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I make no apologies about liking the novel GWTW. I also admire and enjoy the film. I dislike the lazy "it's a terrible book." But whatever. All of this nonsense is judgmental.

Cabin in the Sky 1943 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Sounder 1972 The Color Purple 1985

I love this hat on Margaret Lockwood in THE WICKED LADY: and her co-star, James Mason, wore this wonderful hat:

Myrna Loy, starting with an amazing beaded cloche!!!!! here's a Robin Hood-esque hat Here's a crazy hat straight from the Emerald City: Kind of a fun stewardess thing:

A huuuuuuuuuuge thank you to The Great Waldo Lydecker for running such a fun challenge!

I wish this had been a back story for Blanche and her wild-child Janet on The Golden Girls.

Yvette Mimieux

Ashley, Elizabeth

Crooklyn I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Soul Food

Fences (2016) Soul (2020) Good Times

Loretta Young: Awesome fringed cloche!!! Airplane pin on this cloche is awesome I love the 30s-ness of this whole outfit

I'd like to do the next one PDQ -- is May/June too soon for everyone?

I watched Inside Daisy Clover. I'd seen the last half hour a couple of times, including the one great scene in the film, Natalie Wood in the sound booth. The film doesn't quite work, but I'm glad I saw it. Natalie Wood is too old to play a 16-year-old, yet, especially for a very feminine actress, she successfully gives Daisy a tomboyish, gamine quality. Ruth Gordon, Oscar-nominated as her mother, does her usual Ruth Gordon shtick, energetic and entertaining. Critics who had seen Ruth Gordon on stage in her earlier years said that she already had the mannerisms we're familiar with from her 60s films, but also tried to be sexy. Christopher Plummer seems to be channeling Laurence Harvey as the evil studio head Raymond Swan. In 1965 they might well have offered the role to Harvey first. Katharine Bard, an actress previously unknown to me, does well as Plummer's wife, Melora Swan--one of the greatest names I've ever heard. Edith Head did the gowns for Natalie Wood, and the cinematography is attractive. Andre Previn provides a fine score, although Daisy's theme song, "You're Gonna Hear From Me," lyrics by Dory Previn, is Streisand-ish 1960s rather than 1930s, the supposed time of the movie. Inside Daisy Clover is worth seeing for me simply because we get to see the pre-stardom Robert Redford. It's interesting to see actors before their screen persona is fixed: I'm thinking of Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett, Robert Mitchum in The Locket, Kirk Douglas in Mourning Becomes Electra (nice guy) and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (weakling), Bette Davis in her pre-Of Human Bondage films. After Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford would never have dared play a narcissistic bisexual movie star.

Thank you kindly to the 4 people who voted for me!

Some of the stunning head dressings Vivien Leigh wore in THAT HAMILTON WOMAN: http://www.frockflicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Viven-Leigh-That-Hamilton-Woman-Romney1.jpg This veil is my favorite. In the film, it catches all the lighting from the camera and shoots out little sparkles from the sequins.

And the winner is: Lonesome Polecat!!! Congratulations to LP on her wonderful schedule and well-deserved win. LP now has the honor of conceiving and hosting TCM Programming Challenge #45! Can't wait to see what you come up with. Final voting tally: Lonesome Polecat: 4 Sans Fins: 3 Over Easy: 2 Athos: 2 Stevomachino: 1 Speedracer5: 1 CinemaInternational: 1 P.S. As previously discussed, I have a "Thank You" gift for each of the participants and Lonesome Polecat is the winner of the Noir City Poster. When you get a chance, please message me your mailing addresses and I'll get those things into the mail next week. Thanks so much for participating and for all of your hard work and creativity. Lydecker

The Butcher's Wife (1991) -- 6.75/10 Source: HBO There is no way around the fact that I was born in the 90s and that I have a bit of a soft spot for films that were released in the years leading up to when I was born, maybe in part to understand the world I was born into. It also helps matters that the early 90s were really in retrospect, one of the last gasps for a major studio system to exist mainly on mid-budget films, allowed to be more personal and involving than big blockbusters. Every now and then though I see one that doesn't pan out, and such is the case with The Butcher's Wife, which at times comes close to working, but in the end does not quite make it. First of all, one should know that this particular film stars Demi Moore as a blonde psychic/agony aunt/matchmaker from South Carolina who impulsive marries a portly butcher (George Dzundza) from New York because of a dream she had. Upon finding herself in New York, she provides love tips in Greenwich Village to straights and lesbians alike, in addition to helping others in big ways. But somewhere along the line (still only a few days after her sudden marriage), she feels she has miscalculated badly in her love predictions as she finds herself drawn to a psychiatrist (Jeff Daniels) who is often infuriated by her, and her husband, also falling out of love quickly, has fallen for a mousy woman turned bar singer, per Demi's career advice (Mary Steenburgen). Add to all this romantic confusion one more man after Demi (Max Perlich) and that one of the two lesbians (Margaret Colin, the other one being played by Frances McDormand) was at the beginning of the film Jeff Daniels' girlfriend, and you have a second half where it is hard to follow all the confusion this film is throwing at us about changing relationships within a week. Moore has a bizarre accent that never feels authentic (Lorna here would rip it to shreds) and she looks washed out. Yet she makes some elements of the role work somehow. of the rest of the cast, Steenburgen comes off best. She seems the most attuned to the quirky mood of the film, and she is often inspired in her delivery of scenes. And she sings extremely well. The rest are all capable enough, even if some of them (like Perlich and McDormand) really do not have much to play at all. And yet, in its first half, and even at some points after that, there is something sweetly enchanting going on here. it does capture the feeling of a close knit community, and does so with a warm, sweet heart. it has a lilting musical score, warm cinematography, and a personal feel to it. It is sometimes quite funny, it has a fairy tale for adults feeling, plus its cute. But its ultimately a case of a noble attempt to do something different that almost but not quite gets there. Maybe with a real southerner in the lead like Holly Hunter and a more focused second half, this could have been a romantic comedy gem.

"Thank goodness!"

Anything on yahoo is not worth reading. I mean, It’s even right there in the name and everything.

Kay Francis: awesome headband:

There was nothing forgettable about the (free?) BELL endorsement to this then-young kid - thanks to one of my father's Sex in Cinema issues of PLAYBOY magazine:

The Shaggy Dog 1959 next: Fred MacMurray , Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G Robinson

Carmen Jones 1954 Porgy and Bess 1958 Roots tv mini series 1977 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tv movie 1974

PRINCESS AND THE FROG BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD The Cosby show The Jeffersons Sanford and Son Fresh Prince of Bel Air SELMA focuses on the families

Boston Public Next: Bess Armstrong, Jared Leto, Claire Danes

Brando, Jocelyn

Tucker, Barnaby, played by Robert Morse in "The Matchmaker"

Congratulations LonesomePolecat, on a much-deserved win! I know the next challenge will be amazing. It's never too soon to start, so I'm fine with May or June! Also, many thanks to our consummate, gracious host Lydecker for running a fantastic challenge, as always!

Did someone say: Myrna Loy?

I love this hat Lena Horne wore in STORMY WEATHER:

That was actually an in-joke because Rue McClanahan was on ANOTHER WORLD in the 70s.

On Svengoolie tomorrow, Saturday, April 3, 2021: At last, one of my favorite Roger Corman movies, in all its low budget glory! Billy Barty and Allison Hayes Diana Love, the Prostitute at the lamp post, played by Pamela Duncan The Undead dancing girls Loosely Inspired by the best-selling 1954 book The Search for Bridey Murphy, The Undead opens with a psychic researcher (played by Val Dufour) picking up a prostitute. He takes her to see his old teacher, who has evidently been waiting seven years for him. The skeptical teacher witnesses his former pupil placing the prostitute into a trance. The prostitute remembers another one of her lives, in the Middle Ages, where she is accused of witchcraft. That’s just the beginning. Once we get to the Middle Ages, we meet a beautiful bad witch (Allison Hayes) and an ugly good witch (Dorothy Neumann). Also a simple-minded but poetic gravedigger (Mel Welles, who went on to play Gravis Mushnick in Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors a few years later.); and many other fascinating characters, including an imp (Billy Barty), and of course Satan (Richard Devon). This is an enjoyable, imaginative movie, not without hints of feminism, unusual for the tame 1950s. Read a few of the positive user reviews from IMDB, and learn about its greatness: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051128/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Hedy Lamarr I barely recognize Hedy Lamarr laughing here

Go seek out "Twilight Zone" episode "Nothing in the Dark"

Congratulations LonesomePolecat! I'm excited to see what you come up with for your challenge. Great schedules everyone! Thank you to Lydecker for a most enjoyable challenge! I had a lot of fun with this theme.

Radcliffe, Christine was played by Bette Davis in Deception 1946

Martha Hyer

Congratulations LonesomePolecat! The win is well-deserved. I hope TCM Programmers will steal borrow elements of your schedule. I thank you, Lydecker, for creating and running an excellent TCM Programming Challenge!

Lol I just watched an episode of The Golden Girls where the girls were all home sick with the flu and had to take turns watching the TV. Blanche wanted to watch Another World to see what would happen next, and Dorothy put the kibosh on it.

Congrats LP!

RED GARTERS (1954)

THE NORTH STAR (1943)

Three's Company Next: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Lorne Greene

The Game (1997).

This is also supposed to air in the late night hours on TCM next week. Even though I found the sex scenes to be way too explicit for the rest of the story, this is easily one of the best films of 1999 (#3 out of 59 that year for me). It's beautifully handled on every level, and I think it teaches a good moral lesson in the end. In its native England it was up for many awards, but here in America, award bodies went for lesser films like American Beauty to fill out the nominations list, leaving this one with only two Oscar nominations. And Julianne Moore deserved to win the Oscar that year. I have seen the earlier version with Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, and John Mills. Its very good, and it clears up one moral muddle included in this version toward the end, but it also doesn't include one other closing element seen here that I found extremely moving. Regarding Ralph Fiennes, I think he is one of the better actors at work today, and I urge you to check out Quiz Show from 1994, about the rigging scandal surrounding the game show Twenty-One in the late 50s. Fiennes played one of the cheating contestants who was in moral agony over his actions, and it was a great performance. The film also had rich performances from John Turturro and Paul Scofield, and had a probing script, plus fine direction by Robert Redford. I think it was the best film of its year.

Though these are not classic stars (yet!) I had these three on my mind because they all have had reputations for bad public behavior, but at the time that I saw them at the RTR, they were extremely nice: Sean Penn was known at the time (1980's) for slugging it out with paparazzi, and being rude and irritating with the press and fans. The one time that I remember serving him, I had that in the back of my mind and was ready in case he was a pain, but he was the opposite. Made eye contact and a little chat before he and the other customer focused on talking business (this was lunchtime). He may have had on jeans, sportcoat and no tie, a bit casual for that time but looked fine. The one detail that always stuck in my mind is that I served him two or three Virgin Marys (no other beverages). The next day on New York Post Page Six (the gossip page), an item read something like "Sean Penn at the Russian Tea Room, downing 5 Bloody Marys at lunch", with negative comments about his appearance and behavior. Totally false. Does any celebrity have a worse reputation in public than Alec Baldwin? Breaking cameras, arguing over parking spaces, cursing out his kid, calling paparazzi f*gs... Well, it was totally different the first time I remember seeing him in '88 around the time that Working Girl came out. He came in for dinner with a group of 4 or 5 others, I think one was his girlfriend, another was his mom, the others seemed to be friends or family (I hadn't heard of any of the Baldwins before that night, the siblings might have been there). I didn't serve them but the waiter (guy named Jeremy I think) told me that Mr. Baldwin was very humble, sweet and generous. He admitted to Jeremy that he didn't know what to order but would trust him to guide their group to have a good time, and there was no limit on the budget. So they ate and drank quite well (lots of caviar). I do recall hearing Mr Baldwin several times saying "This is so great", "I'm having such a good time" and was beaming like a little kid every time I saw him. In the 80's Eric Roberts in NYC was locked up for trying to break into his ex's apartment in the early morning on the west side, and had another less-publicized incident that required a large number of cops to subdue him while he was having some type of bad experience one afternoon near Union Square. But I liked him as an actor and was psyched to see him come to the restaurant one night with a group that included his sister Julia. They were not in my section but because of the size of the group I helped serve their table quite a bit. Mr. Roberts sat in the aisle facing the wall, rather than in the interior of their booth, which no celebrity usually would do. Typically they would face the room. Every time I or another waiter was at the table, he acknowledged us, made eye contact, and thanked us. Every request he politely started with "If it's not too much trouble", "When you have time may I please", etc. I think I brought him a side dish of capers or something, and he was over-the-top grateful. Looked at me intensely and slowly said "I appreciate your taking the time, thank you so much"... Super nice guy (at least that night).

Huge crowds (the twitterati) take to the internet. Nobody said anything about being moderate about racism, sexism and biogtry. (There is a weird trend on these boards lately to misconstrue posts instead of asking clarifying questions.) But I think the Reframed series could have been more moderately balanced in terms of representing different political points of view and looking at things more objectively. Specifically, why the films contain questionable material by today's standards and looking at the history of woke-ism. A discussion on the history of woke-ism is where I think a conservative panelist would have brought a unique perspective to the proceedings. TCM was too busy playing organ grinder and monkey, pushing its own ultra-liberal agenda.

THE ROBE (1953)

Claudette Colbert in hats, starting with a very famous one: