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"What Best Picture winner?" Oops. My error. And I'll avoid mentioning anyone's "Pappy". So, whaddya got against the Irish? kjk

"A Bette Davis weekend Marathon - play movies that are and are not on DVD." - TripleHHH Though it's not a full weekend, would you settle for 24 hours in the April upcoming? Saturday April 5th PDT http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=PST&oid=4/1/2008 3:00 AM Cabin In The Cotton, The (1932) A sharecropper fighting for better working conditions succumbs to the boss's seductive daughter. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC 4:30 AM Petrified Forest, The (1936) An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC 6:00 AM Corn Is Green, The (1945) A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford. Cast: Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS 8:00 AM Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941) A pilot and a temperamental heiress are stranded in the desert together. Cast: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Harry Davenport. Dir: William Keighley. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC 9:45 AM Letter, The (1940) A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson. Dir: William Wyler. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC 11:30 AM Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939) Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom. Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-106 mins, TV-G, CC 1:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942) A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS 3:30 PM Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2005) TCM original documentary that explores the life and career of legendary actress Bette Davis. BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC 5:00 PM All About Eve (1950) An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-138 mins, 7:30 PM Jezebel (1938) A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 9:30 PM Dark Victory (1939) A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS 11:30 PM Dangerous (1935) A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he's fallen in love with. Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-79 mins, TV-G 1:00 AM Pocketful Of Miracles (1961) A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange. Dir: Frank Capra. C-137 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format Definitely make a point of catching the "Stardust" documentary. Enjoy! Kyle In Hollywood

FrankGrimes - Whaddya got against Best Picture winners? kjk

"...or some other equally unbelievalble "argument" for the other side?" Speaking for the "other ilk", I have always debated this subject with facts, numbers and verifiable observations. Where others see a "trend", some of us know this is "nothing new". What others interpret as "the beginning of the end", some of us call "innovative and fresh". When the answer is "It's just like AMC", the question should be "Why would TCM want to be like a former competitor?" And what someone else calls "unbelieveable", is simple reality to a lot of us. Some of the TCM Faithful fear what they believe is true while others have a faith in what they know is true...and that there is nothing to be afraid of. Kyle In Hollywood

cinemafan - I guess I was a a liitle unclear. Raul Julia didn't perform "Moritat" (aka "Mack The Knife") in the revival - but he did play MacHeath. My friend Roy Brocksmith had the great pleasure of opening the show singing that iconic song. kjk

"On the other hand it means I must not be doing something right." - movieman1957 Not even possible. Like water flowing uphill, it would go against the laws of nature. Kyle In Hollywood

Alright! A new 'sugarpuss' Challenge schedule. That's always like getting a valentine. You always pick such a fun films to premiere and interesting theme ideas. Like 'movieman1957' said, the "Vignette" idea is great. Thank you for remembering Martin Balsam on his birthday. (Maybe you can get his daughter Thalia to host the evening.) And of course this bartender has a soft spot for the Hard Spirits on your schedule - but I love the inclusion of Blithe Spirit. I think TCM has shown only one "American Film Theater" production in the past - Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance with Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield. (Wonderful film.) I'd love to see Stacy Keach's Luther without commercials on TCM someday. And I promise to keep your crush on Murray The Cop a secret. Well done, Ms. O'Shea. Kyle In Hollywood

Victor - But....but...but....Victor. While I am really intersted in reading your fantasy schedule, you do understand that "Summer Under The Stars" devotes an entire day to films of a single actor or actress and not to themes, right? Kyle In Hollywood

"There was a TCM promo on TNT????? Ohhhh........." I saw the TCM "31 Days" Promo locally on MSNBC. (Sponsored by "SoCal Honda Dealers") And another poster has written that the Promo is running in the theaters before feature films. I woudn't read anything into where the promo is being used to draw attention to the "31 Days" Event. Kyle In Hollywood

"31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters" Wednesday February 13th

When y'all are done, I've got the juice boxes and graham crackers ready for your snack time. Then you can choose what you want to do next - finger paints or modeling clay? There is so much mis-information and paranoia being thrown around in here I feel like I am at the Free Republic website. Kyle In Hollywood

"31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters" Tuesday February 12th

cinemafan - Thanks for the additional info. I didn't read the credits - but I kow that Lyle Lovett is singing at the end of the movie under the shots of the studio audience. And the tempo of the Lyle Lovett rendition is very close to the original theatrical style of the song. It should start out close to waltz time and have a plaintive tone. Thanks for letting me know that the song is credited as "Moritat" in the credits also. I knew that was the German Title of "Mack The Knife" as a very dear friend was in a New York/Broadway Revival of "Threepenny Opera" and got to open the show singing "Moritat". This was the 1970s Public Theater revival with Raul Julia. (Does 'threepenny.org' have that recording available online?) His version is even played on the digital cable "Showtunes" music channel on occasion. (R.I.P Roy!) Kyle In Hollywood

Taking a quick break from the "31 Days Of Oscar Posters" - A news story appropriate to this thread. From The New York Times 11February 2008 John Alvin, Designer of Memorable Film Posters, Is Dead at 59 By DENNIS HEVESI John Alvin, who created memorable images for movie posters, billboards and advertisements, including the two fingers touching above the Earth’s surface for “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” died on Wednesday at his home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 59. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter, Farah Alvin, said. Mr. Alvin painted striking images for more than 135 films in a 35-year career, working on projects for directors like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Blake Edwards, Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott. “He captured the heart of whatever the assignment was,” Federico Tio, executive vice president of marketing for Walt Disney Studios from 1990 to 2005, said in an interview on Friday. “John became synonymous with almost all of the recent posters for Disney” — for films including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin,” “The Little Mermaid” and rereleases of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Pinocchio.” “We actually started using him as an adjective,” Mr. Tio said. “We called his work Alvinized.” For the 1974 horror spoof “Young Frankenstein,” Mr. Alvin painted looming stonelike title letters rising from a castle that is superimposed over a full moon, with a crazed Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle as the Frankenstein monster tipping his top hat. For “Blade Runner” in 1982, he used a large composite of Harrison Ford’s face over a futuristic city. His 1994 poster for “The Lion King” shows animals of many kinds surrounding a rock to view the newborn monarch. More recently Mr. Alvin painted posters for the “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” “Lord of the Rings” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” series. John Henry Alvin was born in Hyannis, Mass., on Nov. 24, 1948, the son of Albert and Rena Troutman Alvin, both career Army officers. His daughter said that as a child Mr. Alvin was awe-struck by big-budget movies like “The Vikings” and “The Time Machine” and began sketching his recollections of scenes. In 1971 he graduated from the Art Center College of Design, which was then in Los Angeles and is now in Pasadena. In addition to his daughter, an actress, who lives in Manhattan, Mr. Alvin is survived by his wife, the former Andrea Brown, whom he met in art school and with whom he later worked on several projects; and a sister, Suzanne Alvin of Seaside, Calif. In college, Mr. Alvin did some freelance work for Anthony Goldschmidt, an art director in Hollywood. It led to his big break, when he was asked to paint a poster for Mel Brooks’s comic western “Blazing Saddles.” Mr. Alvin’s poster showed Mr. Brooks wearing an Indian headdress with a headband in Hebrew reading, “Kosher for Passover”; superimposed was an image of Cleavon Little on horseback in sunglasses with a Gucci saddlebag. ===================

"...I don't know how it correlates with Notorious." How did you determine that "Les Enchaines" referred to Notorious? Are you collecting all the foreign language versions of your favorite films too? kjk

Did you say "C'est derrierre?" Are you calling me what I think you are calling me? Harrumph! So what exactly is the translation of "Les Enchaines"? I haven't a clue. Never took French. Kyle In Hollywood

"1945's "And Then There Was None" I will Not give it away. the ending is a great suprise." - vallo I Just Watched That! It was a horrible Public Domain DVD but I saw it. I had never seen any version of "Ten Little Indians" and I can't imagine any version being more fun than this one - C. Aubrey Smith. Mischa Auer. Judith Anderson. Walter Huston. Barry Fitzgerald. Roland Young. Richard Hayden. How could any movie with that cast NOT be pure pleasure. And I didn't figure out the ending before it arrived either. Kyle In Hollywood

Re: Laura In defense of the folks who haven't seen Laura, to the best of my knowledge, the film has never been shown on TCM. So don't feel too guilty if you haven't seen it - yet. And with 20th Century Fox being a bit more generous to TCM with their classic library, maybe it will show up soon. Kyle In Hollywood

cinemafan - The minute you mentioned Lyle Lovett, I knew that was the answer to the end title question. Singer Lyle Lovett is crooning "Mack The Knife" over the End Credits. If the Bobby Darin recording is also listed in the credits of the film, then that "Mack The Knife" must appear earlier in the film. And it may be just a short snippet of the recording. These days, any recording that is heard in a film will be listed in the end credits. {I just stuck in my copy and Bobby Darin is singing "Mack The Knife" under the Opening Credits.} And 'gwtwbooklover', Lyle Lovett is a pretty talented singer/songwriter. (He is the guy with the strange haircut that dated Julia Roberts back in the 90s.) Check Him Out. Kyle In Hollywood Message was edited by: hlywdkjk to add the Opening Credits Info.

Ya know, I'm looking at my plans for the last third of the "31 Days.." event and I am thinking I may need to make a few changes - particularly around the 22nd to the 26th. I don't think L'Ombre d'un Doute and Les Enchaines are worthy of being placed in this thread. Or maybe some viewers of this thread aren't worthy. Hmmm..... Kyle In Hollywood

31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters Monday February 11th

"For myself, the first thing I'd nab is the new Jazz Singer collection on DVD - primarily because of the Vitaphone shorts collection it contains..." - Gregory1965 I was trying to find some collections of musical shorts but they are difficult to locate without an exact title to search for. I think I did see a Paramount (?) set of musical shorts - all jazz bands, I think. Anyone know if it is interesting? Kyle In Hollywood

"I'd go for some of the Criterion DVDs. The one I'd buy first is The Lady Eve..." - Dianabat Actually I have taken the Criterion The Lady Eve home from the library a few times. And the accompanying Sturges documentary was rebroadcast on PBS this past year so I have a copy of that. But keep dreaming for me. And thanks for sharing those daydreams with me. Kyle In Hollywood

FrankGrimes suggested - Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection The Val Lewton Horror Collection Film Noir Classic Collection The F.W. Murnau Collection Fritz Lang Epic Collection Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection The Cary Grant Box Set Lewton. Lang. Murnau. Noir. Boy, I am glad they put names on these posts or I would never had known that FrankGrimes suggested these! Actually, I have two Box Sets you suggest on the short list of potential buys already - Hitchcock and Sturges. If anything, owning those two sets would free up a lot of space on the VHS shelves. (But isn't it odd that North By Northwest in the Masterpiece Boxset?) Kyle In Hollywood

"Glad to hear that you dug the W+W team in RIO RITA!! I totally love those two dudes!!!" - markbeckhuaf It was part of Kentucky Kernels that I caught the other month. The other titles were Hips, Hps. Hooray and (I think) Cracked Nuts. All three of those films were also part of TCM's "April Fools" Festival a few years back. That month they also presented The Cuckoos, Girl Crazy and High Flyers. http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=92571&mainArticleId=92499 (Keep scrolling down to find links to articles about each of the titles. It's a long list of "Fools" they saluted that month.) Kyle In Hollywood