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> {quote:title=Filmgoddess wrote:}{quote}Forget Danny Kaye (almost everyone has), > > While I do sympathize with the loss of Barbara Stanwyck and Audrey Hepburn, I truily think the knock at Danny Kaye is undeserved. I loved his films and am glad to see there is a day of them, including one of the greatest comedies ever, The Court Jester. Kaye, whose 100th birthday it would have been on Friday, the 18th, was a very funny man and deserves today's tribute.

> {quote:title=smitty1931 wrote:}{quote}Playing for time. Women musicians in a **** prison camp. Vanessa Redgrave Re: Your fave WWII movie *made during* WWII. Amazing, Vanessa must have been between 2-7 years old, and getting starring roles already during WWII? Yeesh!

A tiny metal holding area in the blazing sun, locked up with a prisoner-of-war inside, meant to punish disobedience.

I've noticed not so much from longtime posters, but, rather, from a series of newcomers whose first post is always to knock TCM. Because they always come in a wave at once, my first thought is usually that school is out for awhile. (Oh, look, it's Martin Luther King Day on Monday and schools are closed.)

...sigh...only took a dozen posts for this thread to get derailed. The sweatbox for you.

Andy, I was asking for favorite films about WWII made during WWII, not non-war films made during that period, so DI would not work.

That's a great poster. Paramount may likely have had the best posters during that period. This Gun for Hire was another.

Swithin, there is an oft-told story that during the making of the 1939 Hunchback of Notre Dame when the news came out that Britain entered the war, Charles Laughton rang the bells on the set until he collapsed.

While Casablanca is my favorite film and it does have so much of WWII on it, my favorite film involving servicemen made during WWII is Sahara. Different nationalities. Nice performances by Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, Rex Ingram, and an excellent score by Miklos Rozsa. What's yours? Six-sheet poster One-sheet

The 1953 Titanic was supposed to be released in the U.S. early last year but it got yanked from the schedule. However, the UK did release it (I have that one and it is region free and looks really good.) Then, finally, the U.S. Blu came out a few days ago. importcds.com has it for $15. http://www.importcds.com/movies/2371097/titanic-1953 Here's a review: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Titanic-Blu-ray/33946/#Review

I'd say what I already know...he is very modest about his accomplishments.

Thanks, Nora. Yes, the choices are few. I wrote in The Mark of Zorro for the 1940s.

Thanks, Kyle!

Charlie Tabesh is the Senior VP of Programming. There may be smaller input here and there, but his is probably 99% of the programming schedule.

> {quote:title=BigPink1968 wrote:}{quote}Dee lite ful but I think when you questions posters private life you have crossed a line. Using the word troll is not nice. I know I wouldn't be one of those calling musikone to update info. You meant it sarcastically but it's still not nice to talk about phoning someone. Re: trolling...I "call" them as I see them. By the way, I decided it would be best to print your post here because it has changed it completely three times in content and I wouldn't want to have to add more to my post if you change it a fourth or fifth.

Newest update {font:sans-serif, arial, verdana}{size:22px} MADCAP COMEDY, CLASSIC ANIMATION, LEGENDARY WESTERNS AND LANDMARK SILENTS ADDED TO 2013 LINEUP!{font}{font:sans-serif, arial, verdana}{size:12px}TCM is thrilled to announce the following additions to the 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival lineup. *75TH ANNIVERSARY OF BUGS BUNNY (VARIOUS YEARS)* Film critic and historian Leonard Maltin and animation historian and author Jerry Beck curate and present some of the best shorts featuring everyone's favorite rascally rabbit. *BADLANDS (1973)* World premiere 40th anniversary restoration of writer/director Terrence Malick's landmark tale of doomed lovers on a cross-country crime spree, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. *FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933)* Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the film with a new print, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire make their onscreen debut together in this musical comedy about a bandleader pursuing the woman of his dreams in Brazil. *HONDO (1953)* John Wayne stars as a mysterious stranger helping a deserted mother and son save their ranch in this 60th anniversary 3D screening. *IT (1927)* Clara Bow gives a career-defining performance as a shop girl who uses her romantic charms to pursue her wealthy employer, with live accompaniment by composer Carl Davis conducting a performance of his original score. *SCARECROW (1973)* Gene Hackman and Al Pacino star as a pair of mismatched drifters who travel across the country to open the car wash of their dreams in this U.S. premiere 40th anniversary restoration. *SHANE (1953)* Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur star in George Stevens' landmark Western about a roving gunslinger who gets caught between a homesteader and a ruthless cattle baron. We're also happy to announce the TCM Classic Film Festival is returning to the world famous Arclight Cinema's Cinerama Dome in 2013 with two special presentations: * *CINERAMA HOLIDAY (1955)* The second film made specifically for Cinerama follows two real-life couples –one from St. Louis and one from Switzerland – as they travel to each other's countries in this travelogue delight. Presented in three screen Cinerama. * *IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963)* This 50th anniversary presentation of Stanley Kramer's uproarious, star-studded comedy about a madcap race for buried treasure is presented in 70mm. {font}

> {quote:title=BigPink1968 wrote:}{quote}This is what the poster said, > > What I found puzzling today, was that the voice-over between films mentioned it was his birthday, and I thought that was April 2nd. *Did I hear incorrectly,* or has TCM made some kind of error? How does that differ from what I said, that the poster wasn't sure he heard correctly?

Not necessarily. The previous poster,somo66, who discussed this wasn't sure if he heard correctly or not. Anyone else hear it?

March 26th is turning out to be a busy day for Olive Films. Besides the John Wayne films mentioned two posts down, they are also releasing on Blu-ray and DVD: The Atomic Kid (1954) - Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry, Bill Goodwin, Whit Bissell China Gate (1957) - Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat 'King' Cole, Paul Dubov, Lee Van Cleef & dir. by Samuel Fuller The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) - Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, William Demarest & dir. by Sam Wood Hell's Half Acre (1954) - Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, Nancy Gates Ruthless (1948) - Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers, Raymond Burr & dir. by Edgar G. Ulmer The Sun Shines Bright (1953) - Charles Winniger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit, Grant Withers, Milburn Stone & dir. by John Ford

Let me give you a popular example... Mary Tyler Moore played Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Some wonder happened to Mary R. after the last episode and have speculated she married a TV comedy writer in New Rochelle named Robert Petrie. I have, on occasion, imagined all movie characters somehow connected in one world. Like Rick Blaine leaving Casablanca and becoming a freedom fighter who is sent to Devil's Island (Passage to Marseille). Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) marries and later divorces Linus Larrabee, marries another man who is killed and this disaffected rich girl gets involved with a mysterious man of many names (Cary Grant).

I hope many are getting a chance to see these. The delightful film on now, The Detective, has Guinness as that famed sleuth, Father Brown.

I see that pink has changed his or her post below, but it originally said the TCM programmer was known on these boards as MGMWBRKO and has been gone as of 2012. MGMWBRKO is not and was not the TCM Programmer, who was and still is Charlie Tabesh. Edited by: filmlover on Jan 17, 2013 9:40 AM because pink decided to edit their post, leaving mine to make no connection.