wel I did see the Alice Faye musicals in the 1960s
Alexander's Ragtime Band was one of them.
between Million Dollar Movie & Chiller Theatre.. I was in weekly film heaven
At 01:20 PM 11/10/2008, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
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
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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
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> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:19:19 -0800
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> 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
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