A Movie Scene Quiz

Wow, thanks! I'm off to find the local PBS schedule.

It's on in Houston on Saturday at 5 and on Sunday at 2.

Yay! And, Raggedy, I loved the buried Cole Porter reference in your last post.

Bree. Oh I just thought of one.

Since we're still waiting for a clue from Aggie_woman (and Aggie, I am so curious - are you a Texas Aggie or a marble player or just a female named Aggie ),and because I feel that Bree won't mind, I'll submit the question now, before I forget it.


Reporter
Sailor (at least twice)
Priest
Baseball player

Kevin Costner? :wink:

Not Kevin Costner, Sarah. hmmm. I don't think he ever played a priest.

Spencer Tracey?

Humphrey Boghart?

Nope. Don't think Humphrey Bogart ever played a baseball player - or Tracy.

OK. Three guesses for a clue: This clue relates to two of the movies this actor appeared in. All the movies were before 1960.

Right in the spirit of Christmas, I hear the "bells" on "high".

Reporter - High Society
Sailor - Anchors Aweigh and On the Town
Priest - The Miracle of the Bells
Baseball player - Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Yes to Sinatra. "It's All Right With Me" made me think of Can-Can and Sinatra. I loved the B'way soundtrack and was so disappointed in the movie version.

At 8PM I'm recording A Lion in Winter onto a DVD. I love O'Toole and Hepburn in that one. I thought O'Toole should also have gotten an Oscar. (Cliff Robertson got the Award for Charly that year.)

Have you got a question for us?

I don't have one right now, so if you've got another one, please go ahead. If not, I'll try to think of a new question while I make dinner.

A brief diversion while bree does dinner...oh, at last twice from the post date.

I loved the rendition of Cinderella. Hampered by being a live production (voices appearing off screen so they could change) and a short on at that, it was still very sweet. I thought the sisters, Alice Ghostly and Kaye Ballard were hilarious and the King and Queen were a lovely couple as well.

On one station they had several bits of commentary with edie Adams, Julie Andrew, the Prince and the wonderful Kaye Ballard during the pledge breaks. I also see that it is now available on DVD.

I thought about the comment bree said a reviewer made-it was dated. errr, it's Cinderella! Anyway, it was sweet and fun and as one reviewer noted should be an annual event like the Mary Martin Peter Pan--but I haven't seen that in ages and it's one of my very favorites!

Hi Loislane. I'm glad you enjoyed Cinderella. Our station didn't air it. grrrrrrr. Saturday they had Get Down: Disco Explosion (whatever that was) and Sunday they had Jim Brickman for the umpteenth time. (But, I was able to tape onto DVD from the Brickman show a young singer, Joshua Payne, I really like a lot.) PA will probably get Cinderella next summer.

I enjoyed the songs in Cinderella. I remember them from the later version fairly well, and did lots of singing along.

However, there were a lot of technical difficulties in both broadcasts. (It aired twice here. And yes, I watched it both times.) The audio would pop and then fade almost off. And the visual sort of blacked out a few times too. Unfortunately, the station aired most of the program with the words "Technical Difficulties" across the bottom of the screen.

I hadn't realized that it had been broadcast live originally - or that it was only broadcast that one time and never again! Anyway, mostly it was great, though the camera seemed unnecessarily close to the actors a lot.

Do you suppose that between shots while filming Victor/Victoria, Julie Andrews and Lesley Anne Warren sang songs from Cinderella together?

Ha! That's so funny--I had completely forgotten that they were both Cinderellas! God, I hope they did sing those songs together.

I don't know if it just appeared that way, but the Victor/Victoria cast sure seemed as if they were having a ball. I sure did! I love the image of Lesley Warren in her Chicago, Illinois number outfit, and Julie in tails singing In my Own Little Corner!

Mac:

Loislane: You mentioned Mary Martin (Peter Pan). I love Mary Martin. And even though my movie buddies here are probably tired of hearing this:

The first stage performance I ever saw was Annie Get Your Gun with Mary Martin and she had the longest, loudest, standing ovation I have ever seen. I was hooked on musical theater from that day on.

Raggedy, I'll never tire of that story!

Thank you, Mac.

Well, now "Ten Minutes Ago" has replaced "Wonderful Copenhagen" as the song I can't stop humming! Raggedy, I hope your PBS station gets around to showing Cinderella eventually, because I think you'd like it. (And, mac, I hope your PBS station shows it again without those technical problems.) Yes, the production values are outdated, but I thought that only added to the charm of the show, and besides, what are a few primitive production values when balanced against that great score?

Here's a new (long overdue) question. This actor has played:

Senator
Naval officer
Detective (multiple times)
Impresario