FredCDobbs

Rin Tin Tin??

Lightning?

I don't know if anyone noticed, but those were the days of all-white TV actors.

I enjoyed these shows very much. All the actors were pretty good although the sets were small and limited. No wonder people stayed home from the theaters so much in the 1950s.

Yes, that's her! I used to think she was some local Viennese actress, until I saw her in HOBSON'S CHOICE. She was Willie's landlady in that film, and she expected him to marry her daughter.

“Everyone ought to go careful... in a city like Vienna.” Remember, we are trying to guess the identity of the LADY in this and other films.

Who is the actress??

She was seen eating a bowl of soup at the Casanova Club.

British character actress, fairly rare in films, but she has been in at least three films shown several times on TCM:

Thanks for the information! He was great in ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. He seemed to have many different faces.

There was a lot written about this in newspapers and magazines back in the 1950s. Also, movies were made about it, based on both true stories and fictional ones, such as THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, which was based on speculation about some of the “brainwashing” practices and techniques the Communist Chinese might have used on captured American soldiers during the Korean War. The “techniques” were only guessed at and were not very well understood by American doctors and military officials. This was pretty much the first time modern Communist brainwashing techniques (discovered and invented mainly by Soviet doctors, going back as far as Pavlov (1849-1936) were used. Actually, various church people had been using the technique as a “conversion” device for centuries, but this was the first time the Communists used it to “de-program” and “re-program” human minds in the direction of anti-church and pro-communist belief systems. There were some people, some doctors and journalists, who felt the young American soldiers who had been “brainwashed” by such techniques were not guilty as traitors and were, in fact, innocent victims of a dangerous and vicious new form of enemy political “conversion” techniques.

O.P. Heggie (1877–1936) He was the blind man in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN He has a beard in both THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and he's wearing a robe in both.

Thank you for the information. I always thought so, but it is not made very clear.... only some slight hints.

Ha, ha, ha.... a few years ago, in a quiz, a guy quoted from THE LETTER, and asked what was the title of the film, the year of release, and the star. Well, I guessed Bette Davis of course, and I LOST the quiz. I did not know at that time about the 1929 version, in which the dialogue is slightly different. I sure felt stupid.

Is Komarovsky having an affair with Lara's mother at the beginning of this film??

Looks like Robert Dudley, the wienie king from PALM BEACH STORY.

It's not a matter of being a coward, it's a matter of not having any previous combat filming experience, after working in studios for years But after a few months of combat experience, a cameraman finally gets used to it. Combat documentaries made toward the end of the war were much better and better filmed than ones made early in the war.

When I'm sick, I like to see a whole bunch of Abbott and Costello films, such as the ones TCM showed last night. They are so funny and they require no serious thinking.

Here is your clue that causes the confusion: OK, another clue. The film featured the screen debut of an actor who would eventually win an Academy Award (not for this film). You are already talking about one guy making his sound film debut in 1939, and your new clue seems to be talking about that same guy. It took me a while to realize that you were talking about 2 different guys who both made their 1939 sound film debuts in the same film in 1939. The confusion is that BOTH made “their sound film debut” in 1939. Also, there is some confusion about the horned actor maybe winning an Academy Award, rather than the mystery-3rd actor. You already know you are talking about 3 separate actors, but we don’t. Some of us, at first, think you are talking about only 2. An English professor would have written your clues differently, but realizing that you are a math professor, your wording is technically correct. I finally realized there was a 3rd actor by realizing the horned guy was very old, but the other guy could be much younger, so there must be two mystery actors in order to stretch the time way out between your photo and the 2nd Academy Award. That’s when I said “Bingo, there are 3 actors, not just 2.” Figuring out stuff like this comes from having been an investigative reporter for 35 years. Figuring this out was, to me, is like this sudden awareness........ LOL, Walter, Mr. Dietrichson NEVER WAS ON that train!

WALTER HAMPTON The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Hardwicke made several sound films before this one. The mystery man is someone almost un-known to us. He probably never won an academy award. He was already old in the photo with the horns, so he was probably very old in 1939. He could have been some obscure actor in Gone With the Wind or some other film in 1939.

I don't think so. After re-reading the clues, I think the puzzle is talking about 3 separate actors: Academy Award winner before 1939 Academy Award winner after 1939 The mystery man with the horns With all of them in the same film. Both the guy with the horns and the 2nd Academy Award winner first appeared in their first sound film (the same film) in 1939, based on a famous book.