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No, Tracey. Nice try, though. Clue #5 - A deathbed telephone call from her lover.

Wow - A tough one! I love Thelma's flirtation with the elevator man in "Pillow Talk" - When he speeds up and she deadpans "Show off!"... "You are my inspiration - ALMA!" - or Rock's great line refering to her: "She would make a great party girl - for the Russians!" ... But I love Edna's line as Lady Catharine in P&P about the piano (misquote) "I would be quite proficient if I had ever learned to play!" ... I have an old playbill from the 1927 OBC production of "Show Boat" at the Ziegfeld Theater - Edna plays Parthy Ann opposite Charles Winneger's Capt'n Andy and Helen Morgan's Julie - Edna looks suprisingly youthful! ... How could you choose between those two ladies? - Madge

I noticed that TCM is showing hardly any horror movies compared to last year when they showed all of the Universal Horror Classics. Now this year all TCM is showing is Village of the Damned(1960), Phantom of the Opera(1925),Wolf,(1994), Mark of the Vampire, Vampire Bat, The Birds and Psycho. Come on TCM show some old school horror like Halloween and the Exorcist and the Universal Classics.

Enjoying the Joan Crawford movies.The first seven are pretty good. Caught the one at 8pm. Great. Seeing those movies really show what an actress she was.She had that natural talent and fire that separated her from the others at that time.In today's movies world,it hard to find someone with the same energy for acting as Joan Crawford had.She was born to be an actress! There hasn't been someone like her since.I'm a movie fan of her,even at my the current age,26.

No, I'm sorry, Shaina. Here's the next clue: Clue #4 - A visiting friend learns her guilty secret from a landlady's innocent greeting.

Oh Larry - Please excuse me if you have discussed him before - Greg Bautzer!! I am fascinated by him - Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Ginger Rogers, Jane Wyman - I'm sure that is just scratching the surface ... I know that that he married Buffy Cobb and Dana Wynter - he is usually just a passing footnote in the stories of these women's lives - but gosh - he must have had "IT!" Did you ever cross paths? Just plain nosy! Madge

Being one who was raised watching classic films, it would be hard to tell which one was the first I saw. But I've been thinking, it the first classic film I watched would've probably been "Moby Dick" with Gregory Peck. My brother watched "Moby Dick" every single day, and I'm not joking. Every single day. To this day he still loves it and finally went ahead and bought it on DVD. He's a huge Gregory Peck fan.

It was Ogden Nash.

Thanks everybody for your responses. However, I am not sure the DVD-R format would work in my machine. I had the unfortunate experience of purchasing a DVD-R on eBay and finding that my machine could not read it (I have a Panasonic VCR/DVD player). I was totally ignorant of the fact that there are different DVD formats. Luckily the person I purchased it from was willing to take it back. If anyone knows how I could get a copy of the movie in a format my machine could read, I'd be grateful.

Thank you for the heads up. I'm new to this site. However, I don't see the harm in asking the question again.

Gosh - I apologize if my last post took things off topic - let me put it back on topic ... Peter Lawford was married to Pat Kennedy ... Pat Kennedy's father Joe had an affair with Gloria Swanson - star of "Sunset Boulevard" - Voila! Back on topic!! - Madge

Wow Larry - I knew about Montgomery Clift's sad end but not about the sad endings for Libby Holman and her son ... You know the old saying about your "karma" attracting the vibe that it gives out? Montgomery Clift and Libby Holman connecting reminds me of some stories (who knows if they are true) of Judy Garland and Robert Walker leaning on Peter Lawford in times of crisis - poor - but lovely - Peter Lawford was an emotional disaster - funny that they would gravitate towards him for moral support ... and of course later Marilyn ... with all of his reputed "kinks" their must have been some innate sweetness in his soul ...

The very first movie I remember watching was the black and white version of "Black Beauty," way back in 1952ish. I remember I was sick and my mother had put me on the couch in front of the television set, which was a large square box sitting on a table, with a small, round screen. I was totally fascinated and hooked ever more on movies.

All of those were good. But, how about the original "War of the Worlds?" I remember when I was working as a receptionist in a law firm (many moons ago) I was in the senior attorney's office and his dictating machine started making a noise such as the flying saucers in "War of the Worlds." I pointed this out to my boss, who immediately agreed and we started discussing sci-fi flics.

Thanks Larry! I'll give it another shot! -Madge

I've got this thing about cutting into flesh. It really grosses me out. Thats why I refuse to see what I call "cut-em up movies." On the off chance a movie has a close-up of a knife going into skin, I immediately turn my head, close my eyes, whatever works. I, too, can't handle eating gross stuff.

Excuse the language, but I believe is was a euphemism for "**** off," because of the censors.

My memory on the details are a little fuzzy - but I believe that in the late 20's - early 30's - Libby Holman was the prime suspect in the shooting death of her young husband heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Although she was never officially charged I think that the rumors that she was the shooter persisted the rest of her life ... Maybe the fact that Monty Clift and Libby Holman were close companions - like Joe and Norma was coincidence enough - Since Norma shoots and kills Joe, Monty Clift didn't want the old Libby Holman/Reynolds rumors to crop up again - That is 100% amateur psychology on part!! If I have gotten this story wrong - please correct me!

Speaking of Kim Novak - "Strangers When We Meet" with Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau and Ernie Kovacs - I haven't seen it in years .... a movie that is quite similar is "No Downpayment" - has anyone seen that one? It stars Joanne Woodward, Cameron Mitchell, Tony Randall, Sheree North, Jeff Hunter and Barbara Rush - it was sort of like "Knot's Landing" 20 years ahead of time - Lol! - they show it once in a blue moon on Fox Movie Channel ..... Also does anyone have any idea why the Fox channel never airs Jeanne Crain's "Margie?" - I love that movie - that was one of Jeanne Crain's biggest hits for Fox - they show "Apartment for Peggy," "State Fair" and "Pinky" quite often - but not "Margie" .... Hmmmm...

They were all presenters at the Academy Awards

They were all presenters at the Academy Awards

"Jean Eagles" with Kim Novack and Jeff Chandler

Hi everybody - Thank you for the warm welcome! Well I just typed out my Jack Lemmon story -when I hit "post" it told me that "guests were not authorized ...." Grrr!! Didn't that happen to you recently, Larry? Let me see if this goes through - Madge

No, sorry, that wasn't it. Clue #3 - A man and a woman meet again by chance on a snowy New York street.

James Cagney's character uses this term several times in Blonde Crazy and The Public Enemy. It's definitely derogative, but does anyone know what it means?