Leo Gorcey's younger brother David was also a part of the "gang." He played
"Peewee" and "Chuck."
TGormley
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From: Bruce Hershenson
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread
As a pre-teen in New York in the late 1950s/early 1960s, they showed ALL the
Shirley Temple movies on Saturday mornings, as well as most of the Bowery Boys,
and the Charlie Chans. So I knew all those series inside and out, but oddly,
they never seemed to show hardly any Twentieth Century Fox musicals, and to
this day I don't know that I have ever seen even one movie with Alice Faye or
Betty Grable (major gaps in my film education, I am sure).
I watched the Bowery Boys every week. and somehow never got tired of them. I
was amazed years later to learn that the little Sweet Shop owner, Louie, was
actually Loe Gorcey's father! Here was Leo slapping and abusing his own father
in every movie. I guess there wasn't something Freudian going on there!
Bruce
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Susan Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I pretty much grew up here in Los Angeles. There use to be a program on
called "The Million Dollar Movie" and the same movie played every night at 8:00
p.m., twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday. Every week brought a new movie. I
had always been a movie fan but this really got me into viewing every nuance. I
saw movies that I probably would have never seen otherwise, and often watched
them all nine times they were on in a week. Great movies like Damn Yankees, The
Searchers, alot of old westerns and so many more. One in particular was Boy on
a Dolphin that I thought was so great when I was a kid but when watching it
years later, while it had some nostalgic moments for me, the film was not as
great as I remembered it. Ah...those were the good ol' days.
Sue
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> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:19:19 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [MOPO] Fun MOPO Thread
> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
>
> I got to thinking that when I was a kid, there were a few movies that
> were on television ALL THE TIME. What was odd about this is that
> these just weren't the kind of movies one would expect to see
> constantly for years (during the 60s and 70s) in a market like
> Phoenix, AZ.
>
> One that seems really strange now is SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER with Monty
> CLift, Liz Taylor, and Katharine Hepburn. I must have seen that film
> ten or twenty times on local TV in Phoenix. Another odd one was
> Joseph Losey's THE SERVANT with James Fox, Dirk Bogarde, and Sara
> Miles. Always on TV.
>
> The weirdest film was one called THE PICASSO SUMMER with Albert Finney
> and Yvette Mimieux. For some reason, that particular film played
> almost monthly for a few years. It was an absolutely unwatchable
> comedy/drama about a married couple driving around Europe trying to
> run into Picasso.
>
> Anyone else on MOPO have such odd memories?
>
> Channing Thomson in San Francisco
>
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