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Kelton, patrolman--Paul Marco in Plan 9 From Outer Space

Virginia Field was in Waterloo bridge, as the friend of Vivien Leigh

This afternoon I watched A New Leaf..haven't seen it in years. I forgot what fun it was watching Walter Mattau's arrogant, self-centered character deal with socially inept Elaine May. Evidently, the film was originally much longer (3 hours?) and was drastically cut...we'll never know what we missed... I 'found' the film using a new app I put on my laptop, StreamDor...allows you to wade through the myriad of YouTube by decade and genre...a few blips, but pretty nice.

Right, right and right! Madeleine Carroll was top billed as Mimi Caraway, the richest girl in the world..and is satirized on stage by Alice Faye. Dick Powell, on loan from Warner Bros, fights with, and of course, falls for Carroll. Your thread, Princess of Tap!

1953

For me, it would be Trouble in Store...but I doubt that's what you had in mind

floor wax good conduct medal

Fitzdingle, Georgianna--Margaret Dumont in Shake, Rattle and Rock!

Valerie Leon joined the troupe in Carry On Matron with Sidney James

Arthur Hunnicutt

Three On a Match

Jenkins, Allen

Imhotep--Boris Karloff in The Mummy

Black Is Black--Los Bravos

Swing Time (Fred Astaire, pretending..Victor Moore, not pretending) next--golf

The top billed actress was new to musicals and Hollywood...the third billed actress became the biggest musical star at her studio, For twelve years after this film she would be top billed or shared top billing...and then she walked away from it all.

Varsity Show

Glover, Gladys--Judy Holliday in It Should Happen to You

Greig, Robert

And it is..it's a still from The Block Signal (1926) Good eye, Princess of Tap! Your thread

Yankee Doodle Dancy next--popping out of a cake

Take Her, She's Mine

That Touch of Mink--a showing just for Doris Day Back Street--the remake with Susan Hayward Pajama Game--ends with a sleepwear fashion show Bright Lights Big City--MJ Fox disrupts a fashion show

Secret Beyond the Door...how could I have missed this before?...with Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave and Anne Revere. Well, it was a bit of a let down. Wealthy Bennett falls for Redgrave in Mexico in a rather dull beginning..he's moody, but not terribly charming. The film really doesn't begin to move at all until they return to his family estate, which is suitably gothic. I guess we're supposed to believe his sister, Revere, is the 'Mrs. Danvers' character, but she never shows it. There's a son, who Redgrave never talks about, and a quiet assistant who's overly loyal to him. I won't go into the plot, and frankly some of it (the rooms he 'collects', his first wife's death and a stream of amateur psycho-analysis) make very little sense. It seems director Fritz Lang wanted a lot of little twists that actually add up to nothing...and after all the buildup, the ending is a let down that looks chintzy. Then there's the sound..throughout the entire film we 'hear' Bennett's wispy thoughts..requiring me to turn up the sound about ten points..but then a door slam or, heaven forbid, the swell of music is ear shattering. I guess they wanted to be 'Hitch-like' in this film, but didn't come close to pulling it off..Lang, of course, does a nice job on the fog, dark, rain setting. A 'C' from me.

You know her best as a blonde...