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MARION DAVIES premiere tonight. .... double feature! THE BRIDE'S PLAY plus THE RED MILL

THE BRIDE'S PLAY starring MARION DAVIES makes its premiere this Sunday night. Restored print from Library of Congress. Beautiful print with music score by Ben Model.

Marion Davies romantic drama airs this weekend.

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Marion Davies starring in The Bride's Play this Sunday night making its premiere. Music score by Ben Model.

Sunset Boulevard was among Bob's favorite films.

Well I can't deny that my movie fantasy was to appear on TCM with Robert Osborne to discuss Marion Davies and the several Davies film projects I've produced. Of course I'm not a celebrity and it never happened. Osborne was in the forefront of reviving Davies' reputation as a great comedienne and solid dramatic actress. He could see the star behind all the publicity and innuendo. Enchantment aired on TCM in November 2014. I hope Bob saw the film. The Bride's Play airs this weekend. The show must go on ... even without Bob.

That's a sad shock. This classy man will be missed by millions of fans. RIP, Bob.

The male accountant from PW apparently tried to get the producers to let him do a "bit" on the show, but they refused. My guess is he flubbed the film award on purpose for revenge and for publicity.

My Ducks and Drakes project debuts this weekend, starring Bebe Daniels and Jack Holt. Here's the TCM blurb: http://www.tcm.com/t...s-in-March.html He's wrong in saying Daniels retired from the screen in 1938. She starred with Ben Lyon in film versions of their radio show "Hi, Gang!" in 1941 and two films based on their TV series "Life with the Lyons" in the 1950s. He also seems to imply Bebe Daniels made her talkie debut in The Maltese Falcon with Ricardo Cortez. She made her smash-hit talkie debut in Rio Rita in 1929 with John Boles.

My Ducks and Drakes project debuts this weekend, starring Bebe Daniels and Jack Holt. Here's the TCM blurb: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1296443|0/Silent-Sunday-Nights-in-March.html He's wrong in saying Daniels retired from the screen in 1938. She starred with Ben Lyon in film versions of their radio show "Hi, Gang!" in 1941 and two films based on their TV series "Life with the Lyons" in the 1950s. He also seems to imply Daniels made her talkie debut in The Maltese Falcon with Ricardo Cortez. She made her smash hit talkie debut in Rio Rita in 1929 with John Boles.

To each his own. My choice was Manchester by the Sea. I haven't seen La La Land or Jackie. The Academy's voting process for "best film" is ludicrous.

I never said a word about Hidden Figures. And box office success doesn't make a bad movie good, nor does box office failure make a good movie bad. Popularity isn't the criterion for quality.

Seems irrelevant to anything. All actors are vain. As an actor, Beatty started out as the pretty-boy leading man but worked to lose that image. In many of his film roles he subverted the "leading man" aura by playing against type. Starting with Bonnie and Clyde, when he was 30, he pretty much played anti-heroes and character leads as opposed to traditional romantic leading man stuff. In my opinion, Beatty aspired to be a filmmaker; Jack Nicholson aspired to be a movie star. I think they were both successful.

Too long. Badly recorded (I couldn't understand a lot of what was said). A lot of it was boring and/or stereotypical. The story didn't compel and most of the actors were okay at best. Much of the story seems to happen in between the episodes we see. It just didn't work for me. Ali was ok but the character disappeared never to return. Music was hideous.

You lost me on that tack.......

Yup.

They omitted Art Carney... an OSCAR WINNER

It also means the voters' first choice film doesn't always win..... WHAT'S THE POINT?

"When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began allowing more than five films to be nominated for best picture, in 2009, it also changed the way the votes were counted. The system is called instant-runoff voting, and it’s designed so that the film preferred by the widest consensus of Academy voters wins. Voters aren’t asked to pick their favorite film when they fill in their ballots; instead they’re asked to rank the films up for best picture from most preferred to least preferred. When PricewaterhouseCoopers counts up those votes, its tabulators first sort the best picture ballots into piles based on first choice. If one film accumulates more than 50 percent of the vote, that film is the winner. If not, the film that received the lowest number of first-choice votes is removed from contention, and all its ballots are redistributed to their second choices. This process is repeated until a film has more than 50 percent of the vote, at which point a winner is declared." Incredibly convoluted. A real CPA numbers game. https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/academy-awards-best-picture-instant-runoff/

Interesting article, but it doesn't explain how a TV movie could win an Oscar....

You can say that again. There's an urban rumor going round that only those who pay get included.....

I think they can barely fill 5 spots these days there's so much junk produced. Over the decades the Academy has experimented with numbers of nominees. They did 10 film nominees for many years in the 30s and 40s. They had only three acting nominees for a few years in the early 30s. I think they defeat their own purpose by having a laundry list of "best" film nominees. But that's just my opinion. If they thought having 8-10 film nominees was going to bolster their TV ratings, they were wrong.

You may be right, but I thought the final vote was a ranked voting scheme. So if say MANCHESTER and LALA split first place votes, a consistent 2nd place vote for MOONLILGHT could give it a win even it it got zero votes for first place. It's a risky scheme and can produce bizarro results. Another reason they really should publish the final vote tally.

Yes. I was being kind.