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Has TCM ever showed these films? Do they have them?

Post by ChaneyFan » Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:43 pm

Annie Laurie (saw this in DC in the early 90s)
The Fair Co-ed
Miracle of the Wolves

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Post by Rodney » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:31 pm

ChaneyFan wrote:Annie Laurie (saw this in DC in the early 90s)
The Fair Co-ed
Miracle of the Wolves
I only know of one copy of Annie Laurie, a 35mm print held by Library of Congress. Don't know if it's ever been transferred to video, it certainly hasn't been released to the home video market.

The Fair Coed has been shown somewhere recently, you might search past messages. IIRC, it involves romantic entanglements and girls' basketball at a college. I have the original cue sheet, but I've never seen it.
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Post by drednm » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:53 pm

I have a copy of THE FAIR CO-ED.... no idea where I got it from.... I thought this had been restored in the last few years and shown in Los Angeles.... It's never been on TCM.

It's a funny film with Marion Davies getting interested in college basketball real fast when she discovers the coach is Johnny Mack Brown and her rival (Jane Winton) has her eye on him. Joel McCrea and Lou Costello are among the extras.
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Post by myrnaloyisdope » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:54 pm

Ooh, The Fair Co-Ed is fun stuff. Think Marion Davies doing her best William Haines, as the cocky athlete who gets her comeuppance just in time for the big game. I'd really like to see a restored version of it.

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Post by barafan » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:06 am

Wasn't there a Broadway show called The Fair Co-Ed around 1914 or so? Is the movie based on that?

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Post by drednm » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:21 am

The Marion Davies film is indeed loosely based on the 1909 musical that starred Elsie Janis.
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Post by barafan » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:31 am

Thank you, Ed. I'd mentioned The Fair Co-Ed in passing in my novel, but had forgotten about the Davies movie.

Full disclosure - I don't know much about Davies, other than what I've read in Basinger's Silent Stars and what I've seen in the documentary that Timeline Films did on her - although I have seen Show People and found that very funny.

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Post by drednm » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:35 am

The film is a hoot.
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Post by radiotelefonia » Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:33 am

Why can't they show Rin-Tin-Tin films and those of his clones? Many have survived in 9.5mm prints and are terrific.

Filmoteca devoted a week to them two years ago and I managed to capture a few.

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Post by Gagman 66 » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:40 am

ANNIE LAURIE was offered by the old Forgotten Films on DVD-R. I don't think they are still around. I've seen the film. The 35 Millimeter source material is beautiful, including the Two-Color Technicolor. THE FAIR CO-ED is a movie I hoped would debut on TCM for a long time. Ditto for LITTLE OLD NEW YORK, THE LIGHTS OF OLD BROADWAY, BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK, TILLIE THE TOILER, and THE CARDBOARD LOVER.

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Post by drednm » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:46 am

Jeff wasn't The Fair Co-Ed restored? I could swear I remember seeing something about a restoration and showing in Los Angeles.....
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Post by Gagman 66 » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:55 am

Ed,

:) Yes, in July of 2008 a Theater in L A ran a newly restored 35 millimeter print. I think it was shown in Chicago a few months later. Or maybe the following year.

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Post by drednm » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:56 am

Then yes TCM should show this delightful film!!
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Post by Gagman 66 » Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:02 pm

:o The film has been restored, so was ANNIE LAURIE in 2002. However, neither one has a recorded score that I know of. Same old, same old. I think THE FAIR CO-ED was just part of some funny ladies film festival earlier this year?

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Post by drednm » Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:06 pm

Oh another mute film...

see my notes in this thread on Getting Mary Married
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Post by precode » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:37 pm

If memory serves, doesn't Warners no longer own the rights to ANNIE LAURIE?

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Post by azjazzman » Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:19 pm

precode wrote:If memory serves, doesn't Warners no longer own the rights to ANNIE LAURIE?

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I think Warners owns the rights, but they don't have a print. The print is at LOC.

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Post by sepiatone » Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:04 pm

The play THE FAIR CO-ED starred Elsie Janis in 1909. It's an 18 year difference between the play and Marion's film so some updating and adapting is likely in order.

LITTLE OLD NEW YORK, saw it at the LoC in the 90s, beautiful print, staid direction from Sidney Olcott. Im usually turned off of films directed by Olcott. Both LONY and MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE could've been better films with more imaginative directors.

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Post by Michel Derrien » Wed Dec 22, 2010 6:27 pm

Grapevine Video sells a DVD of Little Old New York. More materials in http://www.sidneyolcott.com/Little_Old_New_York.htm
Sorry for my English

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