traceyk65

> {quote:title=misswonderly wrote:}{quote} > Looks like it's a tie between Katharine Hepburn and June Allison. Interesting. I've decided that I feel sorry for June, and even though I, too, find her irritating, I'm going to consciously attempt to like her better, just to try to even things up a bit for the poor woman. It will be difficult, because she is irritating, but I'll try and be up to the task. Someone's got to like June Allison, and since nobody else has stepped up to the plate, I'll give it a whirl. I'm going to check the TCM schedule and make a note to watch the very next June Allison film they show. Gulp - I'm kind of scared...can I actually bring myself to enjoy watching June Allison for an hour and a half? Stay tuned, folks. > > ( It had to be June Allison, because I can't imagine that there will ever come a day when I will actively like Katharine Hepburn. Besides, Kate has more people who adore her than dislike her. She doesn't need a defender. Poor June has nobody. Well, I'll grit my teeth, dammit, and try to suffer through *Good News*. Or maybe *Words and Music*...) Thanks. Way to take one for the team!

> {quote:title=LonesomePolecat wrote:}{quote} > GASP!!! Traceyk65, you only JUST saw Mockingbird?! I'm shocked! But hh how I envy you being able to discover that as an adult. I know, right? It was my 18-yr-old son who got me to go see it, after he read the book and saw the movie in English class. Soooo glad he did!

*Birthdays* *Billie Dove* *Bobby Darin* Mack the Knife Beyond the Sea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZoCrD88RP4&feature=related *Ziegfield Girls* Barbara Stanwyck Joan Blondell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2SA13sVt2s&feature=related Paulette Goddard Doris Eaton

Sooo jealous! Thank you all for your recaps, comments etc. Now I may have been hallucinating this, but were there ever plans to take the show on the road so to speak? Even a greatly pared-down version? I'd be happy with it if it only included the movies and no special guests at all!

The August schedule looks great!

> {quote:title=Scottman wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=JonasEB wrote:}{quote} > > > {quote:title=danthemoviefan wrote:}{quote} > > > Marlene Dietrich is the honoree Aug. 31: > > > > > > http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=2011-08-31 > > > > Ah, I wish they picked Dishonored, it's not on DVD here. > > I think that DISHONORED has run into TV right issues. I haven't seen it listed anywhere for at least 10 years. Maybe I hallucinated this, but I thought TCM played it a few years back, along with Shanghai Express as part of the salute to Pre-code women surrounding Complicated Women (which is excellent, BTW) I could be wrong about this--I know I have it on VCR tape, but it could be one I got from the Universal Dietrich collection, most of which, as has been mentioned, have not been released in the US. You can get them for R2, however.

Bed of Roses --two working girls leave prison and seduce and rob their way to "the good life." Safe in Hell -- Dorothy Mackaill is a prostitute who's accused of killing a customer and escapes to the Caribbean, where she encounters the same man and actually kills him this time The Holy Grail of all precodes-- Convention City, which included Guy Kibbee quipping to Joan Blondell: "You take off your dress and I'll take off my toupee!" There's also Mary Astor gulping gin and a subplot concerning a goat and an amorous auctioneer Adolphe Menjou does his sleezy older man thing and seduces the boss's daughter. The Divorcee, A Free Soul and Strangers May Kiss depicted an unmarried Norma Shearer having lots and lots of sex and feeling no shame or remorse about it at all. In Private Lives, she and ex husband Robt Montgomery meet up while honeymooning with their respective 2nd spouses, realize they are still in love, and take off together.

I grew up in the midwest, in a small town near a small city (Dayton), so there weren't a lot of opportunities to see the classics (as far as I know the only classic movie late night show around was Shock Theatre which played cult horror films) I saw all the Disney live actions from the 60's and 70's either at the drive-in w/ my family as a kid or at a church Youth Group Lock-ins as a teen. My first experience of Bette Davis was, sadly, Return from Witch Mountain and my first Katharine Hepburn film was On Golden Pond, both seen in theatres. Gone with the Wind--big screen, at a theatre re-release sometime in the late 70's, with my grandmother Psycho --medium screen, at one of the afore-mentioned Youth Group lock-ins Sleeping Beauty --big screen, with my grandmother, when I was about 5 To Kill a Mockingbird --big screen, last summer (how did I miss this one for so long??) at Victoria Theatre Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -- ditto Jungle Book and The Aristocats --drive in theatre in the 70's TV in the 70s or 80's That's Entertainment--first time I'd seen a lot of the MGM musical numbers, which made me want to see the whole movie Wizard of Oz The Ten Commandments Rented or purchased VCR tapes: Destry Rides Again The Lion in Winter My Man Godfrey Charade North by Northwest My Favorite Wife and The Awful Truth The original Dracula, Frankenstein and Nosferatu Singin' in the Rain Seven Sinners A Foreign Affair All the Dietrich von Sternberg films All About Eve The Letter Casablanca Rented or purchased DVDs Bringing Up Baby Philadelphia Story The Shop Around the Corner To Have and Have Not TCM The Thin Man movies Night of the Lepus Red Dust Baby Face Redheaded Woman Maltese Falcon (I apologize for the length and possibly incoherent structure...)

Actually most of the cast of Dragon Seed is just wrong...

As much as I like her, Katharine Hepburn should never have been allowed to play a Chinese woman in Dragon Seed. Very weird--a Chinese peasant w/ a Bryn Mawr accent and blue eyes.

> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote} > Don't feel bad. You're entitled to your opinion. Unless you're a fire hydrant, you'll be treated with respect. Just don't use bad grammar or poor spelling...

*I missed a number of birthdays in May?* *Orson Welles* The Third Man cuckoo clock speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1QDlWbS8g Macbeth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ho_i-UaXg&feature=related Pinky and the Brain (do the infamous ?Frozen Peas? commercial) *Alice Faye* Polkadot Polka *Precode Alice* Oh You Nasty Man Yes to You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5fhQpJR_c&feature=related *Mary Astor* *Audrey Hepburn* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T24H4BYOkkI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__dlhXkIaws&feature=related *Rudolph Valentino* *Fred Astaire* Swing Time w/ Ginger? Begin the Beguine w/ Eleanor Powell Miss Otis Regrets w/ Barrie Chase http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eLYCOXjq2s Dancing with himself *David O Selznick* Manhattan Melodrama Duel in the Sun ?Moonlight and Magnolias?

> {quote:title=mongo wrote:}{quote} > > Don't mess with this woman LOL. I was listening to Jace Everett singing "Bad Things" as this came up! Excellent timing!

Excellent suggestion! Only one question--how would they ever pick? By popularity? A sweepstakes sort of deal? Completely at random?

Love the review! "A must-see for the whole family!" LOL

> {quote:title=GeorgiaBrown wrote:}{quote} > I was just reading about a ridiculous update of the Looney Tunes where all the characters live on the same block in suburbia. Bugs and Daffy are roommates and Speedy Gonzales owns the local pizza joint. > > Made me remember how much I used to enjoy this show on Saturday mornings. Ben M was the host, and they showed mostly MGM and Warner shorts of course. I don't think any TV station runs the plain old toons anymore. Now it's all updates. NOTHING can be as bad as Scrappy Doo. Except possibly The Muppet Babies...

> {quote:title=Ascotrudgeracer wrote:}{quote} > "Freaks" (1932) > Perhaps the very definition of disturbing. > "Can a full-grown woman love a midget???" > The Human Torso rolling and lighting a cigarette...no arms or legs!!! Or the final scenes, with the freaks chasing Hercules and Cleo through the storm...

> {quote:title=LoveFilmNoir wrote:}{quote} > Maybe not the most, but since it is fresh in my mind....Night of the Lepus! Yikes!!! Oh no! That one was hilarious! Best Line: Officer Lopez: Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!

*Birthdays* *Kate!* Dancing the night away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEH4aD6cjeE *Ted Turner* Thank You Mr Turner (for Saving My Romance) *George Carlin (in case you?re feeling a little radical today)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDQ46gGTCY&feature=related ?Proud parents? bumper stickers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmE2qMbYRU&feature=related On The Tonight Show 1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBRc0VtRiQ&feature=related *All the Best Actress winners 1927- 2009* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9WkfFraz1g&feature=related *All the Best Actors 1927-2009* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Me1LykxqE&feature=related *Best Supporting Actress 1936-2010* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCbH4AWyVU&feature=related *Best Supporting Actors 1936-2010* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ZWkEhcn0o&feature=related

*Birthdays* *Irving Berlin* Puttin on the Ritz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFPT_sCuAg No Business Like Show Business *Margaret Rutherford* Miss Marple *Martha Graham* *Phil Silvers* It?s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World With Jack Benny on Dick Cavett *Appearing on Dick Cavett* Katharine Hepburn re-arranges the furniture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neduJ38MiDQ Bette Davis talks about Now Voyager Discussing sex Gloria Swanson (with Janet Joplin) Groucho tells a joke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L961EkObcMs

> {quote:title=audreyforever wrote:}{quote} > Can't say I agree with any of your choices except The Dawn Patrol > > I'm always shocked when people say the 2005 King Kong is better than the 1933. But that's just me! The 2005 version was about an hour too long, but I think it conveyed the relationship between the girl and the ape more convincingly. In the original, the Ann Darrow character was just scared by King Kong and really didn't care if they captured him and took him back to put on display or not. In the 2005 version, she feels more affectionate towards him and is appalled by the treatment he recieves (though admitedly, she is glad to be rescued). She hears he's rampaging and comes out to meet him, hoping to calm him and save both him and the people who might get in his way and she's broken-hearted when he dies. (Fay Wray's Ann Darrow was just relieved that it was all over.) It makes both the girl and King Kong more sympathietic and real, I think. I actually cried when King Kong fell in the 2005 version.

> {quote:title=markbeckuaf wrote:}{quote} > I'll have to check that out, Cinemafan!!! > > Fred, I'm glad you are grooving today! Mark, thank you for your positive and enthusiastic threads! They are very refreshing.

I really get tired of these threads. The sheer number of these doom and gloom threads, along with the threads nitpicking each and every mistake Robert Osborne makes in his intros, makes it very hard to find anything worth reading on these boards. You all go on and on about how the TCM management doesn't care about the veiwers and their opinions, but if that is the case, why bother posting about it, if the people whio make the decisions don't care anyway? Just sayin'.

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote} > Have you even seen *Lured* or *The Dark Corner* ? Lucille Ball shows in both that she's been underrated as an actress. She's certainly no worse in them then, say, Greta Garbo was in any of her movies. (Not that that's saying much.) RE Lucy (and not Garbo's talent): I agree. Lucille Ball was very underrated as an actress. I just think that RKO didn't know what to do with her. The few times they did actually let her act, she did an excellent job. She's also very good as the woman of questionable virtue in Five Came Back and as the self-centered singer in The Big Street. Lured is a lot of fun--there's some funny dialogue, especially between Lucy and the police detective a demented cameo from Boris Karloff and a decidedly creepy performance by Cedric Hardwicke. George Sanders is nicely ambiguous as Lucy's love interest/possible serial killer.

> {quote:title=CineramaRick wrote:}{quote} > > {quote:title=ChorusGirl wrote:}{quote} > > To err is human. For instance, just look at how many spelling and punctuation errors are on your post. > > > > It reads like a letter from a serial killer. > > > ChorusGirl that is hilarious!!!! So true! Of course some people almost deserve to be corrected in public...