As a pre-teen in New York in the late 1950s/early 1960s, they showed ALL the Shirley Temple movies on Saturday mornings, as well as most of the Bowery Boys, and the Charlie Chans. So I knew all those series inside and out, but oddly, they never seemed to show hardly any Twentieth Century Fox musicals, and to this day I don't know that I have ever seen even one movie with Alice Faye or Betty Grable (major gaps in my film education, I am sure).
I watched the Bowery Boys every week. and somehow never got tired of them. I was amazed years later to learn that the little Sweet Shop owner, Louie, was actually Loe Gorcey's father! Here was Leo slapping and abusing his own father in every movie. I guess there wasn't something Freudian going on there! Bruce On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Susan Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I pretty much grew up here in Los Angeles. There use to be a program on > called "The Million Dollar Movie" and the same movie played every night at > 8:00 p.m., twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday. Every week brought a new > movie. I had always been a movie fan but this really got me into viewing > every nuance. I saw movies that I probably would have never seen otherwise, > and often watched them all nine times they were on in a week. Great movies > like Damn Yankees, The Searchers, alot of old westerns and so many more. One > in particular was Boy on a Dolphin that I thought was so great when I was a > kid but when watching it years later, while it had some nostalgic moments > for me, the film was not as great as I remembered it. Ah...those were the > good ol' days. > > Sue > www.hollywoodposterframes.com > > > Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:19:19 -0800 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread > > To: [email protected] > > > > I got to thinking that when I was a kid, there were a few movies that > > were on television ALL THE TIME. What was odd about this is that > > these just weren't the kind of movies one would expect to see > > constantly for years (during the 60s and 70s) in a market like > > Phoenix, AZ. > > > > One that seems really strange now is SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER with Monty > > CLift, Liz Taylor, and Katharine Hepburn. I must have seen that film > > ten or twenty times on local TV in Phoenix. Another odd one was > > Joseph Losey's THE SERVANT with James Fox, Dirk Bogarde, and Sara > > Miles. Always on TV. > > > > The weirdest film was one called THE PICASSO SUMMER with Albert Finney > > and Yvette Mimieux. For some reason, that particular film played > > almost monthly for a few years. It was an absolutely unwatchable > > comedy/drama about a married couple driving around Europe trying to > > run into Picasso. > > > > Anyone else on MOPO have such odd memories? > > > > Channing Thomson in San Francisco > > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
