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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:16:04 GMT -5
Indeed, yummy goodness for those with discerning palate...   Also served on our pre-chewed menu for the man in a hurry!… Does the pre-chewed menu come with a straw? |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 6, 2024 14:29:58 GMT -5
Before WPIX-TV would become a full-time station in the late 1950's, they would share NYC Educational Channel programming in the morning until 3PM. They would come on at 3PM, with Oliver and Hardy movies, then have their regular kids programming start afterwards. I love watching their movies. Also, I enjoyed watching the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello comedy films. WNEW-TV, channel 5 would show the East Side Kids movies on Saturdays. During the week they had excellent kids shows, hight lighted by Sandy Becker show. Those WC Fields movies are classics. My favorite WC Fields movie is "It's a Gift." Yep, if I remember correctly channel 5 would have a horror movie or 2 on in the AM, but in the afternoon they would show The East Side Kids/The Dead End Kids/The Bowery Boys movies. 1 of my favorite movies is "Crime School" with Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys. New York's Channel 9 WOR-TV would have Zachary host the Horror movies show on the weekends, plus that station ran "Million Dollar Movie" all week long at 8PM. |
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:35:35 GMT -5
Those WC Fields movies are classics. My favorite WC Fields movie is "It's a Gift." Yep, if I remember correctly channel 5 would have a horror movie or 2 on in the AM, but in the afternoon they would show The East Side Kids/The Dead End Kids/The Bowery Boys movies. 1 of my favorite movies is "Crime School" with Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys. Max, I am glad that somebody else has "It's A Gift" as his favorite WC Fields movie. I think it's more consistently funny than some of his more celebrated films like "My Little Chickadee" and "The Bank Dick" (although I like them too.) Harold Bissonette! Fields worked some skits from his vaudeville days into that film -- the blind Mr. Muckle destroying his store, the "kumquats" guy Mr. Fitchmueller. Loved the happy ending with Bissonette pouring some vodka into his fresh-squeezed orange juice. In the early to mid-30s Paramount had Fields and the Marx Brothers and Mae West doing some of their best work. The Marx Brothers especially with "Duck Soup" and "Horsefeathers" and "Monkey Business" were classics IMO. They also did some good work later with MGM --"A Night At The Opera" for instance -- but I thought they were at their creative zenith earlier. At that same time Laurel and Hardy were doing their best stuff at MGM -- especially "Sons Of The Desert" and "Way Out West." A lot of great comedic cinema from that time that made its way to TV when we were growing up. Hardy had a nice singing voice. "Way out West" is my favorite Laurel and Hardy movie. "A Chump at Oxford" is another classic. "It's a Gift" had a lot of funny scenes. Mr. Muckle and the light bulbs! LOL! The Carl LaFong scene was very funny. Mrs. Bissonette was very annoyingly funny.
Have you ever seen the movie "International House"? A lot of stars in that movie including WC Fields, Bela Lugosi. In my opinion, it's a very funny movie. Cab Calloway sings a song in that movie called the "Reefer Man". I remember thinking..Wow, they allowed that song to be in the movie in the 1930's? I thought the rules were so strict back then?
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:44:13 GMT -5
Those WC Fields movies are classics. My favorite WC Fields movie is "It's a Gift." Yep, if I remember correctly channel 5 would have a horror movie or 2 on in the AM, but in the afternoon they would show The East Side Kids/The Dead End Kids/The Bowery Boys movies. 1 of my favorite movies is "Crime School" with Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys. New York's Channel 9 WOR-TV would have Zachary host the Horror movies show on the weekends, plus that station ran "Million Dollar Movie" all week long at 8PM. I remember "The Million Dollar Movie" on WOR (Channel 9) during weeknights, but I'm pretty sure on Saturday night that Zachary was on Channel 11 (WPIX) "Chiller Theater." On Saturday night I also remember WOR having "Fright Night", while WNEW (Channel 5) would have "Creature Feature." |
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Post by Max on Mar 6, 2024 14:48:07 GMT -5
You are quick on the draw, Kaybli. Which prompts a question -- did "Quick Draw McGraw" survive into your TV generation? Those "Quick Draw McGraw" and "El Kabong" cartoons were really funny. |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 6, 2024 15:39:56 GMT -5
Max, I am glad that somebody else has "It's A Gift" as his favorite WC Fields movie. I think it's more consistently funny than some of his more celebrated films like "My Little Chickadee" and "The Bank Dick" (although I like them too.) Harold Bissonette! Fields worked some skits from his vaudeville days into that film -- the blind Mr. Muckle destroying his store, the "kumquats" guy Mr. Fitchmueller. Loved the happy ending with Bissonette pouring some vodka into his fresh-squeezed orange juice. In the early to mid-30s Paramount had Fields and the Marx Brothers and Mae West doing some of their best work. The Marx Brothers especially with "Duck Soup" and "Horsefeathers" and "Monkey Business" were classics IMO. They also did some good work later with MGM --"A Night At The Opera" for instance -- but I thought they were at their creative zenith earlier. At that same time Laurel and Hardy were doing their best stuff at MGM -- especially "Sons Of The Desert" and "Way Out West." A lot of great comedic cinema from that time that made its way to TV when we were growing up. Hardy had a nice singing voice. "Way out West" is my favorite Laurel and Hardy movie. "A Chump at Oxford" is another classic. "It's a Gift" had a lot of funny scenes. Mr. Muckle and the light bulbs! LOL! The Carl LaFong scene was very funny. Mrs. Bissonette was very annoyingly funny.
Have you ever seen the movie "International House"? A lot of stars in that movie including WC Fields, Bela Lugosi. In my opinion, it's a very funny movie. Cab Calloway sings a song in that movie called the "Reefer Man". I remember thinking..Wow, they allowed that song to be in the movie in the 1930's? I thought the rules were so strict back then?
International House is a 1933 American pre- Hayes Code comedy film starring Peggy Hopkins Joyce and W. C. Fields, directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures. The tagline of the film was "The Grand Hotel of comedy". It is a mixture of comedy and musical acts tied together by a slim plot line, in the style of the Big Broadcast pictures that were also released by Paramount during the 1930s. In addition to some typical comedic lunacy from W. C. Fields and Burns and Allen (George Burns and Gracie Allen), it provides a snapshot of some popular stage and radio acts of the era. The film includes some risqué pre-Code humor. The cast also features Cab Calloway with his orchestra and Bela Lugosi. |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 6, 2024 15:45:20 GMT -5
New York's Channel 9 WOR-TV would have Zachary host the Horror movies show on the weekends, plus that station ran "Million Dollar Movie" all week long at 8PM. I remember "The Million Dollar Movie" on WOR (Channel 9) during weeknights, but I'm pretty sure on Saturday night that Zachary was on Channel 11 (WPIX) "Chiller Theater." On Saturday night I also remember WOR having "Fright Night", while WNEW (Channel 5) would have "Creature Feature." Zach's show ran on WOR-TV from 1959-1960. The he had Chiller Theater on WPIX-TV from 1961 to 1965. Chiller Theater was initiated by WPIX-TV during 1961. Beginning 1963, its host was John Zacherle ("The Cool Ghoul"), who quit during 1965 season. |
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Post by bomberhojoe on Mar 6, 2024 15:52:50 GMT -5
New York's Channel 9 WOR-TV would have Zachary host the Horror movies show on the weekends, plus that station ran "Million Dollar Movie" all week long at 8PM. I remember "The Million Dollar Movie" on WOR (Channel 9) during weeknights, but I'm pretty sure on Saturday night that Zachary was on Channel 11 (WPIX) "Chiller Theater." On Saturday night I also remember WOR having "Fright Night", while WNEW (Channel 5) would have "Creature Feature." It was actually, Zacherley the Cool Ghoul. I also recall midnight wrestling on Saturdey on WOR-9, with Gorilla Monsoon, Bobo Brazil, and the Great Bruno Samartino.  ![]() |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Mar 6, 2024 16:01:35 GMT -5
Rocky and Bullwinkle Shows to be aired in Canada had to be edited with the stories of Dudley Do-Right being removed. The Canadians had law on the books about how their Mounties were presented in media. Still one of my favorite cartoon shows of the late 1950's and the 1960's.  |
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Post by inger on Mar 6, 2024 16:10:54 GMT -5
Also served on our pre-chewed menu for the man in a hurry!… Does the pre-chewed menu come with a straw? Upon request… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 6, 2024 17:19:34 GMT -5
Max, I am glad that somebody else has "It's A Gift" as his favorite WC Fields movie. I think it's more consistently funny than some of his more celebrated films like "My Little Chickadee" and "The Bank Dick" (although I like them too.) Harold Bissonette! Fields worked some skits from his vaudeville days into that film -- the blind Mr. Muckle destroying his store, the "kumquats" guy Mr. Fitchmueller. Loved the happy ending with Bissonette pouring some vodka into his fresh-squeezed orange juice. In the early to mid-30s Paramount had Fields and the Marx Brothers and Mae West doing some of their best work. The Marx Brothers especially with "Duck Soup" and "Horsefeathers" and "Monkey Business" were classics IMO. They also did some good work later with MGM --"A Night At The Opera" for instance -- but I thought they were at their creative zenith earlier. At that same time Laurel and Hardy were doing their best stuff at MGM -- especially "Sons Of The Desert" and "Way Out West." A lot of great comedic cinema from that time that made its way to TV when we were growing up. Hardy had a nice singing voice. "Way out West" is my favorite Laurel and Hardy movie. "A Chump at Oxford" is another classic. "It's a Gift" had a lot of funny scenes. Mr. Muckle and the light bulbs! LOL! The Carl LaFong scene was very funny. Mrs. Bissonette was very annoyingly funny.
Have you ever seen the movie "International House"? A lot of stars in that movie including WC Fields, Bela Lugosi. In my opinion, it's a very funny movie. Cab Calloway sings a song in that movie called the "Reefer Man". I remember thinking..Wow, they allowed that song to be in the movie in the 1930's? I thought the rules were so strict back then?
Oliver Hardy did indeed have a lilting tenor voice. I love him singing "In The Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia" in "Way Out West." That film also had the wonderful soft-shoe with Stan and Ollie dancing to a cowboy band. "Commence To Dancin" might have been the title, they kept repeating that phrase, but it is one of my favorite scenes in any L&H movie. And yes, "A Chump At Oxford" is another good one, where Stan is conked on the head and becomes a genius who Albert Einstein seeks out for advice. What's the one where Ollie suffers a nervous breakdown from working in a horn factory? Also "Block Heads" with the usual domestic Hell for those guys. We've twice been to Hardy's birthplace in Harlem, GA, near Augusta. They have a nice little L&H Museum there and have their likenesses painted on the water tower. Admittedly not a lot to do there; we wound up staying in the town one year when we went to The Masters -- I had no idea it was Ollie's birthplace until then. I almost mentioned "International House" but I didn't think anybody would remember it. Yes, I liked it too. They advertised it as a comedic version of "Grand Hotel" (another of my absolute favorites -- anything with Garbo.) We lived in Washington DC in 81-82 and went to the American Film Institute about three times a week. They had outstanding film festivals, mainly showing old or rare films on the big screen. That's where I first saw "International House." Before the film, Rose Marie, who did a cringe-worthy song in the movie as Baby Rose Marie, spoke to the audience about the film. Unfortunately, she said her own part was recorded separately at the Astoria, Queens studio, so she wasn't really interacting with Fields on the set (although she did work with him on stage.) A lot of risque humor in that movie that never would have made it to the film after the Hays Code came in I think later that year. Some of that stuff would be raunchy even today. Let's just say Fields had a line involving a woman and cat she was sitting on. Another Fields movie, "The Old Fashioned Way", features his amazing juggling skills. As you know he made his reputation early on as a juggler and all-around legerdemain artist and was considered one of the best in the world. My favorite pre-film speaker ever at the AFI was Lillian Gish, who spoke before a screening of "Way Down East." Obviously this crowd of old film buffs was pre-disposed to love her anyway, but she had a beatific presence and the audience was in rapt attention. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 6, 2024 17:29:26 GMT -5
Rocky and Bullwinkle Shows to be aired in Canada had to be edited with the stories of Dudley Do-Right being removed. The Canadians had law on the books about how their Mounties were presented in media. Still one of my favorite cartoon shows of the late 1950's and the 1960's. View AttachmentRocky and Bullwinkle was genius. From Jay Ward Productions, which earlier had done the similar (but not quite as well-developed) "Crusader Rabbit." I never knew about Dudley being banned in Canada. Bill Scott, who did the voice of Bullwinkle, also did Dudley. June Foray, who did Rocky and Natasha, also did Nell Fenwick in those skits. She was a great raconteur who lived well into her nineties. I remember seeing an interview with her where she said she was hired by a very drunk Jay Ward and Bill Scott at one of those proverbial three-martini lunches of blessed memory. |
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Post by azbob643 on Mar 6, 2024 17:32:48 GMT -5
Rocky and Bullwinkle Shows to be aired in Canada had to be edited with the stories of Dudley Do-Right being removed. The Canadians had law on the books about how their Mounties were presented in media. Still one of my favorite cartoon shows of the late 1950's and the 1960's. View AttachmentRocky and Bullwinkle was genius. From Jay Ward Productions, which earlier had done the similar (but not quite as well-developed) "Crusader Rabbit." I never knew about Dudley being banned in Canada. Bill Scott, who did the voice of Bullwinkle, also did Dudley. June Foray, who did Rocky and Natasha, also did Nell Fenwick in those skits. She was a great raconteur who lived well into her nineties. I remember seeing an interview with her where she said she was hired by a very drunk Jay Ward and Bill Scott at one of those proverbial three-martini lunches of blessed memory. Have you ever auditioned for "Jeopardy!" ? |
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Post by laurenfrances on Mar 6, 2024 17:35:56 GMT -5
Hardy had a nice singing voice. "Way out West" is my favorite Laurel and Hardy movie. "A Chump at Oxford" is another classic. "It's a Gift" had a lot of funny scenes. Mr. Muckle and the light bulbs! LOL! The Carl LaFong scene was very funny. Mrs. Bissonette was very annoyingly funny.
Have you ever seen the movie "International House"? A lot of stars in that movie including WC Fields, Bela Lugosi. In my opinion, it's a very funny movie. Cab Calloway sings a song in that movie called the "Reefer Man". I remember thinking..Wow, they allowed that song to be in the movie in the 1930's? I thought the rules were so strict back then?
Oliver Hardy did indeed have a lilting tenor voice. I love him singing "In The Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia" in "Way Out West." That film also had the wonderful soft-shoe with Stan and Ollie dancing to a cowboy band. "Commence To Dancin" might have been the title, they kept repeating that phrase, but it is one of my favorite scenes in any L&H movie. And yes, "A Chump At Oxford" is another good one, where Stan is conked on the head and becomes a genius who Albert Einstein seeks out for advice. What's the one where Ollie suffers a nervous breakdown from working in a horn factory? Also "Block Heads" with the usual domestic Hell for those guys. We've twice been to Hardy's birthplace in Harlem, GA, near Augusta. They have a nice little L&H Museum there and have their likenesses painted on the water tower. Admittedly not a lot to do there; we wound up staying in the town one year when we went to The Masters -- I had no idea it was Ollie's birthplace until then. I almost mentioned "International House" but I didn't think anybody would remember it. Yes, I liked it too. They advertised it as a comedic version of "Grand Hotel" (another of my absolute favorites -- anything with Garbo.) We lived in Washington DC in 81-82 and went to the American Film Institute about three times a week. They had outstanding film festivals, mainly showing old or rare films on the big screen. That's where I first saw "International House." Before the film, Rose Marie, who did a cringe-worthy song in the movie as Baby Rose Marie, spoke to the audience about the film. Unfortunately, she said her own part was recorded separately at the Astoria, Queens studio, so she wasn't really interacting with Fields on the set (although she did work with him on stage.) A lot of risque humor in that movie that never would have made it to the film after the Hays Code came in I think later that year. Some of that stuff would be raunchy even today. Let's just say Fields had a line involving a woman and cat she was sitting on. Another Fields movie, "The Old Fashioned Way", features his amazing juggling skills. As you know he made his reputation early on as a juggler and all-around legerdemain artist and was considered one of the best in the world. My favorite pre-film speaker ever at the AFI was Lillian Gish, who spoke before a screening of "Way Down East." Obviously this crowd of old film buffs was pre-disposed to love her anyway, but she had a beatific presence and the audience was in rapt attention. Anyone watched silent movies? I have on DVD 1915 Birth of a Nation and 1921 Orphans of the Storm with Lillian Gish. Occasionally see them on AMC. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 6, 2024 17:37:45 GMT -5
I remember "The Million Dollar Movie" on WOR (Channel 9) during weeknights, but I'm pretty sure on Saturday night that Zachary was on Channel 11 (WPIX) "Chiller Theater." On Saturday night I also remember WOR having "Fright Night", while WNEW (Channel 5) would have "Creature Feature." It was actually, Zacherley the Cool Ghoul. I also recall midnight wrestling on Saturdey on WOR-9, with Gorilla Monsoon, Bobo Brazil, and the Great Bruno Samartino. ![]() Hah, Bobo Brazil was maybe the first wrestler to supposedly be from "Parts Unknown." And Gorilla Monsoon from Willingboro New Jersey was allegedly discovered walking naked through a river in Manchuria and brought back to the US. Haystacks Calhoun was also from that generation of wrestlers, and just a bit later Chief Jay Strongbow came on the scene. Great entertainment. |
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