movieman1957 wrote:"Rawhide" was a pretty intense picture. Jack Elam was just evil. Thanks Dan.

Yeah, everybody in our group said that. One added, "Him and his 10 IQ points."

To which I replied, "He probably lost the rest in a card game with Hugh Marlowe."

I spy Ty as one of the theatre ushers - front row third from left. :) You're right Jezebel. Thank you so much for watching. :) That picture was taken c.1930 at the Paramount Theatre (corner of Gilbert and McMillan Avenues) in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati. Tyrone Power worked there when he...

Aw, thanks, Chris. I was getting so much Doris Day material on my home page, I thought I would put some of the best videos here. I see it's gotten over 1,100 views since I posted them. I'm glad to see that Doris Day still has a lot of fans today, more than 50 years after she made her last movie. She...

And to think I was just reading this thread last night . . . This morning, I got the news that Doris Day had died at the age of 97. What a long and lucky life! I had always liked her better as a singer, but she was quite a good actress too. She was so good in movies like STORM WARNING, LOVE ME OR LE...

Make that three!

It only takes a few of us . . .

Not too long ago, I was listening to a classic movie podcast (not named to protect the guilty) where the name of Anita Loos was consistently mispronounced as "loose." Back in 1936, Ms. Loos wrote a poem for The Literary Digest in which she lamented that her name was mispronounced "loo...

Thanks for your comments, everybody! I really wanted to make this a dialogue among Cagney fans instead of just me blathering on and on, and I'm glad you all came out! Moira, right now I'm taking a closer look at the films Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote for Cagney, and BLONDE CRAZY is one of the...

I just tracked down a tough one -- Katina Paxinou, Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1943). From several sources, her name is pronounced ka-TEE-na pa-SEE-noo. PS: Hard to believe I started that pronunciation thread on the TCM boards 10 years ago. Don't even know if...

In the three months since Hillsdale College hosted a lecture series on the films of Billy Wilder , I've been rewatching a lot of his films -- and seeing some of them for the first time. As I've watched many of his later films, I've noticed that many of them mention the state of Ohio or Ohio location...

Hey, thanks for chiming in, Chris! I've got two more posts that I'm working on now, and I hope to get those up soon. James Cagney made 17 films before the new MPPDA code became effective in 1934, so obviously I have a long way to go! But good news for pre-code Cagney fans -- all but two of those fil...

James Cagney in a pivotal role in THE MILLIONAIRE (his 4th film), immediately preceding his star turn in THE PUBLIC ENEMY. It's less than four minutes long, but he packs a wallop in that short length of time, and his performance really complements that of the star, the great British actor George Arl...

Hello, SSO! My apologies for my long absence, due to personal and health reasons. But I haven't forgotten about this thread, and I'd like to thank all my fellow Cagney fans for your interest! I've been working on a few more entries, now in various stages of completion, which I hope to post in the ne...

I originally posted this on another website (now defunct), but thought my friends at SSO would be interested . . . This comes from a collection of articles by Robert Landry in Variety that was reprinted in the August 27, 1927 issue of Liberty magazine. Landry was kind of the Richard Lamparski of hi...

Lomm wrote:My Man Godfrey! Looking forward to seeing that in a non-blurry, fuzzy print.

Criterion just announced the release of MY MAN GODFREY on DVD and Blu-ray for September 18! The screen grabs on the Criterion website look fantastic! Details here.

In OTHER MEN'S WOMEN, railroad worker Regis Toomey and his wife, Mary Astor, takes in Regis's fireman Grant Withers, when he is thrown out of his boarding house. Over the next few months Grant falls in love with Mary, which leads to a confrontation between the two men on a moving train, causing an a...