Princess of Tap

Well, then how about this for a title-- The Return of the Sequel to the Copy of Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

Lav, I think I remember Hitchcock also at a train station in London after the train came in on The Lady Vanishes. Well done. Lav, your turn--

Yeah, Marsha because she's my favorite actress too. 1) high school sweetheart 2) Aviation genius 3) Hollywood canteen Soldier 4) fellow actor Miss Bette Davis

My favorite male singer Andy Williams had an album collaboration with Jobim too. That terrific song called Meditation.

Azure-- a big hand but you got me at a disadvantage It's been fifty years since I've seen two-faced woman and I've never seen a woman's face. But what I can remember of two-faced woman; it wasn't really a classical music movie. And since a woman's face comes from a European original film with Ingrid Bergman I'm going to go with that-- A woman's face--

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard used to spend their weekends at his little intimate house. The Lord of San Simeon and the Press William Randolph Hearst

What about a three in one-- Trains-- 1) A romantic chance meeting in a 1st Class train compartment 2) A romantic tryst in a train compartment 3) A Hitch cameo in a train station * As Gene Nelson says in Oklahoma! It's All or Nothing-- 3 answers please

Abbey Road, my Yorkshire Terrier, his favorite Frank Sinatra song is The Tender Trap. So I guess I'm up for that one.

Yeah, Fra-- You Built Your Life on rock and roll .

Grace Slick's choice of rock and roll music was a great loss to the world of music. But she knew what she wanted to do with her own life. As far as money is concerned - - rock and roll probably pays more but Barbra Streisand has done all right.

Palmerin-- If you want to know all about Alan Young's career I suggest you read the book Mister Ed and Me and More. In this book Alan discusses his own life and his career with and without Mister Ed. Alan is a good storyteller.

They're waiting for their favorite retired singer Doris Day-- and so would I. But this is a movie and Doris is retired because she married a doctor played by James Stewart. They are Landing in London to look for their kidnapped son in the Hitchcock movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. Next to Judy, Doris was the best singing actress in Hollywood.

Two law partners are fighting corruption in a big city. The two of them are the best of friends. Suddenly people around them start getting murdered, as they get closer and closer to a secret. Someone even murders their own secretary. Movie and the names of some of these great actors--

I don't like any of those Fanny movies-- I said it in general because I meant that about all of them. I have access or had access to a lot of French DVDs so I've seen them on DVD and I didn't like them. I may have gotten some of them in a private video store, or maybe I got them through the public library on Criterion. You may like this-- When I went to Borders to buy those two Memoir books by Pagnol, they were priced higher than his other books of a similar size. PS-- Your mother had good taste. Have you seen any of those Fernandel movies? A bientôt

The Topaz that we were talking about is a French play by Marcel Pagnol.

You didn't read the whole post. We're talking about French movies here. Topaz is a play in French literature and it's been made into an American and a French movie as well.

Lawrence-- In 2000 Takeshi Kitano made a film called Brother for the American audience in Japan and in the United States. Maybe you've seen it; it co-starred Omar Epps. It reminds me a little bit of Sonatine. It's a pure entertainment American yakuza where Takeshi pulls together all of the various ethnic gangster groups in the US for a multi-ethnic gang war. I really like what Kitano does with this movie because he manages to have a firm foothold in Japanese culture while he has a strong understanding of American culture and of the various ethnicities within that culture. But with all these Dynamics going on, Maybe in some parts of this movie he bit off more than he could chew. If you've seen this movie, I would be curious to know what you thought about it.

Laffite-- The two Yves Robert movies follow Pagnol's memoirs very well about Marseille and Garlaban. I fell in love with all the characters particularly Oncle Jules. I honestly felt that the second book--Le Château de Ma Mère was much weaker so the film was much weaker. I brought the CD soundtrack of the movie in Paris. Vladimir Cosma wrote that Beautiful music. I believe he did a lot of movies for Yves Robert. I never cared much for Fanny. We had to read Topaz in high school French class. They've made American and French movies of that play, but I haven't seen either one. The two Manon movies are truly magnificent cinema by Claude Berri with the best actors France or any country had to offer in the latter part of the twentieth century. Talking about Marseille, I'm a big fan of Fernandel movies. They show them all the time on television in France. I love his music too. He did some collaborations with Pagnol. I wouldn't say Fernandel's Cinema was great, but it's exceedingly heart rendering and entertaining. Chacun à son goût.

My Favorite Supporting Acting Performances of 1945 Actress 1)* Flora Robson*-- Saratoga Trunk 2) Ethel Barrymore - - The Spiral Staircase 3) Ann Blyth - - Mildred Pierce 4) Rhonda Fleming - - Spellbound 5) Eve Arden-- Mildred Pierce--Tie 5) Elina Labourdette--Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Honorable mention - - Angela Lansbury-- Picture of Dorian Gray Actor 1)* Jerry Austin*-- Saratoga Trunk (Cupidon) 2) Leo G Carroll--Spellbound 3) Darryl Hickman - - Leave Her to Heaven 4) George Sanders - - Hanover Square 5) George Sanders - - Picture of Dorian Gray

Nip-- Thanks for the clip with Clint Eastwood. Ed co-starred with all the biggies - - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mae West, George Burns, Sandy Koufax and Donna Douglas. Raymond Bailey, Richard Deacon, and Eleanor Audley were often seen as well. After Larry Keating died, Leon Ames took his place.

My Favorite Acting Performances of 1945 Actress 1)* Ingrid Bergman*-- The Bells of St. Mary's 2) Dorothy McGuire--The Enchanted Cottage 3) Maria Casarès--Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne 4) Wendy Hiller - - I Know Where I'm Going 5) Celia Johnson - - Brief Encounter 6) Dorothy McGuire - - The Spiral Staircase 7) Gene Tierney - - Leave Her to Heaven 8) Ingrid Bergman - - Spellbound 9) Ingrid Bergman - - Saratoga Trunk Actor 1)*Laird Cregar*-- Hangover Square 2) Robert Young - - The Enchanted Cottage 3) Bing Crosby - - The Bells of St. Mary's 4) Ray Milland - - Lost Weekend 5) Gregory Peck - - Spellbound 6) Trevor Howard - - Brief Encounter 7) Dana Andrews - - Fallen Angel 8) Hurd Hatfield-- Picture of Dorian Gray 9) Cornel Wilde - - Leave Her to Heaven

My favorite top 10 films of 1945 1) The Bells of St. Mary's-- McCarey 2) Enchanted Cottage-- Cromwell 3) Brief Encounter-- Lean 4) Hangover Square--Brahm 5) The Spiral Staircase--Siodmak 6) Leave Her To Heaven--Stahl 7) I Know where I'm going-- Powell and Pressburger 8) Detour-- Ulmer 9) Spellbound-- Hitchcock 10)Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne Honorable mention - - Lost weekend-- Wilder Fallen Angel-- Preminger Saratoga Trunk --Wood

Nip-- Wilbur was more than a friend to Mr. Ed. He was like a father to Mr. Ed. I can understand your frustration with the plot line, but Wilbur and Mr. Ed decided a long time ago that they would keep it a secret for fear that Ed would be put in a Zoo or museum and made a laughingstock freak exhibit. If you watched the show you know that Mr. Ed had extremely sensitive feelings. I can recall a number of times that Ed used the telephone to talk with Addison and other people to get back at Addison and to get what he wanted-- usually to get Wilbur out of the mess that he'd already gotten Wilbur into. Before they had the internet and online shopping, Mr Ed would get on the phone and order whatever he wanted. In one of my favorite episodes, Ed had a cold and needed to get some sleep. Wilbur kept telling him that he needed to go to bed and sleep it off. So Mr. Ed got on the phone and ordered a Horse- Sized Bed. I don't have to tell you that Connie Hines--who played Carol, Wilbur's wife-- got really mad at Ed. Almost as mad as she got when Ed ate her prized tomatoes. Of course, it was really Wilbur that she was mad at. The way it often played out, it looked as though she was jealous of the relationship between her husband and the horse and felt left out. The Cowboy Wranglers who trained Mister Ed said that they never had trained a horse that intelligent before and they put Ed in another category all together from horse. That was Bamboo Harvester, stage name Mr. Ed.

In the hierarchy of music, one of the few rock singers I can think of who could have been a great legitimate pop-Jazz stylist singer was Grace Slick. Others would have been Dusty Springfield,Tom Jones and Cilla Black. Dionne Warwick sang in the top 40 but she was always on the other side with legitimate singers because Burt Bacharach and Hal David are legitimate pop American composers-- Bacharach produced conducted and arranged her records and he and Hal David placed high demands on her. She was the one who went to Broadway to explain, by way of her singing, how Bacharach and David's music was to be presented on Broadway in Promises, Promises in 1969. That was before the Broadway musical became nothing more than Walt Disney rehashes and rock and roll medley shows, aside from Stephen Sondheim. As I said previously, Elvis if he had been trained properly, certainly could have sung with the best of them-- and that goes for Aretha Franklin too.

" A horse is a horse of course of course and no one can talk to a horse of course that is of course unless it was the famous actor Mr. Alan Young." Alan tripped the light fantastic talking to his TV horse Mr. Ed for 5 successful seasons. It took a special kind of actor to be that successful when his co-star was a horse who was dubbed by the cowboy B-western actor Allan Rocky Lane. The beautiful Palomino, Bamboo Harvester would be on the set acting with Alan, while Rocky was just outside the stable window behind a microphone. Alan wrote a wonderful book about his life on the Ed show and his vast Show Business career called Mister Ed and Me and More. Born of Scottish parents in England, Alan's family migrated to Canada and there he got into radio which led to his entry into American radio. Alan was a Pioneer in live American TV & won an early Emmy for the Alan Young show. Among the movies that Alan made, the most popular was The Time Machine which co-starred Rod Taylor. Alan was popular on the nostalgic circuit with his Mr. Ed co-star Connie Hines, who died in 2009. George Burns was the producer of mr. Ed and the show's director, Arthur Lubin, had first worked with the concept as the director of Francis, the Talking Mule movies. Mr. Ed's cast was rounded out by the next door neighbors - - movie character actors, Larry Keating and Edna Skinner.