My cable company didn't add the channel till a few years later so I missed all that. And three posters here (myself, LostHorizons, Bagel) weren't even born at the time the channel went live. But I am so grateful it is still here.... even if I do wish that they would put a temporary moratorium on Do...

jimimac71 wrote: ↑Yesterday, 5:09 pm Dear Heart where Angela Lansbury is something of a snot.
The movie has a Hallmark ending before they were into TV movies.

I love that movie. Just a charming little film, and Geraldine Page has one of her best parts in it.

Who did BETH HOWLAND aka VERA aka DINGBAT play on MURDER SHE WROTE?!? It was a small role in a later episode where she played a housekeeper whose habit of watering the plants helped to unravel the mystery in part; the episode was Lone Witness in Season 9 (AKA the Neil Patrick Harris episode) ARE YO...

Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑Yesterday, 2:27 pm I love Lana Turner's white lampshade chapeau in BACHELOR IN PARADISE.

Still waiting for CALL ME BWANA.

Bachelor in Paradise is one of the better 60s Bob Hope films because it is genuinely funny. He and Lana made a good pair here, and of course Paula Prentiss was her usual professional self.

We're almost at the exact hour of TCM's first sign-on. They signed on the air at 6 p.m. EDT on 14 April 1994. My cable company didn't add the channel till a few years later so I missed all that. And three posters here (myself, LostHorizons, Bagel) weren't even born at the time the channel went live...

I just had the "pleasure" of getting rid of most of the channels in my TV line-up as a cost saving technique. Oh well, at least they allowed me to keep TCM.

Beth Howland, the original Amy in Company ("Getting Married Today"), played Vera on Alice . Linda Lavin sang (well, sort of) the title song for the show. And don't forget, appeared on an episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE! (playing another annoying character, her stock in trade!) Beth Howland, ...

Wow. I'm amazed they are that low. They seem to go in cycles then switch to something else to beat us over the head with. The channel itself seems to take advantage of windows of opportunities. I recall that in the early 2010s, they kept premiering all sorts of 20th Century Fox films, some only onc...

The current reigning champions for most showings on TCM (as of March 2024): 1. Casablanca (1942) 182 2. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 178 3. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 173 4. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 163 5. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 158 Surprisingly, North by Northwest (1959) has ‘only...

Yes, I saw GODFATHER III when it came out- we stole pay per view and it ran on loop. It was 1990 I think? I was 12 years old and I kid you not, one day I ran upstairs and grabbed a black wig and a fake rubber nose, and did an impression of Miss Sofia Coppola‘s EPIC performance for my sister and her...

Was Ellen Burstyn asked to reprise her role in the ALICE TV series? She would have already received the Oscar for ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE so it's not surprising if she was asked to do the TV show (or at least the pilot) that she declined. Back then doing a TV series would have been seen as ...

I don't think I've ever seen an entire episode of ALICE, but I love the movie ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE [/b]that was the inspiration for the TV series. I'M THE OPPOSITE- I've only seen the TV SERIES, which I grew up watching on THE SUPERSTATION. It would be interesting to see what you think o...

Lorna wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 5:04 pm (Still better than waking up next to THE LUME LADY.)

That made me laugh a lot.

The horse head in the scene in The Godfather was acquired from a glue factory. John Marley, the actor in bed with the head, didn't know it was going to be a real head, so his screams in the scene were genuine.

Now we go deep into the era of the flavorful early talkies with the stand-out year of 1932. The next year up will be 1963. 1932 Films Seen:161 The Best: 1 Trouble in Paradise 2 Broken Lullaby 3 Jewel Robbery 4 Red Dust 5 Three on a Match 6 Million Dollar Legs 7 Hot Saturday 8 Grand Hotel 9 Emma 10 H...