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Here's Gloria Swanson taking a break on the set of Sunset Boulevard. Swanson's Norma Desmond is the greatest performance to NOT win an Oscar.

I was hoping for a nomination for Lois Smith in the little-seen Marjorie Prime but I guess the film was too obscure. She made her film debut in East of Eden in 1955 with James Dean and Julie Harris.

Kim Novak deserved an Oscar nomination for Vertigo. I wonder if the studio campaigned for her? My guess is it did not because the film was not a hit when originally released. It's now considered one of Hitchcock's best films. Novak's aloofness is a perfect fit for the heroine. It's a stunning performance.

new article on scoring for silent films.... https://silentroomdotblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/adventures-in-scoring/

My error. I assumed the moderator would remove it. So what happened to two of the year's early big contenders. Glenn Close in The Wife and Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool? Did these films actually play anywhere in this country?

I thought he was dead.

Frances McDormand is a lock, but not just for her performance in Three Billboards. She's a lock because her character captures the current moment of rage that's sweeping through film land. Even though most of the allegations are without proof and some are obvious grabs for publicity, McDormand's Mildred character gives a face to this sort of hysteria.

Gary Oldman cannot escape the shadow of the late great Robert Hardy in playing Winston Churchhill. Hardy's portrayal of Churchill in the miniseries The Wilderness Years (1981) was a towering achievement. That being said, Oldman is still the front runner for the gold.

IMO Mudbound was only slightly better than last year's overrated Moonlight. And while I liked the performances in Lady Bird, the film itself was rather pedestrian, so I don't see Greta Gerwig as a best director nominee, especially over Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards.

The first movie based on Gasoline Alley is excellent, a great performance by Scotty Beckett and also one by Gus Schilling as an ex-con.

Buster Brown dates back to 1902 as a comic strip. Films date back to 1914 with a series of short films from 1925-29. Buster Brown's dog, Tige had a name change to Pete at some point and one of Pete's pups went on to play Pete in the Our Gang series. Buster Brown became the "mascot" and advertising symbol of a line of shoes for kids.

"Little Iodine" was a comic strip from 1943 to 1985. There was a 1946 film version produced by Mary Pickford.

To my knowledge, TCM has never shown any of these but has shown the 1934 version of Harold Teen, which stars Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Patricia Ellis, and Chick Chandler. Very underrated little film, full of zippy lines. Lillums (holding a puppy): "My dog's hurt." Lilacs: "Wear bigger shoes." The comic strip "Dixie Dugan" was based on the look of Louise Brooks, but Alice White played a character named Dixie Dugan in Show Girl (1928) and Show Girl in Hollywood (1930).

Tillie the Toiler (1927) with Marion Davies Harold Teen (1928) with Arthur Lake Bringing Up Father (1928) with Marie Dressler

A crying shame they ruined "My Man" by Fanny Brice. It was one of the high points of the film. Her dressing room scene with Esther Muir (the big blonde) was great. William Powell wasn't even nominated for The Great Ziegfeld because he was nominated that year for My Man Godfrey and lost to Paul Muni. Luise Rainer won but the year's best actress was Carole Lombard for My Man Godfrey.

Wrong theater in any case. And the Cadillac is a late 50s model.

No. They were in an earlier stage version which was also filmed....

I just watched Home Again, which I got free at Redbox. I hope I can wash the stench off me. Even for free, it was to costly.

I sure don't see this as satire. I might have before the Kennedy murder/coup d'etat, but nothing since that black moment allows me to ever see this film as satire. The film is more relevant today than it ever was.

Possibly, but 8 years is an awfully long time for for the brainwashing to percolate..... and all these errors in the film are still after 1960.

Yes you are right, but the book was published in 1959. Since it's a presidential year that makes it 1956 at the latest. The film makes no "years later" comment and seems to pick up with Laurence Harvey coming home from the war. In any case, this is a GREAT film and still says a lot about our country nearly 60 years later. One of the funniest goofs I spotted was when Harvey is having lunch at the cabin with Jocelyn and her senator daddy, the film reverses for a second or two and we see Harvey REMOVE food from his mouth with his fork! One source says the film was shot in an amazing 39 days.... So it's no wonder it's full of small errors.

The marquee in back announces the 1962 re-release of PINOCCHIO along with the 1961 film PIRATES OF TORTUGA. The marquee in from misspells the name of Debbie Reynolds. I have no idea what the .... FROM HELL movie is or how it's associated with Reynolds.

The marquee on the right for NEW FACES, a show that played on Broadway in 1962. On the left is a marquee for A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, which ran on Broadway from 1961-1963.

The films starts out in 1952 and involves a presidential election. That would make it 1952 of 1956, but no passage of years is implied in the film, so it's more likely 1952. The novel was published in 1959. The film is full of "time" errors. Here are a few I spotted. The finned Ford in the foreground is a 1957 (possibly 1958) model.