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Excellent post, and welcome back moira!

Okay, I can understand why whites may like this film and some blacks may dislike this film. It appears to me that you haven't been reading what others have been posting here; I doubt seriously if you've been watching the context within which TCM has been presenting these films. The commentary, both here and from Robert Osborne and author Donald Bogle (who selected all of the films being shown), has been terrific. I always said, TCM should show Oscar Micheaux's answer to Birth of a Nation, Symbol of the Unconquered: The Storry of the Ku Klux Klan Within Our Gates, The Symbol of the Unconquered, and Body and Soul all aired in January and no context was provided, nor was it necessary (what does that tell you?). You began your participation on these boards a short time ago with a chip on your shoulder about the month's "Race and Hollywood: Black Images in Film" series, before giving TCM a chance to explain its context. You've seemingly ignored all the other input provided and have intentionally baited and/or insulted others who are regular participants. Up until now, I've tried to stay out of this incendiary fray, but I felt I had to speak up when you called someone an Uncle Tom (e.g. black on black racism). As volatile as this topic is, please try to be more respectful of others and their views. BTW, there is a spell check button available.

Yes it is; boy, that was fast! FWIW, he appeared in Jamaica Inn (1939) and wrote the plays: "Night Must Fall" and "The Corn is Green". Your turn ...

Thanks! My first guess was going to be Ian Hunter, but I could only think of three. What actor in a Hitchcock film wrote a thriller of his own (that was made into a movie) in addition to another that was made into a movie starring Bette Davis?

John Longden

I very much enjoyed it too, couldn't wait to watch this premiere and wasn't disappointed (lots of information that was new to me). I thought Ellen Burstyn (73 years old!) looked TERRIFIC, btw. I hope that TCM will continue to fund and/or support this type of excellent programming.

Somebody has to go first and, because I didn?t participate in the original challenge, I had a head start. Plus, I didn?t want anyone to post a schedule using my holiday before me;-) I ignored 31 Days of Oscar month by using Valentine?s Day (2007) as my holiday! My Monday is also Lincoln?s Birthday and I scheduled populist and/or politically-based films then because we used to celebrate this day before his birthday was combined with George Washington?s to make President?s Day the following week. So, in effect, I got to do two holidays for the price of one! February 11 - Screen Debuts/Closing Acts 06:00 AM Anthony Adverse (1936) - Warner Bros. - 141 min - Gale Sondergaard 08:30 AM Four Daughters (1938) - Warner Bros. - 90 min - John Garfield (Syncopation Station) 10:00 AM Oklahoma! (1955) - ps - 145 min - Shirley Jones 12:30 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Warner Bros. - 101 min - Sydney Greenstreet 02:15 PM Paper Moon (1973) - ps - 102 min - Tatum O?Neal 04:00 PM The Little Foxes (1941) - ps - 115 min - Teresa Wright (TCM Essential repeat) 06:00 PM Mary Poppins (1964) - premiere - 140 min - Julie Andrews/Jane Darwell 08:30 PM The Harder They Fall (1956) - ps - 109 min - Humphrey Bogart 10:30 PM To Be or Not to Be (1942) - ps - 99 min - Carole Lombard (Silent Sunday Nights) 12:15 AM The Kiss (1929) - MGM - 89 min - Greta Garbo & MGM 02:00 AM Network (1976) - MGM - 121 min - Peter Finch 04:15 AM The Shootist (1976) - ps - 100 min - John Wayne February 12 - pre-Capra, Capra, Politics (every weekday morning begins with a pre-code) 06:00 AM Sins of the Children (1930) - MGM - 87 min 07:30 AM You Can?t Take it With You (1938) - ps - 127 min 09:45 AM Turn Back the Clock (1933) - MGM - 80 min 11:15 AM The Great Mr. Nobody (1941) - Warner Bros. - 71 min 12:30 PM Lady for a Day (1933) - ps - 96 min 02:15 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - ps - 129 min 04:30 PM Meet John Doe (1941) - ps - 122 min 06:45 PM Politics (1931) - MGM - 73 min 08:00 PM Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) - 110 min (birthday salute) 10:00 PM The Farmer?s Daughter (1947) - ps - 97 min 12:00 AM The Best Man (1964) - ps - 102 min 02:00 AM Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) - ps - 101 min 04:00 AM Ada (1961) - ps - 109 min February 13 - Gary Cooper, Star of the Month (The Everyman: Cooper vs. James Stewart) 06:00 AM The Public Enemy (1931) - Warner Bros. - 83 min New Monthly Feature - What a Character (Joseph Calleia vs. Eduardo Ciannelli) 07:30 AM Five Came Back (1939) - RKO - 75 min 08:45 AM Marked Woman (1937) - Warner Bros. - 96 min (C. Aubrey Smith vs. Henry Stephenson) 10:30 AM The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) - ps - 109 min 12:30 PM The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Warner Bros. - 115 min (Edna Mae Oliver vs. Aline MacMahon) 02:30 PM Little Women (1933) - RKO - 117 min 04:30 PM Five Star Final (1931) - ps - 89 min 06:00 PM Hollywood My Home Town (1965) - Ken Murray?s home movies 07:00 PM Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1991) - Richard Schickel documentary 08:00 PM The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - ps - 128 min 10:15 PM The Stratton Story (1949) - MGM - 106 min 12:15 AM The Westerner (1940) - ps - 100 min 02:15 AM The Naked Spur (1953) - MGM - 91 min 04:00 AM Ball of Fire (1941) - ps - 111 min February 14 - Valentine?s Day 06:00 AM One Way Passage (1932) - ps - 68 min 07:15 AM The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - ps - 88 min 08:45 AM Top Hat (1935) - RKO - 101 min 10:30 AM Lili (1953) - MGM - 81 min 12:00 PM Singin? in the Rain (1952) - MGM - 103 min 02:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - MGM - 102 min 04:00 PM The Major and the Minor (1942) - ps - 100 min 06:00 PM Pillow Talk (1959) - ps - 98 min (Thelma Ritter birthday salute) 08:00 PM Midnight (1939) - ps - 94 min (John Barrymore birthday salute) 09:45 PM Random Harvest (1942) - MGM - 125 min 12:00 AM Ninotchka (1939) - MGM - 110 min 02:00 AM Sabrina (1954) - ps - 113 min 04:00 AM Some Like it Hot (1959) - ps - 120 min February 15 - Snubbed (films ignored by AMPAS) 06:00 AM Dinner at Eight (1933) - MGM - 113 min 08:00 AM The Women (1939) - MGM - 133 min 10:30 AM The Palm Beach Story (1942) - ps - 88 min 12:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Warner Bros. - 118 min 02:00 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Warner Bros. - 104 min 04:00 PM Scaramouche (1952) - MGM - 115 min 06:00 PM The Mortal Storm (1940) - MGM - 100 min 08:00 PM Kind Hearts and Coronets (1948) - ps - 106 min 10:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946) - Warner Bros. - 114 min 12:00 AM A Face in the Crowd (1957) - ps - 125 min 02:15 AM The Night of the Hunter (1955) - ps - 93 min 04:00 AM Touch of Evil (1958) - ps - 95 min February 16 - Tennis in the Movies Chester Morris/Jeffrey Lynn/Vera-Ellen birthday salute 06:00 AM The Big House (1930) - MGM - 87 min 07:30 AM All This, and Heaven Too (1940) - Warner Bros. - 141 min 10:00 AM On the Town (1949) - MGM - 98 min 12:00 PM City for Conquest (1940) - Warner Bros. - 101 min 02:00 PM Gentleman Jim (1942) - Warner Bros. - 104 min 04:00 PM Killer McCoy (1947) - MGM - 104 min 06:00 PM Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) - MGM - 114 min 08:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951) - Warner Bros. - 101 min 10:00 PM Pat and Mike (1952) - MGM - 95 min 12:00 AM Stella Dallas (1937) - ps - 106 min (TCM Imports) 02:00 AM Blowup (1966) - ps - 111 min 04:00 AM Now, Voyager (1942) - Warner Bros. - 117 min February 17 - Films about Fathers Arthur Kennedy?s birthday 06:00 AM Trial (1955) - MGM - 109 min (Darkness After Dawn) 08:00 AM Out of the Past (1947) - RKO - 97 min 10:00 AM Gold is Where You Find It (1938) - Warner Bros. - 94 min (Lone Star Cinema) 12:00 PM High Noon (1952) - ps - 85 min 01:30 PM The Bandit Trail (1941) - RKO - 60 min 02:45 PM Cyclone on Horseback (1941) - RKO - 60 min 04:00 PM Bandit Ranger (1942) - RKO - 56 min 05:00 PM Riding the Wind (1942) - RKO - 60 min 06:15 PM Thundering Hoofs (1942) - RKO - 61 min 07:30 PM Cartoon Alley #21 (Walky Talky Hawky, The Goofy Gophers, Haredevil Hare) (The Essentials) 08:00 PM Cheaper By The Dozen (1950) - premiere - 85 min 09:30 PM Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) - MGM - 105 min 11:15 PM Guess Who?s Coming to Dinner (1967) - ps - 108 min 01:15 AM Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - ps - 105 min 03:00 AM Shenandoah (1965) - ps - 105 min 04:45 AM A Family Affair (1937) - MGM - 69 min Notes: In my household, we have a family movie night (usually Saturday, sometimes Sunday) so the two films I selected for my TCM premieres are family friendly. The added bonus on my schedule?s Sunday is it?s a Disney film; when I was a kid, this is the same time slot when the Wonderful World of Disney aired each week on TV. On my Saturday night, I moved (my favorite) Cartoon Alley later such that it?s just before the feature (the way we saw cartoons when I was a kid). With Gary Cooper as my SOTM, I envisioned the month?s schedule including other premieres or infrequently shown films like For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Beau Geste (1939), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Peter Ibbetson (1935), Design for Living (1933), Friendly Persuasion (1956), The Plainsman (1936), Springfield Rifle (1952), and two I haven?t seen Ten North Frederick (1958) & Wings (1927)! I scheduled Ken Murray?s home movie short because it fit, it?s fun, and it includes both Cooper and Stewart. I saved (my favorite) High Noon (1952) for Saturday?s slot, and followed it with a bunch of Tim Holt B Westerns which are fun & family friendly. Future additions of my newly proposed ?What a Character? series could include sidekicks and/or other prolific character actors: Alan Hale, Allen Jenkins, George Tobias, Chill Wills, William Demarest, William Frawley, Frank McHugh, etc. and the ?face-off? format isn?t really necessary. Some of my end of day (e.g. those which start @ 4:00 AM ET) choices act as transitions to the next day?s theme; on those days with multiple themes, I also tried to use a transitional film. For example, Mary Poppins (1964) was both Julie Andrews?s screen debut and Jane Darwell?s last film (and The Kiss (1929) works because it was both Garbo?s & MGM?s last silent). Since pugilism is a sport with so many parallels to tennis, boxing movies precede that evening?s theme. Because of the running times (e.g. exactly 90, 105, 120 minutes in length) for some of the films, I had to put them at certain times of day when an intro and outgo was not going to cause it to run over. For the same reason, certain films were chosen over others I?d have rather shown (these tradeoffs are the toughest part of the job!). Nonetheless, some of my scheduling is very tight (e.g. Saturday night); apologies in advance for screwing up your Tivo;-) One film I really wanted to schedule, but couldn?t find the room was Frank Morgan?s A Stranger in Town (1943) - MGM - 67 min Message was edited by: path40a

You might find this thread of interest: http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=60811&start=330#5828663

I don't boycott TCM because they showed (Annie Get Your Gun), even though there was no discussion of it's sexism in historical context before or after the film. Good point! I don't think TCM would have any female viewers if they weren't tolerant of the sexist themes which pervade SO MANY classic films. Though I haven't got the data to prove it, I suspect that classic movies with these types of themes far outnumber the ethnic and/or stereotypes (perhaps, combined) ... and I'm a guy;-)

OT - vallo, I just wanted to congratulate you on your 1,000 post to these boards, to which you've certainly been a welcome addition!

Try these links instead: http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=78996&start=90#7788525 I've noticed that cuting and pasting these links doesn't always work so well;-)

Jay Presson Allen, 84, who as an adapter of novels for plays and movies developed some of the most memorable roles for women in the late 1960s and 1970s, died Monday morning at her home in Manhattan of a stroke. Ms. Allen made her breakthrough with a stage adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," about a romantic and frustrated Edinburgh schoolteacher who, for good or ill, has a magnetic influence on her students. In its first few years, the role brought out critically acclaimed performances from almost every actress who played it; Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role in London in 1966, won raves, and Zoe Caldwell won a Tony Award in the 1968 U.S. production. In 1969, Ms. Allen adapted the play for the screen, and Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for best actress. ... Ms. Allen's ability to develop star-making roles for women was not limited to the stage. In 1972, she adapted the musical "Cabaret" for the screen; it was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including best picture and best adapted screenplay. Liza Minnelli won best actress for her role as the tragic party girl Sally Bowles. ... Ms. Allen, known for her withering wit and sometimes-off-color wisecracks, was one of the few women making a living as a screenwriter at a time when women were a rarity in the profession.

I miss coffeedan's contributions, period. AWOL for nearly three weeks;-)

FWIW, Audrey Hepburn was SOTM last July (2005).

This week's TCM Picks have been posted: http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=tcm Thursday morning is a continuation of Wednesday night's first installment of SOTM Bette Davis's films which lead right up to the second evening of "Race and Hollywood: Black Images on Film" including a couple of terrific movies with all-Black casts: King Vidor's groundbreaking Hallelujah (1929) and a unique look at stories from the Bible's Old Testament, The Green Pastures (1936); on Friday, you can see Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) for the first time in more than 18 months on the channel along with several documentaries (like the more recent one on Irving Thalberg) interspersed with films from that person (Elia Kazan, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn); Saturday night's salute to costume designer Jean Louis begins with two Rita Hayworth movies: her signature role in Gilda (1946), which is also this week's TCM Essential, and Pal Joey (1957); Sunday's Robert Osborne Picks include The Hurricane (1937), The General (1927), and Noel Coward's very British In Which We Serve (1942); next Monday is another day filled with TCM original documentaries including some of the best: Forever Ealing, Complicated Women, and a couple of Richard Schickel's "The Men Who Made The Movies" features followed that evening by three Samuel Goldwyn productions & TCM premieres featuring scores by Alfred Newman; then Tuesday's lineup of "Race and Hollywood" includes the TCM premiere of director John Ford's Judge Priest (1934), starring Will Rogers; and next Wednesday begins the second full night and day run of Star of the Month (Bette Davis) features, including her own (non-GWTW) Southern saga Jezebel (1938) and the gripping crime drama based on a true story, Marked Woman (1937), with Humphrey Bogart and Eduardo Ciannelli.

Don't let that discourage you, we'd love to see your favorites tracey! I'm sure everyone's lists are a lot like that too (how could they help from being that way?).

Thanks so much for relating your experience last night for us, filmlover!

Thank you all, for your contributions to this thread! Don't forget - tonight is Birth of a Nation (1915) and tomorrow night is the TCM premiere of an all new documentary about Bette Davis titled Stardust!

Excellent choices tracey! I also like John Barry's soundtracks, especially from the non-musical Somewhere in Time (1980), but also Born Free and Dances With Wolves! This thread (AFI's Top 25 Scores) may also be of interest: http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7760901 Message was edited by: path40a

Since I didn't participate in the last challenge, I have been doing some dabbling in preparation for this one. What I've discovered is that there are an awful lot of Columbia movies which appear on TCM, presumably not in the library per coffeedan's note. Since I'm not sure what specific agreement TCM has for airing these Columbia titles, would it be alright to use the "ps" (for previously scheduled) as others did on their grids entered in the first challenge?

There's another thread (Favorites folder, I think) dedicated to female "slime" that includes several of the more wicked women played by Bette Davis (The Little Foxes, In This Our Life, etc.), Gene Tierney (in Leave Her to Heaven), and more. Here's one of them, titled "Wicked Women": http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=124079? Pretty comprehensive too! Message was edited by: path40a

I would create a new thread, if I were you;-)

Sure enough, July 8th's stated theme is "Pulp Fiction"!

Thanks for saving me the job of typing all that in, Larry;-) That's the same picture to which I was referring in my earlier post. Something else which may be of interest, my book also lists the 19 directors that were under contract at the time of the Silver (25th Anniversary) Jubilee: Robert Alton, Compton Bennett, Clarence Brown, Edward Buzzell, George Cukor, Robert Z. Leonard, Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann, Vincente Minnelli, Roy Rowland, Victor Saville, George Sidney, John Sturges, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, Charles Waters, William Wellman, Sam Wood, and Fred Zinnemann.

Great, thanks! Next question ... Name the two feature films that the director produced & directed for his own failed company. Message was edited by: path40a