[February 2021]

Daytime February 11 Suitors of Secretaries

Beauty and the Boss (Marian Marsh, David Manners) (Warner Bros., 1932)
Man Wanted (Kay Francis, David Manners) (Warner Bros., 1932)
She Had to Say Yes (Loretta Young, Lyle Talbot) (Warner Bros., 1933)
Goodbye Again (Joan Blondell, Warren William) (Warner Bros., 1933)
Vagabond Lady (Robert Young, Evelyn Venable) (MGM, 1935)
Maybe It's Love (Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander) (Warner Bros., 1935)
She's Got Everything (Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern) (RKO, 1937)
Ever Since Eve (Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery) (Warner Bros., 1937)
Honeymoon for Three (Ann Sheridan, George Brent) (Warner Bros., 1941)
A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (George Murphy, Lucille Ball) (RKO, 1941)

[February 2021]

Primetime February 10 Night Two of Noteworthy African-American Performances

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mickey Rooney, Rex Ingram) (MGM, 1939)
Moonrise (Dane Clark, Gail Russell) (Republic, 1948) (Look TopBilled, a Republic movie!)
Convicts 4 (Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman) (Allied Artists, 1962)
A Man Called Adam (Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong) (Embassy, 1966)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Alan Arkin, Sandra Locke) (Warner Bros., 1968)

[February 2021]

Daytime February 10 Dealing with Divorce

Private Lives (Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery) (MGM, 1931)
The Keyhole (Kay Francis, George Brent) (Warner Bros., 1933)
The Merry Wives of Reno (Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods) (Warner Bros., 1934)
The Goose and the Gander (Kay Francis, George Brent) (Warner Bros., 1935)
In Name Only (Cary Grant, Carole Lombard) (RKO, 1939)
Affectionately Yours (Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Marriage on the Rocks  (Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr) (Warner Bros., 1965)

[February 2021]

I've seen surprisingly few of the Garfield selections for the first two nights. I assume the rest of the month will be mostly movies of his I have seen,

[February 2021]

February 9 Primetime Night Two of John Garfield Star of the Month

Juarez (Paul Muni, Bette Davis) (Warner Bros., 1939)
They Made Me a Criminal (John Garfield, Claude Rains) (Warner Bros., 1939)
The Sea Wolf (Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Between Two Worlds (John Garfield, Paul Henreid) (Warner Bros., 1944)
Body and Soul (John Garfield, Lili Palmer) (United Artists, 1947)
We Were Strangers (Jennifer Jones, John Garfield) (Columbia, 1949)
The Breaking Point (John Garfield, Patricia Neal) (Warner Bros., 1950)

[February 2021]

Fevbruary 9 Daytime Robert Ryan

Marine Raiders (Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan) (RKO, 1944)
Crossfire (Robert Young, Robert Mitchum) (RKO, 1947)
Woman on the Beach (Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan) (RKO, 1947)
Act of Violence (Van Heflin, Robert Ryan) (MGM, 1949)
The Set-Up (Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter) (RKO, 1949)
Born to Be Bad (Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan) (RKO, 1950)
The Secret Fury (Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan) (RKO, 1950)
Beware, My Lovely (Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan) (RKO, 1952)
Clash by Night (Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas) (RKO, 1952)

[February 2021]

February 8 Daytime and Primetime Lana Turner 100th Birthday Tribute

A full 24 hours of Lana Turner movies. Like her own SUTS day in February.

Dancing Co-Ed (Lana Turner, Richard Carlson) (MGM, 1939)
Ziegfeld Girl (James Stewart, Judy Garland) (MGM, 1941)
**** Tonk (Clark Gable, Lana Turner) (MGM, 1941)
Johnny Eager (Robert Taylor, Lana Turner) (MGM, 1942)
Slightly Dangerous (Lana Turner, Robert Young) (MGM, 1943)
Marriage is a Private Affair (Lana Turner, James Craig) (MGM, 1944)
Keep Your Powder Dry (Lana Turner, Larraine Day) (MGM, 1945)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner, John Garfield) (MGM, 1946)
A Life of Her Own (Lana Turner, Ray Milland) (MGM, 1950)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner) (MGM, 1952)
Latin Lovers (Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban) (MGM, 1953)
The Big Cube (Lana Turner, George Chakiris) (Warner Bros., 1969)

The Postman Always Rings Twice also airs on the first night of John Garfield's Star of the Month run, so it becomes the first non-Noir Alley movie to air twice this month.

[February 2021]

2 hours ago, TheOneandOnlyCritic2000 said:

I knew I wasn't wrong, they were going have but changed it due to the Oscars being in April, but they had to put the leftovers somewhere and that's why we have three best picture winners on the same day on February 27. (And those films you mentioned where nominated or won)

Interesting. I'm sure I will see more examples if I get enough of a chance to proceed on my day-by-day explorations. TopBilled has suggested that whenever they do 31 Days this year, whether March or April - who knows? - the variety of films may suffer because they have already "blown" whatever budget for films they intended to show outside of the usual library. But we shall see.

[Death Takes No Holiday -- The Obituary Thread]

Yes, that is true, Ray Charles did put out a couple of extraordinary albums of country material, although he did it in his own style, and it's worth noting it was completely ignored by country radio. He didn't have his first Top 40 hit on the country charts until 1982.

You got me interested in Olivia Newton John's country career, so I'm checking out my reference book. She was probably never fully embraced by the country establishment the way she should have been (interestingly, about a generation later, no one seemed to have a problem with Keith Urban being Australian). I think John Denver had some of the same problems. But Newton-John did score 13 Top 40 hits on the country charts between 1973 and 1979, seven of which hit the Top 10, although none of them made it to #1.

[Movie Sequels]

You probably meant to say Jeff Bridges on that last one above?

[February 2021]

Primetime February 7 Crooked Lawyers Double Feature

The Nuisance (Lee Tracy, Madge Evans) (MGM, 1933)
The Fortune Cookie (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau) (United Artists, 1966)

Then after that a documentary about Alice Guy Blache, we have three of her movies for Silent Sunday nights. I'm not really looking ahead, so I don't know if this is going to run the whole month like they did Pedro Almodovar for TCM Imports in January. I guess I'll find out. These films are all under 15 minutes, but along with the 100-minute doc, that fills the usual time allotment, I guess.

Then it's TCM Imports, three films all by the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene. Not sure if he's getting the month-long Almodovar treatment either. I watched Black Girl in a world cinema class I took in college a looong time ago, so I have some tiny familiarity with him, but I don't know these films, two of which are shorts and the third isn't listed on his imdb resume, so I have very little info.

 

[February 2021]

Woops, I went one movie too far in the above post to still be "daytime". I will edit.

[Death Takes No Holiday -- The Obituary Thread]

You can watch the Ken Burns documentary on country music and see the ridiculous obstacles Pride had to overcome as a black man trying to sing country music in the late '60s. Not really discussed anywhere I've read but something I've always wondered about is how he was received in the black community singing all this "hillbilly" stuff. I can't say I was a devoted fan, but I do have his first hit, "Just Between You and Me", in my iTunes collection. His success in his field was massive. He was the third most successful country singles artist of the '70s behind only Conway Twitty and Merle Haggard.

 

[February 2021]

Lots of spirited discussion while I was out all day!

Daytime February 7 No-Theme Sunday

Roughly Speaking (Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson) (Warner Bros., 1945)

Then a repeat of last night's Noir Alley.

Then:
To Be or Not to Be (Jack Benny, Carole Lombard) (United Artists, 1942)
The Heiress (Olivia DeHavilland, Montgomery Clift) (Paramount, 1949)
Designing Woman (Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall) (MGM, 1957)
The Birds (Tippi Hedrin, Rod Taylor) (Universal, 1963)
 

I think all of those were Oscar nominees, right? I do wonder if TCM left their weekend schedule largely unchanged after originally slating a bunch of Oscar-nominated films, and they didn't have to worry about making them conform to some kind of theme.

[February 2021]

Primetime February 6 Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder Double Feature

The Producers (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder) (Embassy, 1968)
Blazing Saddles (Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder) (Warner Bros., 1974)

Noir Alley:
The Killer That Stalked New York (Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin) (Columbia, 1950)

Random programming overnight. Feels like these were originally part of 31 Days programming before TCM knew the Oscars were being pushed back.

42nd Street (Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels) (Warner Bros., 1933)
Dog Day Afternoon (Al Pacino, John Cazale) (Warner Bros., 1975)
Atlantic City (Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon) (Dist. in the US by Paramount, 1980)

 

[How In The Sam Hill? - Swearing In The Movies During The Studio Era]

I'm not sure there is an autocensor on here anymore after reading Sepiatone's "old Yiddish proverb" on the morality of Sam Spade thread, which made my jaw drop. BUT speaking of The Maltese Falcon, I always notice Sidney Greenstreet saying "by gad" this and "by gad" that oh about 3,600 times over the course of the movie. I assume that was a stand-in word for "God", because you surely couldn't say "by God" in so casual a manner, as it could be construed as taking the Lord's name in vain.

[February 2021]

Daytime February 6. Morning is Saturday Matinee. I'm only listing features, but there are various animated, musical and travel shorts.
Joy of Living (Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) (RKO, 1938)
Broadway Musketeers (Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan) (Warner Bros., 1938)
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore) (MGM, 1940)

Then there's no theme in the afternoon. It's just random.
Dive Bomber (Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Rope (James Stewart, Farley Granger) (Warner Bros., 1948)
The Sweet Smell of Success (Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis) (United Artists, 1957)
The Private Life of  Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely) (Dist. in the US by United Artists, 1970)

[February 2021]

Primetime February 5 Journalists in Danger

The Year of Living Dangerously (Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver) (MGM, 1982)
Under Fire (Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman) (Orion, 1983)
The Killing Fields (Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor) (Warner Bros., 1984)

Followed by TCM Underground:

Friday Foster (Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto) (AIP, 1975)
Drug Stories (Something Weird Video, 2018)

[February 2021]

Daytime February 5 Warren Oates

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Ray Danton, Karen Steele) (Warner Bros., 1960)
Ride the High Country (Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea) (MGM, 1962)
Welcome to Hard Times (Henry Fonda, Janice Rule) (MGM, 1967)
The Shooting (Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins) (Dist. in the US by Favorite Films, 1971)
Chandler (Warren Oates, Leslie Caron) (MGM, 1971)
Badlands (Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek) (Warner Bros., 1973)

[February 2021]

Primetime February 4 Month-Long Theme: Kiss Connection. I guess the idea is someone who gets kissed in one movie kisses someone else in the next one. I'm listing the films chronologically by release date, so the kiss chain won't necessarily be obvious here.

My Favorite Wife (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne) (RKO, 1940)
Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck) (RKO, 1941)
To Have and Have Not (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1944)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck) (Warner Bros., 1947)
Love in the Afternoon (Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn) (Allied Artists, 1957)
Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn) (Universal, 1963)

 

[February 2021]

February 3 Primetime Take Me to Your Leader!

The Thing from Another World (Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan) (RKO, 1951)
Behemoth the Sea Monster (Gene Evans, Andre Morell) (Allied Artists, 1959)
The Snow Devils  (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Ombretta Colli) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1967) 
Battle Beneath the Earth (Kerwin Mathews, Viviane Ventura) (MGM, 1967)
The Wild, Wild Planet (Tony  Russel, Lisa Gastoni) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1967)
Quartermass and the Pit (Andrew Keir, James Donald) (Dist. in the US by 20th Century Fox, 1968)
Destroy All Monsters (Akira Tubo, Jun Tazaki) (Dist. in the US by AIP, 1969)
Fantastic Planet (Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake) (Dist. in the US by New World, 1973)

[February 2021]

February 3 Primetime Month-Long Theme: Noteworthy African-American Performances. Well, if you don't have 31 Days of Oscar in February, there's a 100 per cent chance you'll get a night of Sidney Poitier movies instead!

Cry the Beloved Country (Canada Lee, Charles Carson) (Dist. in the US by Lopert, 1952)
Blackboard Jungle (Glenn Ford, Anne Francis) (MGM, 1955)
Edge of the City (John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier) (MGM, 1957)
A Raisin in the Sun (Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil) (Columbia, 1961)
In the Heat of the Night (Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger) (United Artists, 1967)

[February 2021]

February 3 Daytime Crime and Punishment

Doorway to Hell (Lew Ayres, Dorothy Mathews) (Warner Bros., 1930)
Little Caesar (Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) (Warner Bros., 1931)
The Public Enemy (James Cagney, Edward Woods) (Warner Bros., 1931)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Spencer Tracey, Bette Davis) (Warner Bros., 1932)
The Beast of the City (Walter Huston, Jean Harlow) (United Artists, 1932)
Mayor of Hell (James Cagney, Madge Evans) (Warner Bros., 1933)

[February 2021]

I thought it was The Fifth Musketeer?

[February 2021]

Primetime February 2 Star of the Month John Garfield

Blackwell's Island (John Garfield, Rosemary Lane) (Warner Bros., 1939)
East of the River (John Garfield, Brenda Marshall) (Warner Bros., 1940)
Out of the Fog (Ida Lupino, John Garfield) (Warner Bros., 1941)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner, John Garfield) (MGM, 1946)
Nobody Lives Forever (John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald) (Warner Bros., 1946)
Force of Evil (John Garfield, Thomas Gomez) (MGM, 1948)
He Ran All the Way (John Garfield, Shelley Winters) (United Artists, 1951)