LonesomePolecat

Captains Courageous

Filmlover, a great schedule as always. Love the remakes. SOLID GOLD CADILLAC would work really well as a drama. Can we get a time machine so we can make the Rat Pack's LOST HORIZON? Crazy how many geniuses were born in Budapest. And Wendy Hiller deserves a spotlight-- very talented lady.

Dietrichson, Phyllis - Barbara Stanwyck in DOUBLE INDEMNITY

Nice, aimalac! Any schedule that honors Deano and Roz Russell is awesome. And it's great to have an SOTM that's lesser known. But I especially love showing the amazing WHY WE FIGHT series on D-Day. Perfect excuse for scheduling something that's not shown enough.

Linda Darnell was in A LETTER TO THREE WIVES with Kirk Douglas

> > I must admit that I, like Fedya, instantly noticed the Tales of Manhattan inclusion as a Columbia film (instead of the Twentieth Century Fox film that it is). I love this film and agree that the two best sequences are the Laughton and Robinson ones. So, it's a great film choice but it doesn't fit into your Columbia programming unless you want to chuck another premiere and use this as a sort of stand alone film (which is still in your great tribute to Joseph Walker). You said that you have lots of other Columbias to choose from and remember that you can pick any Columbia shorts and their usage is exempt all week long. You can try to re-edit your schedule within the 24 hour-edit time OR you can simply post your changes before the 3rd of September. I will cull all of the pieces together in the voting thresd. Hopefully, this will be pretty simple for you after all of your hard work on an excellent schedule. Yeah, both the Dick Van Dyke cast's VIVA MAX and the Lloyd Bridges premiere THE DARING YOUNG MAN are Columbia films. But they couldn't be moved into the Columbia block because, apart from not being Joseph Walker, they live where they do for very specific reasons, so they can't be used as the free Columbia premiere (as you had previously said those all had to be in the block). Unfortunately I had long passed the editing limit before I even read these comments. Although the easiest thing to do is just put in FLIGHT (1929) instead (it being the only awesome Joseph Walker/Columbia film of the same length), I don't really want to waste a premiere space or throw out TALES OF MANHATTAN since you all seem to love it (I actually chose it becuase it looked interesting--never heard of it before). If I used it as a stand alone premiere I would have to redo huge chunks of my schedule (I'm lucky I got the premieres down to 10). So I'll have to think about this in a week or two when the weather hopefully cools down and my brain works again. What a ruckus I caused! Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Aug 14, 2012 2:49 AM Edited by: LonesomePolecat on Aug 14, 2012 2:52 AM

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In the Good Old Summertime

Whitaker, Walt - Carl Reiner in THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

> {quote:title=Fedya wrote:}{quote}I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but *Tales of Manhattan* is a Fox film. > Wow, it sure is. Leave it to Fedya to know something like that. Oh well. I still have a big block of Culumbia films for the challenge, and it's still a Joseph Walker film (which is how it got in the block in the first place). Plus it sounds like everyone wants it shown anyway, so maybe this mix-up of mine will call more attention to the film. But I do have some Columbia film premieres so even with that one being fox, I still have a legal amount of premieres. Sorry about that everyone! That's what I get for doing a schedule in a 110 degree heatwave.

Lana Turner and Hedy Lamarr, to name two

LP's novel--I mean, notes: *CELEBRATING THE LLOYD BRIDGES & DANNY KAYE CENTENNIALS* Can you believe I found a week with TWO classic movie star centennials? Not just one, but two! Both Lloyd Bridges and Danny Kaye turn 100 this week in January 2013. Both are completely awesome in completely different ways. So I just had to pick this week. It was too good to pass up. Danny Kaye hasn’t been SOTM and should be, but I made him SOTM last time, so this was the perfect way to highlight one of my favorites. *A Dick Van Dyke Show Cast Reunion* We start off with a look at the cast of the classic DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. I’ve been wanting to do a tribute of his show for a while, partly because it was out 50 years ago, but mostly because the show rocks. With this set of films we can see that the show’s amazing cast was one of its greatest assets. All those awesome people in one TV show. One cast member, Jerry Paris, is featured as a director (directing his TV wife, Anne Morgan Guilbert) because this series kick-started his directing career. Rose Marie is shown both as she is in the DICK VAN DYKE SHOW and as Baby Rose Marie. Finally, out of all the movies the show’s headliner was in, I chose WHAT A WAY TO GO, partly because I always find a way to schedule this movie (call it a superstition or tradition, either one), but mostly because Dick Van Dyke is great in this. It shows off his genuine acting, his likeability, and especially his skills as a silent film comedian. It also highlights the talents of other ‘60s stars like Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, and Gene Kelly. *Poetry in motion* These are films that feature poetry and poets. Highlighted in this bunch is my import for the night, IL POSTINO (which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995). This is hands down one of my favorite foreign films ever made—right up there with Kurosawa’s best for me. It’s a beautiful film in terms of music (Best Score 1995), acting, writing, cinematography (gorgeous Italian landscape), and poetry. It’s the story of a postman on a tiny Italian island whose one client is none other than Pablo Neruda. Everyone should watch it. Can’t say enough. The last poet in this section is Longfellow Deeds, who just happens to also fall in the next category… *HAIL COLUMBIA CHALLENGE* *Tribute to Joseph Walker, Columbia’s Amazing Cinematographer* I used this challenge as an excuse to highlight one of Early Sound’s best cinematographers: Joseph Walker. This man is such a brilliant DP. At a time when other films looked stagey and horrible, his camera was free and his lighting was impeccable. Think of that gorgeous shot of Robert Williams kissing Jean Harlow through that very Art Deco fountain in PLATINUM BLONDE, or the African American guy taking his hat off to Abraham Lincoln in MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, or the frightening run on the bank in AMERICAN MADNESS, or thousands of other memorable moments. He was Capra’s favorite DP, so this section is very thick with Capra’s best (I’m quite a Capra fan), and some of his lesser known films as well. I can’t believe there are Capra films, for example, that have never been shown on TCM before. Get on that, TCM. *75th ANNIVERSARY of 1938* Because one of Joseph Walker’s films, the best picture winner YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, is 75 years old, I had to highlight other great movies from that same year. Too many greats to list, so I took just a small sampling. The late 30s-early 40s were a wonderful time—one of the best—and must be celebrated, don’t you agree? *Oh to be a Botanist* These films feature botanists—an odd profession to have in a movie, but nonetheless interesting. A NEW LEAF has the funniest botanist: Elaine May. Great movie that she wrote and directed herself about Walter Matthau’s pursuit of a wife dumb enough to marry him after he loses his entire fortune. *TAKE-YOUR-SON-OR-DAUGHTER-TO-WORK DAY* We know there are many talented people in The Film Industry whose sons or daughters (or beyond) went on to make great careers of their own. (Not unlike our friend Lloyd Bridges.) But rarely do they work together in the same film. And when they do, I think it’s pretty nifty (and sometimes Oscar worthy). So these films are specifically ones in which a parent and child(ren) are all working together on the same project. Often they’re all actors (as with the O’Neals, Careys, Fondas, and Emma Thompson & her mom). And sometimes dad is the director (Hitchcock & Minnelli), or maybe Junior is directing Dad (McLaglen & Huston). But rarely do we get the feat we do in THE OUTSIDERS, which really should be subtitled: A COPPOLA PRODUCTION. We got Francis directing, we got most if not all of his kids working on the film in one way or another, and to make it even more special, Francis’ dad is writing the score. Three generations in one film. Oh the fights there must have been! *Well, of course they look alike* These films are all about random people and their doppelgangers—not relatives, but just look-alikes. They’re tales of “say, you look just like…” which lead to the doppelganger switching places with their famous counterpart. In all cases, both characters are played by the same person (that must have been so much fun), which leads me to say, “Well of course they look alike!” *You Can Con Me Anytime* Here we have a small sampling of cinema’s most likeable con artists. These are all swindlers, thieves, and crooks who are so likeable they make the seemingly straight-laced public root for them, laugh with them, and love them. If Robert Redford and Paul Newman lied in my face and I knew it, I’d probably still let them rob me blind. And if Robert Morse’s J Pierpont Finch was gunning for my job, I’d just give it to him. In the case of GOODBYE CHARLIE the liar is Debbie Reynolds who is a dead male jerk come back to life is a female’s body, and uses that to his/her advantage. I think it’s one of Debbie’s best performances, so here it is. *SESAME STREET IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY…* For those of you who don’t remember, Sesame Street, being privately funded, was always “brought to you by the letter E” or “the number 2”. So these are movies with only numbers or a single letter for a title. (I’m a child of the 80s—I have to tribute the Muppets somehow). *SO I MARRIED A FEMME NOIR* These three films involve Femme Noirs and people dumb enough to marry them. Then they have the nerve to be shocked when they get killed. Wow, really, people? *THE ART OF COLLABORATION: CINEMA’S GREAT SONGWRITING TEAMS* Because TCM has been doing these “Art of Collaboration” interviews, I decided to run with that idea and highlight great songwriting teams. Many tune writers and lyricists flitted about writing songs with different people, but these people stayed with their partners over multiple projects to great success. It must be tough to depend on someone to write half your song. Some teams wrote directly for the screen (from the early sound era to Disney’s heyday), some took Broadway by storm, and some wrote popular songs that were later put into films. Of course I picked films that included my favorites of their songs, although our TCM Underground pick LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is actually the only one I can legally show (thanks, Ebenezer Disney). In the case of MARY POPPINS and CAROUSEL, I chose what I think to be the teams’ best scores overall. Many of these films also feature their respective teams’ Oscar-nominated or –winning songs. A special shout out to the Damon Runyon film THE LEMON DROP KID which, unbeknownst to many, features the first appearance of Livingston & Evans’ most recorded song: “Silver Bells.” *STAR OF THE MONTH: GEORGE SANDERS* Finally we end the night with our SOTM, George Sanders. How could this amazing Oscar-winning actor with one of the top 10 voices of all time never have been SOTM before? This guy ‘s films could easily be broken up into a whole evening of him as The Falcon, then The Saint, then the rest. What I have here are my favorite performances of his (except the one I can’t show: THE JUNGLE BOOK) which just happen to comprise of two Best Picture Winners, his Oscar-winning performance, a Hitchcock film, and two of the best Halloween movies. The reason I put the SOTM on a Saturday (which doesn’t really happen, but it wasn’t part of the rules!) was to make one of his films the Essentials. LURED blew my mind the first time I saw it. It’s a murder suspense film but I couldn’t predict who the killer was immediately! How cool is that? You really can’t tell until the film wants you to know. That is quite a feat. Plus it has a great cast. And for me, The Essentials is best when it highlights great films that many people haven’t even heard of let alone seen. So in this case it’s, “Okay, you’ve all seen REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO, so here’s a great not-so-famous thriller you need to see.” And with that bizarre slogan, it is with a heavy heart that we say farewell to all our friends at the TCM Message Boards. --LP

LonesomePolecat’s schedule: *Week of January 13-19, 2013* STAR OF THE MONTH : *George Sanders* SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS : *Cyrano di Bergerac* (1925) TCM IMPORTS : *Il Postino* (1994) TCM UNDERGROUND: *Little Shop Of Horrors* (1986) THE ESSENTIALS: *Lured* (1947) PREMIERES: 1. *The Abductors* (1957) 2. *Carousel* (1956) 3. *The Daring Young Man* (1942) 4. *Goodbye, Charlie* (1964) 5. *Mary Poppins* (1965) 6. *Much Ado About Nothing* (1993) 7. *A New Leaf* (1971) 8. *Viva Max* (1969) 9. *What a Way to Go* (1964) 10. *What’s so Bad About Feeling Good?* (1968) COLUMBIA PREMIERES: 1. *He Stayed for Breakfast* (1940) 2. *Say it with Sables* (1928) 3. *Submarine* (1928) 4. *Tales of Manhattan* (1942) -----------------------SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 2013------------------- *A DICK VAN DYKE SHOW CAST REUNION* 6:00am: Morey Amsterdam (Buddy Sorrell) in *Beach Party* (1963) dir William Asher AIP 101min (p/s) 7:45am: SHORT: Rose Marie (Sally Rogers) in *Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder* (1929) dir Bryan Foy, WB 8min 8:00am: Rose Marie (Sally Rogers) in *Top Banana* (1954) dir Alfred E Green UA 100min (p/s) 9:45am: Anne Morgan Guilbert (Millie Helper) *Viva Max* (1969) dir Jerry Paris (Jerry Helper), Columbia 93min PREMIERE 11:30am: Richard Deacon (Mel Cooley) in *The Young Philadelphians* (1959) dir Vincent Sherman WB 136min (p/s) 2:00pm: Carl Reiner (Alan Brady) in *The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!* (1966) dir Norman Jewison 126min MGM (p/s) 4:15pm: Mary Tyler Moore (Laura Petrie) in *What’s so Bad About Feeling Good?* (1968) dir George Seaton UNIVERSAL 94min PREMIERE 6:00pm: Dick Van Dyke (Rob Petrie) in *What a Way to Go* (1964) dir J Lee Thompson FOX 111min PREMIERE *POETRY IN MOTION* 8:00pm *The Barretts of Wimpole Street* (1934) Norma Shearer & Fredric March, dir Sidney Franklin MGM 109min 10:00pm *The Petrified Forest* (1936) Leslie Howard & Bette Davis, dir Archie Mayo WB 82min (p/s) 11 :30pm *SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS: Cyrano di Bergerac* (1925) Pierre Magnier & Linda Moglia, dir Augusto Genina KINO 113min EXEMPT 1:30am *TCM IMPORTS: Il Postino* (1994) Mossimo Troisi & Philippe Noiret, dir Michael Radford Miramax 108min EXEMPT ----------------MONDAY JANUARY 14, 2013-------------------------- *HAIL COLUMBIA CHALLENGE* *Tribute to Joseph Walker, Columbia’s Amazing Cinematographer* 3:30am *Mr Deeds Goes to Town* (1936) Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 115min (p/s) 5:30am *Say it with Sables* (1928) Francis X Bushman & Helene Chadwick, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 70min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #1 6:15am *His Girl Friday* (1940) Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell, dir Howard Hawks, Columbia 92min (p/s) 8:00am *It Happened One Night* (1934) Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 105min (p/s) 9:45am *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939) James Stewart & Jean Arthur, dir Frank Capra 131min 12:00pm *He Stayed for Breakfast* (1940) Loretta Young & Melvyn Douglas, dir Alexander Hall, Columbia 86min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #2 1:30pm *Platinum Blonde* (1931) Jean Harlow & Robert Williams, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 89min (p/s) 3:00pm *American Madness* (1932) Walter Huston & Pat O'Brien, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 75min (p/s) 4:15pm *Submarine* (1928) Jack Holt & Dorothy Revier, dir Frank Capra Columbia 103min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #3 6:00pm *Tales of Manhattan* (1942) George Sanders & Edward G Robinson, dir Julien Duvivier Columbia 118min COLUMBIA PREMIERE #4 *75th ANNIVERSARY of 1938* 8:00pm *You Can’t Take It With You* (1938) Jean Arthur & James Stewart, dir Frank Capra, Columbia 126min (p/s) 10:15pm *The Lady Vanishes* (1938) Margaret Lockwood & Michael Redgrave, dir Alfred Hitchcock, Gaumont /PD 96min (p/s) 12:00am *Bringing Up Baby* (1938) Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn, dir Howard Hawks RKO 102min (p/s) 1:45am *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938) Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland, dir Michael Curtiz & William Keighley WB 102min (p/s) 3:30am *Angels With Dirty Faces* (1938) James Cagney & Pat O'Brien, dir Michael Curtiz WB 97min (p/s) 5:15am *The Dawn Patrol* (1938) Errol Flynn & Basil Rathbone, dir Edmund Goulding WB 103min (p/s) 7:00am *Jezebel* (1938) Bette Davis & Henry Fonda, dir William Wyler WB 105min (p/s) -----------TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013----------------- *CELEBRATING THE LLOYD BRIDGES CENTENNIAL* (born January 15, 1913) 8:45am *The Rainmaker* (1956) Burt Lancaster & Katharine Hepburn, dir Joseph Anthony, Paramount 122min (p/s) 10:00am *Last of the Comanches* (1953) Broderick Crawford & Barbara Hale, dir Andre DeToth, Columbia 85min (p/s) 11:30am *A Walk in the Sun* (1946) Dana Andrews & Lloyd Bridges, dir Lewis Milestone, FOX 117min (p/s) 1:30pm *High Noon* (1952) Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly, dir Fred Zinnemann, UA 85min (p/s) 3:00pm *The Goddess* (1958) Kim Stanley & Lloyd Bridges, dir John Cromwell, Columbia 104min (p/s) 4:45pm *The Daring Young Man* (1942) Joe E Brown & Marguerite Chapman, dir Frank R Strayer, Columbia 73min PREMIERE 6:00pm *The Happy Ending* (1969) Jean Simmons & Shirley Jones, dir Richard Brooks UA 117min (p/s) *OH TO BE A BOTANIST* 8:00pm *A New Leaf* (1971) Walter Matthau & Elaine May, dir Elaine May, Paramount 102 min PREMIERE 9:45pm *Five Came Back* (1939) Chester Morris & Lucille Ball, dir John Farrow 75min (p/s) 11:00pm *Ball of Fire* (1941) Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck, dir. Howard Hawks, RKO, 112 min (p/s) 1:00am *Grand Illusion* (1937) Jean Gabin & Erich Von Stroheim, dir Jean Renoir, Criterion 114min (p/s) ---------------------WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 2013------------------------ *TAKE-YOUR-SON-OR-DAUGHTER-TO-WORK DAY* 3:00am *The Outsiders* (1983) C. Thomas Howell & Matt Dillon, dir Francis Ford Coppola WB 91min (p/s) 4:45am *Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948) Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston, dir John Huston WB 126min (p/s) 7:00am *A Matter of Time* (1976) Liza Minnelli & Ingrid Bergman, dir Vincente Minnelli 97min (p/s) 8:45am *Strangers on a Train* (1951) Robert Walker & Patricia Hitchcock, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, WB, 101min (p/s) 10:30am *On Golden Pond* (1981) Henry & Jane Fonda, dir Mark Rydell, Universal 109min (p/s) 12:30pm *Red River* (1948) Harry Carey Sr & Jr, dir Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson UA 133min (p/s) 2:45pm *Paper Moon* (1973) Ryan & Tatum O’Neal, dir Peter Bogdanovich, Paramount 102min (p/s) 4:30pm *The Abductors* (1957) Victor McLaglen & Gavin Muir, dir Andrew McLaglen FOX 80min PREMIERE 6:00pm *Much Ado About Nothing* (1993) Emma Thompson & Phyllida Law, dir Kenneth Brannagh, Samuel Goldwyn, 111min PREMIERE *WELL OF COURSE THEY LOOK ALIKE* 8:00pm *The Whole Town’s Talking* (1935) Edward G Robinson & Jean Arthur, dir John Ford, Columbia 93min (p/s) 9:45pm *The Scapegoat* (1959) Alec Guinness & Bette Davis, dir Robert Hamer, MGM 93min (p/s) 11:30pm *Callaway Went Thataway* (1951) Howard Keel & Fred MacMurray, dir Norman Panama & Melvin Frank MGM 82min (p/s) 1:00am *The Great Dictator* (1940) Charlie Chaplin & Paulette Goddard, dir Charles Chaplin UA 126min (p/s) 3:15am *The Great Race* (1965) Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, dir. Blake Edwards WB, 160m (p/s) ---------------------THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 2013------------------------ *YOU CAN CON ME ANYTIME* 6:00am*How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying* (1967) Robert Morse & Michele Lee, dir David Swift, UA 122min (p/s) 8:15am *The Lady Eve* (1941) Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda, dir Preston Sturges, Paramount 94min (p/s) 10:00am *The Sting* (1973) Robert Redford & Paul Newman, dir George Roy Hill, Universal, 129min (p/s) 12:15pm *Animal Crackers* (1930) The Marx Brothers & Margaret Dumont, dir Victor Heerman, Paramount 97min (p/s) 2:00pm *The Music Man* (1962) Robert Preston & Shirley Jones, dir Morton da Costa WB 150min (p/s) 4:30pm *Road to Morocco* (1942) Bing Crosby & Bob Hope, dir David Butler, Paramount 83min (p/s) 6:00pm *Goodbye, Charlie* (1964) Tony Curtis & Debbie Reynolds, dir Vincente Minnelli FOX 117min *PREMIERE* *SESAME STREET IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY…* 8:00pm *1776* (1972) William Daniels & Howard Da Silva, dir Peter H Hunt, Columbia 142min (p/s) 10:30pm *8 ½* (1963) Marcello Mastroianni & Anouk Aimee, dir Frederico Fellini, Columbia 138min (p/s) 1:00am *M* (1931) Peter Lorre & Otto Wernick, dir Fritz Lang, Paramount 111min (p/s) 3:00am *-30-* (1959) Jack Webb & William Conrad, dir Jack Webb WB 96min (p/s) ---------------------------FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 2013----------------------------- *CELEBRATING THE DANNY KAYE CENTENNIAL* (born January 18, 1913) 4:45am *The Court Jester* (1956) Danny Kaye & Glynis Johns, dir Melvin Frank & Norman Panama, Paramount 101min (p/s) 6:30am *Hans Christian Andersen* (1952) Danny Kaye & Farley Granger, dir Charles Vidor, Samuel Goldwyn 112min (p/s) 8:30am *Wonder Man* (1945) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Bruce Humberstone, Samuel Goldwyn 98min (p/s) 10:15am *The Inspector General* (1949) Danny Kaye & Walter Slezak, dir Henry Koster WB 102min (p/s) 12:00pm *The Secret Life of Walter Mitty* (1947) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Norman Z McLeod, Samuel Goldwyn 110min (p/s) 2:00pm *A Song is Born* (1948) Danny Kaye & Virginia Mayo, dir Howard Hawks, Samuel Goldwyn 113min (p/s) 4:00pm *Up In Arms* (1944) Danny Kaye & Dana Andrews, dir Elliott Nugent, Samuel Goldwyn, 105min (p/s) 5:45pm *White Christmas* (1954) Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby, dir Michael Curtiz, Paramount, 121min (p/s) *SO I MARRIED A FEMME NOIR* 8:00pm *Leave Her to Heaven* (1945) Gene Tierney & Cornel Wilde, dir John M Stahl FOX 110min (p/s) 10:00pm *Double Indemnity* (1944) Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray, dir Billy Wilder, Paramount 107min (p/s) 12:00am *The Postman Always Rings Twice* (1946) Lana Turner & John Garfield, dir Tay Garnett, MGM 113min (p/s) ---------------SATURDAY JANUARY 19, 2013-------------------- *THE ART OF COLLABORATION: CINEMA’S GREAT SONGWRITING TEAMS* Alan Menken & Howard Ashman 2:00am *TCM UNDERGROUND: Little Shop of Horrors* (1986) Rick Moranis & Ellen Greene, dir Frank Oz WB 94min (exempt) Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown 3:45am *Singin’ in the Rain* (1952) Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor, dir Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly MGM 103min (p/s) Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe 5:30am *Gigi* (1958) Leslie Caron & Louis Jourdan, dir Vincente Minnelli, MGM 115min (p/s) George & Ira Gershwin 7:30am *Shall We Dance* (1937) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, dir Mark Sandrich, RKO 109min (p/s) Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn 9:30am *Robin and the 7 Hoods* (1964) Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin, dir Gordon Douglas, WB 123min (p/s) Harry Warren & Al Dubin 11:45am *Gold Diggers of 1933* (1933) Ruby Keeler & Joan Blondell, dir Mervyn LeRoy WB 97min (p/s) Jay Livingston & Ray Evans 1:30pm *The Lemon Drop Kid* (1951) Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell, dir Sidney Lanfield, Paramount 91min (p/s) Richard & Robert Sherman 3:15pm *Mary Poppins* (1965) Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke, dir Robert Stevenson, Disney 139min PREMIERE Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II 5:45pm *Carousel* (1956) Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones, dir Henry King FOX 128min PREMIERE *STAR OF THE MONTH: GEORGE SANDERS* 8:00pm *THE ESSENTIALS: Lured* (1947) Lucille Ball & George Sanders, dir Douglas Sirk UA 102min (p/s) 9:45pm *Rebecca* (1940) Laurence Olivier & George Sanders, dir Alfred Hitchcock UA 130min (p/s) 12:00am *All About Eve* (1950) Bette Davis & George Sanders, dir Joseph Makiewicz, FOX, 138min (p/s) 2:30am *Foreign Correspondent* (1940) Joel McCrea & George Sanders, dir Alfred Hitchcock UA 120min (p/s) 4:30am *Hangover Square* (1945) Laird Cregar & George Sanders, dir John Brahm FOX 77min (p/s) ------------STATS--------------- 1920s- 3 1930s- 21 1940s- 23 1950s- 19 1960s- 13 1970s- 5 1980s- 3 1990s- 2

And, before I finalize and post my schedule, let's have the official ruling on MARY POPPINS. Yes we know it would be hard for TCM to ever get the rights, but for the purposes of the game, does it simply count as another Disney Live Action Film? Or shall we stay in reality and say "no dice"?

So, skimpole, your schedule made me happy-- seeing TOTORO, RASHOMON, and GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES right off the bat, for one thing. Then lots of awesome movies throughout. Great way to do Christmastime. Great having a foreign film for the Essentials. Yay. By the way, Moderator, my Columbia tribute was too long for an evening, so instead it's daytime. Hope that's okay. I think when you see the list of films, you'll see why I couldn't narrow it down.

Quick question-- do the four Columbia premieres have to all be in your special Columbia programming section, or can they be scattered around?

I must say it's awesome to do a whole day for Toshiro Mifune. American Stars get so much attention, it's nice to spread the love around to character actors and our Foreign Film Stars, especially someone who, in thise case, is such an amazing performer. (Takashi Shimura would be another good candidate someday.)

Capuchin, how ridiculously good you are! I love all the plays on "if TCM programmers were on other networks" (great excuse to schedule one of my favorite musicals of al time, HOW TO SUCCEED). Plus showing two of my favorite Christmas movies in June is awesome (CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT and SCROOGE-- my favorite version of that tale). Plus I thought it was quite innovative, as it were, to show a silent version of OLIVER TWIST instead of going for either of the two famous ones. And Basil Rathbone as SOTM will be tough to beat for my vote. It would be cool if TCM used him: you could have one whole night for his Sherlock movies and another for his swashbuckling movies. Great choice. All Hail Character Actors! Working on mine as we speak...

Nice, countess. Very original to honor a studio--and THAT studio is an excellent choice. So many amazing films and artists from that studio. My brain is spinning already. Pretty excited about this one. May I add, for newcomers, that this is the best way I know to request a film. I've had many a Premiere wind up on TCM, and I know the others have, too. The TCM Programmer(s) read this and sometimes copy these ideas. That is the greatest prize of all. Plus it's really fun. So join us!

MISSION TO MOSCOW

August 1st is here....

(Mister) Neely - Chill Wills in MEET ME IN ST LOUIS

Gatsby, Jay - Robert Redford in THE GREAT GATSBY

Keenan Wynn is a character actor who is the son of a character actor-- double the fun! Favorite Keenan Wynn quote is from Finian's Rainbow (and this may not be exact, but you get the idea): "My family has had nothing but trouble from immigrants ever since they came to this country!"

This would rock my world. Exceot you need Mildred Natwick and Ward Bond on there. Though, really, it would be hard to narrow them down to only 31.