Bogie56 Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Monday, May 18 4:15 p.m. The Omega Man (1971). Dystopian Chuck Heston film that was scheduled before the recent pandemic hit our shores. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted May 18, 2020 Author Share Posted May 18, 2020 Tuesday, May 19 6 a.m. The Mad Genius (1931). With John Barrymore. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, Bogie56 said: Tuesday, May 19 6 a.m. The Mad Genius (1931). With John Barrymore. Barrymore has great dramatic flair in this one and Michael Curtiz's expressionist influenced visuals makes you wish that director had also been behind the camera when the Great Profile had previously played Svengali. There are drug transactions performed in pre Code shadows and a brief appearance early in the film by Boris Karloff. There's also the "excitement" of Donald Cook . . . but that's another story. The ending is genuinely bizarre. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 I appreciate the witty scheduling for Tuesday morning with a double feature of Grey Gardens and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Those two films belong together! A friend pointed out that Mad Love and The Red Shoes make another appropriate pairing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txfilmfan Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz fans take note. The film that launched the Arnaz/Ball marriage and, in a sense, the Desilu empire, is screening tonight (18 May 2020) at 1:30am ET/12:30am CT : Too Many Girls Released by RKO in 1940, this film brought Lucy and Desi together for the first time. Desi was in the Broadway version of the musical and was brought to Hollywood for the film. They married a few months after the film was released. In the 1950s, after the success of I Love Lucy made them millionaires, they bought the RKO studio properties to expand their production capabilities for their own company, Desilu. Thereafter, Desilu Studios was used as a rental studio to film countless television properties in the 1950s and 1960s, until Lucy sold them to Gulf+Western/Paramount. It's not a great film, but it has a couple of interesting production numbers. This poster was not part of the original release (since Desi was a virtual unknown to the movie-going public in 1940), but I found it interesting. The film was re-released in 1957, after Lucy and Desi were household names. Perhaps it was part of RKO's last gasp at a cash grab before folding? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Too Many Girls may not be great, but it's a lot of fun. Eddie Bracken and Ann Miller are a joy to watch together. But Desi Arnaz as a college football player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txfilmfan Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 56 minutes ago, Fedya said: Too Many Girls may not be great, but it's a lot of fun. Eddie Bracken and Ann Miller are a joy to watch together. But Desi Arnaz as a college football player? They were smaller in those days... 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedracer5 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 I agree that Too Many Girls isn't great, but I enjoy watching it more than Lucy and Desi's final film together, Forever Darling. However, both Too Many Girls or Forever Darling pales in comparison to the masterpiece that is The Long, Long Trailer. My #1 favorite movie of all time. Re: Desi Arnaz as a football player, if Eddie Bracken can play football, so can Desi! Lol. Desi was so cute in this film, so who cares? Lol. Look for a young Van Johnson in the crowd scenes during the musical numbers. My favorite parts of Too Many Girls: - The fact that there is an actor in the film named "Tiny Person." -When Lucille Ball messes up the choreography in the big dance number at the end of the film. It's obvious because she's in the front of the group. -Ann Miller and Desi Arnaz' fantastic conga number -Ann Miller's tapping -Frances Langford's singing -Lucille Ball's very obvious dubbed voice -The scene where they pull the beanies out of the cannon -Hal LeRoy's dancing Least favorite parts -Richard Carlson is such a dope in this movie -The whole Beverley Waverly thing -The animated dancing microorganisms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 Wednesday, May 20/21 1:15 a.m. The Sand Pebbles (1966). Cool Steve McQueen film in China by Robert Wise. Great cast throughout. Richard Crenna and Mako are stand outs. I was at a Q&A screening of a film with Richard Attenborough and he spoke of his friendship with Steve McQueen. He recalled that McQueen called him up with the offer of a part in The Sand Pebbles. He laughed because the character was called "Frenchy." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 starting at 6:00 (Eastern) it's a night at THE NUNNERY, starting with BLACK NARCISSUS and including SISTER KENNY and THE NUN'S STORY. CRIMINALLY OMITTED IS NUNS ON THE RUN: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Sister Kenny isn't actually a nun, which is confusing for us Americans. The British and Australian practice is to refer to all nurses as Sisters. Interesting fact: one famous person who received the Sister Kenny treatment for polio is Joni Mitchell. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 2 hours ago, kingrat said: Sister Kenny isn't actually a nun, which is confusing for us Americans. The British and Australian practice is to refer to all nurses as Sisters. Interesting fact: one famous person who received the Sister Kenny treatment for polio is Joni Mitchell. Huh. well, at least I learned THREE things today! thank you! ps- I’ve only seen a couple of scenes of SISTER KENNY And I recall Roz was struggling with the accent...Actually scratch that, “struggling” implies effort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Pss- I still say they need to show NUNS ON THE RUN. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 jacqueline stewart @ProfJStewart · 37m Join me & @aliciamaloneTONIGHT for #WONDERWOMEN on @tcm ! 7p CT SISTER KENNY f. Rosalind Russell 9:15 THE GIRL IN WHITE June Allyson as Emily Dunning Barringer 11 THE WHITE ANGEL Kay Francis as Florence Nightingale 12:45 THE NUN'S STORY Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 Thursday, May 21 6:30 a.m. Yellow Jack (1938). I haven’t seen this one which is about Dr. Walter Reed’s fight to cure yellow fever. With Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Charles Coburn and Buddy Ebsen as ‘Jellybeans’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 16 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: Huh. well, at least I learned THREE things today! thank you! ps- I’ve only seen a couple of scenes of SISTER KENNY And I recall Roz was struggling with the accent...Actually scratch that, “struggling” implies effort. Was it worse than DICK VAN DYKES'? Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txfilmfan Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 16 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said: Huh. well, at least I learned THREE things today! thank you! ps- I’ve only seen a couple of scenes of SISTER KENNY And I recall Roz was struggling with the accent...Actually scratch that, “struggling” implies effort. Aussie accents seem to be hard for Americans. Ava Gardner's accent changed not a bit for On The Beach. Anthony Perkins' comes and goes during the course of the film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Sepiatone said: Was it worse than DICK VAN DYKES'? Sepiatone No. it was more of the DEBRA WINGER in SHADOWLANDS approach: Attempt accent for first few lines of dialogue, then abandon completely and get an Oscar nomination anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 18 hours ago, mr6666 said: jacqueline stewart @ProfJStewart · 37m Join me & @aliciamaloneTONIGHT for #WONDERWOMEN on @tcm ! 7p CT SISTER KENNY f. Rosalind Russell 9:15 THE GIRL IN WHITE June Allyson as Emily Dunning Barringer 11 THE WHITE ANGEL Kay Francis as Florence Nightingale 12:45 THE NUN'S STORY Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke I watched the two films I placed in bold lettering last night for the first time. Already had seen the Roz Russell and Audrey flicks before. Have to say I enjoyed the June Allyson one (sorry DownGoesFrazier, wherever you might be) and the intros and outros supplied by our two lovely TCM hostesses. However, I had to disagree with their assessment of Kay Francis' turn as Florence Nightinggale in the latter one. (...sorry ladies, but no matter how you attempted to alibi it by calling her performance "fittingly stoic", I thought Kay was just boringly bland in it and could clearly see why she was panned by the critics when this film first hit the silver screen) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Dargo said: I watched the two films I placed in bold lettering last night for the first time. Already had seen the Roz Russell and Audrey flicks before. Have to say I enjoyed the June Allyson one (sorry DownGoesFrazier, wherever you might be) and the intros and outros supplied by our two lovely TCM hostesses. However, I had to disagree with their assessment of Kay Francis' turn as Florence Nightinggale in the latter one. (...sorry ladies, but no matter how you attempted to alibi it by calling her performance "fittingly stoic", I thought Kay was just boringly bland in it and could clearly see why she was panned by the critics when this film first hit the silver screen) Sorry I missed both of those, Dargo, but Kay Francis was probably miffed that Florence Nightingale didn't get to wear the glamorous gowns Kay usually sported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 52 minutes ago, kingrat said: Sorry I missed both of those, Dargo, but Kay Francis was probably miffed that Florence Nightingale didn't get to wear the glamorous gowns Kay usually sported. WHAT!?! I was looking forward to seeing Florence Nightingale slink into a hospital ward wearing an Orry-Kelly. "Hello, everybody, I'm here to take your temperature. Which way do you prefer it?" 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Dargo said: thought Kay was just boringly bland in it and could clearly see why she was panned by the critics when this film first hit the silver screen I bet she rocked those nurses' uniforms. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingrat Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 1 hour ago, TomJH said: WHAT!?! I was looking forward to seeing Florence Nightingale slink into a hospital ward wearing an Orry-Kelly. "Hello, everybody, I'm here to take your temperature. Which way do you prefer it?" Now THAT's the way Kay Francis dresses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 6:32 PM, LornaHansonForbes said: I recall Roz was struggling with the accent...Actually scratch that, “struggling” implies effort. They mentioned her complete lack of an attempt at an accent in the intro. And she definitely wasn't a nun. She had a romantic interest for part of the film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted May 21, 2020 Author Share Posted May 21, 2020 Friday, May 22/23 2 a.m. The Harder They Come (1972). I found this not as good as it was touted to be but there are not a lot of feature films out of Jamaica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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