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Everything you wanted to know about the twisted history of theatrical movies on TV between (mostly) 1939-1984 and so much more. Happy to answer your questions!
Hell's Kitchen, NY, NY USA
Joined January 2011
Otto Preminger, director Gregory Ratoff, producer William Perlberg and Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Ratoff's WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (1945). Preminger and Lubitsch filmed cameos, but only Preminger's (as a Hessian officer) made it into final cut of time travel musical (1 of 5)
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NY TV debut 11/1/60 at 5:30 pm on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Fifth entry in ten-feature series was the only teaming of Sothern and Sterling, who were married from 1943 to 1949.
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Shown a lot on local TV, often on Columbus Day and George Washington's Birthday because both of them turn up. Latter is played by Alan Mowbray, putting a comic spin on his role from ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1931).
Otto Preminger, director Gregory Ratoff, producer William Perlberg and Ernst Lubitsch on the set of Ratoff's WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? (1945). Preminger and Lubitsch filmed cameos, but only Preminger's (as a Hessian officer) made it into final cut of time travel musical (1 of 5)
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US TV debut 10/12/70 from 9 to 11:15 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Director Peter Ustinov's expensive comedy thriller opened 5/18/66 in Manhattan.
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US TV debut 10/12/65 at 9 pm on NBC "Tuesday Night at the Movies.'' MGM sold Stanley Donen musical he developed there with producer Roger Edens to Paramount, which refused to loan out Audrey Hepburn. Stolen by Kay Thompson. 3/28/57 in Rockefeller Center.
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NY TV debut 10/12/60 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Channel 9's first movie broadcast in color, imported from Japan by the King Brothers, went out wide on 3/15/58 via Distribution Corporation of America after RKO shut down its distribution arm.
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NY TV debut 10/12/55 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Tedious British biopic docked in Times Square on Columbus Day 1949, re-landing on local television (broadcast in glorious monochrome) exactly six years later.
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NY TV debut 10/12/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Unlike Walter Wanger's other UA productions that turned up on TV in 1950, remake of 1937 French PEPE LE MOKO (7/14/38 in Rockefeller Center) was delayed due to 1948 musical remake CASBAH. Copyright expired 1967.
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Monogram's films before its abortive 1935 merger with Republic were more ambitious than that followed their 1937 breakup, at least until after World War II.
NY TV debut 10/12/50 at 11 pm on WATV's "Stardust Theatre.'' Wallace Ford reprised 1929 Broadway role for Monogram comedy. Topped double bill with Universal's STONE OF SILVER CREEK 4/5/35 at Times Square' Criterion. But mostly it played supporting slots. https://t.co/jVEWIszuc4
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In years of searching, I have never found photos of Lubitsch in costume for WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Here's a delightful Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin number with MacMurray helping Columbus (Fortunio Bonanova) quell a mutiny led by Carlos Ramirez. (5 of 5) https://t.co/fEZOf7UYeg
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Lubitsch managed to finish just one more film, CLUNY BROWN, before his death in 1947. He suffered a fatal heart attack after starting THE LADY IN ERMINE, completed by an uncredited Preminger. (4 of 5)
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AFI database notes on WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?: "Lubitsch glares at [star Fred MacMurray] and asks -- 'who did you think I was, Christopher Columbus?' Although photographs of Lubitsch in costume on the set exist, the gag was not included in the finished film.'' (3 of 3)
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Lubitsch writes in a December 1944 syndicated newspaper column about his heart attack, working with Preminger on A ROYAL SCANDAL and filming his first movie appearance in 30 years. (2 of 5)
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US TV debut 10/12/75 at 9 pm on "The ABC Sunday Night Movie.'' A neglected one from director Mark Rydell, filmed on location in Seattle, arrived 12/18/73 at the Embassy 46th Street in Times Square and the Columbia on the Upper East Side, both long gone.
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US TV debut 10/12/70 from 9 to 11:15 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' Director Peter Ustinov's expensive comedy thriller opened 5/18/66 in Manhattan.
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US TV debut 10/12/65 at 9 pm on NBC "Tuesday Night at the Movies.'' MGM sold Stanley Donen musical he developed there with producer Roger Edens to Paramount, which refused to loan out Audrey Hepburn. Stolen by Kay Thompson. 3/28/57 in Rockefeller Center.
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NY TV debut 10/12/60 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Channel 9's first movie broadcast in color, imported from Japan by the King Brothers, went out wide on 3/15/58 via Distribution Corporation of America after RKO shut down its distribution arm.
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NY TV debut 10/12/55 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Tedious British biopic docked in Times Square on Columbus Day 1949, re-landing on local television (broadcast in glorious monochrome) exactly six years later.
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NY TV debut 10/12/55 at 7:30 pm on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.'' Unlike Walter Wanger's other UA productions that turned up on TV in 1950, remake of 1937 French PEPE LE MOKO (7/14/38 in Rockefeller Center) was delayed due to 1948 musical remake CASBAH. Copyright expired 1967.
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