# TCM Alert: "Stage Door Canteen" Monday Night (6/9) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338 "2003-06-07T21:02:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/1 "2003-06-07T21:02:08Z")
For the one or two of you out there who get TCM, check this out Monday night at 8:00–just _look_ at this [cast](http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0036384)!! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/2 "2003-06-07T21:45:48Z")
Looking through the cast, after like 75 listings of the star as “herself” or “himself,” I was far too amused for my own good by > [@](#): > > Patrick O’Moore … Australian I’d have watched anyway, but now I _have_ to see it to see Australian! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/3 "2003-06-08T17:14:58Z")
Sure, an’ if Paddy O’Brien didn’t play the _best_ Australians! I’m dying to see Tallu, Ina Claire and Gypsy Rose Lee! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/4 "2003-06-08T23:06:18Z")
It has Katharine Cornell, who never did another film in her life, and it also has the team of Lunt and Fontanne, who did only one other film with each other (“The Guardsman”-Eve, where can I find it?). How bad could it be? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/5 "2003-06-09T00:32:06Z")
I’ve seen _The Guardsman_ . . . And, sadly, it’s petty unwatchabe. Slow, stagey, badly filmed. You can watch it for five minutes just to go, “ooooh, Lunt and Fontanne,” and then “the charm doth wear apace.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/6 "2003-06-10T01:46:21Z")
"I left it there with my heart and my spleen . . " Gee, what a swell movie–very sweet and naive. I even cried a couple of times, though the fact that I think I broke a couple of toes on my way home may have something to do with that. Great red-hot swing music–Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Kay Kyser . . . Katharine Cornell had a great scene doing Shakespeare with a soldier in a lunch line . . . Lunt and Fontanne ribbing each other in the kitchen . . . Tallulah Bankhead _quoting from the bible_ (!) . . . Gypsy Rose Lee did a very funny strip and never actually showed anything . . . And I was pleased (and surprised) to see black and Asian soldiers in the Canteen! Nice to know it wasn’t segregated. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/7 "2003-06-10T02:09:45Z")
**Eve** I always knew you were ahead of your time, but I’m amazed that you’ve made it all the way through the film because I have about ten minutes left. I’m enjoying the picture so far for the most part but the swings back and forth from light-hearted canteen acts to fairly bloodthirsty propaganda is kind of wigging me out. To have Gracie Fields go directly from “he shot down three jap planes” to “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” was mind-boggling. The scene with the Russian sailors gave me pretty much the same reaction. “My hand would not tremble.” Wow. I did love Katharine Cornell’s scene with California…and California is so _gay_! oh, it just ended. Damn but that Katharine Hepburn is stalwart! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/8 "2003-06-10T02:22:31Z")
I don’t have TCM. The good news is that I have it on tape. The bad news is that the tape is in storage. I like the bit with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Classic. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/9 "2003-06-10T02:22:51Z")
Once again, Eve, I am green with envy of your getting TCM. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/10 "2003-06-10T13:40:27Z")
. . . That might have been _Hollywood Canteen_; Syd and Pete weren’t in this one. Did you _love_ Franklin Pangborn going all nelly with Johnny Weismuller?! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/11 "2003-06-10T13:55:01Z")
Dang. I get TCM but I didn’t see your post until this morning. Dang. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/12 "2003-06-10T13:59:10Z")
Oh, and didn’t Paddy O’Moore make a _great_ Aussie? “Sure an’ be-crikey, mates!” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/13 "2003-06-10T14:18:20Z")
In all the excitement I didn’t even notice Australian. Which one was he? And the first person who says “the Australian one” get a pop in the mush! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tcm-alert-stage-door-canteen-monday-night-6-9/180338/14 "2003-06-10T14:29:56Z")
He was the one who read the Canteen Girls the good-bye notes from their boyfriends at the end, giving Kate Hepburn a chance to go all General MacArthur on Ilene. “We’re in a war we’ve got to win—so you go back in there and _dance with those boys!_”