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I hope not- she was gorgeous

A shame that TCM ran one of my favorite films "A Hatful of Rain" , a 20th Century Fox CinemaScope production, in a pan and scan version tonight.... This is one tiltle I was always hoping Twilight Time would put out. Fox's own MOD DVD was p&s as well... The only time I ever saw it in wide-screen...

Intersting- in NY in the 1970s and 80s, the old Paramount films (Marx Brothers, WC Fields, Billy Wilder,.Hope, Crosby) controlled by Universal were on Channel 5 WNEW , while the Universal films of the 30s, 40s, and 50s aired on Channel 9 (WOR)...Univeral had the right to both catalogs but must...

Interesting though that Eleanor Parker got a best Actress nomination for playing his wife, and Douglas did not. But that was a very competitive year in the Best Actor category, as mentioned

And Kennedy won the NY Film Critics Award that year for his performance

One of my main crushes of the 1980s, from "Square Pegs" onward ...

When I was a young film buff catching these films on TV in the 1970s, I didn't know much better either until Film Comment Magazine had an article about films shown on television, and they discussed panning and scanning, and gave photographic examples (I remember they showed widescreen and...

I watched this on DVD a few years back, and really liked it. Minnelli is a master of the wide-screen, so I'm thinking that those old TV pan-and-scan showings must have been a mess.... . I'd probably prefer "Some Came Running" on blu-ray first, though

I remember watching Officer Joe Bolton's show when my TV began acting weird...then the lights went out ! The Great East Coast Blackout of 1965 !!!

That's my NYC childhood right there ! The only one you forgot was "Officer" Joe Bolton, who used to introduce Three Stooges shorts from a set that looked like a police station jail