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I've seen Bambi, The Story of G.I. Joe, Breathless and Marathon Man, so four. I like to think I could have identified all four of them if they hadn't been identified already. I definitely could have identified Bambi! Ha ha. I'm unfamiliar with all the others except G.I. Jane. Possibly I could have identified it, although I may have mistaken the person in the pic for a man!
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19 minutes ago, TopBilled said:
Re: her contract with Warners, she did not sue to get released from her contract. Just the opposite. Jack Warner decided she was too expensive and wanted to get rid of her after WHITE ANGEL (1936). She wouldn't let him break the contract, which still had four more films to go (and a lot of salary).
I acknowledge I could have read that wrong on imdb.
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Day 11 is Kathryn Grayson. Looks like she made only one film in her whole career that wasn't at MGM, The Vagabond King from Paramount in 1956., which I think was also her last.TCM isn't showing it, so all 12 of these movies are MGM releases.
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Day 10 is George Segal. Here's what they're airing from outside the TCM library:
King Rat (with Tom Courtenay) (Columbia, 1965)
The Owl and the ... Ummm ... Kitty Kat (trying to avoid autocensor) (with Barbra Streisand) (Columbia, 1970)
California Split (with Elliot Gould) (Columbia, 1974)
Fun with ... Ummm ... Richard and Jane (tempting autocensor again?) (with Jane Fonda) (Columbia, 1977)Other than these four Columbia films, I think I count four from Warner Bros. and three from United Artists.
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Day Nine is Kay Francis. They're showing 17 movies! Movies were short in the '30s. Remember when TCM had a monthly theme of movies that were all shorter than 75 minutes? They probably could have shown (and maybe did) several Francis movies then.
Her imdb bio defines her speech impediment as a lisp, which I've always thought of as making a "th" sound instead of "s", like Ron Howard saying "AmerilyTH" in The Music Man, although there's a poster on here, I don't remember who, who in every single post he makes about her calls her Kay Fwancis (I mean EVERY single one), implying her problem was a slurring of the R's. They kind of suggest that this was her problem on imdb, too. I don't know. I haven't listened to her closely enough. Maybe she struggled with both. Didn't stop her from being a big star.
Anyway, looks like 15 of the 17 movies they're showing are from Warner Bros., a studio she sued to attempt to get out of her contract from, little realizing she was jeopardizing how often her films would get played on TCM 90 years in the future. The only ones not from WB are Trouble in Paradise from Paramount in 1932, which TCM seems to show quite a bit. In fact, I think I saw it once earlier this year (I have a pet conspiracy theory I can't prove that TCM can only air Paramount movies that were directed by Lubitsch, Sturges, Wilder or Hitchcock. Look up the record!) and 1945's Allotment Wives, one of several latter-career films she produced independently at Monogram, which I think is in the library.
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Day Eight is Esther Williams. I checked over her imdb page, and of the last four movies she made, two were at Universal, one at 20th Century Fox and one was made in Spain. But TCM isn't showing any of those. Instead, it's all MGM, all the time. 12 movies from between 1944 and 1955. We get at least one of those stars every year.
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Was he a plumber or an architect?
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I can confirm it was available on VHS cassette from Blockbuster around 1991, if that counts as "making it to video".
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For whatever reason, the category was created. I think they're just trying to find one thing to fill in the slot for each movie. Personally, I don't stress out about it too much!
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Sorry, can you provide some examples?
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There was another thread about him, right? I think I posted on it.
I don't watch TCM a lot during baseball season, so I hadn't noticed the absence of a TCM Remembers spot for Beatty. If this is the case, it is indeed a critical oversight.
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On 5/26/2021 at 11:22 AM, Sepiatone said:
And we should care about that here why?
I think a lot of us on here use imdb a lot. I know I do, as discussed in the post above. It appeals to the same sensibilities that appeal here, in my opinion. So, this seems to me like a perfectly natural venue for discussing it. I don't know that you can talk about it there. They banished their message boards maybe two or three years ago. As the link above shows, they're also talking about it on reddit.
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On 5/27/2021 at 5:43 AM, TikiSoo said:
I never liked IMDB, don't use it.
Boy, I use imdb a lot. I find it a useful tool. I'm currently using it to confirm the home studios of all the movies airing on TCM in August, which I'm reporting on in another thread. I have a pretty good idea already for a lot of these movies, but confirmation helps. By the way, I commented on that thread weeks ago about dramatically different it looked prior to this thread being created, for what it's worth. I also use imdb as an instant link to what's available on Amazon Prime, and whether a title is free, for pay or for subscription to a sister channel.
All this talk about adblock is giving me tired head. When the conversation gets too technical on here, I know there's little or zero chance of me keeping up. I guess I have no ad-blocking software and I occasionally fall victim to my entire screen being filled with an ad for whatever imdb is promoting. Fortunately, this happens only rarely and takes only a few seconds.
The change in format was initially jarring to me (all changes are! "No offense, but I fear the unfamiliar"), but the layout is essentially the same. What SansFin said is the best description I've read, and if you get past the main page, the differences are less prominent. As MCOH pointed out, they were teasing a preview of the new format for a long time, so I was aware it was coming. I never did preview ahead of time.
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4 minutes ago, Hibi said:
No Virginia Woolf?? That's strange....... Oh, I see Woolf is on Segal day!
Yeah, TopBilled, who seems to be able to commit the next 100 days' programming to memory instantly, pointed this out to me quickly in a reply.
I also see I made a mistake in the spelling, given both TopBilled's and your replies. I don't know why I put an "e" at the end of Woolf. I was thinking of Tom Woolfe is all I can think of.
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Day Seven is Abbott & Costello.
So, they had a semi-exclusive contract at Universal which permitted them to make no more than one picture a year at another studio, and TCM appears to pretty much be showing ALL of these films. For three years in a row, they made that one non-Universal movie at MGM. TCM is unsurprisingly showing all three of those MGM movies (It's funny if you watch the Bogdanovich documentary on Buster Keaton, there's a moment where Leonard Maltin totally trashes MGM for consistently putting out the worst movies of the comic geniuses - Keaton, Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, etc. Certainly a moment I'm sure TCM wishes they could edit out of the doc). There are also two at Warner Bros. and one at United Artists and to fill up the time, the highlight-reel compilation The Big Parade of Comedy, which appears to be MGM's forerunner to the That's Entertainment series, except with comedy. However, we do get six Universal pictures. They are:
Buck Privates (1941)
Ride 'Em, Cowboy (1942)
The Time of Their Lives (1942) (This is also airing on July 4 as part of a Revolutionary War theme. TCM trying to take advantage of a short window in which they're able to air it, I think)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
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Day Six is Robert Mitchum, pretty much a dream star for TCM. Not sure why they haven't gone with him in more years. 13 movies - eight from RKO, two from Warner Bros. and one each from Monogram, United Artists and AVCO-Embassy. I don't think they had to go outside the library once.
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Day Five is Margaret Rutherford. This is interesting, as many of her films were British. TCM has the rights to them I assume through the Criterion Collection or Janus Films or whoever owns them now. But I'm fascinated learning about their original American distributors by combing through imdb. And so we find three films that were originally distributed in the US through Universal-International: The Demi-Paradise (released in the US as Adventure for Two, 1943), English without Tears (released in the US as Her Man Gilby, 1944, I think likely a take-off of the title My Man Godfrey, a Universal release from almost 10 years earlier) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Doesn't mean TCM is paying Comcast right now to air these films; I assume their American theatrical distribution rights have long since expired. Of her other 10 films that are airing, five are from MGM (the four Miss Marple movies and The VIPs), one from United Artists, one from Lopert, and I couldn't find any American distribution information on the others.
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Day Four is Louis Armstrong. There are 10 scripted films and two documentaries, one about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and one a bio of Armstrong. Of the fiction films, three are from MGM, two each from Warner Bros. and United Artists and one from Goldwyn/RKO. The hidden treasures here both have "pennies" in the title: Pennies from Heaven (Columbia, 1936) and The Five Pennies (Paramount, 1959). TCM previously aired the latter when it had a monthly theme of jazz movies sometime in the last year or two. I couldn't catch it when it aired, but I watched it another night on Amazon Prime.
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Day Three is Kim Novak, a star who spent a huge chunk of her career at Columbia. TCM can only muster up four of her Columbia movies. They are:
Pushover (with Fred MacMurray, 1954)
Picnic (with William Holden, 1955)
Bell, Book & Candle (with James Stewart, 1958)
The Notorious Landlady (with Jack Lemmon, 1962)They're also showing Vertigo, her loan-out to Paramount in 1958 that is arguably her most famous role ever and her second pairing with Stewart in the same year.
The other six films are three MGMs, one each from United Artists and Warner Bros. and one from Lopert (which I don't know a lot about but I think falls into the TCM library).
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Day Two is Richard Burton. Only 10 movies. That was all they could fit in, I guess. The average run time of his movies appears to top two and half hours. There are five MGM entries, two from United Artists and one from Warner Bros. The highlights here are The Taming of the Shrew from Columbia in 1967 and Anne of the Thousand Days from Universal in 1969. They're limiting themselves to three pairings with Elizabeth Taylor, leaving out Virginia Woolfe and The V.I.P.s, though I'm assuming without looking ahead the latter will be shown on Margaret Rutherford's day.
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I'm going to try to go through and find all the "out of library" films for the month, though I will probably move very slowly and may not finish.
Day One is Bette Davis. Looks like they're showing a whopping 11 Warner Bros. movies, 10 from her days as a contract player in the '30s and '40s and of course Baby Jane, her reunion pic with the studio from '62. The only non-library film I could find is The Star from Fox in 1953. Sorry to say no All about Eve.
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On 6/22/2021 at 4:37 PM, Polly of the Precodes said:
https://www.moviecollectoroh.com/nightly/sched-new.htm
The SUTS titles are beginning to show up, but there are considerable gaps as I post this.
Warning
While the credits information for the 1971 Richard Burton movie Villain is correct in this link, the plot description is for the 1979 Kirk Douglas comedy The Villain.
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It has been their trend for the last five or 10 years to include one primarily silent star every year, and Novarro appears to be it this year. Prior to that, I'm sure sure there were a number of years where there were no silent films at all.
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1 minute ago, skimpole said:
Kind of a shame there's only one foreign film actor.
Pretty sure they have only the obligatory one every year, at least in recent years.
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