lydecker Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Just watched the delightful salute to Edna May Oliver and was reminded how much I love all the "What A Character" segments. There are so many more to be done. Please, please, please, TCM, create some new "What A Character" segments!! (I've always thought the open to "What A Character" using the old photo booth is so clever!) Tons of wonderful chracter actors left to be saluted. Start with Nat Pendleton, follow up with Una Merkel, C. Aubrey Smith etc. etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 In agreement here. Why, they could do a half hour or more on Charles Lane alone! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Will you pay for the cost of making new ones? B-) As of my reply, for several minutes now the board has said that the last reply was from Sepiatone...but for several very long minutes his reply has NOT shown up yet. :0 The board is getting worse and worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 << The board is getting worse and worse. >> Will you pay for upgrades? ; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValentineXavier Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Well, TCM appears to be paying for degrades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 > {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}Well, TCM appears to be paying for degrades... Yup...looks that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydecker Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 Believe it or not, Time Warner is not exactly "hurting" and I think they could afford to create some new "What A Character" segments as well as improve the message board interface. It's called "the cost of doing business" but clearly TCM isn't allowed to spend a nickel on doing any of the things a network (and its website) should be doing to maintain and enhance its audience base. Greedy corporate parent = no new programming/promos or upgrades to the website. It didn't used to be like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 > {quote:title=lydecker wrote:}{quote}Greedy corporate parent = no new programming/promos > or upgrades to the website. It didn't used to be like this. Exactly..."It didn't used to be like this". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Do you have a list of the character actors who have already been done in these segments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValeskaSuratt Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 *Wanda Mae Silverback* Born to Spanish parents at the Bronx Zoo, Wanda Mae Gorilla (pronouned go – REE –ya) changed her name to the more patrician-sounding Silverback before becoming a fixture in 1940s MGM comedies. Usually cast as the heroine’s quick-tempered, dangerously-violent and easily spooked best friend, second cousin or laundress, Wanda Mae’s “trademark” became site gags involving her great strength – tearing doors off their hinges, tipping over automobiles and, on one memorable occasion, throwing George Sanders off the top of his ego. While some of her co-stars found Wanda Mae’s displays of temperment endearing (cast and crew reportedly applauded when she tore veteran comedy director Del Roy Dooth in half) others found her intimidating to work with and a few complained about the smell. Her 4-year marriage to Cheeta, co-star of the Tarzan movies, ended in a scandalous divorce when Wanda Mae insisted on naming Maureen O’Sullivan as co-respondent. Her career was eventually sidetracked by a weight problem and the scandal of her near-fatal assault of famed costume designer Gilbert Adrian who was attempting to fit her for a fur coat when he slipped with a pin. By the 1960s Wanda Mae was reduced to working as an unbilled extra in films like Tarzan Conquers Gaul. Wanda Mae Silverback ... What a character ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniversalHorror Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 LOL...and that makes a very good point: How about doing these "Character" spots for some of the more famous animal performers, such as Cheetah, Pete the dog from Our Gang, etc.? They were often scene-stealers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lydecker Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 This is completely "by memory" (not the most reliable source, I admit) but these are the ones I recall: Eve Arden Hattie McDaniel Guy Kibbee Rags Ragland Edna May Oliver Beulah Bondi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaquelVixen Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 > {quote:title=lydecker wrote:}{quote}This is completely "by memory" (not the most reliable source, I admit) but these are the ones > I recall: > > Eve Arden > Hattie McDaniel > Guy Kibbee > Rags Ragland > Edna May Oliver > Beulah Bondi Off the top of my head, I recall Frank McHugh William Frawley Conrad Veidt Mary Wickes S.Z. "Cuddles" Zakall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCMfan23 Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I agree with you all. More 'what a character' segments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 How about the Mutt and Jeff of eccentric elders - Etienne Giradot and George Barbier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 How many viewers have even HEARD of these two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 Finance, many might know who they are by SIGHT, as many of those great character actors I myself didn't know by name till years later. Such as the great Charles Lane, Burt Mustin, Percy Kelton, Mary Wickes and many others. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 All of the four you mentioned I'm very familiar with, but not the two in question. If anyone has photos...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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