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[beastooge]

> Those steps still exist in the Silverlake neighborhood East of Hollywood and

> were also used by the Three Stooges in "An Ache in Every Stake".

 

The stairs from AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941) are in the Silver Lake section, but not the same ones. The Stooges' staircase is about a mile away (as the crow flies), on Fair Oak View Terrace...

 

East on Sunset Blvd., left on Alvarado St., to the stoplight intersection of Glendale Blvd. Left on Glendale, keeping to the right lane, and make a right onto Alessandro St. A couple hundred yards, make a left on Oak View. Straight ahead a couple blocks, and Fair Oak View Terrace (a cul de sac) will be on your right.

[2reelers]

>Those steps still exist in the Silverlake neighborhood East of Hollywood ...

 

In addition to "It's Your Move", "The Music Box" and "Hats Off", I'm pretty sure the same steps can be seen in the Billy Bevan/Andy Clyde silent short "Ice Cold Cocos", which was partially reworked as "An Ache In Every Stake".

[andersenrv]

I don't remember where I read that they were the same, but you are correct these are different stairs!

 

Last night I studied Ache, Music Box & It's Your Move side by side on split screen and it's amazing how similar the 2 flights are. The Stooge steps are wider and have a hand rail. I had previously noticed the hand rail, but assumed that it had been added between 1932 & 1941.

 

The Music Box steps can be found at the intersection of Vendome & Del Monte in Silverlake, for more info...

 

http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/featureshort/talkie/0081/81-shoot.html

 

and for a recent photo of the steps...

 

http://www.laurelandhardy.org/MusicBox.htm

 

LaughingGravy

[beastooge]

> The Music Box steps can be found at the intersection

> of Vendome & Del Monte in Silverlake, for more

> info...

> http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/featureshort/talkie/00

> 81/81-shoot.html

>

> and for a recent photo of the steps...

> http://www.laurelandhardy.org/MusicBox.htm

 

 

Then & now photos of the AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE stairs...

 

http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Videography/Achesteps.htm

[MGMWBRKO]

12/23 - 12/29, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change:

 

12/23, 1:42am EST - Goodwill To Men

12/23, 3:15am EST - The She Story

12/23, 5:35am EST - What The Daisy Said

12/23, 7:45am EST - Toyland Broadcast

12/23, 1:55pm EST - Holiday Greetings 1941

12/23, 7:45pm EST - Peace On Earth

12/23, 11:35pm EST - Star In The Night

12/24, 1:56am EST - Silent Night: Judy Garland

12/24, 5:31am EST - Compliments of the Season

12/24, 7:13am EST - First Aid

12/24, 10:49am EST - Loews Christmas Greeting

12/24, 5:54pm EST - Lanza Christmas Trailer

12/25, 2:03am EST - The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives

12/25, 4:25am EST - Present With a Future (Bette Davis)

12/25, 6:00am EST - Holiday Highlights

12/26, 8:01am EST - White Peril

12/26, 7:50pm EST - Rabbit Punch

12/27, 3:47am EST - What Do You Think? #4

12/27, 5:43am EST - A Lady Fights Back

12/27, 7:47pm EST - Whispers

12/27, 9:46pm EST - Rowan and Martin at the Movies

12/28, 5:49am EST - The Grand Dame

12/29, 3:40am EST - Happy Times and Jolly Moments

12/29, 6:17am EST - American Spoken Here

12/29, 9:47am EST - The Hidden Master

12/29, 11:43am EST - Spotlight

12/29, 1:48pm EST - Important News

12/29, 3:38pm EST - Decade For Decision

12/29, 7:49pm EST - Teenagers On Trial

[andersenrv]

12/23 1:42am/10:42p- Goodwill To Men 1955-9m-A

 

12/23 3:15am/12:15a- The She Story 1956-7m-

12/23 5:35am/2:35a - What The Daisy Said 1910-16m-silent (DW Griffith, Mary Pickford)

12/23 7:45am/4:45a - Toyland Broadcast 1934-5m-A

12/23 1:55pm/10:55a- Holiday Greetings 1941 1941-2m-WWII

12/23 7:45pm/4:45p - Peace On Earth 1939-9m-A

12/23 11:35pm/8:35p- Star In The Night 1945-22m-(Christmas Western)

 

12/24 1:56am/10:56p- Silent Night: Judy Garland 1937-2m-M

 

12/24 5:31am/2:31a - Compliments of the Season 1930-13m-(Christmas Drama)

12/24 7:13am/4:13a - First Aid 1943-11m-PSS

12/24 10:49am/7:49a- Loews Christmas Greeting 1939-3m-(Hardy Family)

12/24 5:54pm/2:54p - Lanza Christmas Trailer 1951-4m-M (Ave Maria)

 

12/25 2:03am/11:03p- The Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives 1933-8m-A

 

12/25 4:25am/1:25a - Present With a Future 1943-3m-War Bonds(Bette Davis)

12/25 6:00am/3:00a - Holiday Highlights 1940-7m-LT

 

12/26 8:01am/5:01a - White Peril 1956-8m-RKOS

12/26 7:50pm/4:50p - Rabbit Punch 1948-8m-LT (Bugs Bunny)

 

12/27 3:47am/12:47a- What Do You Think? #4 1938-11m-mystery

12/27 5:43am/2:43a - A Lady Fights Back 1944-10m-JNPP

12/27 7:47pm/4:47p - Whispers 1941-10m-JNPP

12/27 9:46pm/6:46p - Rowan and Martin at the Movies 1968-11m-doc

 

12/28 5:49am/2:49a - The Grand Dame 1931-9m-comedy (Patsy Kelly)

 

12/29 3:40am/12:40a- Happy Times and Jolly Moments 1943-18m-silent comedians

12/29 6:17am/3:17a - American Spoken Here 1940-10m-JNPP

12/29 9:47am/6:47a - The Hidden Master 1940-11m-JNPP

12/29 11:43am/8:43a- Spotlight 2000-15m-?

12/29 1:48pm/10:48a- Important News 1936-10m-drama (James Stewart)

12/29 3:38pm/12:38p- Decade For Decision 1957-15m-doc

12/29 7:49pm/4:49p - Teenagers On Trial 1955-19m-doc

 

acronym key:

A=Animated

CC=Charley Chase

CDNP=Crime Does Not Pay

doc=Documentary

DV=Dogville

EK=Edgar Kennedy

HM=Historical Mystery

JM=Joe McDoakes

JNPP=John Nesbitt's Passing Parade

LE=Leon Errol

LH=Laurel & Hardy

LT=Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

M=Musical

MC=Musical Comedy

MOD=Making Of Documentary

PSS=Pete Smith Specialty

RB=Robert Benchley

RKOS=RKO Screenliner

TJ=Tom & Jerry

TK=Todd & Kelly

TT=Traveltalks

[MGMWBRKO]

12/29 - 1/5, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change:

 

12/29, 3:40am EST - Happy Times and Jolly Moments

12/29, 6:17am EST - American Spoken Here

12/29, 9:47am EST - The Hidden Master

12/29, 11:43am EST - Spotlight

12/29, 1:48pm EST - Important News

12/29, 3:38pm EST - Decade For Decision

12/29, 7:49pm EST - Teenagers On Trial

12/30, 9:08am EST - Bargain Madness

12/30, 11:14am EST - Alfred The Great (Featurette)

12/30, 3:50pm EST - Ryan's Daughter (Featurette)

12/31, 2:35am EST - The Hill (Featurette)

12/31, 4:21am EST - Looking at Lisbon

12/31, 1:11pm EST - Facing Your Danger

1/1, 12:05am EST - Hollywood Hist-O-Rama: Marx Bros.

1/1, 1:50am EST - Leo Beers

1/1, 9:50am EST - The Flying Bear

1/2, 8:36am EST - The Nickel Nurser

1/2, 9:50am EST - Mental Poise

1/2, 2:59pm EST - Yankee Doodle Mouse

1/2, 9:36pm EST - Apples To You

1/3, 2:24am EST - Greta Garbo Film Festival Trailer

1/3, 9:04am EST - Bingo Crosbyana

1/3, 12:31pm EST - Hollywood The Second Step

1/3, 2:40pm EST - Gangster Film Festival Trailer

1/3, 7:41pm EST - Memories and Melodies

1/4, 2:21am EST - The Man Who Makes the Difference

1/4, 5:42am EST - Prospecting Bear

1/4, 7:20am EST - A Tale of Two Mice

1/4, 5:33pm EST - So You Want To Keep Your Hair

1/4, 9:33pm EST - 42nd Street Special

1/5, 3:04am EST - And She Learned About Dames

1/5, 2:41pm EST - A Balmy Swami

1/5, 7:46pm EST - On Location With "Fame"

1/5, 11:50pm - Haredevil Hare

[HalRoach16mm]

If you enjoyed the All Star short, "Music In Your Hair", don't miss "Apples To You", Jan 2nd at 6:36PM.

 

Directed by Leigh Jason, this short has one of Billy Gilbert's best performances as a producer. This short, Music In Your Hair and Rhapsody In Brew (again with Billy Bletcher and Gilbert as the Shmaltz Brothers) are what I like to call the All Star Trilogy. Don't miss this fun pre-code rarity. I've run them on film as one half of a double bill and the audience loved it.

 

And, of course Charley, Thelma, Billy and the Garbo stunt double will be seen in The Nickel Nurser, Jan. 2nd. at 5:36AM (both times are West Coast)

[yanceycravat]

You've got to check this short out ---

 

1/1, 1:50am EST - Leo Beers

 

This is one for the books and an indication of, perhaps, why vaudeville died!

 

Yancey

[packer]

Thanks so much for posting the lists, MGMWBRKO. I've gotten

the chance to catch so many great shorts I would have missed otherwise!

 

Happy Holidays!

[andersenrv]

12/30 9:08am/6:08a - Bargain Madness 1951-9m-PSS

12/30 11:14am/8:14a- Alfred The Great (Featurette) 1969-?m-MOD

12/30 3:50pm/12:50p- Ryan's Daughter (Featurette) 1970-7m-MOD

 

12/31 2:35am/11:35p- The Hill (Featurette) 1965-8m-MOD

12/31 4:21am/1:21a - Looking at Lisbon 1953-9m-TT

12/31 1:11pm/10:11a- Facing Your Danger 1946-10m-Sports

 

1/1 12:05am/9:05p - Hollywood Hist-O-Rama: Marx Bros. 1961-4m-doc

1/1 1:50am/10:50p - Leo Beers 1928-7m-

1/1 9:50am/6:50a - The Flying Bear 1941-9m-A (Barney Bear)

 

1/2 8:36am/5:36a - The Nickel Nurser 1932-21m-CC

1/2 9:50am/6:50a - Mental Poise 1938-7m-RB

1/2 2:59pm/11:59a - Yankee Doodle Mouse 1943-8m-TJ

1/2 9:36pm/6:36p - Apples To You 1934-20m-MC (Billy Gilbert)

 

1/3 2:24am/11:24p - Greta Garbo Film Festival Trailer

1/3 9:04am/6:04a - Bingo Crosbyana 1936-8m-LT

1/3 12:31pm/9:31a - Hollywood The Second Step 1936-11m-doc

1/3 2:40pm/11:40a - Gangster Film Festival Trailer

1/3 7:41pm/4:41p - Memories and Melodies 1935-16m-M

 

1/4 2:21am/11:21p - The Man Who Makes the Difference 1968-7m-MOD (Ice Station Zebra)

1/4 5:42am/2:42a - Prospecting Bear 1941-9m-A (Barney Bear)

1/4 7:20am/4:20a - A Tale of Two Mice 1945-7m-LT

1/4 5:33pm/2:33p - So You Want To Keep Your Hair 1946-11m-JM

1/4 9:33pm/6:33p - 42nd Street Special 1933-6m-MOD

 

1/5 3:04am/12:04a - And She Learned About Dames 1934-9m-MOD (Dames)

1/5 2:41pm/11:41a - A Balmy Swami 1949-7m-A (Popeye)

1/5 7:46pm/4:46p - On Location With "Fame" 1980-12m-MOD

1/5 11:50pm/8:50p - Haredevil Hare 1948-7m-LT (Bugs Bunny)

 

acronym key:

A=Animated

CC=Charley Chase

CDNP=Crime Does Not Pay

doc=Documentary

DV=Dogville

EK=Edgar Kennedy

HM=Historical Mystery

JM=Joe McDoakes

JNPP=John Nesbitt's Passing Parade

LE=Leon Errol

LH=Laurel & Hardy

LT=Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

M=Musical

MC=Musical Comedy

MOD=Making Of Documentary

PSS=Pete Smith Specialty

RB=Robert Benchley

RKOS=RKO Screenliner

TJ=Tom & Jerry

TK=Todd & Kelly

TT=Traveltalks

[earthworm]

Tuesday, 2 January, 8:36 am is the time for us to watch the "Nickel Nurser", thanks to Gravy and MGM........

Hopefully, there will be more TK(Todd & Kelly) shorts in the future...

[BMode35]

Anyone see when the 2006 in memory dedication to entertainments passing short will air? I love that year ending recap? It's very sad, but good to remember! I've collected the last 3 years. It would be cool to show them back to back in a show!

[Bill_McCrary]

Anyone see when the 2006 in memory dedication to entertainments passing short will air?

 

They've been showing them after LOTS of movies, but there's no listing for them (at least on the forum). Leave a recorder/TiVo/HardDrive running today, because it may not be up for much longer.

 

There is a link (somewhere) for the older ones, and this will probably be added. Do a search for "TCM Remembers" and you'll find the other threads (several of them) about this.

[BMode35]

Thank you for the tip. Happy New Year to all!

 

B.

[BMode35]

Well I just saw it after Foreign Correspondent, and I'm pretty disappointed. I don't know if someone else said it first, but there is too much "stylization" going on here and not enough emphasis on the talented past. I mean it's like watching a MTV video. "...Richard Bright?..... o yeah he was in the Godfather movies wasn't he?" "quick Joseph Stefano, screen writer for....?" Barnard Hughes...remember him from Tron? It's a ridiculous montage, but nice to see it nevertheless.

 

Happy New Year again.

[Blinkee]

> You've got to check this short out ---

>

> 1/1, 1:50am EST - Leo Beers

>

> This is one for the books and an indication of,

> perhaps, why vaudeville died!

>

> Yancey

 

Ohmygosh!

 

My fiance and I just saw this short - entirely without explanation or anything - in between two Marx Bros movies. We watched silently, in a state of stunned astonishment and morbid fascination, until the end, when he turned to me and said, "I hope that guy (the TCM narrator) comes back and tells us who the **** that was!!"

 

Blinkee

[gisele]

funny. I absolutely adored that short. I realize, being made in 1928, it can't live up to the glitz and splash of MTV, but I thought it was subtle and witty. I'd like to know more about him. The only thing I could find on the internet was a possible world war 2 air force picture. Might not be the same Leo Beers.

[Bill_McCrary]

We watched silently, in a state of stunned astonishment and morbid fascination,

 

I'm just betting you haven't seen the one from about 1925 (a Lee DeForest early sound experiment) with the "singing" duck!!! THAT's what I thought at first they were going to show. He (DeF) made several surviving sound-on-film experiments, including Eddie Cantor, Calvin Coolidge, and others. I think I saw them somewhere other than TCM.

[waffleslost]

I missed the Leo Beers short, but saw THE NICKEL NURSER this morning! A funny short, I loved Billy Gilbert's psychotic butler going on a shooting rampage. Thelma Todd looked beautiful and was beautifully photographed, Charley and Thelma both did classic double "takes". I think I love hearing LeRoy Shield's music the best, his tunes are always with me. Thank you, MGMWBRKO and TCM! Play some Joe Penner shorts!

[SamTherapy]

[nobr]Happy New Year, MGMWBRKO!!!!

Hope you and yours had happy holidays.[/nobr]

 

Thanks for these continued posts and for your great programming of the shorts.

 

Could I request several to be aired?

 

If so, could you please air Inflation again?

Missed it in October; was away.

 

Also could you please air:

Theater Of Life: Going To Blazes.

 

And finally, could you please air, also, the following episodes of the Crime Does Not Pay series:

#1. Buyer Beware

#2. They're Always Caught

#3. Hit-and-Run Driver

#4. A Gun in His Hand

#6. Miracle Money

#7. It May Happen to You

#8. Money to Loan

#9. A Thrill for Thelma

#10. Know Your Money

#11. Soak the Poor

#12. You, the People

#13. Alibi Racket

#15. Torture Money

#16. Don't Talk

#18. Forbidden Passage

#19. Dark Shadows

#20. Purity Squad

#21. A Criminal Is Born

#22. Drunk Driving

#24. The Last Installment

#25. Women in Hiding

#27. Sucker List

#28. Phantoms, Inc.

#30. Patrolling the Ether

#31. Soak the Old

#32. The Wrong Way Out

#33. What Price Safety!

#34. Desert Death

#35. Give Till It Hurts

 

My wife and I would be so grateful to you if we could see these shorts again; they are so very good and entertaining.

 

Anyway thanks again.

Hope you are yours have a prosperous and peaceful 2007.

 

S A M

[nobr][/nobr]

[Guest]

I have a stupid question. TCM shows M.O.D shorts The Boyfriend, The Hill,Alfred The Great but as far as I can tell their not scheduled or on DVD.Isn't it a tease. I thought the M.O.D.'s were suppose to make you want to see the movie but these movies aren't avaliable to see . I'm glad the shorts are posted but what MGMWBRKO doesn't realize is years ago I saw a interveiw and they were discussing sports fan and one guy said fan is short for fanatic and I always remembered that..So please only show the M.O.D.'S that the movie is avaliable to be seen, but other than that all shorts are important to someone so please play variety . Thank You MGMWBRKO you are doing a great service.

[Mysterious_Mose]

> I have a stupid question. TCM shows M.O.D shorts The

> Boyfriend, The Hill,Alfred The Great but as far as I

> can tell their not scheduled or on DVD.Isn't it a

> tease. I thought the M.O.D.'s were suppose to make

> you want to see the movie but these movies aren't

> avaliable to see . I'm glad the shorts are posted but

> what MGMWBRKO doesn't realize is years ago I saw a

> interveiw and they were discussing sports fan and one

> guy said fan is short for fanatic and I always

> remembered that..So please only show the M.O.D.'S

> that the movie is avaliable to be seen, but other

> than that all shorts are important to someone so

> please play variety . Thank You MGMWBRKO you are

> doing a great service.

 

One of the beauties of TCM is that you can see things that are not available in any other way. If you carry your logic far enough, you can make a case for not showing any film other than those on DVD. That would eliminate the draw of TCM and make it just another television station to be ignored. These MODs are interesting as a bit of film history and a look behind the scenes of how films are made. Just because I can't buy "The Wind" on DVD doesn't mean I am not vastly interested in the documentary that usually airs with it (and is on the LaserDisc). TCM may not always show the films that are subjects of the MODs on a regular basis, but they do show some of them.

[gerbino63]

Guys...relax...some of you are doin' it again...remember---this is a kind service that MGMWBRKO does for us "FANS" (and, YES!...I think he/she now knows the meaning of the word FAN...in spades!)I know we all mean well. Let's have a Happy, Healthy (and calm) New Year.

[Clayton]

MGMWBRKO does us all a service with the schedules of shorts.

 

The "making of" documentaries that are shown do not have to be for a movie that is to be shown that minute. I'm sure that TCM will get around to showing the movies at a later date and this will give us all something to look forward to. Remember that these documentaries were not shown at the theater with the movie, but were used in promoting these films (usually on television or at special promotional functions). They were designed to make you want to see the film.

 

We can watch them from a historical persepective.

 

As far as DVD is concerned, the beauty of having a channel like TCM is that they are not handcuffed by showing what is available on DVD or what is in the public domain, but can truly offer us alternatives that are not available elsewhere. I look at the schedule with an eye toward what is not available these other places and especially look for the rarities that they offer.

 

Over the years, they have offered us special offerings like the Sunday morning airings of the complete Bowery Boys series. I would love to see these again or other series offered week after week in a particular time slot. (The Falcon, The Saint, Tarzan, etc.) If they are available on DVD, this is just repiticious.

 

In the meantime, MGMWBRKO will keep us posted as to which shorts are aired. I will no longer have to set the recorder to record the spaces between movies one after the other all day long hoping to catch one of these gems. (Yes, I did this.)

 

Thank you again.