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Post by mikef6 on Dec 1, 2017 19:12:35 GMT
In Counter-Espionage (1942), one of the pictures in the Lone Wolf series, Warren Williams, playing the title hero, tells his sidekick Jameson, (the always delightful Eric Blore), to stay out of sight of police during the day, so Jameson is seen on a real city street buying a ticket to an actual movie theater showing another entry in a Columbia series: “Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring.”
I can recall other films where movie marquees can be seen in the background of a shot and can be read, but cannot bring any specific titles to mind at the moment. Can anyone help refresh my memory? Was Public Enemy one of them?
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 1, 2017 19:16:37 GMT
There are a couple of films about John Dillinger that show the Biograph Movie House in Chicago where MANHATTAN MELODRAMA is the main feature.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE -- The Bedford Falls theater's Christmas attraction is THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 1, 2017 19:25:31 GMT
There are a couple of films about John Dillinger that show the Biograph Movie House in Chicago where MANHATTAN MELODRAMA is the main feature.
I saw The Last Emperor there with a Filipina chick. My date went better than Dillinger's. Can The Bells of St Mary's also be seen in The Godfather when Michael and Kay are Christmas shopping? This shot from Red Dawn cracks me up.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 1, 2017 19:42:44 GMT
American Graffiti – with Lucas's nod to Coppola's early horror flick.  |
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Post by Stammerhead on Dec 1, 2017 20:10:22 GMT
A bit of product placement in Dirty Harry.  |
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Post by kijii on Dec 1, 2017 20:14:52 GMT
As an aside----
Does anyone remember Billy Wilder promoting the play, The Seven Year Itch, in his movie Sabrina?
In the movie, Sabrina, Linus Larrabee (Humphrey Bogart) was on his limo phone ordering someone to "get two tickets" for the play, The Seven Year Itch. (I can't remember if he was getting them for himself or William Holden's character.)
I thought to myself, that Wilder was cleverly promoting his next movie to the audience in the movie that they were currently watching.
Sabrina was released in October of 1954.
The Seven Year Itch was released in July of 1955.
Tom Ewell was in both the play and the movie.
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 1, 2017 20:20:28 GMT
and in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH Tom and Marilyn exit a movie theater where they have just watched CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 1, 2017 20:25:52 GMT
Not sure if this is a real theater, but Spielberg put this shot into Bridge of Spies which is set in part in Berlin around when the Wall went up. Note the marquee with One, Two, Three on it.  |
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 1, 2017 21:14:50 GMT
L.A. Confidential- Crowe and Basinger in a cinema watching Roman Holiday
The Player - Robbins meets D'Onofrio in a cinema showing The Bicycle Thief
Get Shorty - Travolta and Russo in a cinema showing Touch of Evil
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 1, 2017 21:49:10 GMT
American Gigolo
 Richard Gere has a confrontation with an aide to a state senator outside the lobby of Westwood's Bruin Theater, where The Warriors (also a Paramount film) was playing during AG's spring '79 production. Speaking of confrontations... Annie Hall
 Woody Allen's memorable (and fanciful) encounter with a pompous Columbia U professor while waiting to see The Sorrow and The Pity.
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 1, 2017 22:15:47 GMT
In an early scene of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW the Royal is showing FATHER OF THE BRIDE. The actual last picture shown at the theater in the film is RED RIVER starring our own Matt Garth.  |
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Post by OldAussie on Dec 1, 2017 22:59:01 GMT
Speaking of Annie Hall and The Sorrow and the Pity......Sigourney Weaver in her first movie -  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Dec 1, 2017 23:13:27 GMT
Caprice (1967)  Doris Day, on the '60s spy-spoof bandwagon, had an unwelcome encounter with Michael J. Pollard in a theater showing Caprice.
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 1, 2017 23:13:40 GMT
"Cinema Paradiso"...!!!
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Post by divtal on Dec 1, 2017 23:23:47 GMT
(Perhaps a little recent to qualify as classic.) In , The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Frank and Jane (Leslie Nielsen/Priscilla Presley) leave a movie theater, laughing and giggling from the joy of their newfound love. The camera pulls back to reveal the marquis. They had been watching The Last Platoon.
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 2, 2017 0:41:34 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2017 16:30:06 GMT
Slightly off-topic, I think. (jervistetch's earlier post reminded me of it). Open air screening of Red River in Visconti's Bellissima (1951):
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 2, 2017 16:32:06 GMT
and speaking of RED RIVER -- it's the final film shown in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (it opens-- the film, that is -- with FATHER OF THE BRIDE)
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Post by teleadm on Dec 2, 2017 19:01:28 GMT
From my own book collection, The Warner Brothers Story, it is mentioned that if there was a scene of someone outside a cinema (or theatre), there was a poster from a movie called Another Dawn, with either fake actors and actresses names, or actors and actresses from their own patroll, but no such movie existed until 1937. When Another Dawn finaly came it was a dud that lost money... (Jack Warner hated Kay Francis and did what he could to kill her career, and Errol Flynn fans wanted to see an action movie and not a sloppy romance)  |
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Post by _ on Dec 2, 2017 19:25:45 GMT
This is the Fox Theater in St. Louis, on Grand Ave, in "Escape From New York":  |
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