That Memorial Day sale is mighty tempting. But before I divest my wallet of that "most restful shade of green," I'd like to know whether the DVDs will play on my Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows ME and Power DVD. Perhaps one of you could tell me? What started me wondering was a couple...

mongoII wrote:I second the motion on Willie Best. A fine comic actor who Bob Hope praised during the making of " The Ghost Breakers".

Can a motion be thirded? If so, consider it done, for here is another fan of Willie Best.

An evening spent in the company of "The Sainted Sisters" (1948, Paramount) reminded me of another "cigarette scene" I count among favorites. The sisters of the film's title are Letty and Jane Stanton ( Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield ), the topic of conversation in a New York D....

Will this do? http://www.cgerr.com/sso/nv-twocigarettes.jpg The script called for me to light one [cigarette], give it to Bette, light another and trade cigarettes with her. Cigarettes would be shuffling all over the place, so I suggested my lighting them both at once. -- Paul Henried (quoted in For...

How lovely! Thank you so much.

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Ahhh..... Thanks for sharing a glimpse of The Man Who Came Back!

I recall I had a thread on TCM called 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' that was like the subject matter here. I remember that I chose Mae West, Clifton Webb, Tallulah (of course), Oscar Lavant, Ethel Barrymore, among others. It was a lot of fun. I'd like to see such a thread again, mongo. It does sou...

A jack-in-the-box springs out of the woodwork to ask a favor. Ahem... I was a rapt audience member of Captain Salvation 's TCM screening this past Sunday when, just before what seemed a climactic moment, the transmission fizzled out. Would someone be so kind as to tell me how the film ended? Lars Ha...

...I guess you must have the ability and desire to pay attention. That reminds me of the very first time I saw a silent film-- Wild Orchids (1929), it was. While I kept my eyes on the film, I didn't notice the lack of dialogue at all; but then, I looked away for a moment, and was astounded that I c...

Oh, these canteen photos are wonderful, mongo. Thanks for posting them, and the Alice Faye picture on the previous page, as well.

This is my Rathbone-Holmes Syndrome all over again. If I can tolerate starting a non-Rathbone Sherlock tale, I invariably like them but I so seldom 'get in that mood' to be tolerant. Ha! I know how that goes, Ollie ! That may be the very sort of thing that made me less enthusiastic over Sanders ' S...

Was there another Saint picture with Hugh Sinclair ? Gracious, there was indeed. I'm looking at www.saint.org , and they list The Saint's Vacation (1941), starring Sinclair and Sally Gray --a film TCM omitted from their Saint lineup. Oh, and look! Two more Saint films with Louis Hayward : The Saint'...

Birdy, I'm planning to enjoy the yield of Glenn Ford's day still. I wasn't able to sit down and watch the movies as they aired (though I did happen to glimpse TCM at the moment when Rita wakes Glenn with her strumming of "Put the Blame on Mame"--my favorite part of Gilda ), but I taped Con...

This past week or so, Papa and I have been making our way through the series of Saint pictures lately shown on TCM. I had a particular curiosity about them, for these were the films airing on that day in November '07 when TCM first blinked and spluttered, and then came richly to life in my home. I c...

Belated birthday wishes have always seemed to me the best of all; for, in their very belatedness, they allow the celebration, and the joy, to carry on longer.

And so, here are my wishes, too, for the health and great happiness of one of the kindest gentlemen I've ever known.
Happy birthday, Fernando!