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Hobart Cavanaugh (and I stand by my earlier Six Hits and a Miss entry)

Benny was in LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1940) with Fred Allen

ADVENTURE IN IRAQ (1943)

THE DAM ON THE YELLOW RIVER (1960)

Since there are few HD CRTs to compare to the flat screens I doubt we'll ever know if they could do so. We can be sure that your TV would weigh about 800 lbs though. Update-I did see a two year old article predicting a CRT comeback. They thought the sets would be limited to 38" and smaller due to the weight issue. I'm not holding my breath. Edited by: ginnyfan on May 21, 2012 4:16 PM

Could Tyrone Power's death be an example of the light goes out before one last flicker? Many who saw his work on Solomon and Sheba thought his work was exemplary and that the film would have been more successful had he completed it.

Rydell charted several times in 1961, had three top 20s in 1962 and nothing major in 1963. He hit number 4 again in 1964 with Forget Him, which I've also forgotten, and then never charted in the top 40 again.

John Hodiak-On The Threshold of Space ...and I didn't realize this was the anniversary of Garfield's death.

My android still hates this website and loves to multi-post here! Edited by: ginnyfan on May 21, 2012 10:06 AM

Volare went to number four in 1960. Just had a thought that may relate more to the Rock Around The Clock thread but certainly fits here. Why was the music played on the radio better during payola than directly after it? That seems exactly backwards to me.

Sure, there was a lot happening but most of the music Exapno lists wasn't getting heard yet and wouldn't be for another year. The stuff people actually bought that year wasn't very memorable. In fact, there were more memorable songs on the charts in the second ten than in the top ten. The Beatles actually charted in the UK in 1962, but no one knew them here until fall of 1963. The description of transitional is the most accurate, but transitional music wouldn't work in the concept of AG. So the filmmakers chose to use music of the whole Rock n Roll period up to then. When I think of 1962, I think of wimpy acts like Bobby Rydell and Bobby Vinton although a quick check of Rydell shows that his "star" had already faded by 1962 as far as the charts go. (I'm probably a little too hard on Rydell. I never forgave him for the trip I made to the store at age six to buy Peter and Gordon's World Without Love only to find the Rydell cover version there instead.)

I think the key is that the story is about the bored husband's reaction to the girl, it isn't about the girl. If they had used some other actress in the role, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. I'm one who thinks that Marilyn's comedic character should usually be a supporting one. A little of the naive blonde goes a long way with me. I prefer her darker roles, like the previously mentioned Niagara and Don't Bother to Knock.

Sean Cullen in MARTIN AND LEWIS (2002} TVM NEXT- Groucho Marx

What if AG had stuck to 1962 music? Here's the Billboard top 10 (please note that some of these are the parents' music because kids didn't drive records sales yet): Acker Bilk- Stranger on the Shore Ray Charles I Can't Stop Loving You Dee Dee Sharp-Mashed Potato Time Bobby Vinton-Roses Are Red David Rose-The Stripper Shelley Fabares-Johnny Angel Little Eva-The Locomotion Sensations-Let Me In Chubby Checker-The Twist Shirelles-Soldier Boy The second ten included Duke of Earl, The Wanderer, and Palisades Park. I've always assumed that list is part of the reason they all listen to the Wolfman. He wasn't playing that, ahm, stuff. Since we speculated, here's the list for 1973: T.O. and Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon Jim Croce-Bad Bad Leroy Brown Roberta Flack- Killing Me Softly Marvin Gaye-Lets Get It On McCartney and Wings-My Love Kris Kristofferson-Why Me Elton John-Crocodile Rock Billy Preston-Will It Go Round In Circles Carly Simon-You're So Vain Diana Ross-Touch Me In The Morning The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia was 11. I don't think anymore need be said. There was no real ROCK in the top 15. I personally was listening to Croce, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Arlo Guthrie, and my Woodstock era records.

This is an interesting topic. I wish I had more to add, but I'm one of those "I can't explain it, but I know it when I see it" viewers. As far as being able to play a wide range of believable characters, I think James Stewart is a fine example of someone who was almost typecast until he broke past the studio system and was able to display his range in middle age. In SansFin's example, I suspect that Ally Sheedy didn't become the star she probably could have been because she'd rather play a wider range of characters in smaller, interesting films.

My wife is in her mid fifties and, with a few exceptions, discounts any films made prior to THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I sometimes wonder how we wound up together.

But the ability to "cloud men's minds" belongs to the radio version of The Shadow, not Superman. It's really unfair for him to be that super! I think the Lois and Clark series actually did and episode where a guy showed up from the future and mocked Lois for having never been able to see through the Clark "disguise". Of course, the writers made sure she had forgotten the incident by the end of the episode.

JUNGLE JIM IN PYGMY ISLAND (1950)

To borrow from the underrated beauties thread, The Runt in drag is no Bugs Bunny! BTW, who would win an IQ contest between Sgt. Matthews and The Runt?

Sure, a lot of historians say that the '60s began with the Kennedy assassination and I guess the same could be said of the end of our involvement in Vietnam and the start of the '70s, although that's a tougher call. I hadn't really thought of the same being true of decades outside of my own lifetime, but it only makes sense. So, when did the '50s begin?

Six Hits and a Miss (hey IMDB lists them as an actor, I checked)

Turnbull, Juanita-Anne Rooney in FOLLOW THE BAND (1943)

HENRY ALDRICH GETS GLAMOUR (1943)

Dumont, Margaret (I'm starting to hate the way this browser works with TCM) Edited by: ginnyfan on May 19, 2012 8:12 PM

Dumont, Margaret