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I don't think that counts Valentino since he had the first name to Rudolph right? It would be like Bogie for Borgart. I mean the one namer to appear on the screen on a screen credit like Cher does for her movies like Moonstruck starring Cher.

Like the name Cher or Ann-Margaret who was the first one name moniker in Hollywood or the earliest one can recall? thanks for the info.....gwtwbooklover

How about Patty Duke talk about an insider to many facets of Hollywood being a child star, working in the infancy of TV (if you will) and the working with different directors and actors and on stage. I have always liked Patty Duke.

Congrats on your DVD player and your find of The Adventures of Robin Hood-I love that movie. Our DVD player quit so I have to use the Playstation 2 which is picky about what it will or won't play. Like I bought the 68 Comeback Special with Elvis Presley and it won't show the 2nd disc but it will the other 2 discs. You do know that now that you bought the DVD Player they'll come up with another way to render the movies improve the technology LOL I hear you about coming into the 21st century but I still love my 8-track player.

My ISP sends me newsletters and they alerted me to another website Book for Soldiers a wonderful website if you get a chance go there. How this pertains to my ? is on this website you can send items to soldiers who need them who post their addresses. This may be CDs or food or books. I have books that are related to Hollywood like a Bing Crosby book called Call Me Lucky that I do not want anymore. I thought wouldn't it be cool if we here at the TCM website could exchange books or clippings. The sender would send them at their own expense and no selling of items would be involved. This may be a bad idea may open a can of worms this is not my intentions. I just finished a George Burns book that I'd like to pass on to another who is truly interested. I have mulled this around in my mind for awhile espescially after I cleaned my book shelf and was going to send the books back to the Salvation Army. I do not think the Crosby book would go on the BFS website and then I thought of why not on TCM. On the BFS website you log on and you receive messages only you can read. Of course, this will go against the keeping my ID private that I wanted to protect when I first logged on so like I said this may be a bad idea HOWEVER sometimes better ways of doing things come from the introduction of an idea and maybe there is another way of doing things I haven't thought of? I also have another ? for anyone-on the Lisa Marie Presley website they can post pictures can we do this here and no one has or is it not possible. I mean let's say someone had a good picture of Clark Gable and they wanted to post it can we? I have no idea how to do it but no one has yet and wondered if it was possible if I knew how(which would be a miracle to teach this old dog a new trick).

Guys I love to watch Gene Kelly dance. I also love to look at him oh those wonderful legs. I wish I could be ravaged by Gene Kelly sorry to be so blunt. What a pleasure it would be to dance with Gene Kelly or to his his voice I liked his voice. His singing was passable but it was his presence and the skillfull dancing that endears him to me. Enjoyed him in Inherit the Wind also a refreshing change of pace. Did anyone see him on Broadway? He was on the stage with My Pal Joey-would have loved to have seen this. The Frank Sinatra one on film isn't bad but would have liked to seen Kelly's take on it.

My father thinks Cyd has the best pair of legs he has ever seen. I remember her dancing at the Oscars in the late 80s or early 90s. She looked beautiful. It is hard to pick but my heart, my eye always goes to Ann Miller. Her delivery of the dance and of the lines she spoke were eyecatching. She in the movies always seem approachable were Cyd seemed aloof. I could watch them dance till kingdom come but I could watch the movie Miller is in from start to finish and I cannot the ones Cyd made. Is Silk Stockings the movie were she plays a russian woman and Peter Lorre is in it? I hate that movie. I haven't run into many movies Miller was in that I hated. Why couldn't Miller be a major player a leading lady like Cyd was given a chance to do instead of in the background? The dancing by these 2 ladies though is wonderful.

dina kudos on your website I read the Glenn Ford interview with much interest thanks for the info and a pat on the back for going thru the process of setting it up.

So aggravating I knew that this is the movie you were refering to when I saw the mame of your post. I saw it and can't remember the title but I know it. Could almost swear that Russ Tamblyn was in it. The kids decide to help each other out although they don't get along but they put their differences aside to solve the crime because it is being pinned on one of the kids dad. man! maybe you can go to the Internet movie database website IMDb.com you could put in Russ' name and hunt by title. Or you can wait till someone smarter than me comes along (and they will) and answers your question.

Sorry to post kind of off centered but a performer who knocked my socks off and was different than how we saw the actor/actress previously is Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary Peolple-WOW Then there's the Flemming story how he directed some of the Wizard of Oz.

Van I hear you I once heard someone say Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did in a dress, in high heels and backwards!

I just thought of another thing IMO that becomes a legend and it is how they carry themselves how they do without a script. The biggest test of this is latenight shows or events that allow free thought with their own words or off the cuff comments(that make sense) or humour. Which leads me to a Legend I haven't seen make the list here and that is John Travolta. Now I might taKe a lot of flak for this contribution but this man has been plugging away at the silver screen for awile now. And not to be forgotten his TV time. I haven't seen Ladder 49 and won't for awhile(smalltown you know and no movie theatre though someone just bought our local one at a timer but haven't opened up yet) but what caught my eye was Travolta received second billing behind Phoenix. Joaquin Phenix was on David Letterman and couldn't put 2 thoughts together and I said to my son without a script he is lost and it was very disappointing. I know stars aren't suppose to sound like they do in movies but I couldn't understand what Joaquin was saying he seemed to have an accent I couldn't understand I thought he was American? I mean it wasn't a southern accent or boston accent or nothern accent it wasn't an english accent it was a muddled accent. Anyway back to John he was on the following night and he was terrific. I have also seen him on Leno and he was good there also.I mean he could communicate he was funny and so gracious. A great talker. Now I know John has been in some real stinkeroos but mark my words he is heading into his best work yet. I also like how he has succedded(msp-sorry) and being so succesful so young and hold onto his money(which I'm sure someone looked out for him which isn't the case with ALOT of stars) and his pursuit into a gratifying hobby which I'm sure the acting fuels but I'd bet he'd enjoy it more and probably would do it only if it wasn't an expensive hobby. Sort of reminds me of Bogey with his boat or Crosby with his hunting, fishing, and golf. John is into airplanes. What I also like is how he has changed and he has in appearance and he plugs along. No one can look like they use to man he was so good looking in Grease and Saturday Night Fever and he is still good looking to me but he has had his overweight moments like with Pulp Fiction but he still acted his Butt off(not sure if the weight gain was for the role I don't think so correct me if I am wrong) He hasn't said well I don't look like I use to so I won't play in the movies anymore he just keeps on working. Now don't get me wrong as a woman it does irk me that old John will be making movies and have a longer career than his female counterparts. That being said talent gets you lots of places and John Travolta hasn't started yet he's just getting warmed up.

I saw a biography once of Debbie Reynolds and learned she had purchased some of stuff on sale when MGM sold a boatload of stuff. My question is it was open to anyone I assume if you had the money or peolple were allowed to look at the items. Did any of our TCM website family buy any items and what or did you see them on display? I remember TCM showing a fill in of the sale( they showed the items in boxes and labeled I saw a box labeled Father of the Bride Elizabeth Taylor) between movies and I thought how sad and then MAN I wish I could have been there however I was 3 in 1972.

Does anyone know the reason Ted Turner gave to support his move to colorize movies?

Butterfield 8?-probably not- not sure when she became uh a mistress from the original role she played in Liggetts life.

Steep made I think Shedevil was the title with Roseanne Barr and Ed Begley Jr. Which attempted to be a comedy. I didn't like it and was embarassed for Streep. I think legends should be humble, gracious, and down to earth and IMO Streep has this in droves. She is a class act and this is very becoming to a legend. What I mean is her believe in her other actors her cheering them on like her friend Cher and during her acceptance speech for one of her Oscars so down to earth, so sweet and very pregnant. She's a momma with a very interesting job. She dropped her speech it was written on a piece of folded paper and she went to retrieve it pregnant and all and Sylvester Stallone said "I would have gotten that for you" but she picked it up saying it's my speech and gave a small nervous laugh. She speaks from the heart about she will be someone who thanks alot of people-how great to remember everyone. Occasionally she makes some doozies but she is a Legend.

So Jan it is like Yahoo.com?

Thanks for the info I forgot about that scene with the sugar it is playing in my mind right now it is very powerful. I like Dr. Zhivago also it is a beautiful tragic movie. I have posted this before but you are new and you know I didn't know that was Rod Steiger playing the role he played. I had seen In the Heat of the Night long before Zhivago but never put two and two together until a few times seeing Zhivago and it may have been on a block of Steiger movies-what a talent he was.

good job ike veil, sugar, and plank did they mention sugar in the movie since it is saccharrin(msp) in the book it has been awhile since I've seen Zhivago don't recall the veil part and did you mean the plank of wood Zhivago was collecting to burn? thanks for the expaination for cinemadummies like me. I get the other clues once I knew the name of the movie.....goood job ike

A wrong guess to get a new clue Mutiny on the Bounty.

Someone mentioned Lauren Bacall not being a Legend till she married Borgart. It is true that this established Lauren as a fixture in Hollywood but it was also posted that she could barely act or sing. Lauren in her book By Myself made many references to her not so good voice but she was asked to sing and she gave it a try but barely acting?-she wrote of her time spent in small productions on stage and her early acting lessons and attempots at acting. She saw it as a way to escape from the pain she felt being jewish and the lack of having a father in her life. She also tells how modeling which is what really sent her to Hollywood or atleast got her under the radar of Howard Hawks. She also acted her butt off against Bogart being so young and innocent-you can't convey that magnetism without ever living it if you can't act. She also writes off how Hollywood saw her as a part of Bogie and they thought her in that role Bogie's widow not Lauren the actress so she went back home to NY and the stage where she started and the rest is history. One cannot act on stage and receive those accolades without acting talent.

? is this where they show a rocket hitting the moon in the eye? It shows people industriously putting a rocket together(mostly women) and then they send it and it shows the moon with a rocket in the eye?

lovesoldmovies04-we've talked about Scarlett the sequel to GWTW in anither forum if you want to see it it is in the General Discussions under the title "Gone With the Wind" 65th Anniversary. I hated it. However I did like how Scarlett grew up.

sorry it has taken me so long to respond to your question loveoldmovies04 what part of the book GWTW I like best? I have read and re-read that book my current copy which I found at a yard sale is in 4 parts. I re-read and re-read where Rhett tells Scarlet he is leaving. It makes me cry. It is also hard for me to read and not feel the need to breathe life into the Ashley character so I could slap him. He strings Scarlett along just a little kiss there a fleeting glance here oh I get so MAD I could scream. I also think the movie version of GWTW doesn't do the book version of Scarlett a fair shake. You don't get to know her to understand her in the movie as you do in the book. Alot of people think she is a B**** but she's actually very complex. What I like best is the conversations between Rhett and Scarlett and how they are serious and funny and Romantic whichever turn they take. I esp. liked the part of the book where Rhett comes to call on Scarlett and her heart is heavy and he asks her to be his mistress and all this episode of the book entails how funny. What is heartbreaking is how Rhett loves her but he won't say and Scarlett doesn't realiize she loves him after all this time.

Was Wizard of Oz in the offering for best pic in 39? I do like that true artistically done films get recognition that is due them like Beauty and the Beast when it was up for best pic. If it wasn't nominated I wouldn't be surprised but I'd be disappointed. My contribution to this topic Biggest Letdown- Moulin Rogue I saw it and wondered what the big deal-it sucked what a slap in the face to movie musicals- a stinkeroo.