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Because people kept misspelling her name as Anne Blythe when it's Ann Blyth......

Oh I forgot KIM NOVAK .... excellent in Vertigo, Picnic, Middle of the Night, and Bell Book and Candle among others.

Doris Day started in films in the 1940s.... as did Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds, and Jane Russell

MARION DAVIES

Meryl Streep Barbra Streisand Glenn Close Jane Fonda Geraldine Page Joanne Woodward Anne Bancroft Sophia Loren Shirley MacLaine Vanessa Redgrave Glenda Jackson Jodie Foster Ellen Burstyn Shirley Booth Julie Andrews Maggie Smith Bette Midler Sally Field Karen Black Annette Bening Julie Christie Diane Keaton Emma Thompson Liza Minnelli

Sent final video materials off to disk maker for my DVD release of this Bebe Daniels comedy. Should be available by end of April. New music score by David Drazin.

It was a hotly contested role and a major coup for Duke. The film was considered "trash" in its day but sure looks better now. Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Lee Grant, and Susan Hayward. Duke was in good company. Duke was the youngest star (up to that time) to have a TV series with her name in it. She was also the youngest star (up to that time) to have her name above the title on a Broadway marquee for a play (along with Anne Bancroft's). Patty Duke was a class act all the way.

It was NEELY O'Hara.... and Duke was the best thing in the film.

Patty Duke starred in a 1979 TV version of The Miracle Worker and won an Emmy for playing Annie Sullivan, with Melissa Gilbert playing Helen Keller.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/patty-duke-oscar-winner-sitcom-star-dies-69-164024164.html a huge talent.... for a while she was the queen of TV movies....

Beatty may still be tinkering with the untitled Howard Hughes project which has completed filming ... quite a while ago....

No one has been able to pry the complete EAST LYNNE out of UCLA. And Loving the Classics would be about the LAST one to do so. If LTC lists a running time, check it against the 142-minute run time of the complete film.

Certainly NOT all public domain ..... descriptions are misleading, and you're lucky if you ever get your order....

To my knowledge, UCLA has a complete copy in its vault and it doesn't exist anywhere else. The copy that's been floating around, as has been mentioned, is missing the final reel. I truly doubt Loving the Classics pried a copy out of UCLA. But let us know IF you ever receive anything from this outfit.

Your opinion, and you're welcome to it....

Apparently at some point there WAS a Norma sequel in the works but Swanson would have none of it, lthough Swanson spent a couple years working on a musical version of SB.... a few songs came out of it but no one would fund the project.

I think Julie Andrews and Kim Novak are the last two big stars of old who have been on as presenters.

Stage acting is broader than film acting. I saw Close in Los Angeles and she was mesmerizing. And she sings just fine.

Glenn Close won a Tony award 20 years ago as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard and is appearing in London this year in a semi-staged revival. It'll mark Close's West End debut. Maybe the movie version is not totally dead. in the water like Joe Gillis?

Oldest star was Morgan Freeman. The award show has a bad case of ageism.

Yes I know. But I thought they'd give her a chance to appear

I'd say the best moment was the surprise win in film scoring for Ennio Morricone.

LOL.... Well I still expected her to hand out best film award, but today's Oscars and movie industry really don't care about their own history. There used to be a sense of glamour and class to the show but now it's "red carpet" drivel and hawking a bunch of young "stars."

Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon would have gotten my vote.

I really expected Debbie Reynolds to appear at this year's star-starved Oscars event. She missed receiving her Honorary Oscar at the November event, and I hoped she'd be well enough to make an appearance at the awards. Honorary Oscar winner Gena Rowlands was shown in the audience. What a disappoint that Reynolds was not there.