Princess of Tap

" For Heaven rest us, I'm not asbestos" Singer, movie, composer/lyricist

F.Scott Fitzgerald spent a lot of time with Sheilah Graham.

You're Wonderful, Miles! Or as Gene Kelly would say in An American in Paris--Formidable!

Warren William played the doctor Who treated Lon Chaney jr. In the Wolfman.

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GPF-- The question mark refers to the song not to the dog. I don't know the name of the song that Asta and Cary Grant were singing at the piano. In fact, I don't know if it's even a real song. But I think it was the best sequence in the entire movie. So for two years in a row, Asta will be my Best Non-Human Actor and now ditto Musical Performer, as well. His ball and mirror trick in The Awful Truth stole the show and, like every good performance should, advanced the plot! Asta who plays the role of Mr. Smith in The Awful Truth, took that movie name after his great success in the Thin Man series. You can hear Cary Grant call him by his real name, Skippy, while he's imploring him to get in there and sing.

Apologia aux Doyennes- - For Best 1937 Performances I have not seen Fire over England or Night Must Fall. Considering how I feel about Flora Robson and Dame May Whitty, I must apologize for not having them at the top of my list. In as much as I know that their performances must have been superb, I can't include them because I've never seen them. So I do have something to look forward to in the future.

1937 Best Performances by Musical Performers Singing Best solo-- Judy Garland, Dear Mr. Gable - - Broadway Melody of 1938 2) Fred Astaire, They Can't Take that Away from Me, Shall We Dance? 3) Fred Astaire, They All Laughed, Shall We Dance? 4) Fred Astaire, A Foggy Day, A Damsel in Distress( Movie recommended for fun) 5) Sophie Tucker, Some of These Days, Broadway Melody of 1938 Best duet-- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy--Will You Remember (Sweetheart)? Maytime 2) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Shall We Dance? 3) Ralph Bellamy and Irene Dunne, Home on the Range ( Kansas state song), The Awful Truth 4) Cary Grant and Asta, ?, The Awful Truth Best Tap Dance-- Fred Astaire, I Can't Be Bothered Now-- A Damsel in Distress Runner-up - - Eleanor Powell, Broadway Rhythm - - Broadway Melody of 1938 Best Musical Production Number--Czarita-- Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy-- Maytime Best Comedy Musical Performance - - Joyce Compton - - My Dreams are Gone with the Wind-- The Awful Truth

1937 Supporting Players are: Best supporting actor 1) Erich von Stroheim - -La Grande Illusion 2) Sam Jaffe - - Lost Horizon 3) Ralph Bellamy - - The Awful Truth 4) John Barrymore - - True Confession 5) Alexander D'Darcy - - The Awful Truth 6) Alan Mowbray--Topper 7) Andy Devine - - A Star is Born Best supporting actress 1) Cecil Cunningham - - The Awful Truth 2) Billie Burke -- Topper 3) May Robson--A Star is Born 4) Andrea Leeds- - Stage Door 5) Marjorie Main - - Dead End 6) Esther Dale - - The Awful Truth 7) Sophie Tucker - - Broadway Melody of 1938

Hint: The prostitute has worked as a dancer.

My 1937 performances come from these 15 movies that I have seen at least twice: 1) Lost Horizon - - Capra-- Columbia 2)La Grande Illusion--Renoir--RAC 3) Make Way for Tomorrow - - McCarey - Paramount 4) The Awful Truth - - McCarey -- Columbia 5) Maytime - - Leonard -- MGM 6) A Star is Born - - Wellman - - Selznick 7) Pépé Le Moko - - Duvivier - - Paris - Film 8) Nothing Sacred - - Wellman - - Selznick 9) Young and Innocent - - Hitchcock - - BG 10) Dead End - - Wyler - - WB 11) Heidi - - Dwan-- 20th Century Fox 12) Stage Door - - La Cava - - RKO 13) Topper - - McLeod - - Hal Roach 14) True Confession - - Wesley Ruggles - - Paramount 15) Broadway Melody of 1938 - - Del Ruth Best actress 1) Beulah Bondi - - Make Way for Tomorrow 2) Janet Gaynor - - A Star is Born 3) Shirley Temple - - Heidi 4) Mireille Balin - - Pépé Le Moko 5) Nova Pilbeam - - Young and Innocent 6) Irene Dunne - - The Awful Truth 7) Jeanette MacDonald --Maytime Best actor 1) Jean Gabin - - Pépé Le Moko 2) Jean Hersholt - - Heidi 3) Ronald Colman - - Lost Horizon 4) Fredric March - - A Star is Born 5) Derrick de Marney-- Young and Innocent 6) Jean Gabin - -La Grande Illusion 7) Victor Moore - - Make Way for Tomorrow

Shirley Jones

Mike Mazurki kinda followed Dick Powell around in Murder My Sweet.

I've already met Lena Horne so I have to go with Dinah Shore. Next: Perry Como or Andy Williams?

To my knowledge Bob Fosse never worked as anybody's dance assistant at a Hollywood studio.

Dear Bogie: I promise that I shall seriously try to comply to these rules because I think the fine of watching a Robert Taylor period costume movie is cruel and unusual punishment. But it's a great way to keep your subjects in line. As a princess - - even though I'm just a princess of the buck and wing-- I think I would have threatened my subjects with-- Tony Curtis in the Black Shield of Falworth or Paul Newman in The Silver Chalice-- but these are only alternate suggestions, nothing really beats Robert Taylor in The Knights.

If you wanted to interview Gable,you'd have to call Howard Strickling and he'd give it to you himself. After MGM, I'm sure Gable was too cheap to hire anybody to give interviews for him. Robert Taylor's wife, Ursula Thiess said that he was so dependent upon MGM that he didn't even know how to make a dinner reservation. Jimmy Stewart said he really appreciated how MGM took care of everything-- your teeth and all that. The studio really controlled lives in those days. Which reminds me that MGM forced Robert Taylor to marry Barbara Stanwyck and forced Clark Gable to marry Carole Lombard - - or face the consequences i.e.,the morals clause. But they weren't really told so much to marry those women as to stop seeing them or marriage or---else. The studio ontrolled every part of your life - - Abortion ordered at MGM - - Both Judy Garland and her husband Music Man David Rose were under contract to MGM. When Judy got pregnant, the studio forced her to have an abortion because they didn't think motherhood suited her image at that time.

I thought he looked more like Van Morrison 1967.

I can only reply with my favorite Rolling Stones song-- I used to love them but it's all over now.

Back on the subject of melodic songs - - I could run off probably easily 50 songs that Lennon and McCartney wrote that were melodic. That's what I mean. The Stones just aren't that good when it comes to that side of it. They do the crude, vulgar, raunchy stuff and they do it well. And that's where they belong. They really know how to play tuff rock and roll - - with the blues edge--and they play it well. Sometimes you can appreciate and enjoy art without wanting to have a personal relationship with the artist or from an artist who you don't respect--whose behavior or personal life you find to be immoral. Afterall, it did take the Israelis a long time before they allowed Wagner to be played in Israeli concert Halls. The Stones are good at rock and roll-- I just personally don't care for them as people.

I'm not stuck in the past-- The Stone's died when Brian Jones drowned and that's where I left them. I don't want to believe that the other members had anything to do with his murder. But we'll never know, will we? Do you even know who formed the band originally? And don't mention girlfriends unless you're going to go on a suicide watch for Mick Jagger's girlfriends. The last one committed suicide and there were two suicide attempts in the sixties - - as I can recall something to do with Marianne Faithfull and the young lady name shrimpton. As far as Keith Richards is concerned you will have to ask somebody else because there are some things that are so murky that I don't have anything to do with them. But it's only rock and roll and I like it.

Au contraire - - I'm very familiar with the stones had all their singles and all their albums in the 1960s. Forgot all about Lady Jane but I've got to say. I really enjoyed their music when Brian Jones was alive afterwards, I just lost interest. Since I bought all those records anyway I suppose I'm rather open-minded

I thought this came from a movie called as young as you feel - - that I saw a couple years ago on DVD. Of course, we're talking about You Make Me Feel So Young - hit by Frank Sinatra. Wiki says it was written for three little girls in blue - - by Mack Gordon and Josef Myrow-- sung by Vera-Ellen which makes no difference because she never sang anyway-- she was always dubbed. Anyway the song belongs to Frank. PS-- do you know if there's a video of Jerry Lewis singing those were the good ol Days?

As tears go by is the only melodic song I remember the stones doing, unless you count Ruby Tuesday. Remember these are the guys who immortalized--Under My Thumb,**** Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Miss You, and any other sexist crap you can think of.

Nip-- what difference would it make if they colorized The Invisible Man--you still couldn't see him anyway. The closest thing to seeing him were his footprints in the snow. They're just white anyway. At least if they colorized Frankenstein, you could see that he was Green.