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I want to see them convert their set into the interior of the house from Ray Milland's The Uninvited. No pun intended, it's just a cool house.

Greed (1924) -- Gibson Gowland and Jean Hersholt The Women (1939) -- Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer The Little Foxes (1941) -- Bette Davis vs. Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, and Dan Duryea Old Acquaintance (1943) -- Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins Mrs. Skeffington (1944) -- perpetual rivalry among Bette Davis's many suitors Laura (1944) -- Clifton Webb and Dana Andrews Deception (1946) -- Claude Rains vs. Bette Davis and Paul Henreid Johnny Guitar (1954) -- Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge Giant (1956) -- James Dean and Rock Hudson It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) -- everyone!

Just got a missive to my Now Playing email account. Here's the body content... You love classic movies. And we love bringing them to you. But while classic is forever, we here at TCM are thinking it’s time for a refresh. Don’t get us wrong, we’ll still present the greatest films ever made, along with all the backstories, profiles and context you’ve come to expect. That’s our DNA and a promise. Only now, we’ll be doing it in a fresh, new way. Same but different; making the best even better. We’re excited to show you. See for yourself starting September 1st. There is no way this can be good. Nothing TCM has done in the last few years has been for the better, other than expanding its retinue of Presenters, but this has, to me, the smell of death all over it. Fingers crossed that it's a "nothingburger," but not that hopeful...

I recommend Sleepy Hollow; it has a fairly straight forward who-done-it storyline with Depp playing a Quincy type MD that is also a detective. The film's photography is excellent, but what really makes the film for me, just like Chocolat, is the performance of Christina Ricci. Just the perfect film persona for the character and time setting of the film. PS: Ricci is another actress that would have been perfect in a Dark Shadows film.

"Lately I've been trying very hard to not let negativity into my life. There's so much of it out there that it can be quite debilitating . However, since I started this thread, I felt compelled to respond. While this is just the smallest of annoyances it occurred to me last night, when I saw the ANCHORS AWAY trailer out of ratio, that TCM has kind of given up being precise. It may have started with the pervasive ads touting anything with the TCM logo slapped on it. Perhaps it's when they stopped giving exact times on the preview cards and went with Next, Later and Sometime In A Couple of Hours... Certainly the recent Horoscope Spotlight was a nadir. Maybe it's when Robert died. I don't know. I just know, and here comes my old chestnut, letting Ben say whatever he wants adds nothing to the introduction and often detracts from my enjoyment of the wrap-arounds. Another key element to my watching TCM. I love this channel. It's the one I primarily watch. It means a great deal to me for many reasons. And like a lot of people I feel very proprietary towards it. I don't want to be one of those people who keep carping that TCM is not what it was. But honestly it's not. I'm over 60 now and I don't want to shake my hand at the TV and yell, You kids get off my channel!" but it's becoming clear to me I'm slowly moving past their target audience." The above is one of my posts from another topic... I'm going to try and remain optimistic. My gut tells me somehow TCM is finally going to give me the boot!

NEVER EVER Underestimate the power of higher ups to completely screw up something in ways that you didn’t even think were possible.

Unless they’re finally kicking ManksieBooBoo to the curb (fifteen years too late) it ain’t gonna be good.

Santa Fe Trail (1940): Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan are romantic rivals for Olivia de Havilland. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963): Treasure hunt rivals. The Candidate (1972): Political rivals Saturday Night Fever (1977): Dance rivals Battle of the Sexes (2017): Tennis rivals TV: Dallas - business rivals

The Lottery (1969)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Dr. Watson wrote of some of Sherlock Holmes' exploits but left instructions that the manuscript was not to be read until fifty years after his death. This is two of those stories. This was to be: Billy Wilder's magnum opus consisting of two vignettes and four stories. Total original running time of the rough cut was three hours and twenty minutes. The studio backed away from their original promises and ordered it cut to two hours and five minutes. What is left is a short introduction, one short story and a main story. I found this to be quite wonderful because it shows that even great people can have less-than-stellar incidents in their working life. The idea that Dr. Watson insisted on writing of some but having the tact to withhold them from publication until all interested parties were deceased shows an admirable mixture of dedication and tact and the viewer forgets that Dr. Watson was a fictional character also. I believe that the gentle humor mixed with madcap incidents mark this as pure Billy Wilder. The pacing is a little tighter than normal because there were to be so many stories crowded into one movie. I found: Robert Stephens and: Colin Blakely quite believable in their roles as Holmes and Watson. They may or may not have been as good in a tense drama but they fit well the breezy true-to-life tone of this movie. Geneviève Page was quite charming and exceptionally beautiful as a lady worthy of tempting the great Sherlock Holmes. The rest of the cast were notables: Christopher Lee, Clive Revill, Stanley Holloway and Robert Cawdron proving the "no small roles, only small actors" maxim. 8.1/11 I am sorry to say that I can not find this available for viewing for free on any streaming service. We watched it as part of subscription to: Amazon Prime Video.

I can see you all have herd the news. Hopefully TCM doesn’t discontinue the classics and starts showing only movies from the 90s. Early 2000s up to today’s movies. Because there are still all kinds of people I want to see as SOTM sometime and all kinds of programming. I don’t think it will change. Because Eddie Muller will be back for Noir Alley next month. Lucille Ball will be SOTM this October. So I think we’ve got nothing to worry about. But still. I kind of don’t want TCM to change to where they actually discontinue the classics. That’s exactly what happened with TV Land. It was nothing but classic TV and that’s all gone. They still show some. But not 247 like they did. I’m not even sure AMC still shows classics like TCM does. I think they show more of today’s movies and shows and I still want to go to the TCM Classic Film Festival and on the TCM Classic Cruise someday. More then once too. Ben. Dave. Alicia. Eddie. Jacqlane. Scott. Gary and all the special guest hosts. Including Lenoared Malton. This is one of your biggest fans and viewers and I speak for all the fans and viewers when I say. Please don’t change TCM. I love it. We all love it. I love you all so much. We all love you all so much. TCM’s got really wonderful programming and TopBilled and I are still hoping to see Rick Moranis as a guest programmer sometime and I’m still hoping to see Kermit The Frog again. Tim Allen. Mel Brooks and Jimmy Fallon as guest programmers sometime too.

Found this online: Grayson Hall is slumming: Redheaded Grayson Hall implied that her main reason for staying with the show is professional laziness. A gifted actress with a solid stage-and-screen reputation, she received an Academy Award nomination several years ago for her performance as a schoolteacher in Night of the Iguana. “I guess I could have gotten more Hollywood work,” she said with an easy laugh, “but it meant living out there and going to the parties and everything. Movie people can’t separate an actress from her role. To them I’m still the crazy dyke who chased Sue Lyon all over Mexico. Anyway, this show is comfortable and I get to work with my husband, who’s one of the writers.”

Bombshell (1933)

Oh, my. Where do I begin? Sounds reminiscent of what local TV station news directors do when they arrive upon the scene. Change the logo, change the set, change the graphics. While the sets have been pretty awful for YEARS and I would totally celebrate the demise of the idiotic "Let's Movie" slogan, I would/will really miss the "classic graphics" -- the only thing left from the early days of TCM when they hired a series of incredibly creative designers to come up with truly amazing, evocative graphics -- the way I really miss the old website. Yes, let's make TCM (if it even continues as TCM) look like any other network and toss all remnants of the old regime. If they lose the name Turner (which I think is a good guess) from the name of the channel, that's really too bad. Say what you will, Ted Turner was the chief architect of all that we loved about TCM in the early days. Systematically, over the years, all of the special things about TCM -- the graphics, the website, the "celebration" of special programming like SUTS have been eliminated to put more $$ in the hands of owners and investors. For example -- the newsletter now is nothing more than a series of links to existing info on the website (no calendars with themes of the day, etc.) so what is the point of even sending it out? I used to look forward to getting it online -- now it's a joke. Gone (seemingly forever) are: Special programs about classic stars (remember the 60 minute programs on Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, etc, etc.) , New material/star interviews to go between movies (now all we see are snippets of interviews which have played a thousand times before OR endless commercials for stuff they are trying to sell ) Actual TIMES next to upcoming films, Voice-Overs about upcoming films, Special promos and/or graphics for SUTS, 31 Days, SOTM (remember when Stars of the Month had promos done specifically about them??) and the list goes on and on.

Now, that would be a way to really screw things up . . .

Not really that much different from when they last worked on the forum. Within about a week's time:

Bob and Bing were often rivals for Dorothy Lamour's attention Elvis always got the girl, but Cesare Danova was his rival for Ann Margaret in Viva Las Vegas Henry Fonda and Cliff Roberts are rivals for their parties' nomination in The Best Man Despite being a 'threesome', Fredric March and Gary Cooper are rivals for Miriam Hopkins in Design for Living

I get HBO Max and have checked out the TCM site a few times - not impressed.

My guess is they're rebranding the network's name, emphasizing the "classic" part (evidenced by the "C" at the end of the promo) and eliminating "Turner." The Turner brand has been getting phased out in relation to all of the WarnerMedia properties since the AT&T buy-out in 2018. This sounds like a big nothingburger to me. A lot of cosmetic changes perhaps, but nothing substantive in relation to the network's on-air presentation. I don't see a standalone streaming service on the horizon for TCM, as the network already has a streaming relationship with HBO Max for U.S. audiences.

West Side Story (1960) Sharks v Jets The Outsiders (1983) The Greasers v the Socs 61* (2001) tv movie about Roger Maris v Mickey Mantle Sleuth (1972)

I think you can count on new sets and a new graphics package (which they probably teased with that "C" zooming out at the end). Maybe new hosts? Maybe an expanded presence on HBO Max? I don't think they'll be doing anything too drastic since they're in the middle of a merger process that won't close until 2022.

The Mark of Zorro 1940 Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone The Black Swan 1942 Tyrone Power and George Sanders The Spoilers 1942 John Wayne and Randolph Scott My Favorite Wife 1940 Irene Dunne and Gail Patrick The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 Ronald Colman and Douglas Fairbanks Jr Move Over Darling 1963 Polly Bergen and Doris Day The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 Errol Flynn and Patric Knowles Dynasty Joan Collins and Linda Evans

If we're on the topic of Wyatt Earp westerns, a decent one not mentioned until now, I believe, was HOUR OF THE GUN (1967) with Wyatt out for vengeance after the shooting of his brothers following OK Corral. A very grim James Garner (a far cry from Brett Maverick) is solid as Earp, with Jason Robards as Doc Holliday.

Well, actually, it worked out. The second Christmas season he was otherwise occupied I started dating the guy I married. So IAWL boyfriend didn't notice there had been a changing of the guard until after New Year. So that made things easy.

This salute is way overdue!

I watched it, but I couldn't remember EXACTLY who hosted in what order. This is off of Wikipedia: Rob Reiner (2001−2003) Sydney Pollack (2004) Peter Bogdanovich (2005) Robert Osborne (2006−2015) Molly Haskell (2006) Carrie Fisher (2007) Rose McGowan (2008) Alec Baldwin (2009−2011; 2017) Drew Barrymore (2012−2014) Sally Field (2015) David Letterman (2017) Tina Fey (2017) William Friedkin (2017) Ben Mankiewicz (2019–present) Ava DuVernay (2019) Brad Bird (2020) So Robert co-hosted from 2006 to 2015 after the directors left. Molly and Carrie seemed rather angry hosts. Rose seemed ill prepared. Robert and Alec Baldwin had great and unexpected chemistry. And Drew - she was pretty good but had some weird observations. I tried to get into Ava's films, but they seemed so "film school". Not very accessible. Claudine was about the only one she picked that I found accessible and charming. But then you remember all of this stuff. The directors who initially hosted were good because they knew what to point out.

I’ve always thought the original Universal horror classics should be shown every year as a Halloween tradition. I’m talking about “Frankenstein”, “Dracula”, “The Wolf Man” and “The Invisible Man”. Of course, I’m old. Speaking of which, it’s funny to think that these movies will be 100 years old before long.

The only thing I did not like about “sleepy hollow” was the “murder she wrote”-style ending, It felt very out of place. But it’s easily one of the most gorgeous films of the 1990s, if I remember correctly it maybe even earned a couple of Oscars for the costume and the cinematography.

I also just thought. Hopefully they don’t also discontinue these message boards. Because I really enjoy posting with all you guys about TCM. Especially you TopBilled. TV Land also had message boards too. But they’re all gone.

I was just going to say DONNIE BRASCO. Also BLACK MASS where he plays Whitey Bulger, he managed to tone down his usual weird schtick to turn in a realistic performance. It seems to me that, when he's not working with Tim Burton, Johnny Depp can turn in a good, I mean really good performance when he wants to.

I like the films The Night Gate, Sleepy Hollow, and Chocolat. I enjoy the films and Depp was adequate.

Donnie Brasco wasn't bad.

The Longest Yard (1974) -- inmates vs. guards on the gridiron Lover Come Back (1961) -- Carol Templeton vs. Jerry Webster for the VIP account Pillow Talk (1959) -- Jan Morrow vs. Brad Allen for the partyline. The Great Race (1965) -- The Great Leslie vs. Professor Fate in the auto race from New York to Paris

Friday August 27, 2021 Merle Oberon Summer Under the Stars on TCM the scarlet pimpernel the private life of don juan the lion has wings lydia that uncertain feeling night song the cowboy and the lady the divorce of lady x wuthering heights the dark angel ‘til we meet again berlin express hotel

At least they are giving ample warning this time....

Well they already diddled around with their website, in genuine compulsory new management fashion, so they have that behind them.

DISHY!!!!!! (tHANKS) THE MORE i read about the making of DARK SHADOWS and the cultural impact it had during such a turbulent time in our history, the more intrigued I am about the possibilities of a movie about the making of the show itself, framed within scenes throughout of people across America riveted every day at four- and central to that story would be the relationship between SAM AND GRAYSON. there would also be tons of potential for comedy...unlike the unfortunate 2012 "film."

While not a fan of THE GOLDEN GIRLS, I have seen Betty White in other shows and films, and I think she's great. She's the last GOLDEN GIRL still standing. It will be a sad day when we lose her (hopefully not any time soon!).

TCM shows Suspiria once in awhile so it could be included.

She Couldn't Say No is hilarious nonsense. And Eve Arden is really top dog in it though Roger Pryor (???) gets that billing. Glad to discover this one.

I'd like to see an evening of Claude Rains at Universal: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD (1934) THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (1935) THE WOLF MAN (1941) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1943)

The Iron Petticoat (1956) Starring Bob Hope and Katherine Hepburn. Sort of a Ninotchka storyline with Katherine Hepburn as a Soviet jet pilot and Bob Hope as Major Lockwood. Apparently Ben Hecht wrote the script especially for Hepburn. Hepburn wanted Cary Grant, James Stewart or William Holden but eventually Hope became interested in the script. (No mention of Spencer Tracy?) According to Wiki: "Hope also saw the opportunity to get away from the United States at a time when a scandal was tarnishing his reputation as a family man. Hope had been embarrassed by the publication of a tell-all book by former lover Barbara Payton, and advised by close confidants to leave the United States until the bad press had subsided." It's an odd pairing that just doesn't work. It's rather amazing that anyone thought Hope and Hepburn was a good idea. Ben Hecht later said that he wrote the movie for Hepburn but it became a Bob Hope movie. Hecht asked that his name be removed from the final project. Certainly worth a look for the novelty of it but it's as if you could take each performance and put them into two different movies.

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but...a few years ago I made a list (for another website) of final films that I think are at least good, and in some cases great. I realize that for the actors in question, much of this is random luck of the draw (unless they deliberately chose to retire on a high note), but I was surprised to find more examples than I expected: (listed alphabetically): Jean Arthur: Shane Carlo Battisti: Umberto D. Ingrid Bergman: Autumn Sonata John Cazale: The Deer Hunter James Dean: Giant Marie Falconetti: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc Richard Farnsworth: The Straight Story Peter Finch: Network John Gielgud: Elizabeth Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Most Wanted Man Charles Laughton: Advise and Consent Heath Ledger: The Dark Knight Vivien Leigh: Ship of Fools Carole Lombard: To Be or Not to Be Una O’Connor: Witness for the Prosecution Ralph Richardson: Greystoke Alan Rickman: Eye in the Sky Paul Scofield: The Crucible Randolph Scott: Ride the High Country Moira Shearer: Peeping Tom Victor Sjöstrom: Wild Strawberries Massimo Troiso: Il Postino Jack Warden: The Replacements John Wayne: The Shootist [NB this list does not count voiceover work or TV films] (Apologies if there's already a thread about this elsewhere on the TCM board...which there probably is) 🙂

COMING HOME (1978)

I'd say i'm a huge Holmes fan, but i've met some of the super fans and can't say i'm anywhere near them, so i'll just say i'm a big Holmes fans and am currently going through the book series for a second time. There are so many Holmes films that i can't stand and only a few that i genuinely enjoy. This is one of the latter (The Seven Percent Solution is still my all time fave). I actually enjoy the early radio dramas with Nigel Bruce the most.

LOL Wow! Sounds as if you got to the point in this relationship to where you started wishing HE was never born, eh LS?!

From my understanding NBC/Universal has absolute and total control of that film and will never let go. As late as the late 1980s it was a public domain Christmas staple on every channel. I had a boyfriend at the time whose mission was to watch It's A Wonderful Life as many times as possible every Christmas season to the neglect of everything else - his work, his housekeeping, and me.

"Together Wherever We Go" -- Gypsy (1962). Deleted from the released film but restored for the DVD. Next: Sung by Gracie Fields but not her signature tune ("Sally")

Yes Dargo Victor Mature was excellent as Doc Holliday and he was a very funny man with a great sense of humor.He was also very good in After the Fox' one of his last movies.