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*More Miss. Crawford in January 2010 - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedule!* *January 14 - _A Woman's Face_ (1941) - 12 Noon* - Most of the film is told in flashbacks as witnesses in a courtroom give their testimonies. *January 22 - _The Bride Wore Red_ (1937) - 2:15pm* - This film was the last of seven Crawford and co-star Franchot Tone (her then husband) would make together. *January 25 - _Rain_ (1932) - 8am* - Crawford was loaned out by MGM to United Artists for this film. *January 29 - _Johnny Guitar_ (1954) - 10:30am* - In 2008, Johnny Guitar was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

*Did anyone notice Hedda Hopper as Alvin's Mother!??!*

Interesting angle about class, financial standing, arranged marriage to stop the father trying to losing his lost money ...But I love how Joan stuck buy her guns and married the man she wanted!. Interesting peak into another era....After 75 years a lot of the plot points still hold up today! Enjoyable movie!! I also loved the opening credits with the background scenery of Greece. *I Live My Life - Original Trailer 1935* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORMnTjkiX0M

*W. S. Van Dyke was in an interesting director!* Van Dyke, W.S. (Woody). . (March 21, 1889 ? February 5, 1943) 2/5/43) A former child vaudevillian and assistant to D.W. Griffith on 1916's Intolerance, Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke went on to direct 4 Joan Crawford films: 1927's silent Winners of the Wildnerness, '34's Forsaking All Others, '35's I Live My Life, and '36's Love on the Run. Considered a "workmanlike" and "uninspired" director by some, as well as an aficionado of Orange Blossoms (gin and OJ), Joan said of him on the set of "Winners": "At the end of the day, he was pretty much sloshed. It made for some interesting final scenes." (EB)

Thanks again TCM, this is the 1st time I believe I ever seen I _Live My Life_ (1935) play on TCM!!! Thanks TCM!! Please play more "RARE" Joan films!!! Brian Aherne was Joan Crawford's co-star in 1935's _I Live My Life_ (both the film and radio versions) and 1959's _The Best of Everything_. Very Very Cool!! Imagine the stories on the set those two shared!. :LO)

Anybody else watch Joan Crawford in: _I Live My Life_ (1935) !?? I'm a huge fan of Joan, & a lot of her films I'm discovering slowly! This is 1 of those films! Since this film is not on DVD, & the VHS is OOP, this was my first time seeing the film! Glad I recorded it! Joan as a bored socialite seeks a more fulfilling life and goes on a Greek holiday!Then falls for an archaeologist. Yeah right ...but it's Miss. Crawford and well I bought it! Joan is just so funny!! I love it when Joan (Kay) falls down a chute into a pile of dust! LOL! Then she gets back up like no big deal. What class and talent! Joan had an eye for comedy! ' Great fun to see Frank Morgan Pre-The Wizard of Oz (1939) as Joan's on screen dad! What MGM mythical fun! I really loved _I Live My Life_ (1935). Very typical Depression-Era fantasy from MGM, but very fun and frothy. Joan Crawford is a blast to watch!

lickety-split .... _Lola rennt_ (1998) (German: Lola rennt, literally Lola Runs) NEW WORD: Jan. 3rd is known as: _Fruitcake Toss Day_ (Fruitcake Toss Day is your opportunity to finally throw away the old fruitcake. After the holidays are over, it's time to bring in the new, and toss out the old. Today is the day that the fruit cake goes....hooray!)

*_I Live My Life_ (1935)* *_Cast_:* Joan Crawford (as "Kay"), Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Fred Keating, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Etienne Girardot, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Hilda Vaughn, Vince Barnett, Lionel Stander, Hale Hamilton. *Credits*: Based on the story "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Producer: Bernard H. Hyman. Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Camera: George Folsey. Costumes: Adrian. Editor: Tom Held. Score: Dimitri Tiomkin. *_Plot Summary_:* Feeling stifled by her wealthy existence, flighty heiress Kay (Joan Crawford) falls in love with poor archaeologist Terry (Brian Aherne). The couple seems happiest when they're yelling at one another, indicating perhaps that screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz was none too fond of either character. Anyway, Terry decides that a marriage to Kay would be a big mistake, so he talks her into jilting him at the altar, thereby making a public declaration that their romance is through. But Kay "double-crosses" Terry by showing up at the wedding anyway, allowing the couple to live scrappily ever after. It's hard to tell if this is supposed to be a rip-off of It Happened One Night, but it sure plays that way in the first few reels. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide *_Total Gross_:* $1,478,000 ($384,000 net profit)

*MacDougall, Ranald* - Co-wrote the screenplay for 1947's Possessed; wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Mildred Pierce (1945) and for Queen Bee (1955). He also directed:, June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954). He also made his directorial debut with Queen Bee.

*Thu, Jan 14, 12:00 PM _A Woman's Face_ (1941) - All Times Eastern - Check Local Schedules!* *A superior remake of the 1937 Ingrid Bergman Swedish film _EN KVINNAS ANSIKTE_, which was based on the French drama "Il Etait Une Fois" by Francis de Croisset. Crawford is terrific in this atypical story and should have been nominated for an Oscar!!*

Ava Gardner was in: _Earthquake_ (1974) directed by Mark Robson! *NEW DIRECTOR: Mark Robson!*

*Don't forget .... _I Live My Life_ (1935) Sun. Jan. 3, 2010 ... 4:00am Arizona Time (6:00am Eastern!) - Check Local Schedules!!* *_I Live My Life_ is a 1935 film, starring Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, and Frank Morgan, and is based on the story Claustrophobia, by A. Carter Goodloe.* *Joan Crawford & Brian Aherne!*

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Jimmy Durante was in: Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) with Joan Crawford! *NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*

*Bern, Paul* - He was a German-American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM. The all-star film Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Academy Award for 1931?32. Bern and Irving Thalberg produced the film, although neither was credited (in the early 1930s MGM did not list their films' producers in their credits). However the award was presented to Thalberg only, not Bern.

Orson Welles made _The Lady from Shanghai_ (1947) towards the end of his marriage to Rita Hayworth. They were constantly fighting at the time and (some say as a comeuppance to Hayworth) he made her cut off most of her long, luxurious red hair and dye it bright platinum blonde. *Celebri-links .. Rita Hayworth!*

Asthmatic _......The Hand That Rocks the Cradle_ (1992) *NEW WORD: Oatmeal (January IS National Oatmeal Month!)*

*_Female on the Beach_ (1955)*

Jimmy Durante was in: Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) with Joan Crawford! *NEW STAR: Joan Crawford!*

Judy Garland was in: _Presenting Lily Mars_ directed by Norman Taurog! *NEW DIRECTOR: Norman Taurog!*

fir .... _The Bear_, (1989) known as L'Ours *NEW WORD: Chinese New Year or Spring Festival!*

*RIP Dan O'Bannon .. directed by Dan O'Bannon!!* O'Bannon's script also differed from the Romero series in that it is markedly more comedy based than Romero's films, employing "splatstick" style morbid humor and eccentric dialogue. The films also boasted significant nudity, in marked contrast to Romero's work. Russo and O'Bannon were only directly involved with the first film in the series, the rest of the films, to varying degrees, stick to their outline and "rules" established in the first film. Thanks, Wikipedia Also Mark Venturini of _Return of the Living Dead_ as Suicide (1985) well also be missed watching this film! Mark Venturini (January 10, 1961 - February 14, 1996) was an American actor who starred in movies and appeared on television. He was perhaps best known for his role in movies like Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) as Victor, and Return of the Living Dead as Suicide (1985). Mark's final movie was in the 1995 movie Out-of-Sync. He made guest appearances on television shows like Knight Rider, Charles in Charge, Murder, She Wrote, Falcon Crest, and Space Rangers. He died from leukemia at the age of 35.

Tommy Lee Jones made his film debut with a minor role in _Love Story_ (1970) directed by Arthur Hiller! *NEW DIRECTOR: Arthur Hiller!*

*Did You Know?* _It's a Wonderful Life_ After the war Frank Capra set up Liberty Films with George Stevens and William Wyler to make more serious, soul-searching films. This and State of the Union were Liberty's only productions.

*Jeremy Paul _Kagan_* - An American film and television director, screenwriter and television producer. Kagan's feature film credits include the box-office hit Heroes (1977), about veterans returning from the Vietnam War, The Big Fix, a political thriller with Richard Dreyfuss, The Chosen from the classic book by Chaim Potok, and The Journey of Natty Gann, the first American movie ever to win the Gold Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival, the underground comedy Big Man On Campus, and the hybrid film Golda's Balcony from the hit play.