TCM and Other Sources for Classic Film

 Send a "Thank you." out to TopBilled as well, Fading Fast: His "TCM schedules" and "TCM AND OTHER SOURCES FOR CLASSIC FILM" threads were always the two threads on the old TCM Message Boards I routinely visited.

  I hope you enjoyed it or will when watch, Fading Fast...
 
 Unless I misheard, Ben Mankiewicz's intro nor outro of ESCAPE included mention of Norma Shearer's conversion to Judaism in order to marry Irving Thalberg. I mention this as Mankiewicz only presented one (cynical) reason for Shearer, despite co-billing with Robert Taylor, having taken a lesser role for its serious subject matter. I suggest that Shearer, who remained loyal to the memory of Irving Thalberg, may well have felt a duty to offer herself to the anti-Nazi Germany cause.

 Rabbi Edgar Magnin is seen with Shearer and Thalberg at their wedding in 1927:

                                                                              

                                                                                  Paul Thomas Anderson visits the San Fernando Valley

                                                                               

 TCM's second feature of Paul Thomas Anderson's Bugsy MALONE/"THE BAD NEWS Bears" pairing tonight has me wondering if the LICORICE PIZZA director mentions both Sammi Kane Kraft, who played the Amanda Whurlitzer remake character, and Alana HAIM who was hit hard by the death of her best friend at the time...