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SPOILER ALERT ABOUT "SECONDS". Do not read if you haven't seen the film yet. . . . . . . . I liked Rock in SECONDS, but I don't understand why they strapped him down at the end, and why was he screaming? Were they going to kill him? Why would they kill him?

Sounds like the end of STAGECOACH, 1939 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_98

No, my photo was just a simple snapshot of a lady sitting on a bench inside a shop. At that time she looked just like any other random 52 year old lady who had gone out to the shop without bothering to fix her hair or put on any makeup. She didn't look bad, but she didn't look like the Gloria De Haven we all know from her early movies. She looked like an average human being, a completely average middle-class person who never expected to encounter a photographer that day. On the other hand, I was able to photograph Ava Gabor at the Premier of some big new movie at the Pantages in Hollywood, and she was all dolled up and fully made up and ready for the cameras. She looked great, but she had gone to a lot of trouble to look great. Judy Garland was there, and she looked sort of middle-class at that time. It was the movie about the big 19th Century car race with Jack Lemmon, THE GREAT RACE. Lots of famous actors where there that night. Big crowds of people, flashing spotlights filled the sky. I was in LA that time for about three weeks, and I also filmed David O. Selznick's funeral at that time, in late June of 1965.

One time I was sitting in a CB radio shop in the Sherman Oaks/Studio City area of North Los Angeles, in the Valley, and I was waiting while the manager helped a customer, a little ol’ lady, who was sitting quietly next to me. After a while the manager, who knew me quite well, asked me if I knew who I was sitting next to, and I looked at the lady and said “No”. He said, “This is Gloria De Haven”. I was embarrassed when my jaw dropped, and I had a stunned look on my face, because I realized she did not like looking her 52 years of age. Nobody would have recognized her. No-body. I asked if I could take her picture and she said ok. So I did, and later I dropped off a copy of the photo at the shop and the manager gave it to her. Later the manager said she would like some more copies to put in her current portfolio. That surprised me, but I think it was because the lighting was just right and her wrinkles didn’t show up. Anyway, she had become San Fernando Vally Middle-Class and made only about one minor film or TV show a year. I see on Google images that she must have had a make-over and continued to make more and more TV shows, and was able to make herself over as an attractive older mother and grandmother.

"Gerald O'Hara: Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."

MY MAN GODFREY Gail Patrick

Santa Fe Passage 1955

Twilight Zone THE SHELTER Air Date: September 29, 1961 This episode had a shocking, profound effect on all Americans who saw it. This story was brilliantly told in less than 24 minutes. It was very frightening when it originally aired, because most Americans had never thought of this type of thing happening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6cMdePtMA

Since we never went to war with Russia, yet the government never decided to clean out the storage rooms, a lot of that stuff was left in place for many decades. Some is probably still stored someplace, maybe with the entrances to the rooms bricked over.

THE LIVELY SET 1964 1957 Ford Fairlane convertible in background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUcAIT7EjoM

I've never heard of that Brando film before. Musta been a turkey.

Bedtime Story 1964

In my school, we were told the desks would protect us from falling debris. The teachers never mentioned a "direct hit" to us, so we all got the idea that the falling bombs would explode a few miles away from us.

Our Southern educational films taught us to run to the nearest fallout shelter, take plenty of boxed food, soap, and one good looking dame to keep us calm.

Schools in the South that I was in, in the 1950s, also combined the practice duck and cover warnings, along with the sirens, to simulate tornado warnings. These were always taken seriously, since we did have a lot of tornadoes in the South. But, luckily, no Russian bombers. New petition planned for Oklahoma school shelters 1 year after tornado killed 7 studentshttp://www.startribune.com/nation/261434511.html

COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA

CHANGE OF HABIT A front view of the three girls:

MAN WITH A MILLION aka THE MILLION POUND NOTE

Ok, now I understand it. Thanks.

I never understood THE ROSE TATTOO. Can someone tell me what it is about? The deep psychological meaning?

Yes, she needs an hour interview. She was very interesting. See this..... http://abbeyofreginalaudis.org/community-mdh.html

Interesting post, Darkblue.

Dolores was great! I want to see her again! A nun wearing a beret is really cool! I can just see her in the trenches fighting the Nazis around 1942. I wouldn't mind seeing LISA again soon. The film was very well constructed, and it contained a lot of tense dangerous moments, and some wonderful inspiring moments, such as when the cops were both chasing the man, but with one or two cops allowing him to escape, and the rough looking boat captains who helped them out along the way, and the captain at the end being a nice Islamic Arab, smuggling guns to the Israelis. Wow, what a movie. I was worried that one or the other or both of the heroes would be killed before the movie ended, but they both survived, and the overall story was very interesting. It is strange that great films like this have existed for years, yet we've never heard of them, and then this one is introduced by a Nun on TCM. How unusual is that?! Hooray for TCM! The only TV channel that has something for EVERYBODY!