Posted on 08/08/2011 5:36:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Don'tcha just love it that TCM, Antenna TV, and the other cable channels running old movies, are driving screwed-up liberals and progressives up a wall?
Libs and progs detest the American values, religion, pro-military, and conservatism of old-time movies.
Knowing old-time movies are carrying-on the values the libs and progs detest is indeed heart-warming.
Thanks again for these posts.
<><>Fred MacMurray was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party who joined Bob Hope and James Stewart in campaigning for Richard Nixon in 1968.
<><> In 1964, along with actors Victor Jory and Susan Seaforth, actress Colleen Gray testified before the United States Congress as part of "Project Prayer", arguing in favor of Constitutional amendment allowing school prayer.
<><> Dean Jagger remembered in the classic film, "White Christmas," refused to work with director Joseph Losey because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist.
<><>Dean Jones became a devout born-again Christian in 1973–1974 and has appeared in several Disney movies and Christian films. A noted conservative, Jones also testified in favor of an amendment to the United States Constitution that would define marriage between one man and one woman.
<><> In February 1944, dreamy actor Robert Taylor helped found the conservative Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. In 1947, Robert Taylor testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding fellow actors whom he believed to be Communists.
One of my favorite films!
Taylor MacMurray Hope and Stewart were the best!
Libs and progs detest the American values, religion, pro-military, and conservatism of old-time movies. .... Knowing old-time movies are carrying-on the values the libs and progs detest is indeed heart-warming.The thing about all these 'old time, Pro-American, movies' and 'The Golden Age of Hollywood' is that it was due to pretty much one thing.
The Motion Picture Production Code (Hayes Code)It went into effect in 1934 and there was a lot of 'Don't Do' and 'Cant Do' in it, but it came down to like a dozen basic 'rules'.
It 'officially' ended in 1968 and the first movie I recall that clearly violated the 'Code' was 'The Wild Bunch' by Sam Peckinpah. In that he had all the Bloody Shoot-Outs in slow motion, something not allowed under 'The Code' (Gratuitous Violence).
But 'I think' that Clint Eastwood's first hit in the US, Fist Full Of Dollars violated it too, as a 'Cowboy Movie' ,never had the bloody beatings like that in any of them. I went to a Drive-In to see that and when I saw what was going on I thought this isn't a 'Cowboy Movie', it's Sadomasochism-Torture and I left.
One last thing -- 'Classics' like The Maltese Falcon couldn't be made today. Really, who'd want to see Bogey naked and Sydney Greenstreet making 'gay love' to Peter Lorre! (triple yuck factor)
So yes, I do watch TCM a lot. I just hate that Alec Baldwin is co-host once a week for 'The Essentials'. I mute when he's on before the movie starts.
A&C had just burst on the film scene; this was their fourth film but the third that was a true A&C (One Night in the Tropics - Buck Privates - In the Navy).
They were cranking them out non-stop in 1941-42, making nine movies in two years, and doing their own radio show at the same time.
The schedule nearly killed Costello, literally. His health took a real beating and he almost died. At the same time his toddler son drowned in the backyard pool. The combination of the two destroyed the 'force-of-nature' energy of his comedy. Everything after Who Done it? seems forced, sloppy, just going through the motions and not a single one of their "Monster" movies comes close to the free-wheeling, almost child-like comedy of the first ten films.
Bogie and star contingent in Washington.
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Conservative Gary Cooper was a friendly witness before HUAC but did not name names---
testified he'd heard people say the govt would be more efficient without a Congress.
Amen, Gary.
” I mute when he’s on before the movie starts. “
So do I : )
Yeah I seem to remember seeing that too.
It was something like because Edward G Robinson, Bogie's friend, was a target of HUAC for Eddie G's overt support of the USSR. Which during WWII wasn't 'that big' of an issue. But Eddie was a supporter of the USSR long before WWII, and long afterwards. Those parts weren't well known
I can't recall if Eddie G was an actual Card Carrying Commie(1), but he was definitely behind Stalin and as such, for communism. (IIRC his 'excuse' was he was sending money to help poor Jews. riiiiight)
(1) At one time I had all those FBI Files that were released with names like Lucille Ball. I lost it thanks to a Hard Drive crash on my old %$#*ing Dell. (my service folder is an inch thick. A Lemon from day one)
This was true for three profound reasons: (1) although it was a legal party operating in a democracy, its membership was secret; (2) its central function was to further the interests and policies of a foreign country and great power--namely the Soviet Union; and (3) it operated, as did all Communist Parties around the world, on the Soviet Union’s own totalitarian model, where all independent thought was forbidden in the name of revolutionary discipline. What is so striking and disturbing about this last point is that the Hollywood Party was made up solely of creative artists.
At its height there were about 300 Party-members in the film industry. Party-membership in Hollywood was secret, and the Party was essentially a revolutionary conspiracy. It was precisely this aspect of Party functioning that allowed secret Communist militants to take control of non-Party organizations, organizations which possessed innocent-sounding public names and involved hundreds of people who were not themselves Party-members but only liberals (or radicals) who thought they were working for good causes: peace, economic justice, anti-racism, civil rights.
These are the famous “front groups;” and later, in the blacklist period, many Hollywood individuals who had innocently joined such front groups got into trouble with HUAC or the blacklist (the actor Edward G. Robinson is perhaps the best example).
“Lubitsch Closes With Korda for Production of Film ‘To Be or Not To Be’!”
That’s a terrifically funny movie. I just read a biography of Lawrence of Arabia written by Alexander Korda’s nephew, Michael Korda.
I may be excerpting from Michael Korda’s bio of Eisenhower next month on some news threads.
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