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#2 is Jimmy Dorsey, #4 is Tommy Dorsey, #8 is Gene Krupa.

I shudder to think of such classic dubbed films as Beast of Yucca Flats and The Creeping Terror with subtitles.

The series of photos was taken in 1942, as marked on the bottom of the photo I posted. The photos can be found doing a google images search.

Marie Wallace was Adam's mate, and I think she was lusting after Roger Davis's character, whom she remembered from a past life, or something like that.

And don't forget Doc Brown wondering if Jane Wyman was First Lady, and Jack Benny was Secretary of the Treasury. I've always found the Wyman reference interesting, since the year is supposed to be 1955 - and Reagan had already divorced Wyman and was married to Nancy Davis.

Yes, I've seen many of the blooper reels, and I remember seeing many of the blunders "live." I also remember seeing an interview with Frid once where he talked about how they just kept going no matter what happened. The series had some interesting ideas, but once they started with plots involving a werewolf, creating Adam, and traveling through time like it was nothing, the novelty wore off.

Parker is a real stunner, especially those eyes. I wouldn't sell my soul for her, but I would consider renting it out. The film itself is ok, the ending not too much of a surprise. There seemed to be some quick edits in this film; the viewer is left trying to figure out what just happened while another scene suddenly starts. Still, it was a decent little chiller, without much connection to the original series. House of Dark Shadows was certainly more faithful to the series, although it had more gore. I have to give kudos to Frid for his acting in the film. In the series, he was actually pretty bad (well, most of the performers were), but I put up with it because I enjoyed the shows. Here, he actually looks invigorated ... must have been all that fresh blood.

That is correct. The boy is John Drew Barrymore. This was a promotional photo. There are several of them. Here is another one:

Maybe it's Angels in the Outfield (1951), although the devil has nothing to do with it, and the plot revolves around a manager whose team gets help from an angel if the manager can just learn to control his temper.

Here are three photos of Carrol Borland. At left is a college photo, center is for her screen test for Vampires of Prague (which was later changed to Mark of the Vampire) and right is how she appeared in the film.

I believe the version shown on TCM was from the 50th anniversary release of the film, and featured symphonic works of Dmitri Shostakovich.

I'll add Fear Strikes Out (1957) at 2 a.m. Saturday morning. This was the first film I ever saw with Perkins. He is very effective as baseball player Jim Piersall (although he is lousy when he is actually playing ball). Karl Malden is hissable as the father who keeps driving Perkins to be better. Wooden Adam Williams is perfectly cast as Perkins' shrink. Great score by Elmer Bernstein.

I'm glad it wasn't because of Deliverance.

I don't think Cortez was supposed to be a detective in this one, although he ends up solving the crime and looking like a hero. Agree about Morley - not only was she good in this, she was incredibly sexy.

Apparently the spammers were the only ones who immediately knew how to use the new board format. Inside job.

Thank you (the old-fashioned way).

1. What is the difference between a dot and a star? 2. Anybody know how to clear notifications? We used to be able to delete any/all of them, but now it seems they just pile up.

Since we now have a "thanks" emoticon, it's only fair that we have a "you're welcome" emoticon. For those of you who text, you can have a "your welcome" emoticon.

Yes, I discovered that early this morning. I just wanted to make sure before sharing it that the poster's PM screen would open, and not mine! Thanks for checking that.

If we must have giant emoticons, can they be related to classic films say, something like this?

Send me an e-mail to my aol account (from your personal account, not from here). I have an idea how to access the PMs.

Testing with a .gif: Excellent! Thanks Tom!

You have my personal e-mail address. Send me a message from your personal e-mail account (not from here) to my personal aol account. I want to try an experiment.

no ****

aol is my "America OnLine" account which I use for personal e-mail. I had sent up notifications a long time ago to have PMs forwarded there as well so I wouldn't have to keep logging into TCM just to read them. I just found a "back door" approach to getting into the private messenger, but I can't share it yet because it might send everyone into my PM list instead of their own!