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SHADOW OF A DOUBT - favourite performances of these actors' *complete* careers: Joseph Cotten Patricia Collinge Hume Cronyn MacDonald Carey Henry Travers

FAVOURITE HITCHCOCK ACTRESSES: 2 OR MORE FILMS: Grace Kelly in Rear Window Ingrid Bergman in Notorious Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps Tippi Hedren in The Birds Joan Fontaine in Rebecca Vera Mils in Psycho

Oh, yes but then the title of the thread couldn't be Vicious Rumours, it would be Rumours We Would Like to Be True....

So would I!

Oh, so that is not just my eyesight. Yes, usually their pictures are better. Quite often, widowers who have been married for decades die shortly after their wives die unless they get remarried.

FEBRUARY 12th Birthdays. Ann Gillis is still with us. Her birthday has its own separate thread so check it out! Today was also the birthday of Lorne Greene and Forrest Tucker.

From now on, all TCM guest programmers will have to have the same nationality as the country in which they air. That way, viewers can feel that he movies they see on TCM are relevant to them. TCM has released the names of 2017 guest programmers and among those will be recording their introductions and conclusions with Robert Osbourne in December. Here are the names for the guest programmers in Canada: March: Justin Beiber April: Seth Rogan May: Ben Mulrooney June: Celine Dion July: the late Lorne Greene as portrayed by Martin Short September: The Weekend October: Celine Dion's night will be repeated November: Former Prime Minister Stephan Harper December: The Late Raymond Burr as portrayed by Martin Short

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FONT: Lew Ayres stars as a man forced into a war with computers who all look like Hal and who are all named Hal. He was losing a battle against aging eyesight and refused to wear eyeglasses. He and others who fought beside him wanted to be able to understand everything that was put before them without asking anyone to read it for them. The latest weapon from the enemy computers is a tiny font called Western Font which grows smaller and smaller as you look at it. Lew must get the code to feed into the master computer to alter the font to a size he can read. Hal: What are you doing, Lew? Lew: I'm trying to increase the size of the font so I can read it. Hal: I can't let you do that Lew......... Lew sees a butterfly icon and pushes it....

This is my favourite Eric Blore role, and my favourite of the Astaire/Rogers musicals. Always happy to see another Top Hat fan.

Favourite Performances in Non-American Films in 1930: in order of preference: Herbert Marshall in MURDER! Emil Jannings in THE BLUE ANGEL

Note: As a cat owner - read, owned by a cat - cat terms just couldn't help popping into my mind.

Ah, you see I joined just in late January, and I think Lawrence was finished that thread by then, at least I did not read it.

Okay. But I wanted to list my favourite film and director, which I did, at least for 1930- All Quiet on the Western Front lives on in my mind whenever I think of war films.

Thanks very much for the link. I just finished watching it and loved it. It reminds me of Woman in the Window with E.G. Robinson.

FAVOURITE ONE-TIME ONLY ACTORS WORKING WITH HITCHCOCK: top 3 Rod Taylor in The Birds Montgomery Clift in I Confess Martin Landau in North By Northwest

Oh, I don't mind at all how "Cliche' the choices may be. I am not afraid to say that most of favourite movies of artists are those that are named by others as their favourites too.

Lucky you to have seen several on the big screen!

ASTA's TOP TEN TITLE SEARCH OF GREGORY PECK MOVIES: 1. To Save a Mockingbird From a Cat 2. Spellbone 3. The Paradine Corgie 4. The Odor 5. The Bones From Brazil 6. The Cat fighter 7. Roving Holiday 8. Pork Chops Hill 9. Twelve O 'Clock Hound 10. Walk the Lane

Yes, he does indeed. It is definitely a pre-code movie. Thanks for the reply.

STAR WITNESS 1931 Crime drama starring Walter Huston as a district attorney trying to get a family to testify to a mob killing they saw through their window. I had recorded this by PVR on TCM recently and watched it for the first time earlier today. The cast includes Dickie Moore as the youngest member of the family and Nat Pendleton pre-The Thin Than where he is a gangster he kidnaps one of the boys to try and keep the family from testifying. I won't go into the plot because I think people can guess what it is. The film has good performances and direction to keep you interested. One thing I had a problem with near the beginning, though. This family lives in a city full of gangsters. The killing happens when they are all sitting down to eat dinner. They hear what they think is a car backfiring before it is obvious that it is a series of shots. Then EVERYONE but the daughter in the cellar looking for jam goes to the window to watch - mother included. Wouldn't everyone's gut reaction in this situation be to lie down on the floor and hide behind furniture so as to not be hit with bullets themselves? Well, then I guess there wouldn't be a movie.....

I love Gene Kelly and anchors Aweigh too. I love all three of the movies he made with Sinatra, my favourite male singer of all time. But yeah, the other movies remain intact.

If you go back to the beginning of this thread, you will see that Bogie will change the calendar year in the title of the thread once a week. We are looking at our Oscar choices for each calendar year during the time that the Academy did not have a single year but instead handed awards over a two year period. Bogie said that we don't have to list only the same number that can be nominated in each category, but the idea was to pick a winner and somehow point that out. And that is for best picture, director, actor, actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress etc. For me, I listed only my winning choice for Best Picture and Best director. On Sunday - at least that will be seven days from the first post in this thread - Bogie will switch to 1931 calendar year movies. Does this help?

WE get Anchors Aweigh instead of Goodfellas. On of the best examples about how the theme for 31 days of Oscar doesn't quite work in my country.

People keep talking about this movie, but I have never had access to it.

He was brought up before the House Un-American Activity Committee but was able to keep working when he pointed out he was a Marine in WWII. I'd love to read that book.