Princess of Tap

Tom-- I had the same question about Jane Eyre. But before I put it in my top 10 I was sure to check with IMDb first. I just always use IMDb and it said December 24th 1943. I just love this movie.

With the war and all, this year is what my mother would have called Slim Pickens - - and she never heard of that actor. My Favorite Movie Performances of 1943 Favorite Male Acting Performances of 1943 1)* Orson Welles*-- Jane Eyre 2) Joseph Cotten - - Shadow of a Doubt 3) Gary Cooper - - For Whom the Bell Tolls 4) Don Ameche - - Heaven Can Wait 5) Spencer Tracy - - Keeper of the Flame Honorable mention - - Joel McCrea - - The More the Merrier Best Female Acting Performances of 1943 1)* Joan Fontaine*-- Jane Eyre 2) Ingrid Bergman - - For Whom the Bell Tolls 3) Teresa Wright - - Shadow of a Doubt 4) Katharine Hepburn - - Keeper of the Flame 5) Jean Arthur - - The More the Merrier Honorable mention - - Ethel Waters-- Cabin in the Sky

Thank you, Azure. And thanks for putting so much time and work into that question. I know it wasn't an easy question to write. Next-- This next song is by one of America's greatest 20th century Broadway / Hollywood composers. After you identify the composer and the song, please give us an indication of who was associated with this song and your favorite rendition of this number. " When the mob came and got her And dragged her from the jail, (....) They strung her upon the old willow across the way"

Top 10 Favorite Films for 1943 1) Jane Eyre - - Robert Stevenson 2) Old Acquaintance - - Vincent Sherman 3) Shadow of a Doubt - - Alfred Hitchcock 4) For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Sam Wood 5) Keeper of the Flame - - George Cukor 6) Heaven Can Wait - - Ernst Lubitsch 7) The More the Merrier-- George Stevens 8) No Time for Love-- Mitchell Leisen 9) The Gang's All Here-- Busby Berkeley 10) Cabin in the Sky-- Vincente Minnelli

I can think of 2- - When a Man Loves a Woman and obviously Pretty Woman I'm no fan of Tom Cruise, so I don't know what went on in Top Gun.

Terrence-- Showboat--it's definitely not my cup of tea - - but I've got Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson singing from That's Eentertainment and it's beautiful along with William Warfield's Old Man River.

Ray-- The musical Breakfast at Tiffany's was probably the only failure that Mary Tyler Moore ever had in her brilliant career. I can remember that this musical never officially opened on Broadway - - no doubt they did some tryouts out of town and there were dress rehearsals and maybe previews but it closed before it opened. And that would make a good movie too.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane was the best time I ever had in a movie theater. I was in grade school with my best friend and we almost got kicked out of the balcony because we couldn't stop screaming whenever Bette Davis was beating somebody up. When Bette served the pet parakeet to Joan Crawford, we screamed so much that the manager came up and told us that if we weren't quiet we'd have to leave. Bette has always been my favorite movie actress.

That's because they were The Untouchables. Abel Hernandez was always the Untouchable who was on top of the telephone pole tapping the wires, so they could listen in on some gangsters ill-fated plans to take over the Capone Dynasty. Thank you Richard Kimble for featuring the stars of my favorite TV show. PS William Jennings Gardner was an All-American too.

This isn't confusing at all - - this is obviously a MGM question. Let's start at the beginning. Lena Horne was the performer who did the Julie LaVerne numbers in the Showboat presentation in the MGM biopic about Jerome Kern-- Till clouds roll by. When MGM was ready to make a full-scale movie of Showboat in 1951, they hired their biggest movie star Ava Gardner to play the part of Julie LaVerne. Lena Horne wanted the part. But the role of Julie called for a black woman who could pass, who was a mulatto - - looking just like a white person, which Lena Horne, of course, could not do. Plus Lena had a suitcase of racist issues to deal with. In 1947 she broke the race rule at MGM on interracial relationships by marrying the top music man at the studio Lennie Hayton. Lennie was the conductor- arranger on Singin' in the Rain. During the McCarthy era, Lena was also politically associated with singer/actor Paul Robeson who had been blacklisted. Her association with him also, summarily got her blacklisted too. So she didn't get the part in Showboat and she said that was the reason she quit MGM. But these other factors also played a part. To add insult to injury Ava Gardner had to rehearse with Lena's recordings of the songs from Till clouds roll by to figure out how to lip sync her vocals, which were then being dubed! This time it may be a case where real life racial issues take precedence over the theatrical race issues in the musical production. Lena's song was Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine. I don't believe that MGM ever seriously considered using Lena Horne in this movie. Because there's no way that she could have had an on- screen relationship with a white man at that time in the movies. For the most part her numbers were placed in the MGM musicals where they could be cut by the southern censors, if necessary. The only time she got to star in a movie and have dialogue lines and a real part as such, was in musicals that were all black-- such as Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. And also as I previously stated she couldn't pass for white. Today an actress like Maya Rudolph would be perfect for the part because she can also sing, her mother was the famous black singer Minnie Riperton.

Miska mooska Mouseketeer Mouse cartoon time now is here-- The Mickey Mouse cartoon for today is: Mickey gets busted. Miles, you're still up because we like you----M I L E S

Warren Beatty starred in, directed and produced Heaven Can Wait, an adaptation of the film Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which starred Robert Montgomery.

Belushi was in The Blues Brothers with Dan Aykroyd.

Darryl Hickman

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof would have been my choice for the Oscar. I believe when she was shooting the film that her husband Mike Todd had just died but probably by the time the whole thing came out she was cavorting with Eddie Fisher, so that was a no no. But they're all good performances, aren't they?

Jak-- Liz Taylor's Oscar for Butterfield 8 is one of these deals - - She deserved an Oscar for Suddenly Last Summer because she did all that great screaming -- but we couldn't give her the Oscar then because she was having an adulterous Affair /adulteress marriage with Eddie Fisher and made that sweet "Tammy" Debbie Reynolds unhappy. But we can give it to her now because she almost died of double pneumonia and had to have a tracheotomy, which scarred that beautiful throat. So we think she's been punished enough now, so that she deserves the award that she should have gotten in the first place for Suddenly Last Summer.

Rhonda was quite "striking" in that role. But my favorite nymphomaniac in the movies is the actress who won the Oscar for being a nymphomaniac. Rock Hudson told her you're sick and you need a doctor. I'm speaking of the beautiful Dorothy Malone who cha-chaed her father to death in Written on the Wind.

Agatha Christie's Poirot (David Suchet) Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) Downton Abbey Upstairs, Downstairs (sequel) Sherlock Doc Martin Inspector Lewis( and Sergeant Hathaway) Foyle's War The Vicar of Dibley Last Tango In Halifax Keeping Up Appearances Midsomer Murders (John Nettles episodes) Marsha--- thank you for this great list life edited for my own purposes. I've been collecting these DVDs from the above shows for about 10 years. It's just about my only viewing right now.Midsomer Murders has been at n the top of my list for the last 2 years. *John Nettles is the actor that we all want to hear quoting Shakespeare at a crime scene.* I would only make a few additions-- New Tricks-- I think I inadvertently erased it-- but only with Amanda Redman The last Detective Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes Vicious starring Ian & Derek Banks aka Banksy Mr Selfridge As time goes by(Judi Dench) On MHZ I watch a lot of Scandinavian Mysteries that I cannot pronounce, but I can give you the Romance language ones that are great-- Montalbano-- Luca Zingaretti Spiral Engrenages-- Grégory Fitoussi Maigret-- Bruno Cremer I would invite everyone to watch MHz and see what the world has to offer in terms of mysteries.

7) Spencer Tracy's character has to use karate because he only has one arm.

Fred Astaire in Easter Parade's Drum Crazy Next: A cheating husband

Yes, DJ-- Miss Varden had one of the most fascinating faces in film. DJ, you're up--

At the height of the Depression in 1936 top box office was as follows: 1) Shirley Temple 2) Clark Gable 3) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Clark Gable was the biggest male star of the Depression - - in 1936 he made four movies. One of which was the Blockbuster San Francisco. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made two movies in 1936 - - The Fabulous Swing Time and the equalitarian Follow the Fleet. The box office leader, Shirley Temple made 3 films, including the wonderful Poor Little Rich Girl.

Random Harvest The Major and the Minor Fools for Scandal Fancy Pants Casablanca

My guess was Eve Arden.

Lav, you'Re hot today. And Gloria was in one of my Sirk favorites - - with Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman-- All That Heaven allows And Nita was the Mad Russian in Hogan's Heroes. And by the way, Talbot was Gloria's real name. Lav, it's your turn--