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by Sue Sue Applegate
March 10th, 2023, 10:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Someone's having a birthday!
Replies: 1525
Views: 428745

Re: Someone's having a birthday!

Happy Birthday, Dargo!
by Sue Sue Applegate
March 10th, 2023, 12:46 am
Forum: The People of Film
Topic: Marilyn Monroe
Replies: 21
Views: 5673

Re: Marilyn Monroe

https://i.imgur.com/jp67AGb.jpg While researching Thelma Ritter’s biography, I have encountered quite a bit of information about Marilyn, and my research indicates Marilyn had one goal in life. She wanted to be good at something, and that something was acting. Her husbands got in the way of that go...
by Sue Sue Applegate
March 6th, 2023, 11:53 am
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

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I feel another announcement coming this week…😉
by Sue Sue Applegate
March 2nd, 2023, 10:37 am
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

Rest in Peace, Ted Donaldson. (August 20,1933-March 1,2023) Ted was a good friend to his many fans at the #TCMFF. He was interviewed by SSO Guest Author Jeremy Arnold before a screening of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 2016, and attended many pre-festival parties for social media fans of the festival....
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 26th, 2023, 8:55 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Someone's having a birthday!
Replies: 1525
Views: 428745

Re: Someone's having a birthday!

🎂Happy Birthday to LawrenceA!🎂
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 25th, 2023, 12:34 pm
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Today in 1954: ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ arrives in theaters
Replies: 6
Views: 1144

Re: Today in 1954: ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ arrives in theaters

Here’s a suggestion if you’d like to read more about Julie Adams and The Creature From the Black Lagoon…

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by Sue Sue Applegate
February 25th, 2023, 12:06 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

That clever display in the lobby of the Chinese Multiplex in 2014 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the channel…Fascinated fans often took photos in front of this detailed homage… https://i.imgur.com/sYtquyP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/MVPqA2Q.jpg https://i.imgur.com/arRH44H.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Y...
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 24th, 2023, 10:56 am
Forum: Comedies
Topic: Today in 1934: ‘It Happened One Night’ arrives in theaters.
Replies: 3
Views: 1198

Re: Today in 1934: ‘It Happened One Night’ arrives in theaters.

It does hold up so well! This film captured my attention when I was about ten or eleven. My mother sat down with me and watched it and connented on Colbert and Gable and all the fashions of the day. 🥰
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 23rd, 2023, 9:53 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

Thanks, lafitte! Since working as credentialed media at the festival since 2014, I have about 11,000 photos from years past. Since the demise of the boards, I’ll try to post here 2-3 times a week if I can. Since I’m busy working on Thelma Ritter’s biography, and also have a job, I’ve been pretty bus...
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 22nd, 2023, 5:04 pm
Forum: Action and Adventure
Topic: ‘The African Queen’: THR’s 1951 Review
Replies: 1
Views: 2207

Re: ‘The African Queen’: THR’s 1951 Review

Here’s a nice interview with actor Theodore Bikel on his work during the filming of The African Queen: https://movieweb.com/exclusive-theodore ... can-queen/
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 22nd, 2023, 4:54 pm
Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
Topic: Comparing Awards Associations
Replies: 51
Views: 7580

Re: Comparing Awards Associations

skimpole, Heaven Knows, Mister Allison with Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr is an exciting film and has such beautiful cinematography. Since you’ve never seen it, I recommend you give it a chance. Huston directed the film, wrote the screenplay along with John Lee Mahin, and Oswald Morris was the cin...
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 21st, 2023, 2:11 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

#TCMFF events from the 10th Anniversary in 2019… https://i.imgur.com/H5hhQy9.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/aNzsXO3.jpeg On the Boulevard… https://i.imgur.com/yLU7Qib.jpeg Meetup at Mel’s… https://i.imgur.com/8wnpg1Q.jpeg Fans gather for an interview at the HRH…. https://i.imgur.com/LFOIrBM.jpeg An interv...
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 20th, 2023, 11:42 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Classical Music
Replies: 155
Views: 20203

Re: Classical Music

I also played piano for different solo and ensemble performers, and for a time was the pianist for a large big band. These Francis Poulenc pieces are lovely. I’m happy to be acquainted with some of his works as I had not known of him before. Thank you, Swithin and txfilmfan!
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 19th, 2023, 2:33 pm
Forum: Tales from the TCM Classic Film Festival
Topic: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog
Replies: 1311
Views: 640701

Re: Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

Visiting notorious Greystone Mansion in 2015…. https://i.imgur.com/1CXdev7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/G6y5oam.jpg https://i.imgur.com/O2Idjim.jpg https://i.imgur.com/3df3nXU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SSewIDP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sS8jJHO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/334T8s3.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/WApEpPa.j...
by Sue Sue Applegate
February 18th, 2023, 12:22 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: First Film that comes to mind...
Replies: 2894
Views: 145829

Re: First Film that comes to mind...

Sunday in New York
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