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Friday, January 25, 2013
Screen Guild Theater: Laura / Twelve O'Clock High Video Clips. Duration : 87.20 Mins.


Laura Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb Twelve O'Clock High Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Hugh Marlowe, Millard Mitchell, Reed Hadley, John Kellogg Wardell Edwin "Ward" Bond (April 9, 1903 -- November 5, 1960)[1] was an American film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in over 200 movies and the television series Wagon Train. Bond made his screen debut in Salute, and thereafter played over 200 supporting roles, rarely playing the lead in a theatrical release but starring in the television series Wagon Train from 1957 until his death in 1960. He was frequently typecast as a friendly policeman or as a brutal thug. He had a long-time working relationship with directors John Ford and Frank Capra, performing in such films as The Searchers, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Quiet Man, and Fort Apache for Ford, with whom he made 25 films, and It Happened One Night and It's a Wonderful Life for Capra. Among his other well-known films were Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sergeant York (1941), They Were Expendable (1945), Joan of Arc (1948), in which he was atypically cast as Captain La Hire, Rio Bravo (1959), and Raoul Walsh's 1930 widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail, which also featured John Wayne's first leading role. Bond later starred in the popular NBC western television series Wagon Train from 1957 until his death. Wagon Train was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master, in which Bond also appeared ...

Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Screen Guild Theater: A Mug, a Moll and a Mountaineer / Variety Review 5 / The Hand of Providence Tube. Duration : 87.48 Mins.


A Mug, a Moll & a Mountaineer: George Raft, Edna May Oliver, Bob Burns, Warren Hymer, The Bryan Sisters, Virginia Verrill, George Murphy, Polly Moran Variety Review 5: Mickey Rooney, Joan Bennett, Rosemary Lane, Rudy Vallee, The King's Men, George Murphy The Hand of Providence: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Andy Devine, Donald Meek, Adrienne Ames, Theodore von Eltz, George Murphy Priscilla Lane (June 12, 1915 -- April 4, 1995) was an American actress. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties (1939), Saboteur (1942), a Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), where she plays Cary Grant's fiancée. After winning her raise, Priscilla returned to work, but the films assigned to her were no better than those she had turned down. Brother Rat and a Baby (aka, Baby Be Good, 1940) was an inferior sequel and Three Cheers For the Irish (also 1940) gave her little to do. The British Picturegoer magazine, always a supporter of the Lane Sisters, stated that all was not right with Priscilla Lane. In its June 15, 1940 issue, they wondered why "Priscilla was still knocking at the door of major stardom". They felt Warner Bros. was casting her as stooge to such actors as John Garfield and James Cagney. They went on to say Priscilla had great charm and while not a really great dramatic actress, deserved much larger and more important roles than she was getting. The same magazine, two years later on August 22, 1942, referred ...

Sunday, December 30, 2012
Screen Guild Theater: Desire / Torrid Zone / Seventh Heaven Video Clips. Duration : 89.90 Mins.


Desire: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray Torrid Zone: James Cagney, Joan Bennett, Brian Donlevy, George Tobias Seventh Heaven: Tyrone Power, Annabella Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 -- December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945). Bennett had three distinct phases to her long and successful career, first as a winsome blonde ingenue, then as a sensuous brunette femme fatale (with looks that movie magazines often compared to those of Hedy Lamarr), and finally as a warmhearted wife/mother figure. In 1951, Bennett's screen career was marred by scandal after her third husband, film producer Walter Wanger, shot and injured her agent Jennings Lang. Wanger suspected that Lang and Bennett were having an affair,[1] a charge which she adamantly denied.[2] In the 1960s, she achieved success for her portrayal of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard on TV's Dark Shadows, for which she received an Emmy nomination (1968). For her final movie role, as Madame Blanc in Suspiria (1977), she received a Saturn Award nomination. In her 'New York Times' obituary she was said to be "...one of the most underrated actresses of her time". Bennett's stage debut was at age 18 ...

The Great Gildersleeve: Apartment Hunting / Leroy Buys a Goat / Marjorie's Wedding Gown Tube. Duration : 89.50 Mins.


Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor. In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company ("If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve") and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity. Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood ...

Saturday, December 29, 2012
Screen Guild Theater: On Borrowed Time / A Night to Remember / Her First Beau Tube. Duration : 89.07 Mins.


On Borrowed Time Lionel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price, Ted Donaldson A Night to Remember Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy Her First Beau Lon McAllister, Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Brennen Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 -- March 23, 2011) was a British-born American[2] actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty, and distinctive violet eyes. National Velvet (1944) was Taylor's first success, and she starred in Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for BUtterfield 8 (1960), played the title role in Cleopatra (1963), and married her co-star Richard Burton. They appeared together in 11 films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which Taylor won a second Academy Award. From the mid-1970s, she appeared less frequently in film, and made occasional appearances in television and theatre. Her much-publicized personal life included eight marriages and several life-threatening illnesses. From the mid-1980s, Taylor championed HIV and AIDS programs; she co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1993. She received the ...