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Re: Testing in New Format
Posted: Apr 8, 2011 12:59 AM
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Am I the only one or can anybody else figure this mess out? What is it, and what does it have to do with Paper Moon? After all, isn't this a message board about Paper Moon?
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Re: Testing in New Format
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Re: Testing in New Format
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PART 2
CHIP HEARTS MOVIES
TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE
NOVEMBER 4-11, 2007
DISABILITIES AND CARETAKERS
I was inspired by the Disability Theme to ease into the 24 Hour Marathon with three films involving doctors and nurses: Young Dr. Kildare with Lew Ayres, Night Nurse with Barbara Stanwyck, and The White Angel with Kay Francis. The White Angel, which is the story of Florence Nightingale, is actually the first to fall into the Disabilities theme. Nightingale, of course, was famous as The Angel of the Battlefield, caring for injured soldiers at the frontlines --- a perfect beginning for the programming block, since the first twelve hours are devoted to disability caused by war injury, wrapping with Harold Russell's magnificent turn in The Best Years of Our Lives. (He is the only actor in history to receive two Oscars for the same role).
The next few hours cluster people disabled or disfigured by accident or attack, including Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story and Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face. Three premieres follow: first up is the almost-forgotten Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970). Admittedly flawed and more than a little bizarre, this Otto Preminger film has never been released on video or DVD and virtually never airs on television. Liza Minnelli stars as a girl disfigured by a former lover who joins forces with a paraplegic and an epileptic to struggle through life. Kay Thompson also appears in the film --- more on Kay later this week! The second premiere is Les Yeux sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face), the classic French horror film about a surgeon who kidnaps young women and attempts to graft their faces onto his daughter, who was disfigured in an auto accident. The third premiere has Deborah Kerr nearly giving up Cary Grant after a devastating car crash --- An Affair to Remember, of course. (It has probably aired on TCM before, but I wasn't sure, so I counted it as a premiere). For good measure, it's followed by Love Affair, the earlier Irene Dunne/Charles Boyer version of the same story.
The Disability theme block ends with two films featuring those born with the most extreme birth defects, The Elephant Man and Freaks.
MARGARET MITCHELL BIRTHDAY SALUTE
It's November 8 --- what would be the 107th birthday of Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell! The day will wrap up with a screening of GWTW, but first we're going to take a look at other movies that feature GWTW stars --- in order of airing, Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (Ann Rutherford), Mildred Pierce (Butterfly McQueen), China Seas (Hattie McDaniel --- oh yeah, and Gable), The Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard), In This Our Life (Olivia DeHavilland), It Happened One Night (Gable), Waterloo Bridge (Vivian Leigh), and finally at 8 PM: Gone with the Wind.
STAYING IN THE SOUTH WITH TENNESSEE
After Gone with the Wind, leave Georgia and head for Tennessee --- Williams, that is. Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Geraldine Page, and Montgomery Clift are coming up in three great Tennessee Williams movies: Sweet Bird of Youth, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly, Last Summer!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...AND YOU...AND YOU!
Three people beloved by TCM viewers celebrated their birthdays November 9: Hedy Lamarr, Kay Thompson, and Roger Edens!
Start the day with Hedy in I Take This Woman and Ziegfeld Girl --- Roger Edens worked on Ziegfeld Girl too! Kay Thompson and Roger Edens collaborated on the classic Judy Garland piece "The Great Lady Has an Interview" in Ziegfeld Follies. Those two Ziegfeld films are a great kickoff for the three films that Edens won Oscars for: Annie Get Your Gun, Easter Parade, and On the Town. And Edens and Kay Thompson work together again with Funny Face, with Kay enchantingly demanding that the world Think Pink!
THE BAD GIRLS OF AIP
All those MGM musicals are full of sweethearts like Audrey Hepburn and Judy Garland --- enough already! Pop some popcorn and get ready for a campy night at the movies --- for the next ten hours , watch some of the baddest girls ever seen on film, with a night of AIP girl juvenile delinquent melodramas like Reform School Girl and High School Hellcats.
THE GOOD GIRLS OF DISNEY
It's Saturday morning and the kiddies are getting up --- maybe it's best we stop programming AIP goodies like Hot Rod Girl and Runaway Daughters, lest they get any ideas. Instead, dish out some wholesome Disney fare: Jodie Foster in Freaky Friday and Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap. The youngsters are probably familiar with the remakes starring today's top juvenile delinquent Lindsay Lohan, so the transition from the AIP juvie gals makes plenty of sense. They also lead up to my weekly Saturday Morning Showcase:
SATURDAY MORNING SHOWCASE:
FOREVER YOUNG: CLASSIC CHILD STARS
I'd love to see a regular Saturday morning showcase film featuring a classic child star. It's a good excuse to program some of the lesser-seen child stars with many films, like Virginia Weidler and Freddie Bartholomew, there is an endless supply of Mickey Rooney films, and maybe Fox will hand over some Jane Withers flicks --- they certainly aren't showing them on FMC. This theme has the added bonus of being very family-friendly during hours when young children are likely to be watching television. For today's entry, I selected Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis. It's followed by another Vincente Minnelli film, Gigi.
100TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE: JANE FROMAN!
Today marks the 100th birthday of the 30's-40's singer Jane Froman. Enormously popular in her day, she volunteered to perform with the USO for troops overseas during World War II. She was severely injured in a plane crash in Europe, one of the few to survive the crash, and almost lost her leg. She returned to Europe (while still on crutches!) to fulfill her promise to entertain the troops.
She only appeared in two movies and one short, all in the TCM library, so we're showing all three. They're followed by the TCM Premiere of the terrific Froman biopic With a Song in My Heart, starring Susan Hayward.
By the way --- Jane Froman married the pilot who rescued her after the plane crash!
TCM ESSENTIALS/TELL IT TO THE MARINES
Today also marks the anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Marine Corps, so for tonight's TCM Essentials entry I decided to premiere John Wayne's Sands of Iwo Jima. Nominated for four Oscars (including Wayne as Best Actor), it's widely considered one of the great war films of all time.
It's followed by Wayne and Robert Ryan in Nicolas Ray's Flying Leathernecks and John Garfield and Eleanor Parker in Pride of the Marines. Next up: the classic battlefield drama All Quiet On the Western Front.
Personally, I'm a pacifist --- which is why I wrapped up the week with Gandhi.
DRAMAS: 47
COMEDIES: 17
MUSICAL: 14
MELODRAMA: 7 (THE AIP BLOCK, WHICH TODAY READS AS COMEDY)
WAR: 4 (INCLUDES THE REAL WAR MOVIES; THE DISABILITY WAR-INJURY MOVIES WERE CLASSIFIED AS DRAMAS)
HORROR: 4
COMEDY-HORROR: 2
MOST REPRESENTED STARS
AVA GARDNER: 8 + 1 short (includes bits)
CLARK GABLE: 6
JUDY GARLAND: 5
JOAN CRAWFORD: 4
LIZABETH SCOTT: 4
JANE FROMAN: 3 + 1 short
BORIS KARLOFF: 3
BARBARA STANWYCK: 3
LORETTA YOUNG: 3
MOST REPRESENTED DIRECTORS:
DOROTHY ARZNER: 4
EDWARD L. CAHN: 3 + 1 short
WOODY ALLEN: 3
ROGER CORMAN: 3
VINCENTE MINNELLI: 3
GEORGE SIDNEY: 3
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: 7
(All Quiet on the Western Front, It Happened One Night, GWTW, The Best Years of Our Lives, Gigi, Annie Hall, Gandhi)
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS: 3
(Gable, It Happened One Night; Frederic March, The Best Years of Our Lives; Ben Kingsley, Gandhi)
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS: 4
(Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night; Vivian Leigh, GWTW; Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce; Diane Keaton, Annie Hall)
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Testing in New Format
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I suspect I'm having trouble because of the length, so I'll break it in parts:
PT. ONE
CHIP HEARTS MOVIES
TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE
NOVEMBER 4-11, 2007
THIS WEEK:
STAR OF THE MONTH: LIZABETH SCOTT
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT: DOROTHY ARZNER
BIRTHDAY SALUTES: HEDY LAMARR, KAY THOMPSON, ROGER EDENS, JANE FROMAN, AND MARGARET MITCHELL
24 HOURS OF DISABILITIES
JUVENILE DELINQUENT GIRLS! MICHAEL LANDON AS A WEREWOLF! AND MORE!
PROGRAM NOTES
SCREAMS AND LAUGHS
The week begins with a genuinely scary horror film based on a piece of great literature, The Picture of Dorian Gray, followed by a slightly silly horror film with literary roots, The Raven (directed by Roger Corman) and another Corman film, The Terror (with a young Jack Nicholson). Laugh-out-loud comedy-horror movies I Was a Teen-age Werewolf (the teen-age werewolf in question is Michael Landon in his first major film role) and The Comedy of Terrors (starring an amazing cast including Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joe E. Brown, and Basil Rathbone) wrap up this block. These light-hearted movies, along with the Laurel and Hardy and Nancy Drew flicks that follow, are well-suited for the weekend daytime hours when kids are most likely to be watching, too.
SUNDAY CAN BE A REAL DRAG!
The rest of Sunday features films in which one of the characters cross-dresses at some point in the movie, beginning with Laurel and Hardy's Another Fine Mess and two Bonita Granville/Nancy Drew entries --- Nancy's boyfriend Ted Nickerson often found the best way out of a scrape was to disguise himself as a woman, which might have given Nancy pause after a couple of episodes, but she seems fine with it. Hepburn and Garbo are next, donning trousers in Sylvia Scarlett and Queen Christina, respectively. The ultimate cross-dressing film (in which absolutely no one is what they seem) comes next: Victor/Victoria, preceding the premiere of the Howard Hawks-directed I Was a Male War Bride, starring Cary Grant as the titular bride.
SILENT SUNDAY/TCM IMPORT/ASIAN BLOCK/WOODY ALLEN
Silent Sunday Night 's Piccadilly starring Anna May Wong is the first of three films with an Asian theme, as my TCM Import is the premiere of 1968's Kurotokage (Black Lizard), a super-stylish Japanese film about the cunning female jewel thief Black Lizard and her battle with Japan's #1 detective over the Star of Egypt diamond. The action is Austin Powers-level absurd, and interestingly the female lead is played by transvestite actor Akihiro Maruyama --- a throwback to the earlier theme, although in this case he actually plays a woman (like Linda Hunt played a man in The Year of Living Dangerously, although here wearing far more fabulous clothes). Woody Allen's dubbed-over classic What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a film of similar style that Woody made his own, makes a fitting companion. After hours of such silliness, see how Woody matured with his masterpieces Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters.
WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING!
It's Monday morning at 9 AM: time to go to work! The entire workday is filled with sassy secretaries and scheming stenographers from the 1930's, beginning with three Loretta Young goodies: Big Business Girl, Week-End Marriage, and Employees' Entrance. Thrill to Skyscraper Souls with Warren William and Maureen O'Hara, see if the boss' wife is threatened by Her Husband's Secretary, and find out what Mary Astor is up to Behind Office Doors. After that, it may be Wife vs. Secretary, but we all win with a cast that includes Gable, Harlow, and Loy. This programming block wraps with everyone's favorite pre-Code gem Baby Face, as Barbara Stanwyck unforgettably works her way up the corporate ladder.
DOROTHY ARZNER: THE FIRST LADY
The director I chose to spotlight is Dorothy Arzner, generally considered the first successful female film director (and along with Ida Lupino and Germany's Leni Riefenstahl, the only regularly working woman director in the classic film era). In my dream documentary, you'll get clips from many of her films, from her debut directing the silent Fashions for Women through her later work (giving Frederic March his first leading role opposite Clara Bow in The Wild Party to her films with Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Roz Russell). Although few people are still alive who worked on her classic era movies except dear old Anita Page, Arzner lived until 1979, so hopefully TCM can dig up friends and co-workers. Her personal life should be covered, but I'd really like to hear from some of today's women directors and producers (Streisand, Jane Campion, Jodie Foster, Christine Vachon) about her importance as a trailblazer. To this day, no other woman has amassed as large a body of work within the studio system.
The Dorothy Arzner films I chose include the Hepburn aviatrix film Christopher Strong (with that glorious moth dress --- with antennae! --- Hepburn wears), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and The Bride Wore Red (both with Crawford), and the rarely seen Craig's Wife with Roz Russell. Just for fun, I followed it with the non-Arzner directed remake of Craig's Wife, Harriet Craig, which TCM recently premiered on its Summer Under the Stars Joan Crawford day.
NOT AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION: AVA GARDNER
Most of the day Tuesday I devoted to Ava Gardner --- in an unusual way. Her most famous roles, in the leads in movies like Show Boat and Mogambo (which end the Gardner block), were preceded by a decade of climbing up from extra parts, bits, and supporting roles. TCM would need to do a quick intro to each film to make this work --- the first few in the block are mere bits, and without explanation the theme doesn't make sense.
We start this block with her first film appearance in the short Fancy Answers, before seeing a couple of well-loved movies that many people don't even realize she's in: Shadow of the Thin Man and Babes on Broadway. Don't blink or you'll miss her! As the day progresses we see her in supporting roles in movies like The Hucksters, finally arriving at full-blown stardom with Show Boat and Mogambo. I'd actually enjoy seeing similar programming around other stars like Jean Harlow, who appear in bits in many films before breaking through.
STAR OF THE MONTH: LIZABETH SCOTT
I chose the husky-voiced Lizabeth Scott as my star of the month, and I hope TCM will do the same soon. The night's slate includes The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, probably the most familiar of her films to most TCM viewers, but it kicks off with the TCM Premiere of Stolen Face, an outlandish film noir involving a plastic surgeon duplicating his former girlfriend's face on a female criminal on the lam. I've also included The Company She Keeps (Lizabeth as a tough-as-nails probation officer checking up on Jane Greer) and the forgettable Easy Living with Victor Mature and Lucille Ball. In a recent Lizabeth Scott thread we've been asking TCM to convince Ms. Scott, who's still living, to do a Private Screening, but she's quite reclusive, so I didn't program one.
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