mudskipper Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 No. A different film...and different songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Both of the songs from the 1936 film were used in the soundtracks of two movies from the 90's....One of the songs, sung by the singer previously referred to, was used in a science fiction movie...The other song was sung by the subject of a biographical movie, who was supposed to be a fan of the previous singer... Questions: 1) What was the title of the 1936 movie ? 2) What two songs from the movie became number one hits for the later singer ? 3) Who was the singer? 4) What were the two nineteen-nineties movies which used one song each in their soundtracks ? 5) Who was the latter performer, the subject of the biopic, who was supposed to be a fan of the male singer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Clue:...Among the cast of the 1936 musical was an Oscar winner who stutters and the "Donkey Serenade" singer... both in minor roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Well, now it's a bit easier. The answers are: 1. Rose Marie 2. Rose Marie and Indian Love Call 3. Slim Whitman 4. Mars Attacks and Man On The Moon 5. Andy Kauffman Here is Slim: And here is Andy: Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Correct on all counts....Slim Whitman's version of "Indian Love Call" was in the soundtrack of "Mars Attacks"....He also had a hit with "Rose Marie", which was in the Andy Kaufman biopic, "Man On The Moon"....Your thread, Miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 A science fiction film of the fifties helped launch the career of a young actor who would go on to become an "A" list star in Hollywood. The young woman who played his girl friend in the movie would go on to play the lady friend of the star of a well known TV comedy series in the sixties. Can you name the movie and the actor and actress that I am referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 THE BLOB? Steve McQueen? Anita Corsaut as Mrs. Andy Taylor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 You got it, Flash. Of course. Anita was Helen Crump, the schoolteacher, in the series. She was married to Andy for the reunion show years later. Your turn now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Flashback? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 yeah, yeah, been tracking down a memory. Found it. Mid 1950s. B&W. Fact based. The career of a high-ranking Naval officer. Overcame a serious injury to stay on active duty. His wife was distressed by some of his decisions, in that they kept him away from home longer. He turned down a possible desk job (still on duty) in order to be close to the action. Spanned from the end of WWII, to action in Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Not Wings Of Eagles . At one stretch, a problem play: The officer was key man in adapting the Navy to being able to deploy jets on an aircraft carrier. The problem to solve: landing the craft on the relatively short runway. They went through the process of solving that and other issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 A test run set up (after invention of the tail hook): Five jets to land on a carrier. One crashed. But investigation proved that it was a mechanical failure within the plane. The test was rated a success, and the conversion to jets-on-carriers went farward. Even near the end of his career, and into retirement, the Officer was both an advocate and a role model for wounded veterans. Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 27, 2012 4:01 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 (65,373) The star of this biopic made some off-the-lot news. A one-time leftist, in fact a Communist Party member, he did cooperate with the HUAC, did not get blacklisted. For some time, and it can hardly be called coincidence, his roles reflected heroic, conservative, straight-arrow patriotism. This film is one example. Later, in less uptight times, he took some roles that countered or even spoofed that image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 In other roles of his super-patriot period, his characters once saved the life of the US President, and once died heroically at the Alamo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Just past 225 Views, a line from the star in his post-super patriot period: "I've frisked a thousand young punks." Edited by: flashback42 on Jun 30, 2012 8:46 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 *The Eternal Sea* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Correct. 1955's *The Eternal Sea,* a respectful biography of Adm. John Madison Hoskins, was a part of Sterling Hayden's superpatriot period. Later, of course, he frisked young punks in *The Godfather*, and conserved his precious bodily fluids in *Dr. Strangelove*. lavenderblue19's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 An aspiring actress gets in trouble while trying to break into the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 She's got 2 roomates and a boyfriend who is a theater director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 She's kidanapped by gangsters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Is Jane Bryan in this film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 No, she's not in this film. She's in a gangster's apartment when he's shot and killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 musical comedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblue19 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 The title of the film is appropriate for today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Could it be "Red, Hot, And Blue", with Betty Hutton and Victor Mature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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