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A movie I have found very enjoyable (it used to be on the old Million Dollar Movie in NYC) was Navy Blues. Martha Raye is excellent in a big supporting role. The film also stars Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Hebert Anderson, Jack Carson, and Jackie Gleason in a very small role.

I upgraded to IE10 which still has the problem, but only on the TCM site. I haven't noticed any issues with any other sites. I'm now typing on an *older* computer, on which I haven't upgraded the IE.

I did uninstall Java. But I still can't post on this site apart from plain text. Can't use bold, italic, etc. I assume it's something to do with my IE9 installation.

Forgive my ignorance -- is Java connected with Flash in any way? I have an iPad and do find the lack of Flash to be a bore. Just one example, you can't select specific theater tickets when ordering, on many sites. Or is Flash totally separate from Java?

Thanks, if this persists I will consider that. I assume it has something to do with having downloaded IE 9 and an updated version of Java this evening. I get this Javascript:void(0) message.

Terrific group as always, TB. Only two connections for me: I worked with Jessica Tandy's husband (Hume Cronyn) on a project once (2000); and I met Maureen Stapleton. I have a very odd photo of Maureen, me, and Luise Rainer. I also met Maureen's son several years later. I did see Doris Roberts at the theater recently (in the audience), but that's hardly a personal connection. I look forward to your posts!

I'm having a problem posting in rich text -- I thought it was because I screwed up when I installed IE9 earlier this evening. Perhaps a Java problem? I should try on another computer.

A friend of mine pointed out the other day that the streets of NYC are a little bit quieter, because more people are texting than walking down the street talking on their cell phones. I text as well -- the challenge is really crossing the street while texting! This of course isn't on the level of society going down the drain, just changes in technology and ways of communication. Regarding the Jersey Shore, etc., I guess it's a sort of voyeurism. Remember the Louds?. I think it's also much cheaper to produce. And it's the opposite of Downton Abbey. Just as we like to see stories about the aristocrats of another era, we like to make fun (sort of) of the working classes of our own era.

Imhotep -- Boris Karloff in THE MUMMY (1932)

One of the first DVDs I ever watched was The Indian Tomb (1921), for which Lang wrote the screenplay. I loved it -- it had scope, mystery, and some truly terrifying scenes. Great cast. Lang did get to direct a remake years later -- I haven't seen that.

I missed most of the program, got home during the "In Memoriam" segment. So I don't know if they included Joyce Redman, of the eating scene in Tom Jones -- I doubt it. The Guardian reported that the Brits were offended because Michael Winner wasn't included. And I have to say this -- is there something wrong with me? -- I don't like Barbra Streisand anymore. Funny Girl was the second Broadway show I ever saw, I loved her in that, and I loved her early recordings. But she's taken to playing stereotypes on film and has become far too self-reverential. And I think the "In Memoriam" segment should not feature any one of the departed more than any other -- and that includes Marvin Hamlisch. And in the awards in general, I think the obsession with comedy should go. It's very seldom funny, and I actually prefer the awards -- even the small ones -- over the banter. I guess the magic has gone, or I've become too jaded.

Of course it wasn't one of the "traditional" Bonds, but the theme from the original Casino Royale was great -- the Herb Alpert performance of the Bacharach instrumental.

I wanted to use it, it's my favorite silent film. But it is so tied up in legal issues, I thought part of the drill was to avoid such issues that don't have a reasonable chance of being shown, even as a premiere. But maybe if you use it, someone will notice and get the ball rolling!

I only caught the last half hour or so of the show. I thought it odd that, they go to such lengths to say "the Oscar goes to..." instead of "the winner is...," yet they sang a stupid song about the losers at the end of the show.

Anthony Adverse -- Fredric March in *Anthony Adverse* (1936)

Calvinnme, you reminded me of a quote from the women's prison movie Caged. Gertrude W. Hoffman, who plays Millie, the oldest inmate, gets angry at Harper, the evil matron played by Hope Emerson. Millie threatens to kill Harper, saying, "I'm a lifer, one more would be just so much velvet."

I remember it well, saw it when I was a kid. Beautiful little film, haven't seen it in decades.

Thanks Polecat! I think we have a nice batch of diverse and fascinating schedules so far. Btw, I love Charters and Caldicott. I did not know they were in four films -- I only knew of Lady and Night Train. Looking forward to seeing the others (and I love Patricia Roc). I came up to Putnam County, north of NYC, today, to spend a few days with friends. Took the train from Grand Central. What a grand old station, it has aged well!

Thanks, Lydecker. I was originally thinking of a week in February, which happened to include Ann Sheridan's birthday. But I switched when I realized I'd have to deal with the Oscars. So glad you feature that great lady!

*SWITHIN’S NOTES* *SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013* *GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL AT 100* I cannot believe that I of all people am scheduling that pariah of films, NBNW, to kick off my week. But you can't present a series of four films dedicated to Grand Central Terminal without it! The other films, too, have good connections to the Terminal. *THE BONUS ARMY: THE SAD ANNIVERSARY OF HERBERT HOOVER EVICTING UNEMPLOYED WORLD WAR ONE VETERANS FROM PUBLIC SPACES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.* In the Spring and Summer of 1932, unemployed World War One veterans and their families converged upon Washington seeking help from President Hoover. On July 28, the order was issued to send police in to turn them away. Several veterans were killed. The "Forgotten Man" episode at the end of Gold Diggers of 1933 was Busby Berkeley's comment on this tragedy. Other films were influenced by it as well, and the episode is also mentioned in the GI Bill newsreel following World War II. *SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT/TCM IMPORTS* Eric Rohmer is my favorite French director. He took his name from two of his favorite artists: Erich Von Stroheim and Sax Rohmer. Overnight programming begins with two Von Stroheim silents, followed by two amazing and totally different Rohmer films. We conclude with a film based on a story by Sax Rohmer. *MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *SURREALISM IN FILM: IN HONOR OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY* *OF THE PASSING OF LUIS BUNUEL* The great surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel died on July 29, 1983. A series of surrealist classics, shorts, and surrealist-inspired works marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Andre Breton called Peter Ibbetson, a film that was also beloved of Bunuel, “a stupendous film, a triumph of surrealist thought.” Busby Berkeley’s musical numbers in Dames were inspired by the work of Man Ray. This series also gives me the opportunity to program such seemingly diverse films as the totally bizarre Million Dollar Legs and the sublime and mesmerizing Celine and Julie Go Boating. Spellbound, shown in the Grand Central series, may also be considered part of the Surrealism series, thanks to Salvador Dali’s dream sequence. *ORPHEUS AND HIS LUTE* It isn’t surprising that the Orpheus myth has inspired artists in all media; it is after all about the power of art. The four films include Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, which is based on Offenbach’s operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld; and The Fugitive Kind, based on Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams. *TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013* *A DAY FOR CONNECTIONS: JOHN SCHLESINGER,* *NATHANAEL WEST, RUTH and EILEEN McKENNEY* If there’s one film that cries out to be shown on TCM, it’s John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust, based on Nathanael West’s novel. Would we TCM fans behave the way the film fans did at the end of that movie? (I hope not!) From Locust I’ve branched out to other Schlesinger films, including the rarely seen Sunday Bloody Sunday. The director’s movies are preceded by films with screenplays by West or based on West's other work. The whole day is bookended by two films based on stories by Ruth McKenney, whose sister Eileen was married to West. Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney West died tragically in a car crash in Los Angeles in 1940. John Schlesinger died ten years ago, in July 2003. *WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013* *IT’S LAMMAS EVE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIET!* Nurse: "Come Lammas eve at night shall she be fourteen." William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet may be the most filmed of all stories. The Melies films, which open the day, include The Devil and the Statue, a spin on the R&J story. The Hollywood Review features two scenes inspired by the play, including the balcony scene with Norma Shearer and John Gilbert. Shakespearean Spinach features Popeye and Olive Oyl as the lovers. *THE WAYS OF TIME TRAVEL ARE VARIOUS* You can time travel in a machine, in your dreams, by opening a door, on the arm of the Spirits of Christmases Past and Future, or by becoming unstuck in time, like Billy Pilgrim in one of my favorite films, Slaughterhouse-Five. *THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013* *OBSESSION IS NOT JUST A PERFUME:* *HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMAN MELVILLE!* In honor of the great man’s birthday, we present films about people who are obsessed with men and women, movies, comic book characters (fumetti), diet pills – and white whales. The list includes one of my favorite Fellini films – The White Sheik – in which a woman is obsessed by the hero of a soap opera comic strip. Also on the list are two powerful and difficult – yet beautiful – films: The Story of Adele H, about Victor Hugo’s daughter’s all-consuming obsession with a soldier; and Requiem for a Dream, in which Ellen Burstyn gives a towering performance as a Brooklyn woman who becomes addicted to diet pills. *FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013* *STAR OF THE MONTH: THE CHARACTER ACTOR* *THIS WEEK: BEULAH BONDI* *Guest fictional programmers for four of the films: Ma Joad and Ma Kettle* Character actors made the classic movies great, perhaps even more so than the “stars.” I particularly love Beulah Bondi and admire her great talent. Whether she was playing James Stewart’s mother or Napoleon’s, no actor did a consistently better job than our Beulah. The tribute includes such rarities as The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (said to be the first full-length outdoor three-strip technicolor film), in which Ms. Bondi has one of her best roles, lamenting the violence of the feuding families. ( Trail is preceded by Service with a Smile, a Leon Errol short which was Warner’s first foray in the three-strip process.) In Shepherd of the Hills, Beulah has perhaps her nastiest role – Aunt Mollie, whose scene with the ring of fire is truly eerie! *TCM UNDERGROUND* Attention must be paid to the Mexican horror film industry, which gave us, in the cult classic The Brainiac, the most incredible tongue in movie history! *SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2013* *IN TO AFRICA* 100 years ago, Karen Blixen moved to her “farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” To celebrate that centennial, the schedule features movies about Westerners (some real, some fictional) who go to Africa. In one film – Battle of Algiers (The Essentials) – the focus is on getting the Westerners (well, the French anyway) out of Algeria. The Sheltering Sky is a premiere, about a young couple’s journey to Africa to “find” themselves. There is something truly rare and haunting about The Sheltering Sky. I think the disoriented Deborah Winger, walking into the bustling African market at the end of the film makes a nice counterpoint to Marlene Dietrich talking off her high heels and walking into the Sahara in Morocco.

*SWITHIN’S SCHEDULE* *WEEK OF JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2013* 100 CHALLENGE: *Grand Central Station Centennial* SOTM: *The Character Actor. This week: Beulah Bondi* SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS: *The Merry Widow* (1925); *The Wedding March* (1928) TCM IMPORTS: *The Marquise of O* (1976); *My Night at Maud’s* (1969) TCM UNDERGROUND: *The Brainiac* (1962) THE ESSENTIALS: *The Battle of Algiers* (1966) MOVIE CHARACTER GUEST PROGRAMMERS: *Ma Joad and Ma Kettle* PREMIERES *Celine and Julie Go Boating* (1974) *The Day of the Locust* (1975) *Moontide* (1942) *Peter Ibbetson* (1935) *Requiem for a Dream* (2000) *Slaughterhouse-Five* (1972) *The Sheltering Sky* (1990) *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971) EXEMPT PREMIERES *The Marquise of O* (1976) *Romeo and Juliet Ballet* (1966) *Shakespearean Spinach* (1940) *Shepherd of the Hills* (1941) *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* (1936) *The Wedding March* (1928) SUNDAY, JULY 28, 2013 *GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL AT 100* 6:00 AM *North by Northwest* (1959) Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessye Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. MGM, 136 mins. P/S 8:30 AM *Spellbound* (1945) Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick, 111 mins. P/S 10:30 AM *Grand Central Murder* (1942) Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey, Samuel S. Hinds. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. MGM, 73 mins. P/S 11:45 AM *The Clock* (1945) Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. MGM, 91 mins. P/S *THE BONUS ARMY: THE SAD ANNIVERSARY OF HERBERT HOOVER EVICTING UNEMPLOYED WORLD WAR ONE VETERANS FROM PUBLIC SPACES IN WASHINGTON, D.C.* 1:30 PM *Gold Diggers of 1933* (1933) Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. WB, 97 mins. P/S 3:15 PM *Heroes for Sale* (1933) Richard Barthlemess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young. Dir: William A. Wellman. First National, 71 mins. P/S 4:30 PM *Gabriel over the White House* (1933) Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore. Dir: Gregory La Cava. MGM, 86 mins. P/S 6:00 PM *The Roaring Twenties* (1939) James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn. Dir: Raoul Walsh. WB, 106 mins. P/S 8:00 PM *Johnny Got His Gun* (1971) Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland. Dir: Dalton Trumbo. World Entertainment, 111 mins. P/S 9:55 SHORT *The GI Bill of Rights* (1945) Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 43, 8:30 mins. P/D *ERIC ROHMER, ERICH VON STROHEIM, SAX-ROHMER* 10:15 SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT *The Merry Widow* (1925) Mae Murray, John Gilbert. Dir: Erich von Stroheim. MGM, 137 mins. P/S 12:45 AM SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT *The Wedding March* (1928) Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts. Dir: Erich von Stroheim. Paramount/Lasky, 113 mins. Exempt 2:45 AM TCM IMPORTS *The Marquise of O* (1976) Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz. Dir: Eric Rohmer. Janis/Les Films du Losange, 102 mins. Exempt 4:30 AM TCM IMPORTS *My Night at Maud’s* (1969) Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault. Dir: Eric Rohmer. FFD, 110 mins. P/S 6:30 AM *Daughter of the Dragon* (1931) Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Sessue Hayakawa. Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Paramount, 70 mins. P/S *MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013* *SURREALISM IN FILM:* *IN HONOR OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF LUIS BUNUEL* 7:45 AM SHORT *Un Chien Andalou* (1929) Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali. Dir: Luis Bunuel. Schilzneck, 17 mins. P/D 8:03 AM SHORT Return to Reason (1923) Kiki of Montparnasse. Dir: Man Ray. 3 mins. P/D 8:15 AM *Dames* (1934) Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee. Dirs: Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley. WB, 91 mins. P/S 10:00 AM *International House* (1933) Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Rudy Vallee, Stuard Erwin, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi, Franklin Pangborn. Director: A. Edward Sutherland. Paramount, 68 mins. P/S 11:15 AM *Million Dollar Legs* (1932) Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Lyda Roberti, Andy Clyde, Susan Fleming, Dickie Moore. Dir: Edward F. Cline. Paramount, 64 mins. P/S 12:30 PM *The Exterminating Angel* (1962) Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook. Dir: Luis Bunuel. Producciones Gustavo Alatriste, 95 mins. P/S 2:15 PM *Last Year at Marienbad* (1961) Delphine Seyrig, Georgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. Dir: Alain Resnais. Cocinor, 94 mins. P/S 3:55 PM SHORT *Anemic Cinema* (1926) Dir: Marcel Duchamp. 7 mins. P/D 4:15 PM *Moontide* (1942) Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains. Dir: Archie Mayo. 20th Century Fox, 94 mins. Premiere 5:50 SHORT Repeat of *Un Chien Andalou* (17 mins) 6:15 PM *Peter Ibbetson* (1935) Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Weidler, Dickie Moore. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Paramount, 88 mins. Premiere 7:45 PM SHORT *The Alphabet* (1967) Peggy Lynch. Dir: David Lynch. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 4 mins. P/S 8:00 PM *Celine and Julie Go Boating* (1974) Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder. Dir: Jacques Rivette. Action Films, et. al, 193 mins. Premiere 11:15 PM SHORT *Ghosts Before Breakfast* (1928) Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay. Dir: Hans Richter. 6:23. P/D *ORPHEUS AND HIS LUTE* 11:30 PM *Moulin Rouge!* (2001) Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent. Dir: Baz Luhrmann. 20th Century Fox, 127 mins. Exempt 1:45 AM *Orpheus* (1949) Jean Marais, Francois Perier. Dir: Jean Cocteau. Andre Paulve, 95 mins. P/S 3:30 AM *Black Orpheus* (1959) Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira. Dir: Marcel Camus. Dispat Films, 100 mins. P/S 5:15 AM *The Fugitive Kind* (1959) Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory. Dir: Sidney Lumet. Pennebaker, 119 mins. P/S 7:17 AM *Old New Orleans* (1940). Dir: James A. FitzPatrick. MGM, 9 minutes. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2013 *A DAY FOR CONNECTIONS:* *JOHN SCHLESINGER, NATHANAEL WEST, RUTH and EILEEN McKENNEY* 7:30 *My Sister Eileen* (1942) Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn. Dir: Alexander Hall. Columbia, 96 mins. P/S 9:15 AM *Men Against the Sky* (1940) Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie. Dir: Leslie Goodwins. RKO, 75 mins. P/S 10:33 AM SHORT *Curtiss-Wright Aviation Recruitment* (1944) Handy (Jam) Organization, 9 mins. P/D 10:45 AM *Stranger on the Third Floor* (1940) Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Elisha Cook Jr. Dir: Boris Ingster. RKO, 64 mins. P/S 12:00 PM *Let’s Make Music* (1941) Bing Crosby, Jean Rogers, Elisabeth Risdon, Joseph Buloff. Dir: Leslie Goodwins. RKO, 84 mins. 1:30 PM *Lonelyhearts* (1958) Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Dolores Hart, Maureen Stapleton, Jackie Coogan. Dir: Vincent J. Donohue. Dore Schary, 100 mins. P/S 3:15 PM *Darling* (1965) Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde. Dir: John Schlesinger. Joseph Janni, 128 mins. P/S 5:30 PM *Marathon Man* (1976) Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver. Dir: John Schlesinger. Paramount, 125 mins. P/S 7:40 PM SHORT *Los Angeles: Wonder City of the West* (1935) James A. FitzPatrick short. MGM, 9 mins. 8:00 PM *The Day of the Locust* (1975) Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, Geraldine Page. Dir: John Schlesinger. Paramount, 144 mins. Premiere. 10:30 PM *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971) Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft. Dir: John Schlesinger. Vectia, 110 mins. Premiere 12:30 AM *Midnight Cowboy* (1969) Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro. Dir: John Schlesinger. Florin, 113 mins. P/S 2:30 AM *Billy Liar* (1963) Tom Courtney, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie. Dir: John Schlesinger. Vic Films, 98 mins. P/S 4:15 AM *Margie* (1946) Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari, Conrad Janis. Dir: Henry King. 20th Century Fox, 94 mins. P/S *Wednesday, July 31, 2013* *IT’S LAMMAS EVE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIET!* Nurse: "Come Lammas eve at night shall she be fourteen." 6:00 AM *The Films of George Melies* (1896-19?). 120 mins. P/S 8:00 AM *The Hollywood Review* (1929) John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Jack Benny, Joan Crawford, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. MGM, 130 mins. P/S 10:15 AM *Romeo and Juliet* (1936) Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone. Dir: George Cukor. MGM, 125 mins. P/S 12:30 PM *Romeo and Juliet* (1968) Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O’Shea, Robert Stephens, Michael York. Dir: Franco Zeffirelli. BHE Films, 138 mins. P/S 2:50 PM SHORT *Shakespearean Spinach* (1940) Animated. Popeye and Olive Oyl as Romeo and Juliet. Paramount, 6:30 mins. Exempt 3:00 PM *West Side Story* (1961) Natalie Wood, Richard Beymar, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris. Dirs: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. Mirisch/Seven Arts, 152 mins. P/S 5:45 PM *Romeo and Juliet* (1966) Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev. Dir: Paul Czinner (Kenneth Macmillan, choreography). Poetic Films, 124 mins. Exempt *THE WAYS OF TIME TRAVEL ARE VARIOUS* 8:00 PM *Slaughterhouse-Five* (1972) Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine, Ron Liebman, Holly Near. Dir: George Roy Hill. Universal, 104 mins. Premiere 9:48 PM *The Diabolical Church Window* (1911). Dir: George Melies. 7 mins. P/D 10:00 PM *A Christmas Carol* (1951) Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Hermione Baddeley, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern. Dir: Brian Desmond Hirst, 86 mins. P/S 11:30 PM *The Time Machine* (1960) Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot. Dir: George Pal. George Pal, 103 mins. P/S 1:15 AM *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court* (1949) Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix. Dir: Tay Garnett. Paramount, 106 mins. P/S 3:15 AM *A Connecticut Yankee* (1931) Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O’Sullivan, Myrna Loy. Fox, 95 mins. P/S 5:00 AM *Berkeley Square* (1933) Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Irene Browne, Beryl Mercer, Samuel S. Hinds. Dir: Frank Lloyd. Fox, 84 mins. P/S *Thursday, August 1* *OBSESSION IS NOT JUST A PERFUME: HAPPY BIRTHDAY HERMAN MELVILLE!* 6:30 AM *Moby Dick* (1930) John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. WB, 77 mins. P/S 8:00 AM *The Purple Rose of Cairo* (1985) Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello. Dir: Woody Allen. Orion, 82 mins. P/S 9:30 AM *The White Sheik* (1952) Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulieta Masina. Dir: Federico Fellini. OFI, 86 mins. P/S 11:00 AM *The Sea Beast* (1926) John Barrymore, Dolores Costello. Dir: Millard Webb. WB, 136 mins. P/S 1:30 PM *Possessed* (1947) Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. WB, 108 mins. P/S 3:30 PM *Vertigo* (1958) James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount, 128 mins. P/S 5:45 PM *Moby Dick* (1956) Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn. Dir: John Huston. Moulin, 115 mins. P/S 7:42 PM SHORT *Overview of Moby-Dick: Then and Now* (2007). Dir: Ricardo Pitts-Wiley. Project New Media Literacies, 15 mins. P/D 8:00 PM *The Story of Adele H* (1975) Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson. Dir: Francois Truffaut. Les Artistes Associés, et. al., 96 mins. P/S 9:45 PM *Requiem for a Dream* (2000) Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly. Dir: Darren Aronofsky. Artisan et. al., 102 mins. Premiere 11:30 AM *Taxi Driver* (1976) Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepard, Peter Boyle. Jodie Foster. Dir: Martin Scorsese. Columbia, 113 mins. P/S 01:30 AM *The Devil Is a Woman* (1935) Marlene Dietrich, Cesar Romero, Lionel Atwill. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Paramount, 80 mins. P/S 3:00 AM *Svengali* (1931) John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Bramwell Fletcher, Donald Crisp. Dir: Archie Mayo. WB, 81 mins. P/S 4:30 AM *The Mad Genius* (1931) John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, Luis Alberni, Carmel Myers. Dir: Michael Curtiz. WB, 81 mins. P/S *FRIDAY, AUGUST 2* *STAR OF THE MONTH: THE CHARACTER ACTOR* *THIS WEEK: BEULAH BONDI* *Guest programmers: Ma Joad and Ma Kettle* 6:00 AM *Street Scene* (1931) Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi. Dir: King Vidor. Samuel Goldwyn, 80 mins. P/S 7:30 AM *Registered Nurse* (1934) Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, Minna Gombell, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Robert Florey. First National, 63 mins. P/S 8:45 AM *Finishing School* (1934) Frances Dee, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers, Bruce Cabot, Beulah Bondi. Dirs: George Nichols Jr., Wanda Tuchock. RKO, 73 mins. P/S 10:00 AM *The Sisters* (1938) Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers. Dir: Anatole Litvak. WB, 99 mins. P/S 11:45 PM *Track of the Cat* (1954) Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi. Dir: William A. Wellman. Wayne-Fellows, 102 mins. P/S 1: 30 AM SHORT *Colorful Colorado* (1944) James A. FitzPatrick. MGM, 9 mins. 1:45 PM *Of Human Hearts* (1938) Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford. Dir: Clarence Brown. MGM, 103 mins. P/S 3:35 PM SHORT *New Hampshire Sketches* Prelinger Archives, 30:28 mins. P/D 4:15 PM *Our Town* (1940) William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Stuart Erwin, Frank Craven. Dir: Sam Wood. Sol Lesser, 90 mins. P/S 5:47 PM SHORT *Andante from Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto* (2007). Richard Stolzman. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Classic Arts Showcase, 7:37 mins. P/D 6:00 PM *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937) Beulah Bondi, Victor Moore, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall. Dir: Leo McCarey. Paramount, 91 mins. P/S 7: 35 PM SHORT *Service with a Smile* (1934) Leon Errol, Maxine Doyle, Herbert Evans. Dir: Roy Mack. WB, 17 mins. 8:00 PM *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* (1936) Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Beulah Bondi, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Wanger/Paramount, 102 mins. Exempt 9:45 PM *The Shepherd of the Hills* (1941) John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, Marjorie Main. Dir: Henry Hathaway. Paramount, 98 mins. Exempt 11:25 PM SHORT *Country Style USA Recruitment* Episode 8. Marty Robbins, Joyce Paul. Department of Defense, 14:35 mins. P/D 11:40 PM SHORT *Country Style USA Recruitment* Episode 35. Faron Young, Dolores Dinning. Department of Defense, 16 mins. P/D 12:00 AM *The Southerner* (1945) Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carroll Nash, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride. Dir: Jean Renoir. Jean Renoir Productions, 92 mins. P/S 1:45 AM *Hearts Divided* (1936) Marian Davies, Dick Powell, Charlie Ruggles, Claude Rains, Edward Everett Horton, Arthur Treacher, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Frank Borzage. WB, 76 mins. P/S 3:15 AM *The Invisible Ray* (1936) Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Violet Kemble Cooper, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Universal, 80 mins. P/S 4:45 AM TCM UNDERGROUND *The Brainiac* (1962) Abel Salazar, Ruben Rojo, Rosa Maria Gallardo. Dir: Chano Urueta. Cinematográfica ABSA, 77 mins. Exempt *SATURDAY, AUGUST, August 3* *IN TO AFRICA: Celebrating the centennial of Karen Blixen’s move to her “farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills”* 6:15 *Algiers* (1938) Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale. Dir: John Cromwell. Walter Wanger, 96 mins. P/S 8:00 AM *Born Free* (1966) Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keene, Peter Lukoye. Dir: James Hill. Columbia, 96 mins. P/S 9:45 AM *An American in Sophiatown* (2007) Lionel Rogosin. Dir: Earl Lloyd Ross. 54 mins. P/S 10:45 AM *Cry the Beloved Country* (1995) James Earl Jones, Tcholofelo Wechoemang, Richard Harris. Dir: Darrell Roodt. Miramax, 106 mins. P/S 12:45 PM *Out of Africa* (1985) Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Michael Gough. Dir: Sydney Pollack. Mirage et. al., 161 mins. P/S 3:30 PM *Stanley and Livingstone* (1939) Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Richard Greene, Charles Coburn, Henry Travers, Henry Hull. Dir: Henry King. 20th Century Fox, 101 mins. P/S 5:15 PM *Hatari* (1962) John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Kruger, Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot. Malabar, 157 mins. P/S 8:00 PM THE ESSENTIALS *The Battle of Algiers* (1966) Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yasef Saadi. Dir: Gillo Pontocorvo. Casbah Film, et. al., 121 mins. P/S 10:15 PM *The Sheltering Sky* (1990) Deborah Winger, John Malkovich. Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci. RPC, et. al., 138 mins. Premiere 12:45 AM *Morocco* (1930) Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Paramount, 92 mins. P/S 2:30 AM *Casablanca* (1942) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henried, Dooley Wilson, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Dir: Michael Curtiz. WB, 102 mins. P/S 4:15 AM *King Solomon’s Mines* (1950) Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Kimursi. Dir: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton. MGM, 103 mins. P/S

Twiggy also starred in my late friend Sheridan Morley's production of Noel and Gertie, when it came to New York (off-Broadway). Her rendition of Coward's "Twentieth Century Blues" was terrific!

There is that one scene with Vanessa Redgrave and the...

I had never seen The Boy Friend and was glad to have a glimpse of "the making of" it. Sorry I missed the film, it looks like fun. I'm a Ken Russell fan as well, from Women in Love through the later stuff. I really like The Lair of the White Worm, an early sort of horror film, with Hugh Grant, and with Amanda Donohoe in one of the funniest scenes ever! (Being snake-charmed.)

I agree, Thomas. Mrs. Miniver is a *very* special movie. Btw, I think I once read that Henry Wilcoxon wrote that speech himself.