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Movie poster collecting is a major hobby (and investment) for some. I am tempted between Casablanca, since it is my favorite movie, a Thief of Bagdad poster (Fairbanks version) because it has a Maxfield Parrish look to it, Thief of Bagdad: http://members.cscoms.com/~suwat/poster/The_Thief_of_Bagdad.jpg and This Gun for Hire (because it may be the most beautiful film poster of all). This Gun for Hire: http://www.postermountain.com/images/thisgunafter-2.jpg But I would probably end up going with Casablanca. Casablanca: http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/-/Casablanca-Poster-C10045006.jpeg Out of all the posters ever made, what would be your choice of just one poster and your reason for wanting it? Message was edited by: filmlover

Hi, kim, Here's a link to the TCM database. In there you can find cast, an article, etc. The film has shown on TCM, not too long ago. http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=2800 Question re your FH set. Are the labels still mixed up, the Stanwyck one not on the Baby Face film, etc. As to the lack of extras in it, Warners recently had an online discussioon about new releases and they said this: " FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD #1 was a huge success. We were disappointed that we couldn't add extras either. We had planned to include a documentary that turned out to have clearance issues which prevented its inclusion. As you are aware, we always try to release discs that are full with great extras, so we were bummed. We hope to make it up to you with this year's release, which we plan to have include SIX features, plus a brand-new pre-code documentary that we at WHV are producing right now as we speak. We hope to have two FH releases per year starting in 2008."

You'll have to give sandy a break, mrsl. When I read her post, I had the same reaction as you but then noticed her post was on January 18, two months ago. It was the next poster, MSW1, who dug this thread out of the archives.

Actually, there were two. The Fighting 69th and The Irish in Us.

I'll look around and see if I can discover it. By the way, is there any truth to the rumor that a 1948 movie called Big City has had every copy destroyed and that it no longer exists anywhere in the world, and that the last copy was personally put to the fire by some TV channel just to spite somebody writing them frequently to play it? (Just kidding, lol.)

There are several threads like this already currently on the boards: This is the daddy of them all (currently running at 66 pages, 979 replies, and over 37,000 views): http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=74872&start=975#7769331 plus there are these ones: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=78825&start=30#7787409 http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=71731&start=45#7760536

Some good titles in there. Thanks.

I'd prefer the covers to remain in the Challenge, where they belong, where the idea for doing NP covers really originated. And as for doing covers, it is a long, laborious process of layout, fonts, etc. in order to match the look. Everythihg you see on mine, including matching magazine headers was done from scratch.

Amazing that your thread appeared yesterday within hours of me posting the TCM Challenge voting thread with 13 covers I designed for imaginary Now Playing covers based on contestants' schedules, a practice I have been doing for several months and Challenges now. It's a lot of incredibly hard work but I enjoy doing it. http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7902573 I figure I must have spent many long hours (days, even) in designing the approximately 30 or so covers in the Challenges so far this last year. I hope you didn't have to put as much work yesterday morning into coming up with the idea. And, my gosh, how in the world did you come up with the "If You Were Host" thread in which you ask board members what they would program? So amazing an idea, especially since it followed on the heels within hours of the close of the month long TCM Challenge, where board members create a week's programming, something we have had five Challenge contests so far in the same General Discussions forum in the last year, and the one that was on the Forum in bold letters for a month. Phew, you would not imagine how much very hard work that whole month was! Hope you didn't have to put as much work into coming uo with the "If you were host" idea.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

Ma'am, Lawyer Edward Arnold showed up and much as I pleaded he pay my $2 fine, he wants to take it to a higher court. He's dared them to throw the book at me. And they did. Tell him to just pay the $2. Student teacher filmlover

I don't know, ma'am. When we received your bail, they asked me to go down by the river to catch snipe. I was unlucky and returned with an empty sack.. However, they were gone. I did follow a trail of men with blackened eyes, and came upon another tavern whose owner said they drank it dry and moved on in search of ale. Sorry, ma'am.

And since each movie has two DVDs, that's $3 each.

Thank ya, ma'am.

To Interim Dean Lzcutter, Please excuse football coach O'Brien, boxing teacher Cagney, and student teacher (meself) from the enterprise. Seems, from stories we have heard this morning, we got into a drinking Challenge and took umbrage to a misguided fellow taverner by the name of McLaglen's piece of -- I mean, assertion -- that music teacher George M. Cohan couldn't dance a jig as well as a certain Mr. Kelly. Well, it led to a slight disagreement. We shall return when we can, and would be ever so grateful if you could send the dear school mistress Miss Natwick to bail us out. Thank ye, Student teacher filmlover

And thank you all for the nice words about the covers. I get a kick out of doing them each Challenge time.

Okay, here?s a recap of the winning entries of the schedule and the winner of the boxset: SCHEDULE: Allieharding: 6 Dewey: 5 MattHelm: 5 Movieman: 4 Benwhowell: 2 Fredmill: 2 Jarhfive: 2 Mariah23: 2 SinatraFan: 1 Sweetsmellofsuccess: 1 And for Boxset: Dewey: 6 LIST OF PRIZES FOR BEST SCHEDULES FROM TCM (Thank you, TCM Programmer) 1. A TCM sweatshirt 2. A TCM t-shirt 3. A Leading Men book 4. A TCM hat 5. A collection of movie poster postcards DVDs 1. The Bravados (Gregory Peck) 2. Notting Hill 3. Spider-Man (2-DVD set) 4. Law of the Wild (1934 serial with Rin-Tin-Tin), 5. Jurassic Park 6. Forbidden Hollywood (2-DVD set) (donated by path40a. Thanks!) 7. The Misfits (Gable, Monroe) 8. The Vigilantes Are Coming (1936 serial) 9. The Painted Stallion (1937 serial) 10.Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936 serial) 11.Ultimate Dirty Dancing Edition 12.Looker (thanks to path40a) 13.Crossing Delancy (thanks to path40a) 14.Mystery Squadron (1933 serial) 15. Flaming Frontiers (1938 serial), And an addition from path40a: 16. The Clock (Judy Garland) Everyone will get something! Allieharding won for Schedule, so she gets: 1. first pick of one item from the TCM list, AND 2. first pick of two DVDs from the DVD list. ALLIE, send me a PM with your choices ASAP. 2nd place gets 1 item from the TCM list and 1 from the DVD list. Dewey and MattHelm were tied for 2nd place. This makes it complicated because second choice gets second choice (after Allie). However, DEWEY and MATT, send me a PM with your top three choices in order from each list. Maybe you will have different #1s (also based on what Allie picks first). (Now, remember, no conspiring together to pick the same items to drive me crazy, lol. ) 4th place choice (since 2nd and 3rd are taken as Dewey and Matt get those choices) goes to MOVIEMAN. You get 1 from the TCM list and 1 DVD. Send me your top four choices from each in order. 5th place: Okay, you all planned this to torture me, didn?t you? We have a 4-way tie for 5th place. BENWHOWELL, FREDMILL, JARHFIVE, and MARIAH23. One of you will get the collection of movie poster postcards, and I have a few items of similar TCM merchandise that I will see each gets. You will also get your choice of DVD from the list (BE SURE TO PM ME AND INCLUDE 5 ALTERNATE CHOICES and put them in the order you would like one chosen.) Item will be sent based on what is available in the stack. As for the rest, SINATRAFAN, SWEETSMELLOFSUCCESS, FEDYA, FILMHISTORIAN, and SUGARPUSS, you will each get one DVD. Please select the entire list of DVDs and list them in the order of your choice. PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUPPLY ME WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS SO I CAN MAIL OUT YOUR DVDS. PLEASE NOTE: FOR THOSE WHO ARE GETTING AN ITEM FROM THE TCM LIST, THAT WILL COME DIRECTLY FROM THE TCM PROGRAMMER. PRIZE FOR BEST BOX SET DEWEY, you have your choice of either 1. the Titanic 3-DVD Special Collectors Edition box set and a set of three Fliptomania TCM movie flipbooks (King Kong, North by Northwest, and The Wizard of Oz), OR 2. Riders of Death Valley (1941 Universal?s ?Million Dollar Super Serial? ? 2 DVD set with Lon Chaney, Jr.) and the 3 movie flipbooks. Send me a PM with your choice, plus name and address.

Seeing that TCM will be doing a few of her films on Saturday reminded me of something that happened to me last summer. I was fortunate enough to attend the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Patricia Neal was a presenter with Bill Irwin (I think it might have been him). He went off cuecards for a minute and said to her that he understood she was the first recipent of the Tony Award for best actress back around 1947, but that someone stole her award and it was never recovered. Irwin and the Tonys then gave her a replacement Tony right then. It was a nice moment. Later on, I was at the Tony Party and after making my way from the buffet with my plate of food, I was wandering around the tables looking for a free spot to sit down. I finally saw a spot between two women. I asked the woman on the left if the place was taken. It wasn't. I sat down. After a few minutes of eating, I turned my head to the woman on my right, and realized I was sitting next to Patricia Neal. We spoke for a few minutes very nicely, but in my head all I could hear was, "You're Patricia Neal!"

There are other channels besides TCM?! When did this happen?

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words. And jarhfive, if I had been voting, I think the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries was my favorite box set. But, heavens, if I had voted, it would have been a two-way tie and I couldn't take that again! CONGRATULATIONS, ALL! I will post the prize info within the next few hours.

While I am preparing the post on the prizes, here's something to look at it: Those who have been with me before in the Challenges know that at the end of the Challenge I like to imagine what the Now Playing covers might look like if these had been real weeks we scheduled. Here's what I have come up with: Here's what I imagine for allieharding's cover: for Dewey: for Movieman: for MattHelm: for SinatraFan: for Filmhistorian: for Sugarpuss: for Sweetsmellofsuccess: for Jarhfive: for Benwhowell: for Fredmill: for Fedya: and for Mariah23, here's what I imagine the cover would look like:

I am a little confused by the post. Rita Hayworth is TCM's only Star of the Month in April.

Oh, boy, this has been some contest! And all the counts are in, including PMs, and an email from path40a with his votes (which went, by the way, to Schedule: Sweetsmellofsuccess and Boxset:Fredmill38). I've double checked everything and -- Regrettably, the ending was one I was dreading. The reason being...we have a three-way split for first place. SCHEDULE: Allieharding: 5 Dewey: 5 MattHelm: 5 Movieman: 4 Benwhowell: 2 Fredmill: 2 Jarhfive: 2 Mariah23: 2 SinatraFan: 1 Sweetsmellofsuccess: 1 And for Boxset, we do have a winner: Dewey: 6 Jarhfive: 5 Sugarpuss: 5 Allieharding: 3 Benwhowell: 3 Fredmill: 2 SinatraFan: 2 Sweetsmellofsuccess: 1 Mariah23: 1 Matthelm: 1 Before I continue, I would like to pay a salute to two people:Fedya and Filmhistorian, both of whom had spectacular schedules I loved, but didn't get any votes this time around (not quite true, there was one for Fedya but the person was registered after January 31st, and thus not eligible to vote; sorry). I was just looking over Fedya's schedule again and there were so many great themes: from the moment at the beginning of George O'Hanlon looking over the 8-ball and a title card saying, "So You Want to Program TCM", to the Eve Arden salute, the Glenda Farrell box set, the May 2nd birthday salute to various stars, Star of the Month Charles Laughton, and so many more great themes. And, Filmhistorian, I loved your tributes to Gordon MacRae, Jack Lemmon, Michael Caine, and others, and your Trials and Tribulations Tuesday and more. If it helps, I recall there was a Challenge a few months ago where I think I only received one vote. The next Challenge I did I won, and here I am. So I want you both to stay and do more Challenges, okay? Alright, now since we have that three-way tie, the hard decision falls to me to break the tie with my vote. I've just spent awhile looking at all three again. And my vote goes to...allieharding. Every schedule was great, but allieharding's choice of Glynis Johns near the start got me where I live. And there were so many films throughout the schedule I had never seen, and that was probably the reason I voted that way. Now, as far as prizes go, I will go into details in the morning about how we will do that. Everyone who contributed a schedule will get something! For now, get a good night's sleep. Congratulations again to Dewey for Best Box Set. And to the next Challenge moderator, allieharding, for the Best Schedule. filmlover

And we are closed!!!!!!! The results in a few minutes.

Voting will expire in two hours, Wednesday, March 14th, at midnight Pacific time! Anyone who was registered on these message boards on January 31, 2007 or before can vote in this fun-only contest. See the notes in the very first post on this thread on how to vote. Attention: Filmhistorian and mariah23. You both took part in the contest, so you can vote, too.