georgiegirl
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I'm curious as to the average age of folks here on the TCM message board. Though I can't believe I'm going to say this aloud, I just turned 56!!! Ouch! :-)
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Next to TCM, I love this site! In most cases you can find what you're looking for. Let your fingers do the walking into the past, and let your mind run wild as you sit and enjoy a blast from the past.
http://www.youtube.com/ Just put what you're looking for in the search box.
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Hey, thanks for posting that. It was a good read. :-)
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Oh, I have so many fond memories of the city, my mom and the movies and me. I could talk about them forever and it wouldn't be satisfying enough to me. Navigating 42nd Street was an adventure in itself. lol
You're so lucky to have passed down your 'movie gene' to the next generation. I don't have children and none of my nieces and nephews are interested in them. I guess that gene didn't spill over into my sisters as deep seeded as it did me. My mother must be looking down in disappointment. lol Her only saving grace may be one of her grandchildren is into theater. :-)
I've gotten Blockbuster gift certificates and used them for the classics. I wouldn't give you two cents for most movies made today. lol
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Ya' know, now you got me thinking. Back in the 60s channel 13 (PBS here in NY) use to show the old movies and the opening was a black and white shot of an movie house called the Bijou. It's possible I've confused the two. What I'm hoping is another old movie buff will pop in here who grew up in NY in the 60s and tell me where I've gone wrong. The show I use to watch on 13 had the same set up; a cartoon, a short and then the main feature. Getting old is a real stinker sometimes. lol
I'm sure you've seen these, but just incase...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96y5osnJPR0&feature=related
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Love Me Or Leave Me
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Hi Mr. O.,
I love the fact that TCM has the children of celebs doing voice overs on the mini bios, but they are such a tease. Have you ever thought of having the descendants of the truest Golden Age of Hollywood stars sit with you when you play a movie and discuss it? Just as you do with celebs/producers/directors/fans themselves? Or ever think about having a panel of them discuss the old Hollywood as they lived and saw it?
I remember a long time ago, Oprah had Lana Turner?s daughter, Cheryl Crane, and Liza Minelli as guest on her show. Ms. Crane said all the neighborhood kids hung out at Judy?s house because she was the most fun mother of them all and so down to earth. No airs were put on by her as in the other celeb homes, including Turner?s herself. This is the kind of stuff us die hard movie fans live for, a behind the scenes of what it was like growing up Hollywood with a famous parent or parent. Or even years later what it's like being their grandchild, niece, nephew, etc. Yeah, there are books, but up close and personal is so much better and you?d do a fine job as host.
I got to meet Mickey Rooney's grandson and it was quite an experience.
Or how about a TCM game show? Name This Hollywood Descendent. lol Like the old To Tell the Truth, What?s My Line or I?ve Got a Secret. :-)
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I'm with you on this. I just told my husband the other day, the Game Show Network should have a game show where a panel has to guess who the contestant's mother/father/ aunt/uncle, grandparent etc. was, as in old time celebs. lol Could go into history, science, music, whatever, but just Hollywood would be fine with me. lol I think they had a show like that years ago, but it went bye-bye.
Short of that, I love where the children of the old stars do talk overs on TCM's little bios. Like the ones with Gary Cooper's daughter, and Liza Minelli talking about her dad, Vincent. I think it would be soooo very cool if Robert Obsborne had a child of a celeb on when they have a certain celeb profiled, or just at random, I don't care the how and when, just do it! lol I'm like you, I want more, more, more!!! :-)
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That was the right movie?! Holy cow! lol I just threw that one out there because I kinda remembered the mood you described existing in it. lol
You're very welcome! :-)
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Where it was more a movie of sacrifice, The Fighting Sullivans were from a large family and the movie showed how they, as a large family, interacted, so...
All Mine To Give was another tear jerked about a five siblings after their parents die.
And Roughly Speaking was another good one, but I don't remember exactly how many children there were.
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The one with Debbie Reynolds could be Susan Slept Here.
Mark Christopher (Dick Powell) is a thirty-five-year-old successful Hollywood scriptwriter who has, since winning an Academy Award for sceenwriting, suffered from partial writer's block, and has been unable to produce a decent script. One Christmas Eve, he receives an unexpected and very unwanted surprise present.
A vice cop Sergeant Sam Hanlon (Herb Vigran), whom Mark befriended on a film set and had helped him on a script, remembered his comment that he was thinking about writing a script about juvenile delinquency and wanted to talk to a delinquent. So the policeman brings him seventeen-year-old Susan Landis (Debbie Reynolds). Susan had been abandoned by her mother and was arrested for vagrancy. Not wanting to keep her in jail over the holidays, the kindhearted cop decided to bend the rules (much to the disapproval of his partner) and let her stay in Mark's luxurious apartment until her arraignment the day after Christmas, and giving Mark what he had casually asked for.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGLF_en___US281&q=susanslepthere&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=_SqbSb_nLuH8tgeZ6am9Cw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers?
This is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. The movie is based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John Patrick, using the pseudonym Jack Patrick, and was produced by Hal B. Wallis. The screenplay was written by Robert Rossen and Robert Riskin, who was not credited, and was directed by Lewis Milestone. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
On a rainy night in 1928 in a Pennsylvania factory town called Iverstown, Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson), a young girl yearning to escape from the guardianship of her wealthy, domineering aunt, is caught trying to run away with her friend, the street-smart, poor Sam Masterson (Darryl Hickman).[2] Martha is taken home. Later that night, Sam comes for her, but hides when her aunt hears Martha's beloved cat wandering on the staircase. When Mrs. Ivers attacks the pet with her cane, Martha intervenes, with fatal consequences. This is witnessed by Walter O'Neil (Mickey Kuhn), the son of Martha's tutor (Roman Bohnen). The greedy Mr. O'Neil suspects what happened, but presents Martha's version of events to the police, that a strange man was responsible. However, he uses his power over Martha to move into the mansion and take control of her life. Years later, he blackmails her into marrying his son by having her testify against an innocent man, resulting in his execution.
Eighteen years later, Walter (now played by Kirk Douglas) is the district attorney, while Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) used her inheritance from her aunt to built a large business empire. However, their marriage is one-sided; he loves her, but the reverse isn't true. Sam (Van Heflin), now a drifter and gambler, stops in the small town by chance when he crashes his car and has to wait for it to be repaired.
At his old home, now a boarding house, he meets vulnerable bad girl Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has just been released from jail. She is later picked up for violating her probation by not returning to her hometown. Sam goes to see Walter, to see if he can use his influence to get her released.
Walter worries that he has returned with blackmail in mind. When he observes his wife's joyful reaction to the news, he has an additional motive for running Sam out of town. He threatens Toni into setting Sam up. Sam is beaten and driven out of town, but he is too tough to intimidate. When all else fails, Walter makes a half-hearted attempt to kill Sam himself, but is easily disarmed. Martha then inadvertently blurts out the couple's fears, but they prove to be groundless: Sam never witnessed the death. Martha breaks down and laments that he left without her all those years ago, taking with him her only chance for love and freedom.
Sam is torn between his old love and his new. Although he eventually forgives Toni for betraying him, he and Martha spend an idyllic day together, rekindling his feelings for her.
Walter arranges to meet Sam to finally settle matters. Before Sam arrives, Walter gets somewhat drunk and Martha finds out about the meeting. When she tries to get Sam to kill her husband, Sam's love for her is extinguished. He leaves the guilt-ridden couple to contemplate the wreckage of their lives. Before he goes, he gives Walter back his gun and turns his back on him, but Walter does nothing. Martha then picks up the gun, but she cannot fire either.
After Sam leaves, Walter embraces Martha, then points his gun at her midriff. She, oddly relieved, puts her hand over his hand on the trigger and presses. As she is dying, she defiantly states her name is not Martha Ivers, but Martha Smith. Outside, Sam hears the shot, then soon after, a second. Sam starts toward the house, then realizes it is too late and departs. He leaves Iverstown with Toni.
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Yeah, that's the one, the animated apartment houses with the lights going out one by one. The last one lit my mom always said was ours. I'm sure a million other moms or dads said that. lol
Yep, the movie clap board with the NY skyline behind was the original Million Dollar Movie opening in my day. :-)
My favorite MDM presentations were Mighty Joe Young and King Kong. :-)
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Oops, read that as corpse and said Arsenic and Old Lace lol
Okay, The Bramble Bush
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Yeah, my mom was the one who got me into the old movies. By the time I was five I had more old movies under my belt than nursery rhymes. :-)
I have two older sisters, and though they like the old movies, I was the one Mom passed that love of movies gene down to. My grandmother loved the movies as well and she was around long before there were real/reel movies, never mind talkies. My grandfather played the music for the silent films and was the entertainment for the change over from reel to reel when they came along later.
My favorite memories of my mom, me and the movies, aside from our late nights with The Late Shows, was our annual holiday romp to Radio City and then over to 42nd Street for Chinese food. That started when I was three and went on well into my twenties.
My great grandfather had a hand in painting the Michelangelo-esque ceiling that used to grace the old RKO Theater, which originally was Pike?s Opera House. Yes, I love the movies, it?s in my genes. :-)
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No, channel 13 in New York carried "Matinee at the Bijou" back in the 60s. The link to the theme song on You Tube is a later version of the original on 13, but pretty close to it. I haven't found one of the original for that, or the Late Show and Million Dollar Movie, but like the one for M@B, they were close enough to jog the memories for me and I hope others. I should go to the Museum of Television and Radio and check it out. I'm sure they have all the old intros to the earlier episodes of the aforementioned shows.
I haven't heard about Debbie Reynolds hosting a new M@B, but that's cool!
Okay, so what's the answer to the trivia question? lol
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Since You Went Away
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I had no idea what an angler fish is. The first thing that came to my mind was angling and I thought of the priest, Ward Bond, fishing in The Quiet Man .
Seeing your question, I went online and looked up angler fish. No, I guess there wasn't one in the movie, but who knows, we never saw the fish the priest was angling for, so... lol
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The Quiet Man
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Frankenstein
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I can't get enough of the old movies, so why stop at two? lol
What really gets me is, if a person only gets network TV, unless PBS is showing an oldie but goodie late Saturday night, no one else is showing them down the lower end of the dial. To think CBS and WOR, who gave us the The Late Shows and the Million Dollar Movie, have never looked back and thought about resurrecting the old classic movies for those who don't get cable. They were the pioneers at one time.
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Ha! I see there were 95 views and only a couple of folks willing to fess up to their age, albeit one who wanted me to do some arithmetic. lol I also see someone brought up a thread on this very subject and I found it interesting to see that thread had 495 hits and only 35 replies. lol What a bunch of chickens! lol It?s only a number and we don?t even know each other. lol Human nature is so funny sometimes. lol
Gee, I thought folks would be much older here. More my age, and then some. Taking the average from both threads, I am delighted to see many young folks are here who love the old movies. I always fear someday the classics will go away and die with us elders who love them. To see the torch passed is very encouraging. :-)
Thanks for the answers, guys and dolls, much appreciated. :-)