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From the FMC Website:
TUESDAY, SEPT. 18:
4:35 AM EST, 1:35AM PST:
TWELVE HOURS TO KILL
A young Greek national witnesses a murder and is ushered off into the relative "safety" of suburban obscurity by the police - unaware that he is being double-crossed by a crooked gendarme.
Cast: Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Grant Richards
Director: Edward L. Cahn
1960
6:00 AM EST, 3 AM EST:
THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA
John Huston's romantic adventure tells the true story of Townsend Harris (Wayne), the first American consul of Japan, and his love affair with a geisha (Ando).
Cast: John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, So Yamamura, Norman Thomson
Director: John Huston
1958
8 AM EST, 5 AM PST:
BLACK SWAN, THE
A pirate (Tyrone Power) on the Spanish Main finds time to woo a beautiful maiden (O'Hara) between pillaging galleons, engaging swordplay and ending the career of Redbeard (Sanders).
Cast: Tyrone Power, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Anthony Quinn, Fortunio Bonanova
Director: Henry King
1942
9:30 AM EST, 6:30 AM PST:
ANNE OF THE INDIES
A colorful, action-packed pirate adventure that tells the story of a girl (Jean Peters) who becomes a feared captain of the Spanish Main and a French officer (Louis Jourdan) who sets out to trap her.
Cast: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
Director: Jacques Tourneu
1951
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
THREE CAME HOME
Producer Nunnally Johnson's adaptation of Agnes Newton Keith's autobiographical story of a woman (Claudette Colbert) who is interred in a Japanese war camp and her relationship of mutual respect with the commandant (Sessue Hayakawa).
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Patrick Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
Director: Jean Negulesco
1950
8 AM EST, 5 AM PST:
HEAVEN KNOWS, MR. ALLISON
John Huston's story of a Marine sergeant (Robert Mitchum) and a Roman Catholic nun (Deborah Kerr) who are marooned together on a South Pacific Island during WWII and who defend themselves against Japanese troops.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
Director: John Huston
1957
10 AM EST, 7 AM PST:
THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS
The riveting true story of missionary Gladys Alward's (Ingrid Bergman) struggles in war-torn China.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat, Ronald Squire, Richard Wattis
Director: Mark Robson
1958
1:00 PM EST, 10 AM PST:
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
A man and a woman (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr) fall in love on an ocean voyage, part, and agree to meet six months later atop the Empire State Building in this haunting romance. Used years later, as a clever plot line in "Sleepless In Seattle".
Cast: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt, Fortunio Bonanova, Hugo Friedhofer, Harry Warren
Director: Leo Mccarey
1957
Edited by: Arturo on Sep 17, 2012 11:39 PM
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*I mean, yes, Lucille Ball WAS gorgeous,*
*but this doesn't work for me at all.*
It works for me. She looks beautiful, sexy, pensive...nothing wrong with that. Must've been while she was at MGM, early on, when they were trying to make her a top star. The clown came to the fore later....
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Ok, now I'm confused about the thrust of this thread. Recent pictures posted here are of stars that were being featured together; besides Monroe,Grable and Bacall, there are: Marilyn with Groucho-she had a bit in his LOVE HAPPY; Gable and Tierney, who costarred in NEVER LET ME GO; Jayne Mansfield and Joan Collins, both featured in THE WAYWARD BUS; Colbert and Cooper, together more than once. So all of these are stars that WERE together on the screen, so seems to me that they shouldn't be highlighted here.
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HBO Signature:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
5:20 AM:
TITANIC (1953):
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner and Thelma Ritter head a cast featured in intertwining stories on the eve of the famous nautical disaster.
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Crain's character was young and distraught, and fearing the worst (for her), she had decided that should there be confirmation of pregnancy, she'd take her life. For those times, it was one of many drastic (as we may now see it) solutions so as to not suffer the humiliation and ostracism of an out of wedlock pregnancy. Additionally, the suicide attempt is a plot device to get Grant sympathetic enough to her plight to marry her.
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From the FMC Website:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
STREET ANGEL
A desperate woman steals medication for her ailing mother and becomes a fugitive from the law.
*Cast:* Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston
*Director:* Frank Borzage
1928
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14:
4:39 am EST, 1:39 AM PST:
DOWN TO EARTH
A wealthy oilman with a homespun spirit teaches his spendthrift family a lesson by claiming they are bankrupt.
*Cast:* Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Dorothy Jordan, Matty Kemp
*Director:* David Butler
1932
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
PILGRIMAGE
A mother attempts to come to terms with the death of her son and the family he left behind.
*Cast:* Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Marian Nixon
*Director:* John Ford
1933
7:45 am EST, 4:45 AM PST:
BIGGER THAN LIFE
Produced and starring James Mason, film deals with a subject matter not dealt with in 1956-miracle drugs and unpredictable side-effects. Mason is a modest school teacher initially helped by prescription cortisone, but soon faces devastating addiction.
*Cast:* James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert Simon, Roland Winters, David Raksin
*Director:* Nicholas Ray
1956
9:30 am EST, 6:30 AM PST:
HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN
A fictionalized portrait of Ernest Hemingway's youth, based on his semi-autobiographical short stories.
*Cast:* Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Fred Clark, Dan Dailey, Arthur Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Newman, Susan Strasberg, Whit Bissell, Simon Oakland, Sharon Tate, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Waxman, Eli Wallach, Jessica Tandy
*Director:* Martin Ritt
1962
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I like the suggestion someone made to show her films for 24 hours on Wednesdays. She certainly has more than enough to fill these days. What a great Christmas present for many of us TCM viewers.
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*Darn it - too bad THE I DON"T CARE GIRL (1953) with Mitzi Gaynor couldn't have been included in this line up. I couldn't make the UCLA film archive tribute, and it's been decades since I've seen this on television.*
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Another one who gave up her career to become a nun (if only temporarily) was June Haver. After she finished THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, she entered the convent in 1953, walking away from her movie career. Not long afterward, she left the convent and soon after married Fred MacMurray (they had starred together in 1945's WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE). Her erstwhile friend and rival, Betty Grable, stated cattily to the effect that she left the convent and decided she didn't want to be a nun "when she found out it was spelled N-O-N-E".
Edited by: Arturo on Sep 9, 2012 6:27 PM
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Not sure either of the intent of the thread. But here goes a couple:
Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer:
LOVE AFFAIR
WHEN TOMORROW COMES
TOGETHER AGAIN
While I like all of these, only the first is considered a classic.
Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda:
THE MAD MISS MANTON
THE LADY EVE
YOU BELONG TO ME
Again, I enjoy them all (even TMMM!), but only THE LADY EVE is a classic.
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That pic of MM with the firecracker reminds me of a couple of others I have in a book on her: one for Christmas, where she is posed in front of a fireplace, but stuffing a stocking, or at least in large sheer blac stockinglike garment; quite sexy.
The other has her in a short fitted dress made of burlap (with an Idaho potato stamp on it); I believe the photo was taken due to a columnist's comment that she would look good even in a sack of potatoes).
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Well those look like Aline's eyes and mouth to me.
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LOL, is that ever true, especially regarding Elizabeth Taylor playing Fred Flinstones mother in law. Like to time travel back during the shooting of "Cleopatra" asd ask Liz would she like to have a role in a movie bringing the Flintstones to life.
Probually get a good slap instead of a resounding NO!!
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Maybe she would've agreed if she had been offered a lead like Wilma or even Betty, but Wilma's mom?!
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That woman up front does not seem to be Carole Lombard; for my money, she looks like Aline MacMahon.
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Tom,
The shot of Flynn promoting CAPTAIN BLOOD does not look undignified, but seems to have been designed to promote the handsome young unknown selected to star in their big budget swashbuckler. Seems that women at least would have been intrigued by his appealing contenance.
Now, oth, Cary looks silly with th mock turtle, but with his latter day image as a comedian, doesn't seem all that incongruous for him.
Poor Olivia DeHavilland, as a young starlet, she had to endure many publicity photos of just this type, whether in conjunctionn with the promotion of a film, as here, or of herself (as the susequent postings of Monroe, Crawford and Greer attest). Seems women had to endure endless photo sessions doing cheesecake or otherwise silly poses; many times they were tied to holidays (Monroe/4th of July, Crawford/Halloween); calendars for the year were often produced thus. The studios saw it as a way of occupying starlets (and stars) during the 40 weeks of the year they were paid, since obviously evethe most in-demand star could not be filming the whole period. Th studios sent the stills out by the millions to every media outlet available; hopefully a newspaper or magazine would use some and thus provide the starlet (and studio)some free publicity.
Th silly posed shots spposeedly recreating scenes from a movie were something different, and everyone,no matter how big, had to submit to them as a matter of course.
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ST:
This sounds like Madame Elinor Glyn's definition of "It", which helped Clara Bow become a superstar in the late 20s.
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*,,,your post about what I had stated earlier in the thread. It seems like a wet-noodle lashing that reduces everyone's level of professionalism around here, and what for? Besides, I continue to stand by what I wrote earlier in the thread anyway, so it accomplishes little if nothing at all.*
The problem I have, and to which I feel a need to respond, is that half a century after the collapse of the studio system, many people do not understand much about the system. So when someone here states something that seems to confuse or misrepresent an aspect of that system, I will try to clarify it, as I understand it to have been. A term like "routine programmer" will convey something very specific to me, but seemed at odds with what was being discussed. Not because you feel that DARK PASSAGE is a routine movie; obviously, many others here have expressed similar sentiments, and you are entitled to it. My issue is with "programmer", since this is a term that is now not in common usage, and over which there is some uncertainty. A programmer IS an A-film, if on the lower end of the budget range for A films. A programmer CAN have top stars. What makes a programmer thus is its lack of prestigiousness, both in conception and execution, "routine" if you will. My contention is that in 1946-47, as DARK PASSAGE was being prepared, filmed and released, WB saw it as an important vehicle for two of its top stars, who had clicked as a team, personally, professionally AND with the public. Its budget WAS above that for a programmer, allowing it to use the then newly popular location shooting (that in itself lifted it out of being a programmer); its promotional budget likewise was not that of a programmers'.
*I do not consider DARK PASSAGE an A-film. I consider it a medium-budgeted picture with A-caliber stars.*
DARK PASSAGE, no matter if it turned out a classic or routine, IS most definitely an A film; maybe not with the biggest budget of the year, but an A film nonetheless. Even programmers, by definition, are A films. So this is why I comment, NOT because you feel it turned out routine, but because you feel that that does no make it a A film, but a programmer (which are also A films). This is a misuse or re-definition of the terms A-film and programmers from how they were known back during the studio era.
Edited by: Arturo on Sep 9, 2012 1:35 PM
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Tilden72 wrote:
I have just watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" for so many times that I can not count. But I though I saw our Aunt Bee from "The Andy Griffith Show?" Can you tell me was that her, did anyone from that cast do any films worth watching?
Tilden,
If you meant the cast of TDTESS as having done any worthwhile movies, then someone has answered you. But if you mean the cast of "The Andy Griffith Show", then the only ones I'm familiar with are the stars, Andy Griffith, who made a whole slew of movies in the late 50s; Don Knotts, who had several cornball comedy vehicles in the 60s, and later was in some Disney movies in the 70s (I loved his movies as a kid), and Ron(nie) Howard, who starred in a number of movies in the 70s, before finding his true niche as a director.
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Topilled wrote:
My guess is that a routine programmer like this probably would've been mediocre if given to Zachary Scott and Alexis Smith, two other Warners contract players at this time that could easily have done it. But with Bogart and Bacall, you get something extra special. Add Agnes Moorhead to the mix and it can't lose.
TB:
This movie was never "a routine programmer", even if it may have turned out routine in your opinion. It was conceived by Warner Brothers as a star vehicle. They saw it as a perfect vehicle for their top male star, Humphrey Bogart, and his wife, Lauren Bacall, who had scored big and reached stardom in her two previous teamings with Bogie. So the studio did not go into this project to do a "routine programmer". Besides the two top stars, the fact that it had some location shooting tells you it is NOT a programmer, since location work was expensive and far from routine in the 40s.
Now, two other contract players could have done this, such as those you mention, but the studio would most likely have not invested a budget big enough to accomodate filming in the San Francisco bay area. THIS would have possibly emerged a "routine programmer"; and it would not preclude having Agnes Moorehead, since character actors and supporting players were thrust into As, Bs and inbetweens. Btw, routine and mediocre seem to mean much the same to me.
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*"Worship money?" According to Screen Actors Guild records, most actors barely make enough to pay the light bill.*
ST: Sorry to be the one who always seems to nitpick, but the thread is titled "....a STAR's career", the A list or A minus list celebrities making the big bucks . . .
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Again I recently found an interesting candid shot on e-bay, but as before, I'm unable to cut and paste it here. Maybe someone can help me, as before. It's a shot from 1946 most likely, but possibly 1947, with Barbara Stanwyck, LInda Darnell, Errol Flynn, June Allyson and several others, gathered round and leaning on a grand piano, which has a mic on it. There are several sheets of paper, and Errol holds a pencil. Stanwyck is wearing a chalk-stripe coat; her hair is still long; she cut it by the filming of 1948s SORRY WRONG NUMBER. Linda has a puffy little hair ornament-her hair seems to be the reddish blonde she colored for Forever Amber. There is another shot on ebay of Linda on this same day, arm in arm with Dick Haymes-the caption of that says 1946. Anyway, these fotos, especially the former, are quite interesting, and it would begreat if someone can post them here.
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From the FMC Website:
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
CRASH DIVE
A young lieutenant (Powers) transferred to a submarine and his commanding officer (Andrews) vie for the love of the same woman (Baxter).
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame may Whitty
*Director:* Archie Mayo
1943
10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST:
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Oscar-winning special effects are displayed in this story of scientists (aboard a submarine) that are miniaturized to molecular size and injected into the body of an ill man in an attempt to save his life. (Raquel Welch in a wetsuit was considered by man
*Cast:* Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy, James Brolin, Barry Coe
*Director:* Richard Fleischer
1966
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10:
4:00 am EST, 1 AM PST:
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Oscar-winning special effects are displayed in this story of scientists (aboard a submarine) that are miniaturized to molecular size and injected into the body of an ill man in an attempt to save his life. (Raquel Welch in a wetsuit was considered by man
*Cast:* Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd, Donald Pleasence, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy, James Brolin, Barry Coe
*Director:* Richard Fleischer
1966
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
THE EYES OF ANNIE JONES
Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.
*Cast:* Richard Conte, Francesca Annis, Myrtle Reed
*Director:* Richard Le Borg
1963
9:15 am EST, 6:15 AM PST:
THE FLIM-FLAM MAN
A crafty Southern con man (Scott) convinces a young army deserter (Sarrazin) to join his capers, but begins to have second thoughts on his lifestyle when he falls for a young girl (Lyon).
*Cast:* George c. Scott, Slim Pickens, Sue Lyon, Michael Sarrazin, Harry Morgan
*Director:* Irvin Kershner
1967
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
4:57 am EST, 1:57 PST:
THE BULLFIGHTERS
This Laurel and Hardy laugher has the pair in Mexico as private detectives, sent from the States in search of a female criminal.
*Cast:* Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
*Director:* Malcolm St. Clair
1945
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER
A powerful drama about the lone survivor (Gary Merrill) of a plane crash who visits the families of several victims and tells them how their relatives had enriched his life.
*Cast:* Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Michael Rennie, Gary Merrill, Beatrice Straight, Keenan Wynn, Nunnally Johnso
*Director:* Jean Negulesco
1952
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12:
5:30 am EST, 2:30 AM PST:
FOX LEGACY: THE TYRONE POWER STORY
Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, introduces landmark 20th Century Fox films and provides insight about how these notable films were created.
*Cast:* Tom Rothman
2010
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
PRINCE OF FOXES
Filmed entirely on location in Italy, this Renaissance epic finds Tyrone Power as a good will ambassador at odds with his scheming land baron employer (Orson Welles).
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Eduardo Ciannelli, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou, Felix Aylmer
*Director:* Henry King
1949
8:00 am EST. 5 AM PST:
THE FOXES OF HARROW
Elegant cad and gambler Fox (Rex Harrison) woos and marries a southern belle (Maureen O'Hara) and tries to parlay a new position in New Orleans society.
*Cast:* Rex Harrison, Richard Haydn, Victor Mclaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, William Schallert
*Director:* John M. Stahl
1947
10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST:
PRINCE OF PLAYERS
The Booths, America's first major theatrical family, must struggle to regain their reputation after John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln.
*Cast:* Richard Burton, Raymond Massey, Maggie Mcnamara, John Derek, Charles Bickford
*Director:* Philip Dunne
1955
11:45 am EST, 8:45 AM PST:
LEGIONS OF THE NILE
Mark Antony and Cleopatra rule the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Octavian lands in Egypt with his superior forces are superior, but Mark Antony may still be a force to reckon with. The battle that will decide who will rule the Roman Empire looms ah
*Cast:* Georges Marchal, Linda Cristal, Alfredo May
*Director:* Vittorio Cottafavi
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Some that may or may not have been mentioned, although I don;t know the years of birth or death:
Laird Cregar
Jayne Mansfield
Natalie Wood
María Montez
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*Maybe they can hire an astrologer to determine the Star of the Month then, lol.*
It ain't all that complicated. You don't need an astrologer, much less a rocket scientist. Just have someone, or two, peruse the list provided below....try not to duplicate any of the names there, especially not those that have been on more than once. Choose SOTM from the MANY worthy stars who have never been so spolighted by TCM, of which some names have been helpfully suggested here.
Sexier than Clark Gable
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*I am not attracted to pretty men. I should be the one in the relationship who is drop-dead gorgeous. When a man is pretty and charming and sweet I must wonder if he has a boyfriend.*
I guess this is what my mom meant years ago when she'd say that a man should be "Feo, Fuerte y Formal"...."Ugly, strong and formal' ... the formal part in this case means "proper".