coffeedan
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Friday's question: In what film does Bette Davis say, "Mustard!" right after kissing her leading man?
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All right, I'll end the suspense. Claude Rains said it in DECEPTION (1946), the last of four films he made with Bette Davis. (Interesting that the other three films -- JUAREZ, MR. SKEFFINGTON, and NOW, VOYAGER -- came up as guesses, too!)
And moviejoe, where you been all this time? Good to see you back!
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Thursday's question: In what movie does Claude Rains say, "They call me a great man, but it's the loneliest animal in the world"?
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Yeah, you got it, Scarlett! 'Way to go! SUDDEN IMPACT (1984) was the third of four movies starring Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" Callahan. Matter of fact, I use an altered version of a Dirty Harry speech for the message on my answering machine. It either breaks people up or scares them to death!
By the way, Scarlett, I really liked your post on how you organize and store your DVDs. I've used albums to store my old radio CDs, but never gave a thought to storing my DVDs the same way. You make it sound like fun -- I'll have to mull that over.
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Wednesday's question: Lest we forget, in what movie did Clint Eastwood famously say, "Go ahead -- make my day"?
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Good guesses all . . . but incorrect!
Yesterday's answer: Jodie Foster, after winning the Best Actress Oscar for THE ACCUSED (1988).
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The 1945 remake of THE PETRIFIED FOREST substituting Nazis POWs for gangsters is called ESCAPE IN THE DESERT. And the Nazis were left-wing thugs, being members of Germany's National Socialist party. (The German acronym for the party gave us the word Nazi.)
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Gosh, I didn't realize I had written a post that was so "sticky-worthy." Lynn, you and anybody else are free to stick that post where you feel it will save a lot of explanation, with my compliments.
> So I still have a few questions. If WB controls TCM,
> then how come TCM doesn't control films made by
> Warner Brothers (Clockwork Orange, Blazing Saddles
> etc.
Because in 1955, Warner Brothers sold off its entire pre-1949 library of features, cartoons, and live-action shorts to a TV programming distribution firm, Associated Artists Productions. AAP was absorbed by United Artists in the early 1970s, and UA itself merged with MGM in 1979, which was bought by Ted Turner in 1986. That's how all of that ended up together.
Warner Brothers (the studio) and TCM are complete, separate corporate entities within the AOL Time Warner empire. So if TCM wants to broadcast a post-1949 Warner Brothers film, they have to lease it from Warner Brothers. I don't understand the arrangement entirely, but that's how it goes.
Up until 1999 or thereabouts, MGM was distributing the TCM library on video and DVD, but later that year they struck a new distribution deal with Warner Home Video, which has distributed TCM-owned product to the present day.
One misperception needs to be corrected: TCM did not purchase the Paramount titles mentioned outright -- they leased the broadcast rights. And I'm wondering if they got the rights to any other Paramount silents besides WINGS . . .
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I continue to have odd problems on this site -- today I signed on and could access every folder except Trivia!!! Had to restart my computer before I could get in here. Anyway --
Tuesday's question: After winning the Oscar for Best Actress, who said: "I never thought I'd have a nomination . . . I never thought anybody ever took any of my pictures seriously"?
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Good job, vallo! You are correct!
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What's this about sick elephants?
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Monday's question: What British stage and film actor's autobiography is titled A Victorian in Orbit?
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Greetings, everybody! Since I recently purchased more shelving for my growing movie collection, I decided to take inventory this weekend and found I have 1,074 films shelved in the hall of my apartment! And even though I have films from every era on those shelves, slightly more than half were released before 1935. I guess the late silent, early talkie, and pre-code eras hold the same fascination for me today as they did back in my high school days.
Then I got to thinking about those folks posting here who have way larger collections than I have, upwards to 5,000 films. Where do you store them? In the basement? The den? Does the whole house become your film library, and you sleep in the garage? I've often wondered.
For now, let's get on to this week's movie trivia . . .
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Omigosh, I thought I posted the answer here on Saturday, but I guess it didn't take. Vallo, you were indeed correct -- the song was "You're All The World To Me." Now let's hurry over to this week's doings . . .
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Yes, they were both on the USC football squad when John Ford cast them in bit parts in his 1929 picture SALUTE.
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> Was Ward Bond ever in a John Ford movie in which John
> Wayne did not appear?
Just off the top of my head: MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, FLESH, ARROWSMITH and UP THE RIVER, for starters. Bond and Ford worked together long before John Wayne came into the picture (literally).
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In that number, the movie camera and the room (as well as the furniture in it) were kept in fixed positions, while the room was rotated on a kind of crane a quarter-turn at a time. As you can probably guess, the number was shot silent, with the music and Fred Astaire's taps added later.
In fact, If you watch the sequence carefully, you can see Astaire "test" the stability of each surface before he dances on it.
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Friday's question: When Fred Astaire danced on the ceiling in the 1951 film ROYAL WEDDING, what song was he dancing to?
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Welllllll . . . you're half-right, scarlett.
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. spoke those words in the sound prologue to THE IRON MASK (1929), his last silent film which concluded the story of the Three Musketeers -- and Fairbanks's own silent film career.
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Thursday's question: What film legend's first words in a talking picture were, "Come with me to France of old, to fiery days when blood was young and hate was bold . . ."?
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Okay, I'll give to you both!
Volney was the lion who opened each film from the Samuel Goldwyn studio, carrying over the job when that studio merged with Metro Coporation and Louis B. Mayer Productions to become MGM in 1924, making him their first "Leo the Lion."
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Wednesday's question: His name was Volney and he died in Overton Park Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee in 1944. What important part did he play in film history?
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Good guess, Ken! You are correct!
Laemmle originally offered Karloff the title role in THE INVISIBLE MAN, but only if he took a cut in pay. Naturally, Karloff turned it down, and it marked the film debut of Claude Rains.
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To search the schedule by year:
1. Click on Site at the top of the page, to the immediate left of the search window.
2. Type the year you want in the search window.
3. Hit GO.
4. The results will be listed under Schedule Matches.
"It's Great To Be Nominated..."
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By the way, the first film with a scene in three-strip Technicolor was THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE with Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald, released earlier in 1934. I think HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD might have been the second.