of course, this one particular perennial Christmas flick here...

I also watched that episode of Blue Bloods, lavender, and when it was first run (I try never to miss a first run episode of that program) and yeah, I also thought Ed Asner's portrayal of Frank Reagan's first ever boss as the old movie theater owner was terrific. Asner was the true pro right to the very end, alright. R.I.P. (...btw, do you remember the movie trivia question that Asner asks Selleck in that episode?...and did you know the answer?...I did)

Yep! I remember being JUST as ticked-off at the cancellation of the Lou Grant series (which was as one of the highest quality programs one could watch on network television at that time) as I had been about ten years earlier and after CBS cancelled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and pretty much for the same damn stupid reason. (...yep TB, I agree...TOTALLY!!!)

Ya know Bronxie, I'm not sure that I've ever watched the movie "Fluffy" before. However, I DO remember once watching a movie titled "Fluffer" sometime back in the mid-1970s. Uh-huh, right there in the old Pussycat Theater along Santa Monica Blvd. (...don't recall there bein' any sort'a felines in this movie though, nor Tony Randall bein' in it either)

Ya know Rich, in that big box of old family photos I have, I think I just might have an old snapshot that my parents took of me in the whole Zorro garb and at just about this same age as you here. Lookin' good there, buddy! (...err, I guess I should say "mi amigo" here, huh)

OH, and btw here, Dave... ...I ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY agree with you about this whole thing probably bein' (and as The Bard once titled one of his plays) Much Ado About Nothing!!!

Lemme guess here, Dave. Honey, I Shunk the Kids is your absolute, numero uno, top o' the list favorite flick of all time, RIGHT?! (...oh, just a wild guess here, that's all)

Uh-huh, and neither is THIS long-standing TCM forum contributor HERE, yancey ol' boy. However IF I was, I doubt I'd "apologize" for anything I would have said the day before in those social media sites. As my philosophy in these regards had been and will CONTINUE be that ol' saw: "Screw 'em if they can't take a joke!" (...yeah yeah, I know...isn't that just so "un-PC" now days?!) LOL

Uh-huh, and especially not the regulars around HERE! (...btw...loved your very first posting up there, HK...some very good points made in it, newbie...welcome to the boards)

LOL Wow! Sounds as if you got to the point in this relationship to where you started wishing HE was never born, eh LS?!

As far as I know, NBCUniversal owns the broadcast rights to it 365 days of the year, TB. And, only allows the USA cable network (which NBCUniversal also owns) to also show it. (...with, once again, all those damn commercials)

Okay, HERE'S what I'd tell 'em and BEFORE they'd even ask the question: "What date in December is TCM going the show It's a Wonderful Life?", I'd tell 'em TCM isn't ever going to show It's a Wonderful Life and because the NBC Television Network has owned the sole rights to show that flick on TV(and interrupted every ten freakin' minutes or so with some freakin' commercial) for about thirty years now. Ya see, THIS way I'd be PROACTIVE here! And because YOU KNOW we're gonna get THAT damn question asked on these boards AT LEAST five or six times by various newbies to this channel and starting just about when Thanksgiving rolls around again this year! (...yep, that's what I'D tell a newbie to this channel, alright!) LOL

Yep, I think my first exposure to the Robin Hood saga was probably watching this '50s British television series starring Richard Greene back as a kid too, Sepia. ♪♪Robin Hood, Robin Hood Riding through the glen Robin Hood, Robin Hood With his band of men Feared by the bad Loved by the good Robin Hood, Robin Hood Robin Hood ♪♪ Ah yes. I remember it well. (...and btw...so it seems we can now add this Zorro outfit to the list of toys that I had back in the day and that you didn't, eh?!) LOL

Yeah, it's even kind'a like the ones Don Ameche and George Brent had, isn't it slayton.

Yes, but Beth, do you remember THIS Disney live action Zorro TV series from the late-'50? Well I do, and in fact back then, I even had this nifty little official Disney Zorro package here... (...and yes, I made a very dashing little six year old whenever I donned this little number TOO!)