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MOREMAX, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 3:35 AM;
O'HENRY'S FULL HOUSE (1952): All star omnibus film made up of several O'Henry short stories. Each story done by a different director,
FROM THE FOX MOVIE CHANNEL WEBSITE:
SATURDAY, JULY 28:
4:35 am EST, 1:35 AM PST:
EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT
A British reporter (Ray Millan) competes with an American reporter (Robert Cummings) for the story of a murdered political comenator and for the affections of his ice skater daughter (Sonja Henie).
*Cast:* Ray Milland, Sonja Henie, Robert Cummings, Leonid Kinsley, Maurice Moscovitch
*Director:* Irving Cummings
1939
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
FOX LEGACY: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
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, Roddy Mcdowall, Donald Crisp, Walter Pidgeon, Anna Lee
*Director:* John Ford
2009/1941
8:30 am EST, 5:30 AM PST:
ISLAND IN THE SUN
Interracial love blossoms between two couples on a West Indies island.
*Cast:* Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins, James Mason, Joan Fontaine
*Director:* Robert Rossen
1957
10:30 am EST,7:30 AM PST:
SWEET RIDE, THE
This melodrama set in affluent Malibu follows the troubled lives of an aging star (Franciosa), a surfer (Sarrazin) and an actress (Bissett).
*Cast:* Bob Denver, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Wilding, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin
*Director:* Harvey Hart
1968
SUNDAY, JULY 29:
4:50 am EST, 1:50 AM PST:
SURF PARTY
A group of kids get together in Malibu to party and surf, riling up the local police.
*Cast:* Bobby Vinton, Jackie Deshannon, Patricia Morrow, Kenny Miller
*Director:* Maury Dexter
1964
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST
HALF ANGEL
Loretta Young stars as a prim and proper lady whose alter ego comes out while she sleepwalks.
*Cast:* Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Jim Backus, Irene Ryan
*Director:* Richard Sale
1951
MONDAY, JULY 30:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT, THE
Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, a Madison Avenue executive (Gregory Peck) on the fast track tries to further his career while not sacrificing his home life. The film explores the American suburban corporate culture emerging after WWII.
*Cast:* Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Marisa Pavan, Fredric March, Lee j. Cobb, Ann Harding, Keenan Wynn, Nunnally Johnson, Gigi Perreau, Gene Lockhart, Deforest Kelley
Director: Henry King
1956
8:35 am EST, 5:35 AM PST:
PANIC IN THE STREETS
A medical officer (Richard Widmark) races against time after he discovers two gun-happy hoodlums (Zero Mostel and Jack Palance) are running around the streets of New Orleans carrying the virus to a deadly new plague.
*Cast:* Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Jack Palance, Barbara Bel geddes, Zero Mostel
*Director:* Elia Kazan
1950
TUESDAY, JULY 31:
4:35 am EST, 1:35 AM 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 PST:
SON OF FURY
An 18th-century Englishman (Tyrone Power) is deprived of his inheritance, flees to a South Sea island, but returns to seek restitution.
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, George Sanders, Roddy Mcdowall, Gene Tierney, Elsa Lanchester, Frances Farmer
*Director:* John Cromwell
1942
7:45 am EST, 4:45 AM PST:
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
An American adventurer (Clark Gable) is hired by a woman (Susan Hayward) to locate and rescue her husband (Gene Barry) in Red China. Much of the movie was filmed in Hong Kong and vicinity.
*Cast:* Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Tom Tully, Gene Barry, Michael Rennie
*Director:* Edward Dmytryk
1955
11:00 am EST, 8 AM PST:
QUILLER MEMORANDUM, THE
After two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neo-Nazi organization in West Berlin, British secret service agent Quiller is sent to investigate.
*Cast:* Alec Guinness, Max Von sydow, George Sanders, George Segal, Senta Berger
*Director:* Michael Anderson
1967
1:00 PM EST, 10:00 AM PST:
OUR MAN FLINT
Super spy Flint (James Coburn) must tackle Z.O.W.I.E.'s top agent (Gila Golan) before she can get a weapon that can control the weather.
*Cast:* James Coburn, Lee j. Cobb, Edward Mulhare, Gila Golan, Benson Fong, Jerry Goldsmith
*Director:* Daniel Mann
1966
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1;
3:00 am EST, 12:00 AM PST:
OUR MAN FLINT
Super spy Flint (James Coburn) must tackle Z.O.W.I.E.'s top agent (Gila Golan) before she can get a weapon that can control the weather.
*Cast:* James Coburn, Lee j. Cobb, Edward Mulhare, Gila Golan, Benson Fong, Jerry Goldsmith
*Director:* Daniel Mann
1966
4:50 am EST, 1:50 AM PST:
NIGHT TRAIN TO PARIS
A retired O.S.S. agent agrees to help out on one last mission: helping a fellow female agent deliver some important tapes to a secret Paris location.
*Cast:* Leslie Nielsen, Billie Neal, Jacques Cey, Neal Arden
*Director:* Robert Douglas
1964
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Yes, if you're only used to the Loretta of the late 40s and early 50s, her pre-codes are quite an eye-opener. Her tremendous beauty was matched by a sensuality and downright sexyness that can be quite surprising.
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*Which Eleanor P. are you referring to -- Powell or Parker?*
My bad. Obvoiusly we were discussing Powell, and that's who I meant. I am a big fan of Parker, and if TCM were to repeat her as SOTM, I would not be unhappy.
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*All I can say is that if Eleanor Powell rates a SOTM, then so do at least several dozen other actors and actresses who left a far bigger film legacy.*
I'm not saying that there aren't others that I would prefer seeing getting SOTM before Eleanor Parker; there are literally dozens at least. As i first stated, I'm not a fan. But that doesn't mean she shouldn't be so honored, because I see no reason why she shouldn't.
*To fill up a SOTM of Eleanor Powell movies, you'd have to show literally just about every single movie she ever made an appearance in. I'm sorry, but that's just stretching it way beyond the limits for an actress with a repertory that thin.*
Nothing wrong with that IMO. Seems that showing all her movies, when she had substantial roles in all, is better than having to pad it out with movies where the honoree only had a bit or minor part; or when TV performances are needed to fill out the month.
*Maybe one way around this would be to expand SUTS to two months, which would give more room for beloved performers with slim repertories to shine in the spotlight for more than a few hours.*
I have suggested this in the past....make it a real summer under the stars....three months instead of just one. It would allow many more stars being spotlighted...and it won't be so maddening when those that are continually spotlighted are spotlighted again.
Edited by: Arturo on Jul 26, 2012 4:32 PM
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*So by adding these names to the list started with DeMille and Sturges, there could be a very varied schedule of film history in a centennial look at Paramount Studios.*
As you so ably demonstrated, Sturges and DeMille were far from being the whole show at Paramount.
*This year is also the centenary anniversary of Fox Studios. But I am not sure that a look at the history of Fox would be as interesting. At least not grouped around directors. (There's John Ford and then not much else.) Perhaps a look could be grouped around stars such as Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, etc.*
Yes yes yes! But let's not forget Charles Farrell, Warner Baxter, Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Cornel Wilde, June Haver, Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe...among others.
*But I am not sure that a look at the history of Fox would be as interesting. At least not grouped around directors. (There's John Ford and then not much else.)*
I disagree. There was Henry King, Raoul Walsh, Otto Preminger, Henry Hathaway, among many other notable directors that worked there.
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*What would really be a treat for us TCM viewers would be a star who had a contract at Paramount in the 30's and 40's. Like Dorothy Lamour , Alan Ladd ,Fred Mac Murray, W.C.Fields, Susan Hayward, Bing Crosby , Ray MIlland, Gary Cooper , Bob Hope , Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Marlene Dietrich. Instead of TCM saving them to have us purchase their films from a future vault collection release,schedule their films for viewing on TCM. That's my peeve with TCM.*
I agree but let's not overlook:
Gloria Swanson
Pola Negri
Nancy Carroll
Clara Bow
Claudette Colbert
Tallulah Bankhead
Madeleine Carroll
Paulette Goddard
Veronica Lake
...among others
Louise Brooks
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COME TO THE STABLE is just now starting for those who wish to see one of Celeste's (and Loretta's) Oscar nominated performances. Interesting that both won in 1947 for their respective categories of Best Supporting and Best Actress, which was what they were each nominated for CTTS.
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The 1951 remake is called I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU, btw. Costarring with Power is Ann Blyth, taking over for a pregnant (again) Jeanne Crain; this role was originally offered to Alice Faye, in one of Zanuck's periodic attempts to make nice with her, and get her to come back to making movies.
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FROM THE FMC WEBSITE:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
UP THE RIVER
Two hapless convicts (Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer) try to assist a fellow cell mate (Humphrey Bogart) who has fallen in love with a female prisoner (Claire Luce). Directed by John Ford. Tracy's feature debut, Bogart's second film.
*Cast:* Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Warren Hymer
*Director:* John Ford
1930
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
MY PAL GUS
The divorced father of a mischievous boy sends his son to day-care and falls in love with the teacher, but soon his ex-wife appears and begins making demands.
*Cast:* Richard Widmark, Joanne Dru, Audrey Totter
*Director:* Robert Parrish
1952
9:00 am
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 Johnson
*Director:* Jean Negulesco
1952
THURSDAY, JULY 26:
4:58 am
BULLFIGHTERS, THE
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
8:05 am EST, 5:05 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
10:00 am EST, 7 AM PST:
LONGEST DAY, THE
The Allied Invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944, is retold with an all-star cast.
*Cast:* Sean Connery, Stuart Whitman, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Robert Ryan, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Rod Steiger, Richard Burton, Richard Beymer, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Tommy Sands, Curt Jurgens, Mel Ferrer, Alexander Knox, Fabian, Gert Frobe, Sal Mineo, Red Buttons, Steve Forrest, Peter Lawford, Jeffrey Hunter, Roddy Mcdowall
*Director:* Andrew Marton
1962
FRIDAY, JULY 27:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST
THAT WONDERFUL URGE
A remake of "Love Is News", finds a newspaperman (Power) trying to dig up dirt on a prominent society girl (Tierney).
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Chill Wills, Reginald Gardiner
*Director:* Roger Sinclair
1948
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, THE
A down-on-his-luck agent (Ewell) is hired to make a singer out of a tone-deaf moll (Mansfield).
*Cast:* Tom Ewell, Henry Jones, Jayne Mansfield, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Little richard, Julie London
*Director:* Frank Tashlin
1956
9:30 am EST, 6:30 AM PST
WHAT A WAY TO GO!
A young woman (MacLaine) wants love and not money, so she marries poor men... but they all promptly become rich and die, leaving her a wealthier widow.
*Cast:* Shirley Maclaine, Paul Newman, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van dyke, Robert Cummings
*Director:* J. Lee Thompson
1964
11:30 am EST, 830 AM PST:
THE PLEASURE SEEKERS
Madrid! Music! And, Ann-Margret singin', swingin' and lookin' for a man!
*Cast:* Ann-margret, Carol Lynley, Brian Keith, Tony Franciosa, Gardner Mckay, Pamela Tiffin, Gene Tierney
*Director:* Jean Negulesco
1964
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Well it is possible. TCM seems to regularly show THE TENDER TRAP and HIGH SOCIETY, plus Fox' ALL ABOUT EVE. Last year on SUTS on Linda Darnell's day I believe they showed EVERYBODY DOES IT and A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, the latter also an Essential (ok so it's only Celeste's voice but her character is omnipresent). Another Fox movie I believe tha TCM has shown is THE SNAKE PIT. Now if only TCM can get GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT, ROAD HOUSE and/or CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY, and maybe the film she made on loan CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR, and quite a tribute can be done.
PS- and how can I forget, that tomorrow night, as part of TCMs evening of Loretta Young movies, COME TO THE STABLE will be featured. Surely this can also be repeated in a tribute to Celeste Holm.
Edited by: Arturo on Jul 25, 2012 2:19 AM
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HBO Signature
Tuesday July 24, 6:00 AM EST, 3:00 AM PST:
DESK SET (1957); Enjoyable batte of the sexes and man vs technology in the research dept. of a TV station. With Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Joan Blondell and Gig Young.
7:45 AM EST, 4:45 AM PST:
HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (1965): Enjoyable southern gothic tale of mental illness, greed and murder among the denizens of a pllared mansion. With Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotton.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25: 7:35 AM EST, 4:35 AM PST:
IN OLD CHICAGO (1937): Oscar nominated and winning epic about the travails of two brothers in the Chicago on the eve of the Great Fire. Starring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche.
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*Do you mean THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, the comedy by Roman Polanski?*
Yes that's the one.
*That Mexican movie was called THE CRYING WOMAN.*
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I think the statement is in reference to the method style of acting. What you experience, the traumas of your real life, will serve you well in order for you to bring them into play when acting in a scene. So the real life traumas and your reactions are your rehearsal for your life as an actor.
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The first movie I remember watching was at a drvie-in, when I was about 3 years old. It was a Mexican movie about the legend of La Llorona; I don't Know what it was called but it could've been LA LLORONA. I remember it scared the be-jesus out of me, and I tried to hide under the car seat. My parents explained that La Llorona comes after little children and drowns them, so I better be good and obey. I guess that is why La Llorona is still effective to scare kids to this day.
At one of the downtown movie theaters in Tijuana, before I was 4 years or so, I remember seeing PINOCHO, THE PARTY and THE AMAZING VAMPIRE KILLERS. All except the Disney one were fairly recent releases, so I don't know if they count.
On TV, once we lived in Los Angeles, I remember the Million Dollar Movie, the Fabulous 52, The Late Show, Ben Hunter's Matinee, etc. The earliest movies I remember were those that were repeated all week; I've mentioned here before that my dad (who had played on a Mexican minor league baseball team) loved DAMN YANKEES (or maybe Gwen Verdon); we would see this one every night while on (Ray Walston's devil terrified me). Also remember seeing all week THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and some dinosaur movie (THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT?). We also watched episodes of the 3 Stooges and Our Gang/Little Rascals (although they seemed to have been syndicated under the name of THE MISCHIEF MAKERS. We watched all types of movies from the 30s-50s, from Westerns, Gangsters, Comedies, War movies, etc. Later, also the Universal horror movies on Creature Feature, Chiller, Seymour Presents, etc.
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*Ya see, as beautiful as Dolores Moran was, she was still pretty much a "dime-a-dozen" in this regard, as "Hollywood" has always had an adundance of that.*
And the thing is, the history of ALL of the Hollywood studios during the classic era are littered with the Dolores Morans and Martha Vickers, beautiful sexy girls that flirted with stardom but never made it. The reasons can be many, but suffice to say the studio system offered many girls a standard contract, with six month options; it was always at the discretion of the studios whether or not the option would be exercised. The vast majority of the girls were used for cheesecake shots, and maybe, as an extra or bit player. Some got featured and supporting roles, as the studio sized up their potential. But in the end, most were dropped at the time of their first option.
20th Century Fox was a studio that often gave newcomers a lead role in a movie. Sometimes this would be followed by other leads, but usually she was quickly demoted to supporting roles (possibly with leads in B movies). The list of those that got early leads, only to slide back down, included Nancy Kelly, Arleen Whelan, Marjorie Weaver, and Brenda Joyce (and these were just in the late 30s-beginning of 40s). Occasionally, one would fare better: Linda Darnell, Gene Tierney and Betty Grable for the same approximate time frame. Later in the 40s, the same dynamic applied at the studio: actresses given important roles early, not able to sustain them: Sheila Ryan,Faye Marlowe, Peggy Downs, Nancy Guild, Colleen Gray, Helen Westcott; while others were more successful: Jeanne Crain, June Haver, Jean Peters.
Perhaps the most tortuous trajectory was probably that of Marilyn Monroe. She was dropped by Fox after a year of extras and bits (sometimes left on cutting room floor); picked up by Columbia and given a lead in a B musical; dropped after six months; a couple of years of independent scrambling for bits wherever she could get them, culminating in two featured roles in important pictures; new contract at Fox, which led to stardom a couple years hence. At any point, she could have ended up with a movie career not nearly as substantial as Dolores Moran, Phyllis Brooks, Helene Reynolds, Randy Brooks, Marion Marshall, etc. etc. etc.....
Edited by: Arturo on Jul 23, 2012 5:24 PM
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FRIDAY JULY 20:
MoreMax, 2:30 AM:
THAT LADY IN ERMINE (1948): Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks, jr. Cesar Romero. Atypical Grable vehicle, as Zanuck tried to vey the formula. Ruritarian musical-comedy romance, Lubitsch was working on it when he died; finished with the heavier Preminger touch.
FROM THE TCM WEBSITE:
FRIDAY JULY 20:
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, 3:00 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
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
MR. 880
Based on a true story, a federal agent (Burt Lancaster) searches for a kindly old counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn) who makes money in order to support himself.
*Cast:* Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy Mcguire, Burt Lancaster
*Director:* Edmund Goulding
1950
9:05 am EST, 6:05 AM PST
SEVEN THIEVES
A professor (Edward G. Robinson) conspires to steal $4,000,000 from vaults underneath a Monte Carlo [casino|http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/schedule.php#]. Rod Steiger and Joan Collins co-star.
*Cast:* Edward g. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Alexander Scourby, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach
*Director:* Henry Hathaway
1960
10:55 am EST, 7:55 AM PST:
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION
The daughter (Audrey Hepburn) of a wealthy Parisian whose hobby is copying famous masterpieces and then forging them (Hugh Griffith), mistakenly involves a private detective (Peter O'Toole) in a robbery.
*Cast:* Audrey Hepburn, Marcel Dalio, Charles Boyer, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith
*Director:* William Wyler
1966
SATURDAY, JULY 21:
6:00 am EST, 3 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
SUNDAY, JULY 22:
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS, THE
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
8:40 am EST, 5:40 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, Jessica Tandy, Eli Wallach
*Director:* Martin Ritt
1962
11:10 am EST, 8:10 AM PST:
THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR
A widow (Gene Tierney) refuses to be frightened from her seaside home by the ghost of a sea captain (Rex Harrison), with whom she falls in love.
*Cast:* Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood
*Director:* Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1947
MONDAY, JULY 23:
4:35 am EST, 1:30 AM PST:
PIN-UP GIRL
In order to be closer to a sailor (Harvey) she met at a USO canteen, a secretary (Grable) pretends to be a Broadway star.
*Cast:* Betty Grable, Eugene Pallette, Marcel Dalio, Martha Raye, John Harvey, Joe e. Brown
*Director:* H. Bruce Humberstone
1944
6:00 am EST, 3 AM PST:
MY WIFE'S BEST FRIEND
After a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all kinds of ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.
*Cast:* Anne Baxter, Macdonald Carey, Catherine Mcleod, Max Showalter
*Director:* Richard Sale
1952
7:30 am EST, 4:30 AM PST:
THUNDERHEAD, SON OF FLICKA
In this sequel to My Friend Flicka, another wild horse is trained by Ken (Roddy McDowall), the son of a horse rancher.
*Cast:* Roddy Mcdowall, Preston Foster, James Bell, Rita Johnson, Diana Hale
*Director:* Louis King
1945
TUESDAY, JULY 24:
4:45 am EST, 1:45 AM EST:
DAYTIME WIFE
A young wife thinks her husband is still dating his secretary, and retaliates by going to work for his colleague.
*Cast:* Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William
Director: Gregory Ratoff
1939
7:45 am EST, 4:45 PST:
KISS THEM FOR ME
While on leave in San Francisco, three decorated World War II naval officers (Cary Grant, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston) rent a suite at the Mark Hopkins hotel and throw a wild party.
*Cast:* Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker, Ray Walston, Werner Klemperer
*Director:* Stanley Donen
1957
9:30 am EST, 6:30 AM PST:
BACHELOR FLAT
A college professor moves into his fiancee's apartment to get away from the female students who are pursuing him, but his plan to scare the girls away backfires when his fiancee's daughter arrives home incognito.
*Cast:* Terry-thomas, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Celeste Holm, Howard Mcnear, John Williams
*Director:* Frank Tashlin
1962
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Right now I don't remember which movie adaptation of Shakespeare it was, but a classic era film based on one of his works got a lot of derision from a credit.."Additional Dialogue by...".
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*It should've been a young Lana Turner as Juliet and maybe a young Richard Carlson as Romeo.*
Well maybe not Lana as she hadn't yet been discovered at Schwab's Drugstore (or wherever). That wouldn't have until at least a year after R&J was filmed. Maybe Elizabeth Allen, Rochelle Hudson or Gloria Stuart. But other than their being WAY too old, I think the two stars do a great job.
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I always remember a writer's brief description of this movie in a rundown of Constance Bennett's filmography (offhand don't remember who wrote it or where I read it) . . .
"THE EASIEST WAY . . . she took it"
Anyways, this film in well known as one of several that came out in short order in the first half of 1931, all featuring Clark Gable, where he went from unknown to a sensation as the latest heartthrob/gangster. I think he was in like 9 or 10 releases that year, by the end of which he was a full-blown star.
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*I can see TCM maybe putting together a few of her films some evening in the future. If not before SUTS, then in September. Her best film was CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY. I can watch that movie over and over again. Such a gem.*
I agree. Both she and Dan Dailey were at their most winning in this heartwarming film. It plays on occasion on FMC, so hopefully TCM can acquire the rights to show it.
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I think Victor Mature's acting talents were sorely underappreciated, including by himself. But he gave some strong performances over the years. Even more than for KISS OF DEATH, I think he deserved to be nominated for his Doc Holliday in MY DARLING CLEMENTINE.
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*Of course they are spoofing Garbo in SILK STOCKINGS and THE IRON PETTICOAT. They are looking to her earlier performance and borrowing heavily from it. What does it matter if SILK STOCKINGS is a musical. The point is that Garbo, who never really left the public imagination, was the inspiration behind performances for decades.*
*And I really do not think they were trying to make a statement about the Iron Curtain. This was light-hearted MGM entertainment. It was not intended as a political diatribe about the cold war.*
I have to disagree. Carole Lombard WAS spoofing Garbo in PRINCESS COMES ACROSS, playing as she was a Swedish princess. Because of Garbo's huge fame, anybody playing a character from Scandinavia would definitely use an accent that is what the public would expect from what Garbo had led them to believe. Same thing with Norma Shearer in IDIOT'S DELIGHT, when she masquerades as a European (a part MGM had intended for Garbo). No one accused Hedy Lamarr of spoofing Garbo when she did COMRADE X, highly derivative of NINOTCHKA, because she had her own foreign accent that fit the part (so far as the average American knew). But Lombard and Shearer are Americans, so it was assumed they were spoofing Garbo, because the roles were people pretending to be (vaguely) from the same part of the world as GG.Now, 20 years later, a musical remake of NINOTCHKA has Cyd Charisse performing the Garbo role in NINOTCHKA (it being a "musical' remake has nothing to do with my point-the operative word is Remake); she is NOT spoofing Garbo, she is playing the same role. She has to come up with a semi-believable accent to pull it off, and audiences are already conditioned to Garbo's for just this type of character. So she tries to borrow Garbo's accent; this has nothing to do with spoofing-I repeat-she is playing the same part. Lombard and Shearer were not . . . but they drew upon's Garbo's known persona for their characterizations for roles that GG had nothing to do with. The same is with the IRON PETTICOAT (and , yes I know it wasn't a political diatribe, but it was at the height of the Cold War); Hepburn is an American playing a Soviet. Well, a takeoff on Garbo's accent, shorthand for foreigner from somewhere in Europe, is what Hepburn does; however, she is in no way spoofing her; just playing a part similar to in a film similar to GG's in NINOTCHKA. -
Maybe as an "Essential"?
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From a quick scan of the picture you posted, I thought it was a young Ann Sheridan.
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*But I am not sure that a look at the history of Fox would be as interesting. At least not grouped around directors. (There's John Ford and then not much else.)*
I disagree. There was Henry King, Raoul Walsh, Otto Preminger, Henry Hathaway, among many other notable directors that worked there.
.....Or Elia Kazan, Joseph Mankiewicz, Walter Lang, John Brahm, John Stahl, William Wellman, even Renoir, Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Preston Sturges made movies at Fox