georgiegirl

I know Madonna bought a house near the Hollywood sign and it looked like this one. This isn't it, is it?

Hey! I just watched Little Tough Guy online! I forgot Leo and Bobby were not in it, but it was still good. I don't know if you're familiar with the group the B 52s, but there's a guy in that band that looks like Huntz Hall. lol I was doing a search and this website called Internet Archives came up with thumbnails of the movie. I clicked on one and it took me to another page with the movie download. I don't believe it's one of those bootleg sites. Here's a the link. What do you think? http://www.archive.org/about/about.php

Oh, my God! I noticed that, too! lol I just never took it as far as you. I figured the fixture was loose and hanging by a hair to begin with. I never thought about what it was they were doing inside to the kid that shook the rafters. Ha! That movie by far is one of my faves. :-)

Yeah, I'm there with you on all counts, especially about the movies from the early to mid 30s, and, hands down, Warner Bros. were the cream of the crop. My mom straightened out my dads's butt by 1937 when she finally agreed to marry him, and his usual 'lifestyle' came to an abrupt end, so that's where my interest in the gangster movies runs at it's highest level; the movies that dipict the Roaring Twenties and made within that time frame, but, as you, I love 'em all! This message board is so much fun! I just cannot believe I can tell my family tale and tie it in with the old movies. It's like the best of both worlds to me, as I love nothing more in life. :-)

Thank you so very, very much! After all these years I can finally note exactly what Uncle Louis is up to in that pic. I am the family historian and your kindness has now solved a little piece of my family history mystery. I don't usually go around plastering family pics online. Who's interested? But whatever. Call it fate, call it good timing, call it good karma, but I wound up doing it here and you came through and helped me out. Thanks again! ;-) War tubas! Gotta love it! lol

> {quote:title=CEBandello wrote:}{quote} > Check out my pick as fan programmer on April 24th 2009 1100pm pdt "Angels with Dirty Faces" Cagney. Bogie and the Dead End Kids........including Billy Halop. I love them to. My favorite is "Little Tough Guy ". Hard to find but pretty good. Have you seen that one? Where would I find your pick for April 24th? I've seen all their movies many times over, but I haven't seen Little Tough Guy in a long time and would love to see it again. I hope TCM will show it someday. :-)

Well, my connection is more like a million degrees of seperation, but whenever I watch the old gangster films I can't help but reflect back on the tales me mutter and fatter told me of their yute. There are days, short of having a time machine, I wish I had a halodeck (sp) so I could live in the moments my parents did on the streets of Manhattan during the Roaring Twenties. My mutter made a decent moll, but I think I wudda been better at it. Just kidding! ;-) Do you like Manhattan Melodrama ? Not the truest form of gangster movie, but passable. Hm? Edited twice because my movie title won't take the italics. Okay, one more try. Message was edited by: georgiegirl

Yeah, forgot about that one. I saw it not long ago when TCM ran it. I hadn't seen it at that point in decades. lol

Thanks for the link and all the posting tips you've been giving me. I checked out that thread and loved the pics posted there. Thanks again. I remember many years ago, it was either Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas, both TV talk shows hosts, had the Dead End Kids on. The first time, was whomever was still around, then it would either Huntz or Gabe who would come on regularly for a stretch. I wrote to them and got a nice letter back, and they recommended a book that told the best tale of their careers. I have that old letter stored somewhere in the attic. :-)

Dead End is one of those films I've seen a gazillion bazillion times! And I think I've seen The Roaring Twenties just as many times, if not more, and could watch them just as many more times again. lol Cagney was, of course, wonderful in all his movies, musicals and comedy alike, but the gangster films are to me the best of Cagney. He was born and raised in NY, as was my dad, who looked a teeny tiny tad bit like him, so the gangster Cagney will always be my favorite of his characters. You'd crack up if saw a pic of my dad and his 'friends' from that era. lol

Great photos of the Kids, especially of my heartthrob, Billy Halop. I loved him the first time I saw him when I was a kid, and it cracked me up when I was a teenager and saw him as Munson on All In The Family. lol My mom knew it was him the minute he opened his mouth. I was like, nooooooo! She was like, yeah! lol Bobby Jordan I always wanted to mother. lol In the later series, the kid who played Whitey was a relative of mine, or so I was told. On my Irish side, of course. :-) My favorite of all of their movies was Dead End, but They Made Me a Criminal is right up there with it.

You and Mongo sure are keeping me busy with pictures! Thank you! :-)

I had such a crush on Billy Halop when I was a kid, and still do when I see him in *Dead End* and all the Dead End kid movies thereafter. Are there any Dead End and Dead End Kids fans here? I didn't see any posts, so... :-) Also, love Cagney and the ganster films! They're like watching my dad's life come to life for me. Did I say that aloud? lol

Oh, looky what I did! lol I was so surprised to see the pic there! I hope TCM doesn't mind. I'll delete it if there's a problem right after you see it, Ham Radio. Maybe you can tell me what they are. My uncle is the young man in the white shirt. :-)

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > The only use for them today is to point them at that irritating Verizon guy asking "can you hear me now?" Ha! lol Well, that pic comes close but no cigar. Here's two links. Hopefully, one will take you to the pic of my uncle and whatever that thing is. I did have it wrong, however. The megaphones wide ends are facing the ground. lol

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Hey, Web Admin! Nice to meet you. Last night on another thread I posted a You Tube link for a youngen like yourself to Bill Haley and the Comets doing "Rock Around the Clock". They were before my time, but just by a hair. I'm mean I was around, and I danced to their music, but I was a only like three or four. lol Oh, yes! Val Kilmer as Jim! He did a bang up job. There were times I forgot I wasn't watching Jim, and, though I don't know for sure, I've heard Val Kilmer did his own singing, That's one link, but there are a bunch more when you get there. Take a look. There's a lot of good music around today, some will go on to be classics, but I don't think they'll be as many to come out of the last few decades as there are that came out of the prior generations of music. I don't know why that is, or why I feel that way, but that's what I think. lol I feel that way about movies, too. But no matter what era it is, I can always find a tune that'll get me up on my feet and groovin' to the beat. lol Have a great day. :-)

1955 The Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier may have been the precursor. Great movie and good song that rocked a generation forever after. "Rock Around The Clock". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPLhKL6FVc&feature=related

I have not migrated over to a CD player in my car and I have worn out two cassettes. lol I could, and have listened to them all day and night, over and over again for days, weeks, months, years on end and still never tire of them. lol I think Oliver Stone did a good job on the movie, and Val Kilmer must have studied Jim for hours on end to get him down as well as he did. What did you think of the movie, and do you really have the rights to his music or are you just pulling my leg? lol

I'm familiar with the horn speakers. The megaphone thingies in the pic with my uncle are apparently something used by the military. They're huge and used outside and pointed heavenward. lol Some whom I've shown the pics, tell me they may be early listening devices. The pics were taken in 1927, so... But thanks for that link. I loved looking at all the pics there. Cool!

Amazing Miss M. can still draw controversy. I hope someone comes forward and says who the AA gentleman is. My sister has photos that my brother-in-law took of Miss M. in Korea. I wonder if anyone would be interested in them.

NO! I don't believe that! REALLY?! YOU own his music? Brother, can you spare a dime? lol While everyone was grooving to the Beatles, I was swooning over Jim. lol Grooving. How silly that sounds. lol

Yeah, I'm aware of the natural phenomenon that can take our satellites out at any given minute, but in these warring times I don't rule out the man made ones too. Sorry state of affairs we live in. Eventually, as our sun begins the process of going nova, in the times leading up to it I cannot imagine what mankind will need to communicate. As you say, FM/AM? lol I don't doubt the Aurora is out there, I'm too stupid not to. lol But we shouldn't really be worrying about any of this, because in 2012 the poles magnetic fields are going to reverse and end it all. lol

Ya' know what? The kids today will suck up that kind of behavior and still pay homage to the man by rushing to his movies, if he goes back to acting. At least I think so. Keeping the crowd waiting, I believe, was also a part of his scheme, and that heckler was a plant to make it that much more effective. Just like his stunt on Letterman, which I saw. It seems to me, in today's society the worse your behavior the more the kiddies clamor for you. Just look at Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, Lindsey Lohan, and the list goes on. Now, I'm not saying I don't have any sympathy for some of these kids, but, my God, give me a break as to them being icons or consumate professionals in their fields. And, yes, I realize the old timers of the Golden Age of Hollywood had their skeletons and were no angels, and the studios kept their names out of the papers, and reporters back then had some moral gauge and standards, but some of the present stars leave little to be desired as people and performers. But maybe that's just me. lol I will even go as far to say, back in my day, those of my generation put up with the nonsense of Jim Morrison and still loved him and bought his records and tickets to his concerts, but it just seems so different today. Much worse behaviors seem almost a given in the youth and not often met with disdain. Man, I beginning to sound like my mom! lol

Aw, it was very kind of you to express your sympathy for my uncle. Thank you. I never knew the man, it was many,many decades before my time, but the stories of him from my mom and siblings will forever live in my heart. He loved the new electronics of the times and dabbled where he could, and when he could afford to buy the supplies to tinker. I have fading pictures of him when he was in the National Guard and he's standing in front of what appears to be some kind of listening devices. They look like large megaphones on a rack. I've never been able to find anyone who actually knows what they are. I have a very good friend out in Oklahoma whose husband is/was a ham radio operator. He had/has one of those 100 foot towers you speak of. I think ham operating must be a great hobby. I feel someday when the world goes totally nuts, and someone blows up all that high tech crap we have in space that keeps us all connected, we're gonna need all the primative communication devices we had way back when. Ham operators may just save our sorry a**es if the need arises. lol I only hope there are folks around who know how to us a telegraph as well. lol