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*Freaks* (the movie, that's not a commentary on you guys, ha).
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Amazon is having an amazing sale of box sets --- huge discounts, with classics well-represented. Steve McQueen (48% off), Betty Grable (47% off), Billy Wilder (47% off), Bette Davis (47% off), two Tyrone Power sets (47%-48% off), John Frankenheimer (47% off), Sydney Poitier (48% off), Jaune Mansfield (47% off), Joan Collins (48% off), Peter Sellers (47% off), Frank Sinatra (47% off), assorted John Ford sets (47% off), *The Fly* movies (47% off), Elvis (47% off), Franke & Annette (47% off), Rodgers & Hammerstein (48% off), Alice Faye (47% off), Carmen Miranda (47% off), MGM Musicals (45% off), two Mr. Moto sets (47% off), Gary Cooper (47% off), John Wayne (47% off). And over in the TV section, they have two Loretta Young TV show sets that are left than $15 for hours of TV episodes.
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Note that you can preorder the box set (as well as Vol. 1) on Amazon now for $21.99 --- that makes each movie $5.50, and if you spend over $25 they ship for free.
I actually started a thread on this box set as well, based on *It Happened on Fifth Avenue* being included.
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One of the most requested movies in the various Christmas forums is *It Happened on Fifth Avenue.* Good news! That movie is being released November 11 in a budget box set, *Warner Bros. Classic Holiday Collection, Vol. 2.* The other movies in the set are *All Mine to Give, Blossoms in the Dust,* and *Holiday Affair.* You can preorder on Amazon for the astonishing price of _$21.99._
http://www.amazon.com/Warner-Brothers-Holiday-Collection-Vol/dp/B001CW7ZZS
They're releasing Vol. 1 the same day, which includes *Boys Town, Christmas in Connecticut, A Christmas Carol,* and *The Singing Nun,* also $21.99.
If you buy them both they ship for free.
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I went by Virgin (on Union Square in NYC) this morning and all of the titles I mentioned in my last post were still on sale for $10. They have added *Hud, Pride and Prejudice, Mame, Hello Dolly, Funny Girl, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Fair Lady, Cabaret,* and lots of other classics.
Virgin is supposed to close both NYC stores next year -- maybe they're burning off the product on stock.
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Alice in Wonderland
Snow White
Cinderella
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ILRM --
I spoke too quickly, I forgot about *It's a Date,* which I have seen, and which I like, but which I just forgot. I know Deanna primarily from *Every Sunday,* since I am a HUGE Judy Garland fan.
As a Deanna fan, you might like the book I recently finished reading --- *The Star Machine* by Jeanine Basinger. The book looks at the way the studios created and molded stars during the studio era, and it is fascinating. Best of all, she specifically writes chapters about stars that we don't know as much about (Loretta Young, Irene Dunne, Errol Flynn, Deanna, etc.) instead of the usual Cary Grant/Marilyn Monroe/Katharine Hepburn crowd. And CelluloidKid, *Christmas Holiday* is roundly discussed.
Ms. Basinger is the head of film studies at Wesleyan University, and her writing style is great --- she's funny and irreverent at times, but she really loves film and knows it front-to-back.
ILRM, I seriously encourage you to write Deanna Durbin a letter to tell her how much you like her work. Even though she retired completely so long ago, I'm sure she would enjoy hearing this.
When I was 14 years old (in the mid-1970's) and lived in a small town in Georgia I read a newspaper article about Marlene Dietrich having a milestone birthday, and how she was a recluse in Paris who was unavailable in any way to the world. The article said she lived on Avenue Montaigne, and I actually sent her a gushing Happy Birthday fan letter addressed to "Marlene Dietrich, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France." Three weeks later, I got a signed photo and a wonderful handwritten note. (I hadn't even requested a signed photo, I just wanted to tell her how much I loved *Shanghai Express* and *Destry Rides Again,* and Happy Birthday). How incredible is it that Marlene was such a legend that the French post office read that non-address and knew immediately where it should go? How unimaginable is it that MARLENE DIETRICH responded to me?
If you have Deanna Durbin's address, write her a note. Be sure you tell her how old you are. I promise you, she will be very, very happy to get that letter.
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Count the Pepsi logos and bottles in the Joan Crawford movies in the 60's --- you'll run out of fingers and toes in no time!
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ILRM - love the singing credits, which I always find especially strange. And I just read a book with a chapter on Deanna Durbin's star trajectory --- the only films of hers I've seen are *100 Men and a Girl* and *Every Sunday,* making me eager to see the rest. You used so many favorites --- Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Powell & Loy.
Sugarpuss - I am often struck by the cranky Henry Morgan on the 50's game show reruns on GSN. I occasionally see Betsy Palmer at events --- I should ask her if he was really that irascible in real life.
Plus, good & evil lookalikes, always fun. For my part, although I generally am anti-TV, I'd welcome the TV *Marty* and *Requiem.* And you included my favorite Woody Allen movie, *The Purple Rose of Cairo!*
MattHelm - I too never knew there were silent Boston Blackies. I especially like the Asian Karloffs and the Bombas. And I'd enjoy the comparison of the Martin/Lewis remake period.
Excellent schedules!
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Among the titles at Virgin for $10 (at least as of last week) are the 2 disc special editions of *The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Rebel without a Cause,* and *Strangers on a Train,"* plus the single discs of *Funny Face, Mildred Pierce, The Women, A Star is Born* (Judy Garland), *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,* and lots of other classics. The sale titles tend to change about once a month --- rarely are this many classics up.
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Following, the still-with-us classic film stars I would most
love to see in a Private Screening --- in the order I most want to see them.
I didn't take into account anyone's health or their willingness to appear on TCM (which could change from day to day) --- just whether they are still here, and how much I would like to see them discuss their careers.
And of course, younger stars like Liza Minnelli or Jamie Lee Curtis are hardly teetering...
Anyway, here ya go. My dream Private Screening list:
Lizabeth Scott
Doris Day
Shirley Temple
Joan Fontaine
Olivia DeHavilland
Julie Andrews
Kirk Douglas
Paul Newman
Clint Eastwood
Tab Hunter/Farley Granger/Richard Chamberlain (um, grouped together for obvious reasons)
Luise Rainer
Liza Minnelli
Mamie van Doren
Kim Novak
Lena Horne
Warren Beatty
Ernest Borgnine
Maximilian Schell
Ann Blyth
Maureen O'Hara
Jamie Lee Curtis (obviously, a lot of this would be remembering her childhood, but also remember *Halloween* qualifies for TCM inclusion).
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Ydobon -- You can never show me enough Margaret O'Brien! And LOVE the Underground choices --- *Basket Case* would go great here too.
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Movieman -- could there be a better title than *Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President?* And I love the David Niven films, he's a star we all often overlook.
Kubrickbuff -- a schedule packed with Preston Sturges AND Claudette Colbert would be a very TCM-packed week for me! (By the way, *Midnight* finally came out on DVD, but with zero extras --- inexpensive though).
Pancakes Barbara -- so many inspired choices! Jessica Tandy, Mary Pickford, Warren William, and especially the Wampas Baby Stars. (And *Terror of Tiny Town* -- I always want to pair that little gem with *Bugsy Malone.*
What fun!
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Friends,
Also not trying to argue, just saying again...
Whoopi's performances in *The Color Purple* (when she SHOULD have won the Oscar), *Sister Act* and *Ghost* (when she DID win the Oscar) speak for themselves. They were brilliant. I also point you to *The Long Walk Home.* Wow, she's great in that one.
And as I also mentioned before, I think Whoopi has made a lot of rotten movies, but she's made some good ones too, and a couple of great ones, and she is inarguably among the five or six most important African-American stars ever.
Whoopi was the second African-American woman to win an Oscar, after the great Hattie McDaniel.
Ava, don't dismiss her work. She is a stand-up comedian, she is on that talk show, whatever.
I can understand you not caring for her brand of comedy, or her viewpoints on *The View*, or her politics, or the handful of crappy movies she did --- just give the lady her credit due for her Oscar, for her good roles, and for what her career actually represents.
Whoopi not a groundbreaker? I know that was a typo, so I am letting that go. Love her or hate her, look at her career. A groundbreaker and a legend.
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Filmlover, thanks for the kind words. I missed a couple of Challenges due to a work conflict, I am happy to be back.
Isn't it interesting that the George Melies version of the story of Joan of Arc ( *Jeanne d'Arc* ) PRECEDED her being canonized? I guess I just always thought a Saint was a Saint. Of the four movies I picked, she was "Saint Joan" in the three later ones, but was "Jeanne d'Arc" in the first. That's right --- there were movie bios of her BEFORE she was a saint!
TCM Programming Challenge #11: Entertaining AND Educational!
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Worst roles from beloved stars:
Mickey Rooney in *Breakfast at Tiffany's* --- he's so awful he ruins the movie for me
Judy Garland AND Gene Kelly in *The Pirate* --- she is ill and jittery, he overcompensates, and I get a headache
Katharine Hepburn in *The Little Minister* and *Dragon Seed* --- HORRIBLE miscasting
Joan Crawford in *Berserk!*
Shirley Temple in *The Blue Bird*
Classic stars I couldn't find in anything really wretched:
Jean Harlow
Cary Grant
Myrna Loy (I even like *The Mask of Fu Manchu,* if only for its camp value)
Bette Davis, other than a few bad castings early at WB and the sad sight of her looking so ill in her last roles
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Unquestionably Poitier --- there has never been anything like him.
Whoopi is tougher. She is genuinely wonderful in *The Color Purple*, *Sister Act*, and *Ghost.* In other cases, she makes some pretty mediocre material enjoyable --- for instance, I actually enjoy *Eddie* and *The Associate*, even though the scripts are junk, because of her. But she has made a LOT of stinkers --- *Telephone*, *Burglar*, *Jumping Jack Flash*, *T-Rex.* It's almost as if she will make absolutely any script offered.
(By the way, I've met Whoopi a couple of times and she couldn't be nicer. Which has nothing to do with her talent, but she's certainly not foul).
Denzel? Handsome, but I find him a little dull. Will Smith? Not my kind of movies. Halle Berry? Obviously gorgeous, but I think even Mo'nique is a better actress.
I haven't seen enough Dorothy Dandridge to talk about her. Lena Horne, beautiful but limited. Diana Ross, beautiful but not a good actress. Bill Robinson, always wonderful, often overlooked, but obviously more of a supporting player.
The real shame, to me, is in the African-American actresses of yesterday. You see a genuinely terrific performance --- Louise Beavers in *Imitation of Life,* Hattie McDaniel in *Gone with the Wind* --- followed by years of them in a maid's outfit saying "Dinner is served." Even then, they could shine --- see Beavers in *She Done Him Wrong* and *Bombshell,* for instance. Imagine what they could have done if they had been allowed.
The movies were obviously glorious trash, but Pam Grier is fantastic. " *Coffy* --- she'll cream you," indeed!
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*TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE #11*
*PROGRAMMING NOTES*
I selected the week of April 12-19, 2009.
The week begins with a pair of films starring Freddie Bartholomew, the musical *Listen Darling* and the seagoing adventure *Captain's Courageous,* followed by the shipwreck adventure *Swiss Family Robinson.*
Several times during the week I've paired one of the greatest film roles by a classic star with a rarely seen film from later in the star's career. First up is Joan Fontaine, with her stellar turn in *Suspicion* followed by her rare 1966 Hammer film *The Witches.*
Today is Ann Miller's birthday, so tap-tap-tap your afternoon away with three of her best. Today is also the 100th Anniversary of the canonization of Joan of Arc, and we commemorate it with four very different film biographies, starring Jean Seberg, Ingrid Bergman, Sybil Thorndike, and Jeanne d'Alcy. The last two are shorts that usher in Silent Sunday Night (d'Alcy, the wife of director George Melies, was the first French film actress). The Silent Sunday feature continues along religious themes with Ramon Novarro's *Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.*
For TCM International I've booked a double bill: Fassbinder's *Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss,* the story of a Third Reich era German film actress who is shunned after the war, falls into poverty, and who commits suicide. The movie is loosely based on the life and death of the real actress Sybille Schmitz, so I wrap up TCM International with her best-known film, the 1943 German version of *Titanic.*
A German actress who was on OUR side, Marlene Dietrich, stars in the next film *Destry Rides Again,* the first of three Westerns of the morning. Audrey Hepburn gets the Classic/Later focus, with *Breakfast at Tiffany's* followed by her final film, Spielberg's *Always.*
Howard Keel and director Stanley Donen share a birthday Monday, and we celebrate with the film they did together, *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,* as well as some of the great musicals they did individually.
I've been researching silent films and the transition to sound lately, and I programmed the first talkies from several silent stars : Norma Shearer, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Ramon Novarro. After that come two early musicals, *The Broadway Melody* (the first musical) and *The Vagabond Lover,* made especially interesting by the presence of Marie Dressler.
Ingrid Bergman is best known for *Casablanca,* the next film, but continued starring in films into the 1970's. Virtually lost is the unjustly-forgotten children's movie *From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,* based on a charming book about children who run away from home and move into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. No one forgets her Oscar-winning turn in *Murder on the Orient Express,* up next. This look at Ingrid's later period ends with *A Matter of Time,* in which she co-starred with Liza Minnelli. This one is a little sad: the editing is choppy and the movie isn't very good, but it was the last film for Bergman, Charles Boyer, and director Vincente Minnelli, so it deserves to be seen.
After *A Matter of Time,* we move into other later Vincente Minnelli films, *On a Clear Day You Can See Forever* (with Streisand; actually a little similar to *A Matter of Time,* but more successful) and *The Sandpiper* (with Taylor and Burton), followed by one of Minnelli's all-time best, the wartime romance *The Clock* (with Judy Garland).
It's a family day for the rest of the day --- the day is filled with movies about orphans just desperate to find a home, plucky youngsters who will stop at nothing to find love. It kicks off with the largely unremembered *Sally in Our Alley,* about a little girl being raised by three men, followed by Margaret O'Brien in *Big City* (a film that appears to be a remake of *Sally in Our Alley*). Through the day, adorable moppets like Virginia Weidler, Sybil Jason, Edith Fellows, and Patty McCormack try to charm their way into the hearts of prospective parents. The Adoption Theme ends with the 1940 short *Women in Hiding,* about unwed mothers giving up their babies, and the Greer Garson drama *Blossoms in the Dust.*
Throughout the night it's Sibling Revelry, with pairs of films starring some of Hollywood's brother or sister stars: Joan Fontaine/Olivia de Havilland, Constance and Joan Bennett, and Peter and Jane Fonda.
The Jane Fonda film I selected, *They Shoot Horses, Don't They?*, is set in a depression era dance marathon, so I dug up a couple of movies from the 30's that have dance marathons in the plot: *Hard to Handle* (in which James Cagney bilks people with scam marathons) and Blind Date.
Because we had access to so many premieres, I was able to fit one of the movies that you generally only see on the Fox Movie Channel, the wonderful *Call Me Madam* with Ethel Merman. In my book, this is the best of the Fox musicals, and the Irving Berlin score (especially "You're Just in Love") is tops. If you don't have FMC, do yourself a favor and grab the DVD!
You love Kim Novak in *Bell, Book and Candle,* up next, but did you ever see her in 1978's *Just a Gigolo* ? That movie also stars David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich (in her last screen appearance). Afterward, revisit Marlene in *Shanghai Express,* one of her very best, followed by Maximilian Schell's terrific 1984 documentary *Marlene,* in which she is interviewed but would not allow herself to be filmed.
My Star of the Month is Lana Turner, and I picked an evening of four of her soapier roles from the late50's/early 60's. Lana also pops up in one of the shorts that fill out the night.
The next mini-theme is really fun: it's called You Ungrateful Brat! Each of the the next three films features (in small roles) the child of a legend who wrote a nasty tell-all book about their famous parent. You can glimpse Christina "Mommie Dearest" Crawford in the Elvis movie *Wild in the Country*; Bing's son Gary Crosby ("Going My Own Way") appears with Elvis in *Girl Happy*; and Bette Davis' daughter B.D. Hyman ("My Mother's Keeper") appears as next door neighbor Liza Bates in *What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*
For the afternoon, I went with three RKO films based on literary classics, all enjoyable and almost never programmed: *Little Men* (with Kay Francis), the terrific *Becky Sharp* (with Miriam Hopkins), and *Anne of Green Gables* (with Anne Shirley). Anne Shirley is the name of the lead character in *Anne of Green Gables,* and the actress playing her (originally acting under the name Dawn O'Day) liked the name so much she adopted it for her career. It's also Anne Shirley's birthday today, so we're following it with three other Shirley films, including the very best one, *Stella Dallas.*
Time for Time Travel! I went for the smart apes and the stupid stooges. Who knew the Three Stooges were involved in time travel TWICE?
For TCM Underground we're dabbling in illicit substances tonight. Check out the bizarre acid drama *The Big Cube* with Lana Turner, followed by one of the strangest movies ever made, *The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.* This 1916 (!) silent film features Douglas Fairbanks, a superstar in his day, as a drug addicted detective named Coke Ennyday. The movie plays his drug addiction for laughs, and it genuinely is unsettling. Enjoy! Then get clean with Frank Sinatra in *The Man with the Golden Arm* and Susan Hayward in *I'll Cry Tomorrow.*
Next to get the career-span look is Fred MacMurray, with the marvelous *Hands Across the Table* (co-starring Carole Lombard) paired with the Disney goof *Charley and the Angel.*
It's happy birthday Hayley Mills, so your afternoon will involve twins who switch places, mischievous cats who solve crime, stern nuns, and finally troubled newlyweds.
We hit the home stretch with The Essentials: *Mrs. Miniver,* tagged by the sequel *The Miniver Story* and *The Best Years of Our Lives.*
And the week ends with *Los Angeles Plays Itself,* a 2003 documentary that is an in-depth and fascinating look at real-life locations of classic Hollywood films, taking you to the real stairs that Laurel and Hardy climbed with the piano in *The Music Box", to the observatory where Sal Mineo is killed in *Rebel without a Cause*, and more. Remember the interesting office building where Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson work in *Double Indemnity*? That's the Bradbury Building --- a building which also starred in *Chinatown, Marlowe, D.O.A., Wolf,* and *Blade Runner!* This is a really beautiful movie, as much a love letter to L.A. as it is a documentary.
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*TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE #11*
*SUNDAY APRIL 12*
6:00 AM *LISTEN, DARLING* (1938), dir Edwin L. Marin, starring Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, MGM, 75 min
7:15 AM *CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS* (1937) dir Victor Fleming, starring Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, MGM, 115 min
9:15 AM *SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON* (1960), dir Ken Annakin, starring John Mills, Dorothy Maguire, Disney, 126 min
*CLASSIC/LATER: JOAN FONTAINE*
11:30 AM *SUSPICION* (1941), dir Alfred Hitchcock, starring Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, RKO, 99 min
1:15 PM *THE WITCHES* (1966), dir Cyril Frankel, starring Joan Fontaine, Hammer/Fox, 90 min PREMIERE
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANN MILLER*
2:45 PM *REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY* (1943), dir Charles Barton, starring Ann Miller, Frank Sinatra, Columbia, 78 min
4:15 PM *EASTER PARADE* (1948), dir Charles Walters, starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, MGM, 107 min
6:15 PM *ON THE TOWN* (1949), dir Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller, MGM, 98 min
*ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANONIZATION OF JOAN OF ARC*
8 PM *SAINT JOAN* (1957), dir Otto Preminger, starring Jean Seberg Richard Widmark, UA, 110 min
10 PM *JOAN OF ARC* (1948), dir Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman, RKO, 145 min
*MONDAY APRIL 13*
*SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT*
12:30 AM *SAINT JOAN* (1927), dir. Widgey R. Newman, starring Sybil Thorndike, Lee DeForest Films, 10 min (Silent)
12:45 AM *JEANNE D'ARC* (1899), dir Georges Melies, starring Jeanne d'Alcy, Star Film, 10 min (Silent)
1 AM *BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST* (1925), dir Fred Niblo, starring Ramon Novarro, MGM, 143 min (Silent)
*TCM INTERNATIONAL*
3:30 AM *DIE SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS* (1982), dir Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Rosel Zech, 104 min, Laura Film
5:15 AM *TITANIC* (1943), dir Herbert Selpin, starring Sybille Schmitz, Tobis Filmkunst/DFV, 85 min
7:00 AM *DESTRY RIDES AGAIN* (1939), dir George Marshall, starring Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Universal, 94 min, p/s
8:45 AM *GHOST TOWN* (1956), dir Allen H. Miner, starring Kent Taylor, UA, 77 min
10:15 AM *STAGECOACH* (1939), dir John Ford, starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, UA, 96 min p/s
*CLASSIC/LATER: AUDREY HEPBURN*
NOON *BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S* (1961), dir Blake Edwards, starring Audrey Hepburn, Paramount, 115 min, p/s
2:00 PM *ALWAYS* (1989), dir Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Audrey Hepburn, UA, 122 min
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOWARD KEEL*
4:15 PM *CALAMITY JANE* (1953), dir David Butler, starring Doris Day, Howard Keel, WB, 101 min
6 PM *ANNIE GET YOUR GUN* (1950), dir George Sidney, starring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, MGM, 107 min
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY STANLEY DONEN*
8 PM *SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS* (1954), dir Stanley Donen, starring Howard Keel, Jane Powell, MGM, 102 min
10 PM *SINGIN' IN THE RAIN* (1952), dir Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, MGM, 103 min
11:45 PM *FUNNY FACE* (1957), dir Stanley Donen, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, MGM, 103 min
*TUESDAY APRIL 14*
1:30 AM *ROYAL WEDDING* (1951), dir Stanley Donen, starring Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, MGM, 93 min
3:15 AM *DAMN YANKEES* (1958), dir George Abbott, Stanley Donen, starring Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, WB, 111 min
5:15 AM *THE PAJAMA GAME* (1957), dir George Abbott, Stanley Donen, starring Doris Day, WB, 101 min
*FIRST TALKING APPEARANCES BY SILENT STARS*
7:00 AM *THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN* (1929), dir. Bayard Veiller, starring Norma Shearer, MGM, 113 min
9:00 AM *COQUETTE* (1929), dir. Sam Taylor, starring Mary Pickford, 76 min, UA, p/s
10:30 AM *ANNA CHRISTIE* (1930), dir. Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo, MGM, 89 min
NOON *UNTAMED* (1929), dir. Jack Conway, starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, MGM, 86 min
1:30 PM *DEVIL-MAY-CARE* (1929), dir. Sidney Franklin, starring Ramon Novarro, MGM, 97 min.
3:15 PM *THE BROADWAY MELODY* (1929), dir. Harry Beaumont, starring Charles King, Anita Page, MGM, 110 min
5:05 PM *THE VAGABOND LOVER* (1929), dir Marshall Neilen, starring Rudy Vallee, Marie Dressler, RKO, 65 min
*CLASSIC LATER: INGRID BERGMAN*
6:15 PM *CASABLANCA* (1941), dir Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, WB, 102 min
8:00 PM *FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER* (1973), dir Fielder Cook, starring Ingrid Bergman, Madeline Kahn, Cinema 5, 105 min, PREMIERE
10:00 PM *MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS* (1974), dir. Sidney Lumet, starring Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Paramount, 128 min
*WEDNESDAY APRIL 15*
*CLASSIC/LATER: VINCENTE MINNELLI*
12:15 AM *A MATTER OF TIME* (1976), dir Vincente Minnelli, starring Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, AIP, 97 min PREMIERE
2:00 AM *ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER* (1970), dir Vincente Minnelli, starring Barbra Streisand, Paramount, 129 min PREMIERE
4:15 AM *THE SANDPIPER* (1965), dir Vincente Minnelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, MGM, 117 min
6:15 AM *THE CLOCK* (1945), dir Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland, MGM, 90 min
*SAVE THE ORPHANS!*
7:45 AM *SALLY IN OUR ALLEY* (1927), dir Walter Lang, starring Shirley Mason, Columbia, 56 min
8:45 AM *BIG CITY* (1948), dir Norman Tauraog, starring Margaret O'Brien, Columbia, 103 min
10:30 AM *NOBODY'S CHILDREN* (1940), dir Charles Barton, starring Edith Fellows, Columbia, 64 min
11:45 AM *BAD LITTLE ANGEL* (1939), dir Wilhelm Thiele, starring Virginia Weidler, MGM, 72 min
1:00 PM *LITTLE MISS THOROUGHBRED* (1938), dir John Farrow, starring Ann Sheridan, WB, 65 min
2:15 PM *LITTLE BIG SHOT* (1935), dir Michael Curtiz, starring Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, WB, 78 min
3:45 PM *ALL MINE TO GIVE* (1957), dir Allen Reisner, starring Glynis Johns, Patty McCormack, RKO, 103 min
5:45 PM *WOMEN IN HIDING* (1940), dir Joseph M. Newman, starring Marsha Hunt, MGM, 22 min
6:15 PM *BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST* (1941), dir Mervyn LeRoy, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, MGM, 99 min
*SIBLING REVELRY*
8 PM *REBECCA* (1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, UA, 130 min, p/s
10:15 PM *THE HEIRESS* (1949), dir William Wyler, starring Olivia deHavilland, Montgomery Clift, Paramount, 115 min p/s
*THURSDAY APRIL 16*
MIDNIGHT *WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?* (1932), dir George Cukor, starring Constance Bennett, RKO, 88 min
1:30 AM *LITTLE WOMEN* (1933), dir George Cukor, starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, RKO, 117 min
3:30 AM *EASY RIDER* (1969), dir Dennis Hopper, starring Peter Fonda, Columbia, 95 min
*DON'T STOP DANCING!*
5:15 AM *THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?* (1969), dir Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, ABC/Palomar, 120 min, p/s
7:15 AM *HARD TO HANDLE* (1933), dir Mervyn LeRoy, starring James Cagney, WB, 78 min
8:45 AM *BLIND DATE* (1934), dir Roy William Neill, starring Ann Sothern, Mickey Rooney, Columbia, 72 min
10:00 AM *CALL ME MADAM* (1953), dir Walter Lang, starring Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Fox, 114 min PREMIERE
*CLASSIC/LATER: KIM NOVAK, MARLENE DIETRICH*
12:15 PM *BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE* (1958), dir Richard Quine, starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Columbia, 106 min
2:15 PM *JUST A GIGOLO* (1978), dir David Hemmings, starring David Bowie, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich, UA, 147 min
4:45 PM *SHANGHAI EXPRESS* (1932), dir Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich, Paramount, 80 min, p/s
6:15 PM *MARLENE* (1984), dir Maximilian Schell, starring Marlene Dietrich, Alive Films, 94 min, PREMIERE
*SOTM LANA TURNER*
8 PM *IMITATION OF LIFE* (1959), dir. Douglas Sirk, starring Lana Turner, Universal, 79 min, p/s
9:30 PM *PEYTON PLACE* (1957), dir. Mark Robson, starring Lana Turner, Fox, 157 min, p/s
*FRIDAY APRIL 17*
12:15 AM *BY LOVE POSSESSED* (1961), dir. John Sturges, starring Lana Turner, UA, 115 min.
2:15 AM *LOVE HAS MANY FACES* (1965), dir. Alexander Singer, starring Lana Turner, Columbia, 104 min
4:00 AM *STRICTLY G.I.* (1943), starring Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Army Navy Screen Magazine, 13 min, p/s
4:15 AM *EVERY SUNDAY* (1936), dir Felix E. Feist, starring Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, MGM, 11 min
4:30 AM *LIONPOWER FROM MGM* (1967), distributor advertising reel, 27 min
*YOU UNGRATEFUL BRAT!*
5:00 AM *WILD IN THE COUNTRY* (1961), dir Philip Dunne, starring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Christina Crawford, Fox, 114 min p/s
7:00 AM *GIRL HAPPY* (1965), dir Boris Sagal, starring Elvis Presley, Gary Crosby, MGM, 96 min
8:45 AM *WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?* (1962), dir Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, B.D. Hyman, 7 Arts/WB, 134 min
11:15 AM *LITTLE MEN* (1940), dir Norman Z. McLeod, starring Kay Francis, RKO, 84 min
12:45 PM *BECKY SHARP* (1935), dir Rouben Mamoulian, starring Miriam Hopkins, RKO, 84 min
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE SHIRLEY*
2:15 PM *ANNE OF GREEN GABLES* (1934), dir George Nichols Jr., starring Anne Shirley, RKO, 78 min
3:45 PM *MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS* (1938), dir. Rowland V. Lee, starring Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, RKO, 82 min
5:15 PM *TOO MANY WIVES* (1937), dir Ben Holmes, starring Anne Shirley, RKO, 61 min
6:30 PM *STELLA DALLAS* (1937), dir King Vidor, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, Goldwyn, 106 min
*TIME TRAVEL*
8 PM *PLANET OF THE APES* (1968), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Fox, 112 min, PREMIERE
10 PM *ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES* (1971), dir. Don Taylor, starring Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter, Fox, 98 min. PREMIERE
11:45 PM *THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES* (1962), dir. Edwards Bernds, starring The Three Stooges, Columbia, 89 min.
*SATURDAY APRIL 18*
1:15 AM *TURN BACK THE CLOCK* (1933), dir. Edgar Selwyn, starring Lee Tracy, The Three Stooges, MGM, 79 min
*TCM UNDERGROUND*
2:45 AM *THE BIG CUBE* (1969), dir Tito Davison, starring Lana Turner, Warner, 98 min
4:15 AM *THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH* (1916), dir Christy Cabanne, John Emerson, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Keystone, 20 min
5:00 AM *THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM* (1955), dir Otto Preminger, starring Frank Sinatra, UA, 119 min
7:00 AM *I'LL CRY TOMORROW* (1955), dir Daniel Mann. starring Susan Hayward, MGM, 117 min
*CLASSIC/LATER: FRED MACMURRAY*
9:00 AM *HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE* (1935), dir Mitchell Leisen, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Paramount, 80 min, p/s
10:15 AM *CHARLEY AND THE ANGEL* (1973), dir Vincent McEveety, starring Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Kurt Russell, Disney, 93 min
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAYLEY MILLS*
NOON *THE PARENT TRAP* (1961), dir by David Swift, starring Hayley Mills, Disney, 129 min
2:15 PM *THAT DARN CAT!* (1965), dir by Robert Stevenson, starring Hayley Mills, Disney, 116 min
4:15 PM *THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS* (1966), dir Ida Lupino, starring Hayley Mills, Rosalind Russell, Columbia, 112 min
6:00 PM *THE FAMILY WAY* (1966), dir Ray Boulting, starring Hayley Mills, John Mills, WB, 115 min
*THE ESSENTIALS*
8:00 PM *MRS. MINIVER* (1942), dir William Wyler, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, MGM, 134 min
10:15 PM *THE MINIVER STORY* (1950), dir H.C. Potter, starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, MGM, 104 min
*SUNDAY APRIL 19*
MIDNIGHT *THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES* (1946), dir William Wyler, starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Goldwyn, 172 min
3:00 AM *LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF* (2003 Documentary), dir Thom Anderson, 169 min
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With Anita Page's passing, I wondered what silent film actors were still alive, and the list is surprisingly long. Only a couple were really important, like Barbara Kent and Dorothy Janis; some were only in European films or only in a couple of silents; unsurprisingly, many of them were child stars (some of whom went on to greater fame later, like Mickey Rooney and June Havoc). Jack Cardiff became a major cinematographer after appearing in silents as a child. Some of them have even appeared in films in the past couple of years.
Johannes Heesters - 104 today, still performing, performed for Hitler
Doris Eaton Travis - 104 today
Marie Glory
Barbara Kent
Lelita Rosa
Pola Illery
Miriam Seegar
Carla Laemmle
Dorothy Janis
Brigitte Borchert
Lupita Tovar
Daisy D'Ora
Jack Cardiff
Amparo Arozamena
Isuzu Yamada
Baby Lillian Wade
Edna May Weick
Baby Ivy Ward
Edith Haldeman
Little Billy Jacobs
Paulette Dubost
Georgie Stone
Baby Marie Osborne
Jack Murphy
Leon Holmes
Mickey Moore
Loni Nest
Frank Coghlan Jr.
June Havoc
Arthur Trimble (?)
Baby Peggy
Virginia Davis (Alice in the Alice in Wonderland shorts)
Billy Butts
Mickey Rooney
Jane La Verne
Jean Darling
Malcolm Sebastian
Hanna Marron
Davey Lee
Several Members of The Watson Family
I found this at the website below, and cross-checked that they were still alive --- none appear dead on Wikipedia, IMDB, or silent movie sites.
http://www.stummfilm.info/stars/index_en.html#JohannesHeesters
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I'm rethinking my previous post.
Why, it was ghastly! It was just ghastly!
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"And I stepped on the ping-pong ball! Well I absolutely squashed it."
Kyle is right, one of the funniest moments in film.
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Ayres,
How fun to run into another Atlanta area classic movie fan!
For those of you who didn't grow up in the ATL area in the 60's/early 70's, we were among the first places in the U.S. to get wired for cable. In those days, there weren't a lot of cable networks (No Lifetime, Spike TV, etc.) to fill up the TV slots. We mostly got local channels across the country showing endless reruns of "I Love Lucy" (great), "The Brady Bunch" (um, okay), and "Gilligan's Island" (ugh).
Ted Turner, at that time a local Atlanta businessman, had a local TV channel (Channel 17 -- in those days WTCG, later WTBS) -- that in those days showed mostly old Warner Brothers & MGM movies with a little "Leave it to Beaver" thrown in. I remember Bette Davis marathons, etc.
And I do think that the availability of those movies, growing up, made me really appreciate them once I actually "grew up."
The "That's Entertainment" movies --- a wonderful gift to introduce potential new fans to the best of MGM.
PS: Ayres, I was born in Atlanta, grew up in Dalton, now live in New York, you?
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(Ayres said:
"That's Entertainment really was the movie that brought me to musicals, drew me to learn more about movies in general, and made me fall for Fred Astaire. I've enjoyed all the compilations that followed, but that one holds a special place in my heart.)"
Me too, Ayres! That's Entertainment also crystallized my love for MGM musicals. In my tween years, in the early 70's, I grew up seeing a lot of old movies, happily seeing many with a grandmother to tell me WHY Bette Davis was her favorite actress. And then I saw That's Entertainment, shortly after it was released
Like you, Ayres, I fell for a classic star after seeing That's Entertainment --- you, Astaire, in my case, Judy Garland, but certainly in a platonic way, for what I'm sure are obvious reasons, LOL.
Judy Garland singing "Get Happy," inspiring a pre-teen kid in rural Georgia. Wow.
That's Entertainment wasn't only a nostalgia marker when it was released. It inspired a lot of kids like Ayres and me.
THE TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE #11 IS NOW OVER!
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NOT THAT I WOULD CONDONE SUCH BEHAVIOR...
...but something tells me that splashing some cheap whiskey on your jury selection interview outfit and responding to all questions _very_ slowly and deliberately might impress the lawyers for BOTH sides, and the judge to boot!