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It didn't sound like "Teddy Bear Picnic" but it was a very up tempo tune. The other great sound effect was at the end Stan falls down the stairs off-camera and the crash makes you think it was several flights of stairs and a lot of stuff was kept in the stairway. I'm glad to have helped. The research was fun.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.... goo goo goo joob.

It does and you are right. It is "Unaccustomed As We Are." I had not got to that tape yet but I looked it up when I saw your comment and there it was. I don't recognize the tune but after Mae gets worked up Ollie puts on the record and the more she yells the more she "conducts" herself. Stan sways to the beat until Mae catches on and as you point out smashes the record on Ollie's head. Good for you. If you have anymore just say the word.

Congratulations Kyle. I'm inclined to try a schedule, intimidated as I am by the fine schedules that were designed. I also think that toward the end of summer might be a good time. Do you think once a theme is determined a longer time frame might get more to participate? I started to put one together and I was amazed at how much work has to go into one of these schedules. It's hard to imagine doing one of these as a full time job.

jdb1: While looking for our film I came across "Chickens Come Home." There is Mae Busch at her wildest. A good bit of it is her wrestling with Stan. It's very physical and very funny. Alas, not THE movie.

Singing - "In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia......"

Larry (using his parentheses) has a point. I try to be most careful about is how the tone of what I say may come across to a reader. I never want to be perceived as angry with or belittle anyone. Even if I have a disagreement I want to be tactful when putting across my point. I even tried to being kind to "that guy" on the thread we're not talking about but it did no good. That took care of that. I don't mind the misspelling or grammar problems.(Nobody's perfect.) I don't know that people should post anything without taking some care about it. Message was edited by: Me

JackBurley: I'm sorry, I didn't express myself very clearly. It was a concert and the movie plot involved something around the concert. It wasn't "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (wither version) and I seem to recall a woman played but I wouldn't swear to that thought. Thanks for the thought though. I don't know much of Borge's film history. I do have a "Best of" kind of DVD and it shows a short he made in Denmark about a band in a park and he played all the parts. (At least when close-ups were done.)

Don't look now but DavidEnglish was able to post some photos on his thread "This Week on TCM." It's a nice touch.

I saw her in the same play when it was in Baltimore. It was called "The Fisher King." I couldn't tell you much about it as I was too busy watching her. One of my favorite films of hers was "Three Came Home," She is an author being kept in a Japanese prison camp. "Thunder On The Hill." "Arise My Love." "It's A Wonderful World." "Midnight." "Tovarich." There are plenty of good ones to enjoy, At my house she's famous.

I can't think of the title of it but there was a western on last week on one of the other cable channels that had me laughing for the few minutes I could stand. In the scene there is a lone cabin with requisite mother and child locked in as cowboy is on a nearby hill watches. The danger is a T. Rex type of dinosaur is eating the cabin to get to the soft, chewy inside. I thought it was Guy Madison but it's not, as far as I can tell. (I know he did Billy The Kid vs. Dracula or some such mess.) Anyone know?

One of the few movies I've ever turned off because I couldn't get through anymore of it. Couldn't make any sense of it.

Borge gave up a career as a legitimate concert pianist for his chosen path. Dudley Moore used to play in Pops concerts with symphony orchestras. Jack Lemmon was a fair amateur. I recall an English film, but not the title, where a concert of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto takes up a good portion of the film. I recall the Levant piece you speak of and it's always been amazing to watch professionals. It's hard enough to play music of that caliber but to do it from memory is all the more amazing.

MattHelm; I think you should change your name to Poirot. Thanks for a real treat. Message was edited by: Me

I second TOOMANYNOTES. Chico is pretty talented pianist. I remember Hoagy from a few movies and he certainly seemed the modest type. Looks like he'd be a nice guy to hang out with. I play some myself and I catch myself looking to see if they are really playing or not. It only bothers me if they're really bad at faking it. I always appreciate those who at least put some effort into looking like they knew what they were doing.

I can't swear to it yet but it sounds like it fits for "Their First Mistake." I have to get my 15 year old tapes to verify. I'll check and let you know. Meanwhile, a short time later..... Looks as if I was wrong. I guess I'll have to go through my collection for you. Oh darn! Message was edited by: Me

If it's the right one, the title is just "Mogambo." Direceted by John Ford. It's a remake of "Red Dust." It also stars Gable and was mad in 1932.

Amazon has it for about $9.00.

Rusty: It's 4000 year old English. Chris P.S. Our friend Larry (vecchiolarry) and his brother had a cameo in it.

> What really puzzles me.......do old people REALLY not > spend their disposable income? Is the young market > REALLY that much better at spending than we are? I > guess so, or we wouldn't be so inconsequential a > target market. I don't think younger people are better at spending their money as they are less particular on how it's spent. It's not fun being on this side of the demographic world. You're ignored at best, avoided at worst. TCM may be the last stop in the cable world for people of our interests and in some cases age, so maybe we're more sensitive to any change. As Larry said we're all terminal so new viewers have to be attracted. The question becomes how it will be done.

I don't mind the credits myself, especially the opening credits because that's how you learn names and their importance to a film or company. I remember once how surprising it was to see an MGM film that didn't have Cedric Gibbons listed as the art director. It is funny sometimes on movies that are very high tech to see how many names they can get on the screen at the same time. My family use to practically beg to fast forward over the credits. They don't anymore. rainee - The nice thing about end credit music is it's uninterrupted. That can be a very enjoyable 6 or 7 minutes. Message was edited by: Me

I am one of the few people I have ever come across that can do the "kneesies, earsies, nosies" bit. I enjoy trying to get people to try this only to watch themselves haplessly attempt this absurd but fun little trick. One of my favorite shorts is "Blotto". They do the same drunk, laughing routine they do in "The Devil's Brother" and it's a riot. Anyone who can watch either of those and not start to laugh (pretty much like Ollie does in the scene) need to be checked for a pulse. There are quite a few others including "Towed In A Hole", "Me and My Pal." (Ollie's wedding is delayed by them putting a puzzle together.) They were indeed great friends. I think that really comes across on screen. It was ok for them to be rough with each other but don't anyone else do it. Ollie was happy enough to let Stan do the writing and creative thinking while he played golf or some hobby. He was also quite content to get less money for the same reason. I hope more shorts are in store for us. Message was edited by: Me

I'm sure it's less about whether anyone will sit through them as it is important for the unions to have their people listed. The only benefit is if you like the soundtrack you get a few minutes of music. (This is only good at home so you can dothings and listen to the music.) I'm sure your average movie couldn't care less about any of the credits.

Hi inglis. You weren't being dumb but sometimes I guess we take it for granted that anyone might know who we're talking about. None of the three of us prior to your post alluded to him being a director. There's a lot of variety in his work and if you like Jimmy Stewart their films should keep you happily entertained for a long time.

It's too bad that most of his reputation rides on the Jimmy Stewart pictures, mostly westerns, though they were generally very good pictures. As has been pointed out his work goes well beyond those films and are done very well. It's good to see some of his other fims for a change.