I feel kinda guilty, but I’m finding #ACountessFromHongKong pretty heavy sledding. #TCMParty

Nothing German about Wiener Backhuhn and Hawaiian Salad (Austria, meet Polynesia!). And who’d feed milk to a chicken?

I’m beginning to recall why I didn’t watch the weekly #Blondie movies on NYC TV (Channel 9? 11?) in the 80s. #TCMParty

IIRC Arthur Lake played the elevator operator in the Kerbys’ apartment building in TOPPER, and after being fired, appeared later in the picture as the porter in the seaside hotel (where Eugene Pallette is house detective). #LifeWithBlondie #TCMParty

Blondie Movies - 4 Original Opening Credits + Some AMC and TCM Intros YouTube video by Jaycub Howard

Yes they did. I think ownership (sole or co-) of the films is with King Features and they syndicated the films to TV with the new standard titles. I found this line up of original titles from AMC, plus a glimpse of host Nick Clooney! Plus Ben. #LifeWithBlondie #TCMParty

Apparently the “J.C.” stands for Julius Caesar Dithers. #TCMParty #LifeWithBlondie

My recollection of the origin story is: Blondie was a flapper girl and Dagwood was heir to a fortune. When they married, his family disinherited him so he had to go to work (gasp!) and live a middle class existence. #LifeWithBlondie #TCMParty

What happened to the original Columbia titles? Stripped out for TV syndication by King Features? #LifeWithBlondie #TCMParty

Man, this movie is one long PSA for required foreign language studies in American public schools. #Jeopardy #TCMParty

“I may be a murderous psychopath, but I’m a clever murderous psychopath!” #Jeopardy #TCMParty

He may die from the “unusual” coffee before he dies of drowning. #Jeopardy #TCMParty

The happiest of #HappyBirthdays to the one, the only, the fabulous, the undisputed QUEEN, @citizenscreen.bsky.social !!

See you soon at #TCMFF !

What, a duck? #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfDinner

That chicken had better be a SAG-AFTRA member! #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman

“Go back to Bulgaria.” #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Well, erm… I don’t think she’s quite ready for the Metropolitan. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #HisKindOfWoman

Mark Cardigan? Must be a buttoned-up kinda guy. 🙄 #TCMParty #NoirAlley

“It’s great for us full-figured gals, too!” #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman

Phil van Zandt and Jim Backus in the same frame! Mind blown. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman

That bartender at the Mexican dive is James Burke, who played the dopey sandwich-chomping cop in ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, another half-comic “noir”. So many familiar faces here. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman

I swear, some Sunday mornings I’d be happy to watch 90 minutes of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and 5 minutes of movie. Instead of the other way ‘round. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HisKindOfWoman

Forget Raymond Burr. Jim Backus!
#TCMParty #NoirAlley #HisKindOfWoman

My parents saw #SameTimeNextYear on Broadway (early 1978) with Monte Markham and Betsy Palmer! They loved it. The play ran over 3 years. #TCMParty

I get the vibe that in the 50s producers were trying to portray Black characters as more real, human, with some depth, but man! They were really quite clueless about how to achieve it.

Meanwhile, Tarzan and Jane are living like Ozzie & Harriet. And Cheta has a loincloth!! 🤦🏻‍♂️ #TCMParty

This is the most immaculate, antiseptic, carefully landscaped African jungle I’ve ever seen #TarzansFightForLufe #TCMParty

Oh man, it’s killing me to see James Edwards, Woody Strode and Roy Glenn play bongo-congo witch doctors and drum-thumping tribesmen in #TarzansFightForLife.

I’m glad they got much better material later on. #TCMParty

David Robb, Holly Aird and Hayley Mills in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA (1981)

Am I the only one who remembers THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA?

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Woo hoo!

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