November Is Bette’s

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019 — Full of thanks for November on Turner Classic Movies … Star of the Month … Bette Davis! … Tuesdays … 24 hours … 53 films … chronological order! … read full article …

Hollywood Glamour Cat

1920s, actresses, animals, blogs, books, cats, movies, posters

[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Sunday, October 6, 2019, 10:32 am — Teeny Tuxedo … newly catnipped scratcher … and silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 …

It’s Fate Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Monday, September 9, 2019, 2:07 pm — Perkins … stopped in her tracks …
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… I hear something …
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… do you know what it is? …
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… have to go find out …
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… it’s Betty Garrett … singin’ to Frank Sinatra … It’s Fate, Baby, It’s Fate … in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1949 …
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I Got the Horse Quid Pro Quo

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A favorite clever song … from Guys and Dolls, 1955 …

I got the horse right here
The name is Paul Revere
And here’s a guy that says if the weather’s clear
Can do, can do
This guy says the horse can do

Updated … current events style … The Late Show with Stephen Colbert … Sept. 26, 2019 … lyrics below …

Your country needs some dough
Let’s do some quid pro quo
You gotta go get me some dirt on Joe
Ukraine, Ukraine
I hope this don’t cause any pain

… And look where else this jaunty tune shows up … a 1967 Gold Medal Flour commercial … Can do, can do, with Gold Medal you can do! … I definitely remember it! …

Finnish DVDs Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Friday, September 6, 2019, 10:21 am — Perkins … livingroom oriental rug … dreaming of movies … Finnish movies! …
[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

… on the coffee table … Finnish DVDs … plus book, Deep River, 2019, Karl Marlantes … Southwest Washington state, Finnish-American family saga …
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The new DVDs … most directly from Finland, now that I have a region-free DVD player:

  • Elina: As If I Wasn’t There / Näkymätön Elina, 2002
  • Ikitie / The Eternal Road, 2017
  • Täällä Pohjantähden alla / Under the North Star, 2009
  • Unknown Soldier / Tuntematon sotilas, 2017

Hollywood Cartoons Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Sunday, July 28, 2019, 7:18 pm — Perkins … supervises the hunt for Hollywood caricature cartoons in the Looney Tunes DVD collection …

Looney Tunes Golden Collection – 6 volumes, 24 discs, 350+ cartoons! Plus commentaries and tons of other extras! … from Amazon, Feb. 2012 … each disc is a specific theme or character …

… The Coo-Coo Nut Grove, 1936 … watch it on Looney Tunes wiki …

… with Clark Gable … hot-cha-cha! …

Myself and I Cats

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Saturday, May 4, 2019, 2:43 pm — Teeny … watching Teeny and the wire toy … photo editing with Snagit …
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… 5:03 pm … Perky doubles her relaxing … in front of the computer … and on the deck window Kitty Sill …
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… rearview mirror movie … Freckles, 1960 … Teeny Tuxedo looking through the deck blinds …
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… two orangish redheads … Martin West … not-quite-awake Perkins …
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Cats at the Movies

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Thursday, February 5, 2015, 2:40 pm — The clock was ticking … Teeny Tuxedo had somewhere to go … fast! …


She and Perk had tickets for front row box seats … Hey, projectionist! Let’s get this movie started!

What?! … Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?! … Who’s Paw Newman? … We were expecting The AristoCats!!!

I’m outta here … Call me when That Darn Cat! comes to town …

**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post

Ol’ Mose Westerns Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 2:30 pm — Teeny … “Hey! … I know this guy! … He’s that guy in The Searchers that says, “Thank ya, kindly!” all the time …” … [This is a publicity photo for Red River, 1948] …

He’s Hank Worden, 1901-1992 … raised on a cattle ranch in Montana, college educated, rodeo saddle bronc rider … recruited (with Tex Ritter) for a bit in the 1931 64-performance Broadway run of Green Grow the Lilacs, by Lynn Riggs, Guild Theatre … (the source of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Broadway baby, Oklahoma!) …

Cowboys … and cowgirl … Green Grow the Lilacs … Hank Worden (billed as Norton Worden) second from right … opening night credits, Jan. 26, 1931, Internet Broadway Database …

After this brief stint on Broadway, Hank moseyed back out west … before ambling into a string of over 200 movie and tv roles, 1935-1991 … Below, Hank’s ol’ Mose Harper scenes, The Searchers, 1956 …

Forbidden Hollywood Cats

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Saturday, April 13, 2019, 11:39 pm — Hot-cha-cha! … Perkins is ever so glad Mark Vieira’s newest book has arrived! … Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies … It’s even better than the box! …
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… Monday, April 15, 2019, 10:52 am … Teeny Tuxedo and Marlene Dietrich! … under the dust jacket … Do you see the resemblance? …
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Let’s Watch a Movie Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Sunday, March 17, 2019, 4:59 pm — Perkins … I’m in the mood to watch some Joan Crawford … how about Mildred Pierce (1945)? …
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… then, let’s try the 7th season of The Office, 2010-11 … Steve Carell’s last … Hey, Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket is just my size! …
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The Office … replacement set, Nov. 2018, ebay, $35.50 … donated my original to college book sale, April 2017 … After trying to watch on tv, with commercials, couldn’t stand it … found great ebay deal … one of three tv series I’d take to a desert isle … Update, April 20, 2021: purchased s9 (final season) … but not s8, with new CEO, Robert California (James Spader) … so smugly despicable … SO important to have DVDs in the flighty streaming universe … What disappeared from Netflix, January 2021? … The Office, of course

J’adore TCM on Hulu Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Sunday, March 10, 2019, 3:52 pm — Teeny Tuxedo and Turner Classic Movies … reflected in the oval standing mirror …

The best things about TCM via Hulu Live TV … both East and West coast feeds (3 hours apart) … ALL content streams live, unlike Slingtv … a LARGE % of aired movies are available on demand for a week or so… 50 hours of cloud recording … watch on computer AND tv …

Above, snip of A-Z on demand list, in mirror-reversed order, right to left …

  • Tenderfoot, 1932, Joe E. Brown; Tennessee Champ, 1954, Shelley Winters; Tension, 1949, Richard Basehart
  • They Died with Their Boots On, 1941, Errol Flynn; They Won’t Forget, 1937, Claude Rains; To Be or Not to Be, 1947, Carole Lombard

Happy Trails to You!

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Monday, March 25, 2019, 12:25 pm — Kitty’s Happy Trails (to Wyoming) party … It started with a parade …

A librarian moment … Season 1, episode 24, May, 2010 …

5 years later … library mascot! … Brick’s bookmark dance routine … Season 7, episode 2, Sept. 2015 …

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 “Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City”– Oklahoma!, 1955

My New Favorite … (faaavorite…)

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themiddle_bettywhite_pinkcard“Question: What do Betty White and libraries have in common? … Answer: You don’t mess with either of them!  A lesson Brick is about to discover on the season one finale of THE MIDDLE (8:30PM ABC) when parents Frankie and Mike are shocked to discover that Brick may be held back from going to third grade because the school librarian, Mrs. Nethercott (Betty White) has it out for him due to 31 unreturned books.”

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All’s well that ends well … (ends weeelll…)

A few of Brick’s bookish quotes:
“They’re denying me books. No one’s taken me to the library in two days.”
“Can one of you take me to the library? I feel like reading about Peru.”
“Swimming’s no fun without a book.”

One of Brick’s most endearing qualities … he whispers to himself … (whiiisperrrs…) … Brick Heck Whispering Compilation from The Middle, Season 1

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A librarian moment … Season 1, episode 24, May, 2010 …

5 years later … library mascot! …  Brick’s bookmark dance routine … Season 7, episode 2, Sept. 2015 …
[post started Sept. 29, 2013]

Mail from Finland Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 5:19 pm — Picked up a special box at the Ridgefield Post Office this afternoon … from Helsinki, Finland … Suomi! … ’cause I’m 100% Finnish! …

Tuntematon sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … first of three versions (1985, 2017) … restored, Blu-ray … ebay order, Dec. 28, 2018, $15.95, free shipping …

… Teeny Tuxedo approves of the new Finnish film addition …
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… on vintage Made in Finland … Didas Deken 100% Zuiver Wol (Dutch) … Didas blanket 100% pure wool … (2017 Christmas present from L)

Tuntematon sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … directed by Edvin Laine … “First adaption of the Finnish war book (1954) by Väinö Linna. Based on Linna’s experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the “Continuation War” (1941-1944) … story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war.”

Ferdinand the Bull

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After her freshman year at the U of Washington, Mom moved to Los Angeles with a friend to work (1944/1945-1946?) … a bullfight in Tijuana wasn’t a pleasant memory … but that trip across the border resulted in … Ferdinand … I was enchanted by him when we lived in the Glenwood house (late 1950s) … so glad he’s here now …

… Ferdinand the Bull, 1938 …

“And for all I know, he is sitting there still … under his favorite cork tree … smelling the flowers … just quietly … He is very happy.”

Originally posted Sept. 22, 2013 in my blog, The Road Gives Back: A Finnish-American Family

White Christmas x 2

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Ten years ago! … December 25, 2008 … the Christmas we were snowed in … a white Christmas … with White Christmas, 1954 … Enlarge photo to see shadowy cat in front of forced-air heater … Perkins or Teeny Tuxedo? …

Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Vera Ellen … and a train full of snow, snow, snow, snow … SNOW! …

Booomph Vs. Oomph Cats

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:17 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … ignoring all the boffo publicity about Brian Donlevy and his movie, The Great McGinty, 1940 … they’re focused on something more important at the bottom of this post … a dog! …
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Brian Donlevy, 1901-1972 …

“The GREAT Reviews! Hey OSCAR!” … director, writer Preston Sturges’ first film … “Hey OSCAR!” is right … won Best Writing, Original Screenplay! …

“He’s got SEX APPEAL! … He’s got BOOOMPH! … He’s a Record-Breaker!” …

Tamed by a Redhead … “The screen’s meanest “heavy” is really putty in the hands of the girl he loves! It was the redheaded Mrs. Donlevy who insisted that he accept the leading role in The Great McGinty – the part that made him famous.” … Hollywood, 1941, v. 30, p. 50 …

… the doggone dog … a dachshund … that Perk and Teeny Tuxedo have their eyes on …

The Great McGinty … trailer …

But wait! … In the battle of BOOOMPH vs. OOMPH, who showed up in the ring first? … Ann Sheridan, the Oomph Girl! … 1939! … Read “What the “Oomph” Girl Thinks of Her Title!” … Hollywood, Sept. 1939, p. 19, 50-51 …

Amongst the Living Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 12:09 pm — Perkins … not ready for the desert angst of The Petrified Forest, 1936 … Leslie Howard / Alan Squier … “Yes, it’s pleasant to be back again, amongst the living …”
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Humphrey Bogart / Duke Mantee … “Sorry to see ya go … pal …”
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Garbo-esque Cat

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[from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo’s cat adventures blog]

Saturday, November 9, 2018, 11:41 pm — The usually affable Teeny Tuxedo … has reached her affability limit … she’s channeling the reclusive “Swedish Sphinx” … Greta Garbo ... “I vant … to be … ALONE!” …

“I vant … to be … alone!” … or maybe not … Greta Garbo, John Gilbert … Flesh and the Devil, 1926 …

“The most famous quip attributed to Greta Garbo is short and sardonic: “I want to be alone.” But the actress, who made a practice of shunning reporters, premieres and fan mail, claimed that she had been misquoted. “I never said, ‘I want to be alone,’” she explained, according to a 1955 piece in LIFE magazine. “I only said, ‘I want to be let alone! There is all the difference.”