path40a
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Some highlights in this week's (June 1-7) schedule include a terrific Frank Morgan B movie called A Stranger in Town (1943) followed by Marilyn Monroe's 80th Birthday salute, Director Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), this week's TCM Essential Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and the infrequently shown Only Angels Have Wings (1939) as part of a terrific lineup of films "Starring Jean Arthur", the beginning of TCM's June fifty film tribute to Leading Ladies (the 50 most unforgettable actresses of the studio era), the first night of Anthony Mann films beginning with the gritty T-Men (1949), and SOTM Anthony Quinn's initial evening lineup.
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I agree this is a great, must-see film (and still surprisingly relevant today!). Paul Lukas is terrific and his competition for Best Actor included Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls, which shows you just how great his peers thought his performance was to award him the Oscar.
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I'm not sure you meant your post to sound as condescending as it does;-)
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Happy Birthday to Mrs. Mongo today!
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A Memorial Day Double Feature - Bob Hope's (posthumous) birthday, two fitting tributes!!
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Great post spencer and a good summary of some other films appropriate for this weekend's lineup. It must be pretty difficult being the programmer for Memorial Day every year given the number of war movies available in the library.
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Apparently you're not alone, sandy. Presumably Molly Haskell had her pick of any of TCM's war movies to choose from for this weekend's Essential, and yet she was only lukewarm in her opening commentary about From Here to Eternity.
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While there have been intermittent problems that we all have experienced, there are some things you can do to ensure it's not you;-) The first thing you should try is clearing your browser's cache, cookies, and/or history. You may NOT want to do this if you can't remember your passwords on other sites that you frequent, or don't have all your favorite sites bookmarked, etc.. One thing I do is use three different browsers (Netscape, IE, and Firefox). I don't care about the cookies et al on at least one of these so that I can clear everything out if/when I do have a problem at a particular site (e.g. like this one).
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This will air (on CBS, I guess) on June 14th.
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Wow Kyle, you've made my day! I'm going to have to stay in my home office for a while until my swelled head shrinks enough so that I can make it out the door;-) It's great that we only have to schedule a single week, and not a whole month (let alone, month after month after month ...) because it enables us to pack a lot in.
Glad to be of help wrt Aline MacMahon, she's a great one. I hope that you've had a chance to see 'Tish' too; some great "old broads" in that one (LOL!), a real gem.
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TCM does show a lot of British films - last September, they ran a 100th Birthday tribute to Michael Powell, there are four Ealing Studio films they show quite frequently, they've starting showing some of the Angry Young Men movies like The Entertainer and This Sporting Life, plus a lot of other Olivier, David Lean, Noel Coward, and early Hitchcock films.
I do wish they'd show the Ealing films they don't air very often like The Man in the White Suit and the aforementioned Passage to Pimlico. The Horse's Mouth would be fun to show as well. I caught another gem starring John Mills that I wish they'd show again called Escapade (1955).
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Sorry, I was composing my post while you were posting yours. However, JJ still did NOT win four nominations in a row (read my earlier post) since she had a film in between (which Ms. Wright did not).
If what you meant to say was that she was nominated in four consecutive years (not films), then she'd be behind Bette Davis (5) and Greer Garson (5) and tied with Elizabeth Taylor (4) - though all of these ladies were Best Actress nominees or winners while JJ had a Supporting Actress nod in there.
FYI, for the men, only Marlon Brando had 4 consecutive year nominations.
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I think that I would like the war films that are more about character, as opposed to action.
I would say that the majority of this weekend's lineup fall into that category, but the ones with minimal war action (besides From Here to Eternity (1953) & Sayonara (1957), which you've seen) include: A Farewell to Arms (1932), Cry 'Havoc' (1943), and The Hill (1965) (though there is a brawl in this one).
The very best films being shown, IMO, irrespective of the action are: Battleground (1949), Sergeant York (1941), Westfront 1918 (1930) - lots of action though, From Here to Eternity (1953), Command Decision (1948), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Longest Day (1962) - premiering on TCM, and Battle of Britain (1969).
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I didn't hear what Robert Osborne said about Teresa Wright, but Jennifer Jones did NOT receive Academy Award nominations for her first four film roles (though Ms. Wright DID for her first three). Jones appeared in two Republic pictures before The Song of Bernadette and Cluny Brown (1946) was released before Duel in the Sun.
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BTW, the first Academy Award for Special Effects ever given was won by The Rains Came (1939), which features several different disasters.
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I think Airport (1970) was probably the one, though The Last Voyage (1960) preceded it by 10 years (and the original Poseidon Adventure by 12). Back in the mid-1930's, of course, there was San Francisco (1936) and The Hurricane (1937) (I suppose you could also consider The Good Earth (1937)).
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Yes, of course, Vincent Price. I just watched His Kind of Woman (1951) in which he plays a ham actor who saves the day, much like Peter O'Toole's does in My Favorite Year. An uncredited Mexican police lieutenant says:
"You are not a pig, you are what a pig becomes. It is sometimes eaten between two pieces of bread"
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Correct spelling: Rroberto Rossellini
Oh, the irony;-)
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TCM's outstanding Memorial Day lineup begins this evening with Battleground (1949). Thank you TCM for this annual tribute to those most deserving individuals who have sacrificed and serve our country (today too)!
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Moira, I've just noticed something about Fredric March. Perhaps you, feaito, or others have noticed it as well. He excels in playing pensive characters, those which look off into the distance to think deeply about something, before speaking and/or acting (e.g. on what must be done). While watching him opposite Merle Oberon in The Dark Angel (1935), I was reminded of so many other roles he's played in which his character acts thusly.
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Sounds like Open City (1945).
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Finally got to see The Young Rajah myself and was quite disappointed. There isn't much to it, a major portion of it has been restored via stills which ordinarily is O.K. (having seen many other silents this way), but didn't work for this one.
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Sure would be nice to see Outward Bound though, right? I hope that TCM can and will air it sometime (hint, hint;-)
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Thanks for the info. BTW, you (and Del) did a terrific job with her in that one; she looked great and much younger than her forty years!
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Could it be Family Plot (again)?