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While watching Ryan Murphy's new series, HOLLYWOOD, the name of actor Trent "Junior" Durkin was mentioned. Jim Parsons plays, Henry Willson, an agent probably best remembered for "discovering" Rock Hudson. Apparently Willson was considered by many to be a rather unsavory character. He was Durkin's agent. He also served as his guardian after the boy's mother had died. Years ago I read somewhere Junior Durkin had been killed in an automobile accident while vacationing with Jackie Coogan and his dad, Jack. I was reading a little more about him today. Durkin's was a short life. He was only 19 when he was killed. Several of his films should be in the TCM library. Perhaps it would be nice to remember this gifted actor with a night of some of his films. The following link brings you to a seemingly well researched blog about Durkin. Check it out. I think you'll find it of interest as well. http://briankeithohara.blogspot.com/2009/08/trent-bernard-junior-durkin.html Here are some quotes culled from the blog regarding his death: Close friend, Anglo-American Actress, Screenwriter and Director, Ida Lupino attended Trent's funeral and chose to be buried a short distance away. She was a very close friend of Trent and his sisters, Grace and Gertrude. Ida would tell friends for years afterwards, that the day Junior died was one of the saddest days of her life and his death was a loss from which she and their friends never totally recovered. A couple of sources indicated that she avoided talking about Trent, if possible, because she would break down and cry if she did. "Today, few people remember Durkin. One person who remembers him well is the now 94-year-old Diana Serra Cary. Once world famous as the child star Baby Peggy, Cary referred to Durkin's funeral as "the saddest event I have ever been a part of in my life." Junior Durkin's Filmography (He only made ten films) 1935 Chasing Yesterday 1934 Little Men 1934 Ready for Love 1934 Big Hearted Herbert 1933 Man Hunt 1932 Hell's House 1931 Huckleberry Finn 1930 Tom Sawyer 1930 The Santa Fe Trail 1930 Recaptured Love

I've been right there with you and have made the same suggestion directly to some of the powers that be at the festival. Not sure how much effort goes into culling these clips and programming them. I also asked if they could use any of RO's introductions during the wee hours if there was one available for the films being shown. Either way always grateful to see him up their no matter what the occasion is.

Robert Osborne would have been 88. Born: May 3, 1932 in Colfax, Washington, USA Died: March 6, 2017 (age 84) in New York City, New York, USA

Happy Birthday Robert! I hope the stars are having a huge celebration in your honor today!!! Still missing your presence on whatever plain this is...

Hey this is a great programming bit... In honor of Robert Osborne's Birthday TCM is airing intros from some of his "Bob's Picks" this morning! Interestingly it looks as if the pandemic prohibited Alicia Malone from getting into the studio to record her wrap-arounds as she is in her home introducing Robert Osborne's segments!

Percy Helton was great this past week on Noir Alley. He played a real sleezy degenerate in Wicked Woman (1954).

Hopefully it will still be there when you next you visit. Larry Edmunds is facing closure due to the pandemic. There is a go fund me page set up. It is a great place and will be a terrible loss to the community if it closes. https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-larry-edmunds-bookshop

Very Much Looking forward to next Sunday when THE SILVER CORD (1933) and THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933) will finally air! Would love to hear the back story on how TCM finally got the rights to show these great pre-code films. Anyone else setting their DVR's? THE SILVER CORD (1933) 😧 John Cromwell. Irene Dunne, Joel McCrea, Laura Hope Crews, Frances Dee, Eric Linden. Very much a photographed stage play (by Sidney Howard), but interesting for its look at a self-absorbed woman (Crews) who attempts to dominate her sons' lives completely--not counting on the strength of her new daughter-in-law (Dunne), a career woman with a mind of her own. Both Dunne and Dee are first-rate. THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933) 😧 Phil Goldstone. Zita Johann, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh, Claire Du Brey, John Miljan, Henry B. Walthall, Cora Sue Collins. Surprisingly interesting Poverty Row cheapie with supernatural overtones, told in flashback, about a hard-luck woman (Johann, who's excellent) who falls in love with the wrong man and makes the ultimate sacrifice for him. More notable for its ambitions than its achievements, with great use of stock footage and a wall-to-wall music score, unusual for 1933. Best known today for its iconic one-sheet poster image.

Was watching THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE and thinking about BRUTE FORCE and TOP O' THE MORNING. He was such a good actor but shined at playing a weaselly character. Who was better? Thoughts?

Let's face it, after 21 years, if TCM hasn't shown an essential film somewhere in their schedule the print no longer exists or the rights simply cannot be had.

I was somewhat disappointed when I saw them. I collect old posters so it was the first thing I noticed. Repros? I was sure he'd have something way cooler on his walls. But then I thought most people who grow up around "the business" don't care about such things.

Just being the stoic cowboy pardner!

I'm speaking strictly about dental work!

We shot our fan intros with Robert Osborne in mid-January and they aired in April.

It's a generic set in a studio. It's a "jokey" thing. You didn't really think it was their apartment did you? Would you be interested in a bridge I own in Brooklyn?

Definitely check out the great segments on YouTube. The Deliverance discussion is outstanding. Check out Ned Beatty's tirade. Historic! Also Ben's interview with Bogdanovich is highly entertaining. Some interesting things that aired during the TCM Film Festival - Home Edition: Good Earth, The (1937) - Luise Rainer's Oscar Moment Osborne - Debbie Reynolds - Festival Interview (2012-04-14) Osborne - Von Sydow - Festival Red Carpet Interview (2013-04-25) Tyler Perry Honors Actress Cicely Tyson at hand print ceremony (2018-04-27) (Also on YouTube) Cicely Tyson remarks at Hand and Footprint Ceremony (2018-04-27) - (Full Version on YouTube) Osborne, Saint and Landau Discuss North by Northwest (2010-04-23) TCM Tribute to Albert Maysles (2013) Peter Fonda on hiring his father (2015-03-27) Mad Love (1935) - Hader Festival Remarks (2019-04-14) - REPEAT Osborne - Debbie Reynolds - Festival Interview (2012-04-14) - REPEAT Sergeant York's Son and Grandson Discuss Gary Cooper's Portrayal of the General (Also on YouTube) Peter Fonda on hiring his father (2015-03-27) - REPEAT Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer Reminisce on Sound of Music, The (2015) Mad Love (1935) - Hader Festival Remarks (2019-04-14) - 2nd REPEAT Osborne - Von Sydow - Festival Red Carpet Interview (2013-04-25) - REPEAT Cicely Tyson remarks at Hand and Footprint Ceremony (2018-04-27) - REPEAT Peter Fonda on hiring his father (2015-03-27) - 2nd REPEAT Osborne - Debbie Reynolds - Festival Interview (2012-04-14) - 2nd REPEAT Singing in the Rain (1953) - TCM Archival Footage Mash-up (Not sure where this would have aired before. Anyone know?) Mad Love (1935) - Hader Festival Remarks (2019-04-14) - 3rd REPEAT Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer Reminisce on Sound of Music, The (2015) - REPEAT

I remember meeting Dennehy in the late 1970's (cue the music) on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. He was shooting a series called Big Shamus, Little Shamus. It was about a cop who worked at one of the casinos. The show was so bad they canceled it after two episodes. Fascinating career trajectory.

Brian Dennehy, ‘Tommy Boy’ and ‘First Blood’ Star, Dies at 81 From Variety Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television, died on Wednesday night in New Haven, Conn. He was 81. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter Elizabeth Dennehy tweeted on Thursday. His agency ICM also confirmed the news, which TMZ was first to report. The imposingly tall, barrel-chested Dennehy won his first Tony for his performance as Willy Loman in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” in 1999 and his second Tony for his turn as James Tyrone in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 2003. The actor was perhaps the foremost living interpreter of O’Neill’s works. In 2009 Dennehy starred on Broadway as Ephraim Cabot in a revival of the playwright’s “Desire Under the Elms,” and in 2012 he played Larry Slade, the former lefty seeking to drink himself to death, in O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, reprising the role in 2015 when the production, also starring Nathan Lane, was revived at the BAM Harvey Theater in New York City. The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood, who confessed to being floored by the production of “The Iceman Cometh,” said of the actor: “Even as Mr. Dennehy anatomizes his fellow patrons’ misery (‘They manage to get drunk, by hook or by crook, and keep their pipe dreams, and that’s all they ask of life’), his slab-like face barely registers any trace of feeling at the squalor bubbling into life around him. Larry’s slit eyes remain fixed almost throughout the play on the sweet horizon of nonexistence, although we can tell he, more than anyone else, understands the dark game that Hickey will come to play.” Underscoring his adeptness with the physical business of being an actor, a scene in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in which a drunken Tyrone gets onto a table to unscrew many of the bulbs in a lit chandelier left many in the audience with the fear that the actor would tumble off the stage even though they knew Dennehy was not really drunk. Dennehy had a decades-long association with the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where most of his explorations of O’Neill originated. He first appeared at the Goodman in 1986 in the title role of Brecht’s “Galileo” and first paired with the theater on O’Neill with a 1990 revival of “The Iceman Cometh” in which he played Hickey. In 1996 he starred there in O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet,” playing the tyrannical, Falstaff-like Con Melody. After his Tony-winning performance in 2003 in O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” he took on the playwright’s obscure, posthumously published one-act “Hughie” at the Goodman in 2004, revisiting the show again in 2010 in repertory with Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Dennehy headlined the Goodman’s 2009 “A Global Exploration: Eugene O’Neill in the 21st Century” festival in the revival of “Desire Under the Elms” that subsequently transferred to Broadway. The production of “Death of a Salesman” that won Dennehy his first Tony originated at the Goodman, later went to the West End and was brought to the smallsceen on Showtime in 2000, resulting in an Emmy nomination for Dennehy as well as a SAG Award and a Golden Globe. The New York Times called it “the performance of his career.” Dennehy also received Emmy nominations in 1990 for his role as a defense attorney in the telepic “A Killing in a Small Town”; in 1992 both for his role in the Scott Turow-based miniseries “The Burden of Proof” and for his role as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the telepic “To Catch a Killer”; in 1993 for his role in the miniseries “Murder in the Heartland”; and in 2005 for his role in Showtime’s “Our Fathers,” about the Catholic church’s conspiracy, centering on Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, to conceal sexual abuse. Reviewing “Our Fathers,” Variety lauded “the ever-brilliant Brian Dennehy in a knockout perf as an outspoken priest who uses the pulpit to denounce Law’s leadership.” Perhaps Dennehy’s most memorable film role came in Alan J. Pakula’s 1990 adaptation of Scott Turow’s bestselling novel “Presumed Innocent,” starring Harrison Ford as the Chicago assistant district attorney on trial for the murder of a co-worker with whom he had an affair; Dennehy played his boss, who’s up for re-election and has multiple divided loyalties, with a subtlety that was absolutely necessary. Another signal moment was auteur Peter Greenaway’s 1987 film “The Belly of an Architect,” in which the actor starred as the title character; the New York Times said the film “does have a humanizing element in the form of Mr. Dennehy, who brings a robust physicality to Kracklite without missing the essentially cerebral nature of the role; this is one of the best things he has done.” In the early to mid-’90s Dennehy starred as a Chicago police detective in the “Jack Reed” series of TV movies, several of which he also wrote and directed. Brian Manion Dennehy was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served in the Marines from 1959-63, after which he studied history at Columbia, attending the university on a football scholarship. He subsequently earned his MFA in dramatic arts from Yale. Dennehy made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel’s “Translations” opposite Dana Delany. After “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” the actor played Matthew Harrison Brady in a 2007 revival of “Inherit the Wind” opposite Christopher Plummer as Henry Drummond. And in 2014 he starred opposite Carol Burnett and Mia Farrow in a revival of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters.” The actor made his TV and feature debut in 1977 — a year in which he made appearances in at least 10 series or telepics, including “Kojak,” “MASH” and “”Lou Grant,” and the films “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” and “Semi-Tough.” From that point he maintained a heavy work load for decades. In 1982 his profile increased significantly thanks to his effective performance in the role of Teasle, the sadistic small-town police chief who is Sylvester Stallone’s lead adversary in “Rambo.” He had significant roles in the 1983 thriller “Gorky Park” and in 1985’s “Cocoon,” from Ron Howard, and “Silverado.” He was second-billed, after Bryan Brown, in the well-constructed 1986 thriller “F/X,” in which he played a cop not part of the conspiracy, and in the 1991 sequel. He was fourth-billed in “Legal Eagles,” after the star trio of Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. In 1987, in the flawed thriller “Best Seller,” he sparred ably with James Woods, who played a conman who approaches Dennehy’s policeman-successful writer with a deal that ought not to be trusted. Dennehy also starred in the 1990 crime drama “The Last of the Finest.” Amidst a sea of work in TV movies, Dennehy appeared in the 1995 indie “The Stars Fell on Henrietta,” starring Robert Duvall; the next year he played Ted Montague, leader of the clan, in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.” In 1981 he recurred on “Dynasty” as D.A. Jake Dunham; the next year Dennehy starred as a fire chief in the brief-running ABC sitcom “Star of the Family.”He tried series television again in 1994 with ABC’s brief-running “Birdland,” in which he played a hospital’s chief of psychiatry, and in NBC’s 2001 sitcom “The Fighting Fitzgeralds,” in which he starred as the reluctant paterfamilias of an unruly Irish clan. In the highly regarded 1989 TV movie “Day One,” the actor played Gen. Leslie Groves, who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb. In 2000 he starred as Gen. Bogan in the Stephen Frears-directed TV adaptation of nuclear armageddon thriller “Fail Safe.” Denney was married twice, the first time to Judith Scheff. He is survived by second wife Jennifer Arnott, a costume designer, whom he married in 1988; three daughters by Scheff, actresses Elizabeth Dennehy and Kathleen Dennehy and Deirdre; as well as son Cormac and daughter Sarah with Arnott.

Brian Dennehy, ‘Tommy Boy’ and ‘First Blood’ Star, Dies at 81 From Variety Brian Dennehy, the winner of two Tonys in a career that also spanned films including “Tommy Boy,” “First Blood” and “Cocoon,” and television, died on Wednesday night in New Haven, Conn. He was 81. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and grandfather, he will be missed by his wife Jennifer, family and many friends,” his daughter Elizabeth Dennehy tweeted on Thursday. His agency ICM also confirmed the news, which TMZ was first to report. The imposingly tall, barrel-chested Dennehy won his first Tony for his performance as Willy Loman in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” in 1999 and his second Tony for his turn as James Tyrone in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in 2003. The actor was perhaps the foremost living interpreter of O’Neill’s works. In 2009 Dennehy starred on Broadway as Ephraim Cabot in a revival of the playwright’s “Desire Under the Elms,” and in 2012 he played Larry Slade, the former lefty seeking to drink himself to death, in O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, reprising the role in 2015 when the production, also starring Nathan Lane, was revived at the BAM Harvey Theater in New York City. The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood, who confessed to being floored by the production of “The Iceman Cometh,” said of the actor: “Even as Mr. Dennehy anatomizes his fellow patrons’ misery (‘They manage to get drunk, by hook or by crook, and keep their pipe dreams, and that’s all they ask of life’), his slab-like face barely registers any trace of feeling at the squalor bubbling into life around him. Larry’s slit eyes remain fixed almost throughout the play on the sweet horizon of nonexistence, although we can tell he, more than anyone else, understands the dark game that Hickey will come to play.” Underscoring his adeptness with the physical business of being an actor, a scene in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in which a drunken Tyrone gets onto a table to unscrew many of the bulbs in a lit chandelier left many in the audience with the fear that the actor would tumble off the stage even though they knew Dennehy was not really drunk. Dennehy had a decades-long association with the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where most of his explorations of O’Neill originated. He first appeared at the Goodman in 1986 in the title role of Brecht’s “Galileo” and first paired with the theater on O’Neill with a 1990 revival of “The Iceman Cometh” in which he played Hickey. In 1996 he starred there in O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet,” playing the tyrannical, Falstaff-like Con Melody. After his Tony-winning performance in 2003 in O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” he took on the playwright’s obscure, posthumously published one-act “Hughie” at the Goodman in 2004, revisiting the show again in 2010 in repertory with Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Dennehy headlined the Goodman’s 2009 “A Global Exploration: Eugene O’Neill in the 21st Century” festival in the revival of “Desire Under the Elms” that subsequently transferred to Broadway. The production of “Death of a Salesman” that won Dennehy his first Tony originated at the Goodman, later went to the West End and was brought to the smallsceen on Showtime in 2000, resulting in an Emmy nomination for Dennehy as well as a SAG Award and a Golden Globe. The New York Times called it “the performance of his career.” Dennehy also received Emmy nominations in 1990 for his role as a defense attorney in the telepic “A Killing in a Small Town”; in 1992 both for his role in the Scott Turow-based miniseries “The Burden of Proof” and for his role as serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the telepic “To Catch a Killer”; in 1993 for his role in the miniseries “Murder in the Heartland”; and in 2005 for his role in Showtime’s “Our Fathers,” about the Catholic church’s conspiracy, centering on Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, to conceal sexual abuse. Reviewing “Our Fathers,” Variety lauded “the ever-brilliant Brian Dennehy in a knockout perf as an outspoken priest who uses the pulpit to denounce Law’s leadership.” Perhaps Dennehy’s most memorable film role came in Alan J. Pakula’s 1990 adaptation of Scott Turow’s bestselling novel “Presumed Innocent,” starring Harrison Ford as the Chicago assistant district attorney on trial for the murder of a co-worker with whom he had an affair; Dennehy played his boss, who’s up for re-election and has multiple divided loyalties, with a subtlety that was absolutely necessary. Another signal moment was auteur Peter Greenaway’s 1987 film “The Belly of an Architect,” in which the actor starred as the title character; the New York Times said the film “does have a humanizing element in the form of Mr. Dennehy, who brings a robust physicality to Kracklite without missing the essentially cerebral nature of the role; this is one of the best things he has done.” In the early to mid-’90s Dennehy starred as a Chicago police detective in the “Jack Reed” series of TV movies, several of which he also wrote and directed. Brian Manion Dennehy was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He served in the Marines from 1959-63, after which he studied history at Columbia, attending the university on a football scholarship. He subsequently earned his MFA in dramatic arts from Yale. Dennehy made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel’s “Translations” opposite Dana Delany. After “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” the actor played Matthew Harrison Brady in a 2007 revival of “Inherit the Wind” opposite Christopher Plummer as Henry Drummond. And in 2014 he starred opposite Carol Burnett and Mia Farrow in a revival of A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters.” The actor made his TV and feature debut in 1977 — a year in which he made appearances in at least 10 series or telepics, including “Kojak,” “MASH” and “”Lou Grant,” and the films “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” and “Semi-Tough.” From that point he maintained a heavy work load for decades. In 1982 his profile increased significantly thanks to his effective performance in the role of Teasle, the sadistic small-town police chief who is Sylvester Stallone’s lead adversary in “Rambo.” He had significant roles in the 1983 thriller “Gorky Park” and in 1985’s “Cocoon,” from Ron Howard, and “Silverado.” He was second-billed, after Bryan Brown, in the well-constructed 1986 thriller “F/X,” in which he played a cop not part of the conspiracy, and in the 1991 sequel. He was fourth-billed in “Legal Eagles,” after the star trio of Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. In 1987, in the flawed thriller “Best Seller,” he sparred ably with James Woods, who played a conman who approaches Dennehy’s policeman-successful writer with a deal that ought not to be trusted. Dennehy also starred in the 1990 crime drama “The Last of the Finest.” Amidst a sea of work in TV movies, Dennehy appeared in the 1995 indie “The Stars Fell on Henrietta,” starring Robert Duvall; the next year he played Ted Montague, leader of the clan, in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.” In 1981 he recurred on “Dynasty” as D.A. Jake Dunham; the next year Dennehy starred as a fire chief in the brief-running ABC sitcom “Star of the Family.”He tried series television again in 1994 with ABC’s brief-running “Birdland,” in which he played a hospital’s chief of psychiatry, and in NBC’s 2001 sitcom “The Fighting Fitzgeralds,” in which he starred as the reluctant paterfamilias of an unruly Irish clan. In the highly regarded 1989 TV movie “Day One,” the actor played Gen. Leslie Groves, who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb. In 2000 he starred as Gen. Bogan in the Stephen Frears-directed TV adaptation of nuclear armageddon thriller “Fail Safe.” Denney was married twice, the first time to Judith Scheff. He is survived by second wife Jennifer Arnott, a costume designer, whom he married in 1988; three daughters by Scheff, actresses Elizabeth Dennehy and Kathleen Dennehy and Deirdre; as well as son Cormac and daughter Sarah with Arnott.

Smurfs and Young Frankenstein actor Danny Goldman dies at 80 Danny Goldman, the actor known for voicing Brainy Smurf on the animated series The Smurfs and portraying a persistent med student in Young Frankenstein, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 80. Doug Ely, Goldman's longtime agent and friend, confirmed the news in a Facebook post. "It’s with great sadness that I must tell you that Danny Goldman has passed away," Ely wrote. "He passed peacefully at home today amongst family and friends, after having suffered a couple of strokes around New Years." He added, "Danny was truly one of a kind. He always had strong opinions and didn't mind telling you about them. He was incredibly funny. He loved to root for the little guy and help wherever he could. He had a huge heart. We lost a good one today. He will be missed." A New York native, Goldman got his start as an actor in the early 1970s, with one of his first credited roles in the NBC comedy The Good Life. He went on to land guest-starring roles in many popular series, including The Partridge Family, Room 222, Columbo, Baretta, and Chico and the Man. In 1974, he appeared in Mel Brooks' horror-comedy Young Frankenstein, playing a medical student who questions Gene Wilder's title character in the film's opening scene. After years of steady work in TV and film projects, Goldman made his debut on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Smurfs, where he voiced Brainy Smurf until 1989. In addition to his acting career, Goldman worked as a casting director for commercials for 30 years. From Entertainment Weekly

Saw a really great Mini Doc on TCM this morning. "How Humphrey Bogart Became a Star" with Eddy Von Mueller. (Not Eddie Muller.) Great clips. Great insight. Watch out for it. You won't regret it.

I love her on the radio show as well. She seems to have been a lovely person.

I would add: Boy Meets Girl - James Cagney comedy The Cowboy Quarterback - Bert Wheeler comedy Satan Met a Lady - Warren William incarnation of the The Maltese Falcon China Clipper - rarely seen early Bogart film

Marie Wilson (if she hasn't been already)