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Yeah I was watching that movie the other morning with Joel McCrea & Ginger Rogers (for the life of me I can't remember what it was) and that freeze frame went on for about 15 minutes. Very frustrating.

Spence--I think your list is correct & I think As Time Goes By will the the number 1 choice & Rainbow will probably be #2. There are two that aren't on the list that I wish were. A Time for Us (Theme from Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet) & I'm So Lonesome I could Cry (from the Hank Williams biopic Your Cheatin Heart). I realize that the Zefferelli film is Italian produced so that why it's not on the list & the Hank Williams song was just one of his songs included in the movie. But those two songs have stayed with me almost all my life and conveyed such melancholy. That being said my favorite kitschy song on the list is Beach Blanket Bingo--best song in all the Beach Party movies which I admit are guilty pleasures for me. "Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Blanket Bingo--That's the name of the game" LOL

Prof--glad you and Pixie patched things up. And I, too, promise I won't give away endings now that I know that you're sensitive to it. I've just been reading these boards for a couple of years & most of the people before recently have seen a lot of the films discussed here so I guess unwittingly talk about the plot points & endings. No offense meant. Can we be movie friends?

I'm so looking forward to seeing the DeMille films I haven't seen. I've seen the ending to Sign of the Cross (I think it came on really early one morning & I caught the tail end of it after I got up) but that's the one I'm waiting to see. The whole month is going to be great. IMO this is going to be one of the best months ever for good old TCM.

I always thought that Basil Rathbone would be a fun person to hang with. He was so evil in most of his roles, besides Sherlock Holmes, but I think I read somewhere that off the set that he was a nice decent person.

Professor--I have seen about 100 posts about the spoiler thing. It is not necessary to reply to every post that accidently gives away the ending. I'm not trying to be mean but my patience is wearing thin, too.

OH Slappy--that was so funny!! I do love the theme song from Exodus though.

Yeah--I'm finally able to post. Ok back to the subject---I love the F. L. Wright house in "A Summer Place" with all that paneling & light. I also love the Corleone Tahoe compound in Godfather 2 with the stone house & great windows.

I want to take back what I said about Judy being a singer who said words between songs. I watched Little Nellie Kelley last night & she was great in that movie. I just don't care for some of her later works such as Summer Stock and (I know I'll get ragged on for this) A Star is Born. I just love Janet Gaynor & Frederic March's version so much that I just don't want to see anyone else playing those parts.

I used to play scenes from the Sound of Music when I was 12 & 13. I used to think I was Julie Andrews--LOL

I hope you won't let Kay's performance in this film deter you from checking her out in other films. She was a delightful actress and played equally well in comedy & drama. I just love her & only discovered who she was in the last 10 years (I guess since TCM went on the air)

I think of her as a singer who said words between the songs. Except she was fabulous in one of her only dramatic roles, Judgement at Nuremburg.

Gable is my favorite 30's actor (he was much different after the war & Lombard's death). Cooper was good but I can't watch Love in the Afternoon or Fountainhead because he was just too old for those parts & looked it.

I remember loving Sal Mineo (I'm 50 yo so I was a little girl when he had his biggest fame), so don't feel bad about Tab & Rock OK. Our gaydar wasn't working so well back then.

When they showed the Bollywood films, there was a lot of criticism on this board. I, however, gained a new appreciation for these films, when I was sure I would hate them. I fell in love with Ahmer Kahn, and now I watch everything he's in that I have access to (usually the Sundance channel.) I hope they show some of these films again. I'm a huge fan of French films, too, even though they usually have a tragic ending (I've come to the conclusion that if someone doesn't die by the end of a French film, then it's not "French".) I've also enjoyed some German, Italian, Spanish (Almondovar), Chinese & Japanese films.

People meet, fall in love, and marry within a few days*** I've often wondered about this too. Usually they fall in love within MINUTES not days.

While I appreciate Susan Hayward, I feel like had Bette Davis & she been acting the same types of parts at the same time, Bette would run circles around her. Bette Davis is the QUEEN!!!

I really don't care for Carole Lombard. I've only seen her in about 3 films but she doesn't impress me. And I have to agree with two others mentioned here--Grace Kelly and Katharine Hepburn. I didn't used to like Audrey Hepburn but she's grown on me. I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan either but these are my classic films choices.

It's her sister Marion Hutton

I watched that the other morning (I've seen it several times but never noticed) and I thought "If he was doing the stuff to me he was doing to Lola, I would never speak to him again, much less be in love with him" He was OTT to say the least.

Garbo does come across as fragile in most of her roles. But she is so mesmerizing, even in silent films. She just says so much with her eyes. Did you see the German Anna Christie on TCM Imports? Something in that movie really bothered me. She was slicing bread by holding the loaf kind of like a football cradled in her arms & had a huge butcher knife she was slicing with. She was slicing toward her face! How weird is that? Who cuts bread that way?

Garbo--She lacked the enormous ego Dietrich had and was a better actress. BTW--why do I have so much trouble logging on to the message boards?

It's nice to live in a fairy tale, but those 20's, 30's and 40's star were just normal people, too, with insecurities and foilbles. It just was publicized back then, which I think it would make it harder on those stars than the stars of today. They had to maintain that facade everytime they stepped out of their homes. Today, at least the stars try to live normal lives even though they have paparazzi following them 24-7. I don't want my stars on pedestals. I don't want them in the mud either. Somewhere in between is fine with me.

All This & Heaven, Too

I do love this movie so. I saw it before Mommie Dearest came out so I didn't have any preconceived notion about Crawford. Then, after the Dunaway movie came out I thought I could never be a fan of hers (Crawford), but I came around after seeing several of her 20's & 30's films. But for her middle age roles (I guess she was early 40's when this came out) it's my favorite. Additionally, Ann Blythe is fantastic in this movie. I think she was only 15 or 16 when she made this and she is pure evil in it. A great juvenile performance.