With Barker, Corbett, Cleese, Tom Lehrer,
Additional Material Chapman and Jones and....

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51l951wiF6L._AA300_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jjnO6k0GL._AA300_.jpg They Coulda Been Contenders: Twelve Actors Who Should Have Become Cinematic Superstars Kindle/Hardcover 600 Pages (October 5, 2019) By Dan Van Neste "Aft...

from michaelsd.tripod.com: http://michaelsd.tripod.com/Folder/8hbw.jpg Studio 8-H , above, currently best known for SNL, was a home for many NBC radio shows, including Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa’s. Chicago was a national radio hub - e.g. Amos’n’Andy (until 1938) & Fibber McGee & Molly (until 1939...

John Heard plays an alcoholic music composer (no idea who he's based on). Humorist/Playwright/Screen and Comic Strip Writer/Sportswriter/Radio Critic/Columnist Ring W Lardner Sr. - Abe North in Tender- was a friend [/b] and one-time Great Neck neighbor of FSF and Groucho. RWL was also an alcoholic ...

The single disc for Langdon was announced prior to any listing on Amazon. 8 shorts/the 180 minute running time would easily fit on one disc. The official count (see below) is more than eight shorts, and one of them- a Spanish language instructional video conducted by Mr Langdon- will, after a singl...

Medusa Challenger (1977) The third and first film, respectively, for Mamet stalwarts Jack Wallace and Joe Mantegna (31). This short, directed and written by Steven Elkins, is a gentle fable set on the since-eliminated “S Curve” of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. Worth a watch.

Psychomania (1973) Nicky Henson George Sanders Beryl Reid Mary Larkin Robert Hardy Ann Michelle Bill Pertwee Directed by Don Sharp; Written by Arnaud d'Usseau A supernatural horror biker film with an emphasis on biking footage and a paucity of horror or tension. Sanders plays a sort of Max von Mayer...

Wikipedia Entry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_HkYa1kkQ 12 20 61. Steve Allen Bill Dana, Louis Nye, Buck Henry, Joey Forman, Jayne Meadows, Tim Conway, Smothers Brothers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_OyVje50k Captain Nice William Daniels Alice Ghostley Ann Prentiss https://www.youtube.c...

Happy new year, Nitratevillains! If you've been wondering what I've been doing for the last week....... I spent the time wandering around the French Quarter. ,,,,, Anyway, on to a movie I recorded from TCM while I was gone, Satanis: The Devil's Mass (1970). It's an early documentary about Anton Lav...

Carry on Camping (1969) ”To give you an idea, “Camping” begins with a screening of a nudist camp film, and ends with hippies being repelled with liquid fertilizer; in the interim, a few gags may induce wan smiles in the modern viewer.” The Carry On films and their characters endeared themselves to ...

Stu’s Show Archives Actress CARA WILLIAMS reflects on her long career, which includes doing voices in 1930s cartoons and acting in features, on stage, and of course television...as the co-star of "Pete and Gladys" and the star of "The Cara Williams Show". She also talks about her friendships with C...

Wikipedia Entry Jay Ward + Bill Scott’s The Nut House!! (9/1/1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBco9j-PNZ4 Co-star of Oscar nominee Cara Williams (94) in 16 of 30 episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_8QxDHfuk His own series - 1 of 13 aired episodes This 9/26/1966 entry co-written by Bill...

Carry on Camping (1969) This 17th entry in the progressively more naughty 31 film series- with many of the regulars (James, Williams, Hawtrey, Sims, Scott, Jacques, Windsor, Bresslaw, Butterworth)- was the most popular movie in the UK for that year. As always, Peter Rogers, the producer, neither pai...

Neil Innes NYT Tribute . Wikipedia Entry Here Introduced by Eric Idle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AByWUabG7L8 Here Introduced by Michael Palin, it was also performed in the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXsrWrmbAg MMT Doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymm...

Malnor films seems to have vanished

Herman’s favorite musical was Mack & Mabel. It was - with High Button Shoes (1947) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard (1994) - one of Broadway’s more memorable toe-dips into the silent era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Em7TXWBly8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4Sb_uzUv4 The obituaries...

Marilyn Slater, who best might have known , has passed. Any ideas, please ? Click images to enlarge . 1 David Powell (Ian Elliot) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvOL3YqXEAYGoJj?format=jpg&name=900x900 2. Prince Mohammed Ali Ibraham ( Bruce Long ) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvOB5yeXUAceze1?format=jpg&...

Presumably, The Thief of Bagdad
Actors from another film, or visiting dignitaries ?

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Although Miss Stickney appeared in only 15 movies, she had a long life, dying in 1998 at age 101. A sturdy and steady actress, her best-remembered role was as the Queen in the original Julie Andrews broadcast of the Rodgers-Hammerstein Cinderella in 1957. https://pictures.abebooks.com/BABYLONREVISI...

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/mcwp17/wp-content/uploads/n_978-1-4766-7484-1.jpg The Jean Harlow Films By James L. Neibaur 222 Pages Paperback/eBook– March 28, 2019 ”One of the powerful icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death in 1937 at age 26. During her brief career, ...

This thread is a listing of fabulous holiday- or any day- gift suggestions: Currently “in print” items Produced, in whole or in part, by NITRATEVILLE MEMBERS : DVDs; eBooks; CDs; Calendars; Books; Art; etc. ......... Ideally, each post will provide an image, publisher’s description, and on-line pur...

http://www.chelsearialtostudios.com/fighter_squadron_cover.jpg FIGHTER SQUADRON: Composed by: Max Steiner CD (October 2016) Disc Mastering by Ray Faiola , A Brigham Young University Film Music Archive Production. All proceeds from this limited edition compact disc go towards the acquisition, preser...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51YO4%2BVG%2B-L._AA300_.jpg Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film Paperback (December 10, 2020) Edited by Eva Hielscher, Nadine Wietlisbach, and Barbara Flückiger “More than 230 film color processes have been devised in the cours...