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The film registers with some of us (me included). I can relate to both characters, as I was somewhat of an ugly duckling/late bloomer myself. The LGBTQ+ community can relate because many of us go through some of the same issues before coming to terms with who we are. Some have criticized the transformation Bette's character goes through, but those things do happen IRL. I was sent overseas for work for nine months. During that time I lost 70 pounds. I came back home, and no one at work recognized me. So it does happen. It may not have been as melodramatic as the film, but it still happens!

Sweet November (1968 & 2001) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) actor Dolph Sweet

How Sweet It is (1968)

The award for Song of the Year is even more obnoxious than the award for Record of the Year because it is a songwriting award. For songs that have lyrics more interesting or thoughtful than "Don't worry, be happy."

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH HUSH...HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE SWEET BEAT SWEETHEARTS SWEET ADELINE SWEETIE (1929) HOME SWEET HOME (1914) HOME SWEET HOMICIDE

The Drowning Pool (1975) Next: Twilight (1998) - More detective work by Paul Newman.

The Mayor of Hell (1933) Next: Winner Takes All (1932) early Cagney

KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE (1950) Next: WHITE HEAT (1949) James Cagney in full-blown killer mode.

Remember when Judy Garland's song from A Star Is Born "The Man That Got Away" was criticized for being grammatically incorrect? When asked why, lyricist Ira Gershwin said that it sounded better than "the man who got away." I agree.

Murder, My Sweet Sweet Home Alabama Sweet Dreams some other 'sweet' titles.. A Taste of Honey Cookie's Fortune Cake Sweet Charity

Woods, James

Henry Hathaway - The Sons of Katie Elder George Seaton - The Country Girl Delbert Mann - Mister Buddwing - One of the first films I saw on TCM Frank Perry - Monsignor Guy Hamilton - Force 10 from Navarone Ingmar Bergman - None, as of yet. Tim Burton - Not my taste Robert Altman - None Vincente Minnelli - The Band Wagon Sam Peckinpah - The Killer Elite

Black Widow (2021) - At least Budapest is expected to be a setting in that movie so we may finally know what the heck these people were talking about... The Avengers (2012): Natasha Romanoff: "This is just like Budapest all over again." Clint Barton: "You and I remember Budapest very differently." Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): Alexander Pierce: "If you do this, none of your past will remain hidden: not Budapest, Osaka, the Children's Ward. Are you sure you want the world to see you as you truly are?" Avengers: Endgame (2019): Clint Barton: "This is a long way from Budapest."

Patton

BROADWAY SERENADE

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL I think TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

They need to do a 2021 remix: BE WORRIED, NOT HAPPY. Make it a grim spoken word piece by WERNER HERZOG set to an industrial backbeat.

TCM Remembers: Christopher Plummer

Peterson, Ella, played by Judy Holiday in "Bells Are Ringing"

I was thinking about Robert Osbourne’s set yesterday. Is it still there empty? Someone also finally uploaded a video on YouTube from when Kermit The Frog was a guest programmer in 2007. It wasn’t all the video intros and outros of all his picks. But it was a short video. It was great and he really cracked Robert up. Didn’t he? Maybe they’ll upload all his intros and outros sometime and I hope they have him as a guest programmer again. So I could see him.

Elliot, Sam

Who's Minding the Mint?

Our seventh western star is WILLIAM S. HART According to his wiki page, some of his silent westerns do survive. He had a cameo in SHOW PEOPLE (1928). I wanted to mention him because he's often overlooked. Hart owned substantial property in southern California, particularly in West Hollywood. When I lived there from 2003 to 2004, I would take my Pomeranian to a dog park that was named in his honor. There is a home there which he lived in that is now designated as a historical landmark. I went inside the home for a party that was given by some of my friends at the Actors Studio. I believe the western branch of the Actors Studio still uses some of the property to conduct workshops and perform plays. (There is a shed behind the house that's been converted into a stage and small auditorium.)

Vampyr (1932) – Released from Germany; subtitled in English. A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire. Director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first talkie. And it shows… Not much dialog, plus there’s a couple of story boards along the way. Awesome photography. Lots of shadows and camera tricks set the mood perfectly. Interestingly, this was the first film rated “H” in the UK for “Horrific” – likely to scare children under the age of 16. I believe it. IMDb gives it a 7.5; in my opinion, well deserved. Frankly, I’m a little confused with what happened to the main character toward the end of the film. If anyone is familiar with this film, no spoilers, please; please private message me with what I may have missed. Thanks!

I'll never forget the time I saw the 1937 drama "They Won't Forget" on TCM without realizing it was Turner's debut film. She was memorable as Mary Clay, a beautiful business school student whose mysterious murder galvanized the people of a small Southern town and elicited strong opinions from them. Mervyn LeRoy cast the 16-year-old Turner in the film not long after her now-legendary discovery by a publisher at a Hollywood café (she had cut a high school class to enjoy a refreshment from the soda fountain). In her final movie scenes as Mary Clay, she made an indelible impression during her character's fateful walk to the business school during the town's celebration of Confederate Memorial Day.

Tuesday, February 9 SOTM John Garfield 8 p.m. The Sea Wolf (1941). Garfield, Ida Lupino and Edward G. Robinson at his nastiest.

Thanks! I keep flip flopping on my SOTM. I'm trying to brainstorm my programming ideas.

Zandy's Bride (1974) Next: Bite the Bullet (1975) Gene Hackman Westerns

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Thompson, Emma

THE GUARDSMAN (1931)

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN (1950)

THE PALOMINO

Penelope Next: Sothern, Sheridan and Rutherford

IT'S NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD, BUT....you can kinda sorta squint and imagine from time to time that DECEPTION, a re-unification of DAVIS, RAINS AND HENREID five years later, is a SUPER DARK SEQUEL to NOW, VOYAGER.

THE LEATHER PUSHERS

MY KINGDOM FOR A COOK (1943)

HERO FOR A DAY

THE IMPATIENT YEARS

APRIL SHOWERS

KITTY (1945)

He was never gone. Like a lot of others in real life, he just dropped out of politics. 🙂

late Fri., 2-5 Underground......... 3:00 am (ET) Friday Foster (1975) 1h 30m | Action, Adaptation, Crime In her swan song as queen of the B's, Pam Grier stars as fashion photographer Friday Foster, who uncovers a white plot to murder black leaders--as she uncovers her own fab physique along the way... Director Arthur Marks Cast Ed Cambridge, Bebe Drake, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kot...

MY FRIEND IRMA (1949)

Most likely reason is the source material they used for that airing was once formatted for "standard definition", then that was recycled and later formatted for "widescreen". See my diagram below. This is the first two rows of this diagram, scenario #1).