CaveGirl

They bleeped my retort, Dargo??? Do ya think they put four asterisks on the TCM schedule when they show the movie "5 Card Stud" with Dean Martin and Mitchum?

Uh, maybe they were playing two-card stud?

I think John Wayne said that in the excised scenes from "The Searchers" when that squaw thought she was married to Jeffrey Hunter. It always ends with Wayne, Dargo!

Yeah, but a bit more interesting was that Kitty's hubby Moss Hart might have liked his collaborator, George S. Kaufman more than he did her. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Top that, Dargo!

Uh, okay Dargo but did you know that Joanna Cameron was related to John Cameron Swayze and John Wayne always used to wear a Timex watch, cuz it takes a licking and keeps on ticking!

Uh, I thought it was Ricky Nelson without David Nelson.

No way, Slayton! You'll all just love for me to simply delete my account, would you not? I refuse, just like I refuse to commit suicide since it would make too many people happy. Thanks for the "cookie" advice though!

I guess we won't be hearing Bing sing the lyrics to "Mississippi Mud" as background music on TCM anytime soon, Arturo.

They say one should ask for what they want, so I want a month on TCM that concentrates on jazz and big band stuff in the films. There are so many wonderful films from the war years that had bits where there were bands like Benny Goodman's with incredible performances. I want to see "Hollywood Hotel" which has Gene Krupa doing all that fab drumming on "Sing, Sing, Sing" and so many other jazz legends appeared in bands that were featured in films from that time. You've got the Dorseys and Glenn Miller and so many others that did stuff in night club scenes that it would be fun to see. For me, just getting to see Carmen Cavallaro play the piano in one of those Hollywood Canteen things would be marvy. In between the films they could show some of those Soundie films, like ones with the Paul Whiteman band and with Bix and Tram. I know there is at least one soundie with them before Leon croaked sadly. Give me what I want, TCM! What do you want, and make it squeak so loudly you get your wish too.

Jer said last night that he did not want to be in a dress for the whole picture, Down. Makes sense. I heard Jack enjoyed being in the dress. Ya know, by the way I never really noticed before last nite that Jerry Lewis in his prime was a very attractive and handsome man. Quite fetcing actually and I have very high standards as you all know. Unlike Dean Martin who had to have a nose job, and I remember reading that Shelley Winters said she knew him when he had acne and a big schnooz, Jerry was really handsome when he was not making faces, talking like Walter Denton, and making pratfalls. He looked great in clothes, had really nice hair and teeth, a very masculine chin, and was quite toothsome when in repose and not acting like a ten-year old. I think he could have given Dean a run for his money in impressing chicks if he had wanted to.

Catherine looks a lot like Joanne Dru who was in that great John Wayne movie, Dargo.

It hit me the last time I watched this movie, is the name "Pupkin" the same as the name used by Jimmy Stewart in "The Shop Around the Corner" for Margaret Sullavan's penpal that Jimmy said was overweight and unemployed, Downie? If it wasn't Pupkin, what was it?

Welcome also, Mcgan! I was watching but then went to sleep. Did Merv sing "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts" in this film?

She was great as "Dumb" Dora in the MGM, "David Copperfield" film. Didn't she also play the grandmother of Kathleen Turner in "Peggy Sue Got Married" with Leon Ames as the grandpa? It was so great to see them both again on film. Thanks, TB!

No way! I always thought he had a really nice voice and enjoyed his vocal stylings. Now Nancy sounded tone deaf, but Frank Junior was very good. I will miss him; thanks for the posting.

Interesting experiment, Sepia. I wonder if cinephile gets bleeped. Or cinebuns, you know those yummy things you buy at the mall, to accompany your watching of men in movies that have cute derrieres.

Naturally you would be in the front holding on to the manicurist for dear life! There's a joke possibly about that, using the word "nail" but I shall not go there.

Watching Jack Lemmon in "The Out-of-Towners" always makes me feisty!

Last night on the Lewis interviews, Jerry basically expressed the same thing saying that when you see the joke possibilities, you have to go there and never be "embarrassed". And you and Jerry are so alike, Dargo and I mean that in the nicest way!

My mother and grandmother used to talk about the guy from Dogpatch in the comic. "L'il Abner" named Joe Btfsplk and how he always had a black cloud over his head. This being such a depressing sight it made me think of how occasionally it is fun to wallow in a depressing film. I think of how Woody Allen would always want to go see "The Sorrow and the Pity" by Marcel Ophuls, in I think "Annie Hall". What movie is so full of depressing things that you can only watch it every ten years or more? It can be a really good movie or a horrid one, but bereft of any uplifting moments. I'll vote first and pick "Who Will Love My Children" with Ann-Margret which is a wonderful movie [made for tv] but so incredibly depressing you might want to have Life Support friends on stand-by.

Nipper, you're welcome to come over to our party which will be showing "Easter Parade" and "Harvey" about that really big rabbit! There will be food, snacks and none of that BYOB stuff as we have a well-supplied bar.

What made her think of Hitler??? Have you noticed the similarity of his nasty mustache to the one of Groucho's that you have as your thumbnail photo? Accept all the blame for that, Dargo. You are a bad boy; go to your room!

Uh, I heard from the grapevine that someone who shall remain nameless and can't spell well, thought "phile" was akin to phyllo dough, which can be formed into rather salacious forms which resemble body parts, and that it why it was bleeped in your post.

I would like to echo your sentiments, Slayton! I think Jerry is very underrated and misunderstood by Americans. Sure he might have an ego but at least he has oodles of talent unlike so many entertainers today with ego and no discernible talents. The night unto day thing was a lot like clever stuff done by Keaton in films, and also reminded me of the art of Rene Magritte: http://pandras.cgsociety.org/art/lightwave-3d-photoshop-homage-rene-magritte-empire-lights-1017895

Watched Part Two of the Jerry Lewis celebration and had to laugh while reading the beginning credits of "The Bellboy", when I saw the name Joe Levitch! So I guess Jerry got two credits. Other performers who made the film special were B.S. Pulley as the head gangster, Joe E. Ross and of course Uncle Miltie! The film was an obvious influence on and precursor to Jacques Tati's movie "Playtime" and some of the bits made me laugh out loud like the man with the netting tan. The film being set in the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami was a testament to Googie style architecture and was very enjoyable. All the interview segments with Ben were interesting, particularly about Jerry working with DeNiro. Obviously Jerry had some input with the script, since he had Rupert Pupkin using the old Lewis gag, of showing the photo of his "Pride and Joy" with the two bottled products instead of progeny. Jerry rightfully got a British nod for best actor for this role, and he was superb as Jerry Langford, showing his dramatic thespian abilities. I watched the other flicks also and enjoyed them, but not quite as much as I was getting a bit sleepy. Thanks again TCM for two great nights of Lewis mayhem and entertainment!