TCM Classic Movie Alert 8/30/12

TCM ^ | 8/30/12 | Vision

[Vision]

This is your Turner Classic Movie channel alert!

Tonight...Lady for a Day(1933), 8pm est

"A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter."

[Vision]

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[Vision]

TCM Classic Movie Alert!

Lady for a Day(1933), - 8pm est

Note: this will end before Clint Eastwood takes the stage at the RNC.

[Cincinatus]

Remade as “A Pocketful of Miracles” in 1961 with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis. Re-make is excellent; I’ve never seen the original.

[MissyMa]

Saw this on Netflix Streaming this past weekend and loved it.

[ozzymandus]

“Three on a Match” and “The Match King” are also on today, and they’re both great old movies.

[MissyMa]

Had no idea there was a remake and love Bette Davis so will look for it.

Thanks!

[djone]

Thanks Vision... this is a good film. Frank Capra driected right ?

[djone]

Any thing with Guy Kibbee is good . ---Guy---

[thingumbob]

I have...

If you put it into the context of the time (Great Depression)

It's a depressing movie and I'll bet they didn't sell many tickets because everyone who had the money to go, wanted to escape from the outside world with movies like "Thin Man" etc. and any screwball comedy that was out there....at least thats what my dad said about the movie when he caught me watching it.

He hated the movie because it reminded him of the stories his family told him about how his father lost his job and they got kicked out of the house they were renting and had to go live with his dads sisters in Youngstown, Ohio during the depression because the family couldn't feed themselves.

[Vision]

Correct.

[Don Corleone]

A great Damon Runyon story. Been remade a couple of time but always good. Runyon was a class act.

[Vision]

Any thing with Guy Kibbee is good . ---Guy---

Amazing. I freakin' love Guy Kibbee. One of he top 5 character actors of all time IMO. And the could have been the most enjoyable. "Peabody...you're disgusting!"

[Vision]

Oh? I don’t know much about Damon Runyon.

[djone]

..... Guy Kibbee is good ...... ---Guy---

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I think of him first for his work on "Guys and Dolls." I don't suppose he wrote the song lyrics but they are great.

What's in the daily news?
I'll tell you what's in the daily news.
A guy bought his wife a small ruby
With what otherwise would have been his union dues.
That's what's in the daily news. . .

That may not be exact, but you get the idea.

Damon Runyan at imdb.com

[djone]

“Peabody...you’re disgusting!” You threw me a curve there ..... Gold Diggers Of 1933 (Busby Berkeley)-4...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUE4ubkdJOY

[djone]

Guy Kibbee

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Remade as “A Pocketful of Miracles” in 1961 with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis. Re-make is excellent; I’ve never seen the original.”

The original is better. Don’t miss it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Amazing. I freakin’ love Guy Kibbee. One of he top 5 character actors of all time IMO”

I would place him in the top 10.

[Vision]

Another great Kibbee scene is the family dinner table in the beginning of mr. smith does to washington.

[itsahoot]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Who else would you put on the list?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks for the easy question : )

Jimmy Stewart
Edward G. Robinson
Cary Grant
Humphrey Bogart
Marlene Dietrich
Clark Gable
Dick Powell
John Wayne
Jean Arthur
William Powell
James Cagney
Claude Rains

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ah, some great names—BUT . . .

I could be wrong, but I think a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yikes! I forgot Spencer Tracy & Hepburn

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I think a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.”

Gotcha. I suppose one should categorize actors.

Leading man/woman
Comic actors(including those who do drama and comedy with equal ease)
Character actors/sidekicks

[wtc911]

Joe Sawyer, Frank Faylen & William Bendix --- any movie with any of these is watchable (except maybe the Sawyer/Bendix comedies where they're taxi drivers).

Add Steve Brodie, Ray Teal, Edgar Buchanan (he was a DDS), Alan Hale, Eric Blore, Akim Tamiroff, and a boatload of contract players.

[wtc911]

Tracy and Hepburn -—— Let’s all celebrate Gay Hollywood —— yes, both of them.

[Vision]

a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.

That's my understanding. And with that I'd like to add the wonderful Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton to the all time great character actor list. Kibbee and Sparks are as good as it gets IMO.

[Vision]

Tracy and Hepburn

The two most overrated Hollywood stars.

[wtc911]

You always know that they were always thinking....”Man, am I a great actor or what?” He was bad enough but she was much worse. Never saw two people more in love with themselves.

[Vision]

She was an ice queen with a feminist hangup. (but was attractive when very young in her first few movies).

He had a few good roles but just had a lecturing, shallow air about him- especially in his later movies. Was a nasty alcoholic I believe.

They also seemed to take leftist type roles/movies.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Tracy and Hepburn

The two most overrated Hollywood stars. “

Notice I mentioned them as an afterthought : )

[stephenjohnbanker]

“. And with that I’d like to add the wonderful Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton to the all time great character actor list.”

Have you seen “Sing and Like It” (1934)?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Here’s a list of character actors I found online; Nat Pendleton is on it but not Sparks:

http://hollywoodthirties.50webs.com/stage15.html