[Is DESK SET the new NBNW???]

30 minutes ago, chaya bat woof woof said:

do the initials mean North by Northwest

Yes

[February 2021]

Daytime February 16 The Bootlegging Business

Sinner's Holiday (Grant Withers, Evelyn Knapp) (Warner Bros., 1930)
Gentleman's Fate (John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim) (MGM, 1931)
The Secret Six (Wallace Beery, Clark Gable) (MGM, 1931)
The Wet Parade (Dorothy Jordan, Walter Huston) (MGM, 1932)
The Roaring Twenties (James Cagney, Priscilla Lane) (Warner Bros., 1939)
Al Capone (Rod Steiger, Fay Spain) (Allied Artists, 1959)
The Purple Gang (Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake) (Allied Artists, 1960)
The Moonshine War (Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark) (MGM, 1970)

[Winter Under the Stars]

Can I make a case for sympathetic Duryea? I like him in The Underworld Story and Kathy O'.

[Have you seen these 10 classic films..?]

I get terrible light in the room I'm staying in for the holidays in my brother's house. I looked at these movies again on my phone, and the pictures were much clearer. I'm pretty sure 2017 is The Parallax View, which I have seen, so I've at least seen one.

[Is DESK SET the new NBNW???]

I mean, I don't care if Meet Me in St. Louis gets one airing at 8 pm, one at 3 am and one at 1:30 pm within a seven or 10-day period. I don't have TCM on 24 hours a day and am unlikely to even notice the multiple airings. 

[Why hasn't Hitchcock's Rebecca been shown in such a long time?]

59 minutes ago, Hibi said:

I'm pretty sure TCM has shown Suspicion not too long ago. (a few months?) Didn't Selznick produce that one too? Or was Fontaine on loan out?

I did a little research (very little) by re-reading Txfilmfan's thread and checking out imdb. The four films affected are Rebecca, Spellbound, Notorious and The Paradine Case, none of which have aired on TCM in at least three years. Supsicion is a straight-up RKO release, so yes, Fontaine must have been on loan.

[Have you seen these 10 classic films..?]

A lot of the stills look familiar, but as I recall by my own previous personal "rules", trying to figure them out through imdb was "cheating", so I won't do that here.

2011 is obviously a Marx brothers movie that I've probably seen, but I don't remember the title. Did they make one called The Big Top?

I'm absolutely sure I've seen at least part of 2012, but I can't identify the title (or the actress).

2016 is probably The Shoes of the Fisherman. I haven't seen it.

2017 I'm curious who the man on the left is. Harrison Ford? Warren Beatty? Kris Kristofferson? I don't know. I don't guess I've seen this movie.

2018 Sharkey's Machine?

2019 Memphis Belle is my guess.

Okay, I can't identify any of these with 100% certainty. Possibly I've seen zero all the way through.

[I Just Had My First Experience Ever of Being Denied Access to a TCM Movie on a Streaming Service]

Well, I hope if and when cable disappears forever, whatever stupidity allows me to only watch TCM some of the time via streaming because of legal issues has been eliminated. Otherwise, that will probably be the end of my relationship with TCM.

[I Just Had My First Experience Ever of Being Denied Access to a TCM Movie on a Streaming Service]

Ha ha well somebody wake me up and inform me when it's legal to watch via a streaming service channel all the movies I can watch on TCM with cable. Until then, I'm sticking with cable.

[I Just Had My First Experience Ever of Being Denied Access to a TCM Movie on a Streaming Service]

This is probably a common occurrence a lot of people, but I have cable at home, and so this sort of thing never happens to me. But I'm housesitting for relatives who don't have cable. They have YouTube TV. I just got through watching Come to the Stable and was waiting for Miracle of the Bells to start, when a message appeared on the screen saying "This program is unavailable for streaming through the Internet".

This is probably why I will stay on cable forever.

[Have you seen these 10 classic films..?]

Yes, okay, I've seen Jane Eyre, so I've seen five.

[A Matter of Life and Death: Stranger than fiction]

7 hours ago, Allhallowsday said:

Are you trying to suggest that Bugs Bunny was no kind of actor?

That Barney Rubble ... what an actor!

[Suggest A Movie]

Is this still a thing? I clicked on the link above and just got sent to the new revamped TCM.com homepage.

[I Just Watched...]

I don't know. I kind of like the Joseph Cotten character who hasn't had to go overseas yet and in the dad's absence is longing for the mom and has the daughter throwing herself at him. Most of my dreams start that way.

[February 2021]

Primetime February 15 Richard Brooks

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor) (MGM, 1958)
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons) (United Artists, 1960)
Lord Jim (Peter O'Toole, James Mason) (Dist. in the US by Columbia, 1965)
In Cold Blood (Robert Blake, Scott Wilson) (Columbia, 1967)

[Is DESK SET the new NBNW???]

I'm sorry I missed it, actually. I've only seen it once, whenever the last time it aired on TCM was, anywhere from two to five years ago, I'm guessing. It was Tracy-Hepburn I'd previously been completely unaware of.

[Is DESK SET the new NBNW???]

I wouldn't worry too much about Desk Set. It's a Fox film, and no doubt after TCM shows it as many times as they're obligated to for this particular lease package, it probably won't air again for three years.

[Why hasn't Hitchcock's Rebecca been shown in such a long time?]

I went back and changed " broadcast by Selznick" to "produced by Selznick" in my above post. I guess I still had the word "broadcast" in my brain having just used it five words earlier.

[February 2021]

I don't disagree with you, but that's the way TCM rolls. Saturday afternoons and all daytime Sunday are pretty much the only times you can get random programming (though that won't happen the weekend of Valentine's Day).

[A Millennial Take on Christmas in Connecticut]

I found this review on AV Club. The author, in a very brief bio, says she's interested in "feminist theory" which no doubt will have at least half the posters on here running for the exits. But, you know, if young people can find any justification for watching older movies, I'm all for it.

https://film.avclub.com/celebrate-christmas-with-the-subversive-1940s-rom-com-t-1845857392

Keep on scrolling down for the reader comments, in which a bunch of classic movie fans (presumably no one who also posts on here?) largely ignore all the author's theories on gender and race role subversion and quickly suggest and debate a plethora of famous Christmas movies.

[February 2021]

Daytime February 15 Movies about Jealousy (I can't bring myself to say the cutesy modern phrase in the TCM description)

Illicit (Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie) (Warner Bros., 1931)
Smart Woman (Mary Astor, Robert Ames) (RKO, 1931)
The Guardsman (Alfred Lundt, Lynn Fontaine) (MGM, 1932)
The Shining Hour (Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan) (MGM, 1938)
The Feminine Touch (Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche) (MGM, 1941)
Rage in Heaven (Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman) (MGM, 1941)
Her Cardboard Lover (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor) (MGM, 1942)
What a Blonde (Leon Errol, Richard Lane) (RKO, 1945)
I Married a Woman (George Gobel, Diana Dors) (RKO, 1958)

[Why hasn't Hitchcock's Rebecca been shown in such a long time?]

This was the subject of a recent thread. It appears TCM has lost the rights to broadcast any Hitchcock films that were produced by David O. Selznick. That means not only Rebecca but also Spellbound, The Paradine Case and several others. None of them have aired in several years. It may not be permanent. Movies come and go from TCM's available roster. But they're not there right now.

[Does Hollywood residents get star struck?]

Not as many celebrity sightings in Dallas, Texas, but I saw Don Henley at the city's first Barnes & Noble the day after it opened. I think it was 2000. He was wearing a T-shirt, jeans, boots and sunglasses. We were about to cross paths in a crowded area, and I stopped in my tracks and stared, probably slack-jawed, upon recognizing him. He sort of froze, too, and appeared a bit disconcerted, I guess fearing he was about to be publicly identified. I didn't want to be the cause of his day turning out to be crummy, so I just smiled and gave him a nod, and he smiled and nodded back, and I moved on.

[Winter Under the Stars]

The only Henie movie I've ever seen was Second Fiddle, which I think has only ever aired on TCM one time during a 31 Days of Oscar. It was nominated for its use of an Irving Berlin song. I don't really remember much about it. So, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some more. If I can sit through all those MGM Esther Williams movies multiple times, I would probably be okay with Henie's, too. They feel kind of like alternate universe counterparts. And Henie is certainly pleasant to look at.

[Have you seen these 10 classic films..?]

2002 I'll scatershoot with my very first guess. It might be Rebecca or Jane Eyre or Suspicion. I'm not sure. Could also be some other movie I' haven't seen. I'll have to wait and see.

2003 is The Wake of the Red Witch. Yes.

2006 is Cool Hand Luke. Yes.

2007 is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Yes.

2008 is Class. I've seen some of it (I wanted to catch any sexy scenes with Jacqueline Bissette!), but I don't think I've seen all of it. I'll call it a no.

2009 It might be The Horse Whisperer. I haven't seen it.

2010 is Training Day. Yes.

I've seen at least four, maybe more.