GregoryPeckfan
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Wait, they are actually on the TV now, too? Is it some Korean guy who keeps repeating the name of a baccarat website? Is Ben trying to tackle him?
(Just kidding, but that would be amusing!)
I think it is the same person that kept interrupting the flow of the Golden Globes show a while back and who did *not* amuse Meryl Streep.
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A spammer is on TCM in G.D. right now and is taking over......
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That has to be one of the greatest live interview events ever recorded. Shelley was on first and was her usual delightfully bubbly and exuberantly loquacious self, then Oliver came on and she kept interrupting him. It was hilarious. And then he started verbally jousting with her, about how men were better chefs and better at everything and Johnny Carson just kept his mouth shut knowing this was great tv. Then they went to commercial, and come back as Shelley from offstage walks up and pours a glass of wine right over the top of Reed's head. He did absolutely nothing and was stonefaced with no reaction as Carson cracked up. I had to give Ollie some credit for taking it that well. I believe you can pull up the whole segment on Youtube and trust me it is worth seeing.
Yes, it was Carson. I do not know why I said Cavett. Must have been thinking of Cavett.
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My reply clearly is about Screen Characters I would love to pitchfork:
Pat Kroll - A Double Live
Alice Tripp - A Place In the Sun
Willa Harper - Night of the Hunter
Eva Bardeman - Executive Suite
Charlotte Haze - Lolita
Now all of these characters were played by Shelly Winters. One of the best actresses at playing pitchfork worthy characters in the biz.
Some may be surprised I didn't mention June Allyson. But with June even when she plays nice sweet gals I still feel myself looking for the pitchfork. But that wasn't the theme of this thread.
Shelly Winters played all the characters, true. But that shows her what a great actress she was.
I saw an interview she did with JOHNNY CARSON and she appeared with Oliver Reed. They got into an argument and she poured liquid over his head.
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I think June even had the ability to annoy Jimmy Stewart when she played his wifey.
The only movie I ever liked her in was that oddball one called "The Shrike" I think. In it she plays a really even more annoying part than the usual Juney saccharine type.
The really odd thing about June and her marriage to Powell is that he directed her in several things and would call her "pumpkin head" on the set.
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Since it appears TCM has acquired an unrestored 'Public Domain' print of FRENCHMAN'S CREEK then it's free to air . . . so TCM figures to air it. Ropey quality or not, it's one less movie to pay a rental fee to obtain.
Well, F.C appears to not be in the public domain as Clore said. But this copy certainly looks like public domain.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BARBARA HALE is 94 today
I'm a big fan of Perry Mason. I love Barbara Hale.
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His performances are fabulous, but the characters played by *Paul Lukas* in most of the movies he made make me want to pitchfork him - especially in The lady Vanishes
Fred McMurray in in The Apartment too. love the film, but Fred - well - he was a better actor than people gave him credit.
The ironic thing about Fred in The Apartment was that it was supposed to be Paul Douglas who played Fred's role.
Then Douglas died. Wilder called up Fred and asked him to take over the role.
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I own both of those films, Lawrence!
To join this club you need to admit if you alphabetize your dvd's?
Also, a true addict has at least once bought the same title twice, because they have too many films on dvd. I had to start making a list of what I own since it was up in the 600 film stratosphere and I'd forget what I had already. Thanks!
I alphabetize my DVDs and I still have VHS. I never did get into Blue ray.
As for multiple copies of movies. Due to boxed sets and buying DVDs of old VHS films I have more than one copy of;
The 39 Steps
I routinely PVR movies I own on DVD or VHS when they air on TCM or Silver Screen Classics (Canadian channel) so I can watchthem multiple times.
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To me you hit on the only thing worth discussing here related to the showing of this poor quality public domain version:
Should TCM show a film or NOT when the quality is less then stellar but the price is 'right' (in this case FREE)?
If I was the director of programming at TCM I would have NOT shown this film. But I understand why many would say that is nuts under the 'better to show something then nothing' guideline.
If they had showed it once only - which is not what has happened I would agree with seeing I as I had not seen it before and am a fan of the writer. I want to see everything she wrote that was adapted at least once.
But regarding public domain movies, the channel we have in Canada called Silver Screen Classics has what they call "Condensed Classics' and it regularly shows Public Domain movies cut down to fit into an hour with 10 minutes of commercials and a Svengoolie like commentary by two people appearing in black and white.
I just cannot see TCM doing this.
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I missed it. Thanks for the review.
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1. John Steinbeck appeared as himself to introduce the stories by O Henry in O Henry's Full House which included Richard Widmark.
2. Richard Widmark appeared in the film How the West Was Won with James Stewart
3. James Stewart appeared in the movie Firecreek with Henry Fonda
4. Henry Fonda appeared in the movie Once Upon a Time in the West with Charles Bronson.
5. Charles Bronson appeared in the movie The Great Escape with Steve McQueen
6. Steve McQueen appeared in The Towering Inferno with Paul Newman
Next:
Vivian Leigh
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X - Codename of Richard Attenborough's character in The Great Escape
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Ulmann, Liv
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His performances are fabulous, but the characters played by *Paul Lukas* in most of the movies he made make me want to pitchfork him - especially in The lady Vanishes
Fred McMurray in in The Apartment too. love the film, but Fred - well - he was a better actor than people gave him credit.
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Next Category: Best Supporting Actress for 1940:
Judith Anderson in Rebecca
Florence Bates in Rebecca
Gail Patrick in My Favourite Wife
Carmen Miranda in Down Argentine Way
Sara Haden in The Shop around the Corner
Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath
Ida Lupino in They Drive By Night
Barbara O'Neill in All This and Heaven Too
Ruth Gordon in Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Ruth Hussey in the Philadelphia Story
Virginia Weilder in The Philadelphia Story
Hedy Lamarr in Boomtown
Maureen O'Sullivan in Pride and Prejudice
WINNER: JUDITH ANDERSON in REBECCA
*edited for His/My Favorite Wife
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Well, the reason he gave was the same as the one George C. Scott would give many years later in that he did not believe that actors should compete with one another. He was very gracious about it as one would expect.
That is another reason to not accept it, yes. He did accept an honourary Oscar eventually. It is interesting that he did not win the Oscar for The Great Dictator - he would likely not have accepted that either. But since Speedy mentioned the time he was banned from the Us, I thought that I would mention the aspects of the movie which bothered Chaplin regardless of his nominations.
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GPF, I just spent like five hours reading all the literature on setting up my cable in a bedroom and programming all the channels. Whew! Who knew that if you take more than two minutes to replace the batteries in the new remote that came with the digital box, that you would lose all the programming already inset.
Don't you just have to put the red, white and yellow jacks into place on both units for hooking up your new dvd player? Or do you have your HDMI connection going through the dvd player and into the tv HDMI connection?
I heard Dargo is good at mechanical things. I bet he would come over and do this for you, if you promised him some snacks and paid him with a dvd of "You Bet Your Life" episodes.
Or I can give you an old Marx Brothers poster I used to have up my basement as payment for him. Just ask!
Hmmm. I might take you up on that poster offer...
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Ha, ha, CaveGirl.
I bought the DVD of Hitchcock, the movie about the making of Psycho. I have not seen it yet.
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Bonita Granville was in These Three with Merle Oberon
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Oooh, that is a touch choice.
I would pick Audrey because she worked with Gregory Peck in her film debut.
Next:
Would you rather be an actor/actress on the set of a Star Trek movie, a Star Wars movie, or pay people money to avoid being cast in a science fiction movie?
*A to Z of actresses and actors*:)
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Woodward, Joanne