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On Wednesday May 27 TCM is airing THE STAR (1952) with Bette Davis as Margaret Elliot, an aging movie star --- a role that really hit close to home for Bette Davis at this time. The movie also features Natalie Wood as Davis's teenage daughter. One of my favorite parts is when Bette Davis gets drunk and takes her Oscar for a drive around Beverly Hills and gets thrown in jail. Oh, and also the part when she plays her screen test for the role of the older sister as a flirtatious ingenue and then cringes when she sees the footage.

I wonder if anyone is more into Mrs. Howell?

You are so right about Marlene Dietrich in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. She was robbed. She was also brilliant in TOUCH OF EVIL . . . and in BLONDE VENUS . . . and in DER BLAUE ENGEL. I guess we can just say that Dietrich was brilliant period.

CALIGULA was on my list, but now due to some comments in another thread in this forum I'm re-thinking it.

I agree that if the book were written today that part would be very different.

I'm not sure if my nephew has read the Sherlock Holmes stories but I know he really likes the movies with Basil Rathbone.

A TASTE OF HONEY is a favorite movie of mine and again one that was introduced to me by TCM. Dora Bryan was really good in the role of the bad mother and Rita Tushingham as Jo blew me away. I really like Tony Richardson's films.

I love Lisa Kudrow. I'm more of a Lisa Kudrow fan than a FRIENDS fan. I was happy that there was a second season of THE COMEBACK nine years after the show was cancelled at the end of its first season.

During a screening of CABARET at which Christopher Isherwood was in attendance, Isherwood supposedly said out loud during the scene where Liza Minnelli and Michael York (who played the character based on Isherwood) have intimate relations, "I never slept with a woman in my life!"

Now I'm second guessing whether I should watch CALIGULA. I'll see if it's still on Netflix streaming.

Thanks for posting this, HelenBaby2.

The squelching of Orson Welles's creative output was one of the greatest injustices of the studio system. But even with often very limited resources Welles was able to produce some the greatest cinematic works ever to be made by an American filmmaker.

Thanks, fxreyman. I'm keeping the faith.

I'm not a huge Glenn Ford fan (not even a small one), but I thought he was good in DEAR HEART. Of course, Geraldine Page is the reason to watch the movie.

Thanks, Dargo.

Yes, American movies from the 1970s (especially before the blockbuster mindset took hold): you have to love them . . . or at least I do.

There's no TCM article on THE WEDDING MARCH so I suspect the movie has never aired on TCM.

Do you mean Tor-ment?

I did not watch TALES OF HOFFMANN when it aired on TCM nor have I ever seen the movie but to tie this comment to the Ginger/Mary Ann GILLIGAN"S ISLAND comments also on this thread the Barcarolle "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" from Offenbach's opera served as the melody for the song that Ginger Grant (Tina Louise) sang as Ophelia in the castaways' production of Hamlet: The Musical in the GILLIGAN'S ISLAND episode "The Producer." And, yes, I've been known to sing this song on occasion to the amusement of many (and possibly the annoyance of a few haters). Typing the lyrics from memory: Hamlet dear, your problem is clear: Avenging thy father's death. You seek to harm your uncle and mom, But you're scaring me to death. While I die and sigh and cry That love is everything. You're content to try to catch The conscious of the king. Since the date when your dad met his fate, You-ho-ho just brood And you don't touch your food. You hate yor ma, mad at my pa. You'll kill the king or some silly thing. So, Hamlet, Hamlet, do be a lamb. Let rotten enough alone. From Ophelia no one can steal ya. You'll always be my own. Leave the gravediggers' scene If you know what I mean. Danish pastry for two For me, for you.

Yeah, you may be right, Joan Collins was able to have that "swinging" story about her removed from the book just in case anyone did read it.

On a side note I saw recently that BILLY ELLIOT the stage musical is being made into a movie so we have anothe example of movie to stage musical to movie musical.

I think that's wothy of discussing, Dargo.

No one puts Sally in a turban.