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Texting works when nothing else will, as people in Southern California discovered a couple of years ago when a repairman in Yuma cut a line and blacked out everything from the southern parts of Orange and Riverside Counties all the way into Mexico.

Ryan O'Neal has also had to cancel. The list of presenters keeps getting longer, however. It's a great lineup. There's a list of Special Guests under one of the drop-down menus in the Film Festival section. It seems to be updated just about every day.

Tim Conway will no longer be able to attend the festival, according to a new note on the list of special guests.

Great news! Alan Arkin should be a most interesting subject to interview, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a fine film. This is one of the few Hollywood films whose picture of the South rings true to a Southerner. Now we know why they were saving that empty block on Sunday afternoon at the Egyptian theater. I also just realized that Mark Harris is one of the guest presenters. Because he has just published Five Came Back, a study of directors influenced by their experience in WWII, I imagine he will be introducing The Best Years of Our Lives. He is the husband of playwright Tony Kushner. Edited by: kingrat on Mar 27, 2014 3:50 PM

Though it isn't being shown Thursday, THESE THOUSAND HILLS is a fine western with Don Murray and Lee Remick. It may show up on the Fox Movie Channel, which is not a station I get. SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL is really good, and it isn't known all that well. Think of it as a film noir set in Ireland with the IRA as the villains.

Yanceycravat, who posts here, is one of the fan programmers. He will introduce WENT THE DAY WELL?

Sorry, Fedya. The swimming pool was the first thing that came to mind. I have no doubt that whatever you come up with will be brilliant. You've proven that time and again.

Thanks, obrienmundy. I re-posted the list of previous Essentials as a new thread under The Essentials. This challenge was really a lot of fun.

The excellent book Warner Brothers Directors mentions several films which John Huston was supposed to direct but for various reasons did not, and I thought it would be interesting to consider them as ?what if? projects. LonesomePolecat?s favorite What a Way To Go suggested widows as a theme, and I alternate merry widows and black widows, bringing the sequence to a close with Shadow of a Doubt. You may recall that Uncle Charlie is ?the Merry Widow killer.? Sunset Blvd. can be deconstructed in many different ways, and I picked five in all because this turned out to be so much fun. First we have dark views of Hollywood as seen by characters who are screenwriters. Donald Sutherland plays a set designer rather than a screenwriter in The Day of the Locust, but this film seems a natural fit with the others. ?The life of the mind!? is a quote from Barton Fink. Tuesday morning offers movies featuring some of the cast of Sunset Blvd. Merle Oberon makes a lovely Star of the Month, and not all of her best films, especially Dark Waters and Night Song, are as familiar as they ought to be. Wednesday leads us back to Sunset Blvd. and films about actresses, and I deliberately picked ones that speedracer had not chosen. Wednesday night returns to Sunset Blvd. to feature movies where swimming pools play an important role in at least one scene. Thursday begins with a tribute to Robert Osborne?s good friend Barbara Rush and ends with movies inspired by the recent showing of My Dinner with Andre. The Friday schedule has the last bloc of films inspired by Sunset Blvd., older woman/younger man pictures, and there are a great variety of situations, from true love to kept men to the relationship of Alice Brady and her gay young friend in When Ladies Meet. The Friday Night Spotlight salutes 1950s westerns, the great decade for this genre. The recent discussion about the questionable choices of The Sugarland Express and I Love You, Alice B. Toklas as Essentials led me to consider which famous films had never been selected as Essentials, based on the lists drawn up by lzcutter and Kyle. Take a look at 10 movies never chosen, but which are Essentials in my book, with pride of place going to The Red Shoes. Finally, Saturday Night Underground presents a very obscure Anthony Perkins film, The Fool Killer, which is said to be similar in some regards to Psycho.

Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014 Directed by John Huston . . . Oh, Maybe Not 6:00 a.m. ? THREE STRANGERS (1946) BW-92 min. WB. Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sydney Greenstreet. D: Jean Negulesco. p/s 7:45 a.m. ? THE KILLERS (1946) BW-103 min. Universal. Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner. D: Robert Siodmak. p/s 9:30 a.m. ? THE STRANGER (1946) BW-115 min. RKO. Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson. D: Orson Welles. p/s 11:30 a.m. ? QUO VADIS (1951) C-171 min. MGM. Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr. D: Mervyn LeRoy. p/s 2:30 p.m. ? THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (1969) C-132 min. WB. Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer. D: Bryan Forbes. p/s Actually Directed by John Huston 4:45 p.m. ? THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) BW-100 min. WB. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor. p/s 6:30 p.m. ? BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) BW-89 min. UA. Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones. p/s Widows, Merry and Otherwise (Part 1) 8:00 p.m. ? WHAT A WAY TO GO (1964) C-111 min. Fox. Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman. D: J. Lee Thompson. LP PREMIERE. 10:00 p.m. ? BLACK WIDOW (1987) C-102 min. Fox. Theresa Russell, Debra Winger. D: Bob Rafelson. PREMIERE #1. 11:45 p.m. ? SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS: THE MERRY WIDOW (1925). BW-137 min. MGM. Mae Murray, John Gilbert. D: Erich von Stroheim. p/s 2:15 a.m. ? TCM FILM IMPORTS: THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (1968). C-107 min. UA. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy. D: Francois Truffaut. p/s 4:15 a.m. ? THE MERRY WIDOW (1934). BW-99 min. MGM. Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier. D: Ernst Lubitsch. p/s Monday, Feb. 17, 2014 Widows, Merry and Otherwise (Part 2) 6:00 a.m. ? BLACK WIDOW (1954) C-95 min. Fox. Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin. D: Nunnally Johnson. p/s 7:45 a,m, - THE MERRY WIDOW (1952) C-105 min. MGM. Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas. D: Curtis Bernhardt. p/s 9:30 a.m. ? SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) BW-108 min. Universal. Joseph Cotton, Teresa Wright. D: Alfred Hitchcock. p/s Behind the Scenes Challenge: Music by Bronislau Kaper 11:30 a.m. ? LILI (1953) C-81 min. MGM. Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer. D: Charles Walters. p/s 1:00 p.m. ? A LIFE OF HER OWN (1950) BW-108 min. MGM. Lana Turner, Ray Milland. D: George Cukor. p/s 3:00 p.m. ? THAT FORSYTE WOMAN (1949) C-113 min. MGM. Greer Garson, Errol Flynn. D: Compton Bennett. p/s 5:00 p.m. ? MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962) C-178 min. MGM. Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard. D: Lewis Milestone. p/s Sunset Blvd. Challenge #1 ? Hollywood Dystopia ? ?The Life of the Mind!? 8:00 p.m. ? PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972) C-99 min. Universal. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld. D: Frank Perry. PREMIERE #2. 9:45 p.m. ? BARTON FINK (1991) C-116 min. Fox. John Turturro, John Goodman. D: Joel and Ethan Coen. PREMIERE #3. 11:45 p.m. ? THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1975) C-144 min. Paramount. Donald Sutherland, William Atherton. D: John Schlesinger. PREMIERE #4. 2:15 a.m. ? IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) BW-94 min. Columbia. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame. D: Nicholas Ray. p/s 4:00 a.m. ?THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) BW-118 min. MGM. Dick Powell, Gloria Grahame. D: Vincente Minnelli. p/s Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 Sunset Blvd. Challenge #2 ? The Cast of Sunset Blvd. in Other Movies 6:00 a.m. ? Fred Clark: HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953) C-95 min. Fox. D: Jean Negulesco. p/s 7:45 a.m. ? Gloria Swanson: AIRPORT ?75 (1975) C-107 min. Universal. D: Jack Smight. PREMIERE #5. 9:45 a.m. ? Anna May Wong: SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932) BW- 80 min. Paramount. D: Joseph von Sternberg. p/s 11:15 a.m. ? Nancy Olson: BATTLE CRY (1955) C-149 min. WB. D: Raoul Walsh. p/s 2:00 p.m. ? Erich von Stroheim: GRAND ILLUSION (1937) BW-114 min. RAC. D: Jean Renoir. p/s 4:00 p.m. ? Jack Webb: THE MEN (1950) BW-85 min. UA. D: Fred Zinnemann. p/s 5:30 p.m. ? William Holden: THE KEY (1958). BW-134 min. Columbia. D: Carol Reed. p/s Star of the Month: Merle Oberon 8:00 p.m. ? DARK WATERS (1944) BW-90 min. UA. w/Franchot Tone. D: Andre De Toth. PREMIERE #6. 9:45 p.m. ? NIGHT SONG (1947) BW-102 min, RKO. w/Dana Andrews. D: John Cromwell. p/s 11:30 p.m. ? THE DARK ANGEL (1935) BW-106 min. w/Fredric March. UA. D: Sidney Franklin. p/s 1:30 a.m. ? THESE THREE (1936) BW-93 min. UA. w/Joel McCrea. D: William Wyler. p/s 3:15 a.m. ? FIRST COMES COURAGE (1943) BW-88 min. Columbia. w/Brian Aherne. D: Dorothy Arzner. p/s 4:45 a.m. ? DESIREE (1954) C-110 min. Fox. w/Marlon Brando. D: Henry Koster. p/s Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 Sunset Blvd. Challenge #3 ? Movies About Actresses 6:45 a.m. ? WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (1932) BW-88 min. RKO. w/Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman. D: George Cukor. p/s 8:15 a.m. ? TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934) BW-91 min. Columbia. w/Carole Lombard, John Barrymore. D: Howard Hawks. p/s 10:00 a.m. ? DANGEROUS (1935) BW-79 min. WB. w/Bette Davis, Franchot Tone. D: Alfred E. Green. p/s 11:30 a.m. ? THE HARD WAY (1943) BW-109 min. WB. w/Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie. D: Vincent Sherman. p/s 1:30 p.m. ? THE VELVET TOUCH (1948) BW-100 min. RKO. w/Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn. p/s 4:45 p.m. ? HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS (1960) C-100 min. Paramount. w/Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn. D: George Cukor. p/s 6:30 p.m. ? PERSONA (1966) BW- 83 min. Svensk. w/Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson. D: Ingmar Bergman. p/s Sunset Blvd. Challenge #4 ?Swimming Pools 8:00 p.m. ? PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND (1963) C-100 min. WB. w/Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens. D: Norman Taurog. p/s 9:45 p.m. ? THE DROWNING POOL (1975) C-108 min. WB. w/Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward. D: Stuart Rosenberg. p/s 11:45 p.m. ? THE SWIMMER (1968) C-95 min. Columbia. w/Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule. D: Frank Perry. p/s 1:30 a.m. ? DEEP END (1970) C-88 min. Paramount. w/Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown. D: Jerzy Skolimowski. p/s 3:00 a.m. ? UNDERWORLD USA (1961) BW-99 min. Columbia. w/Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn. D: Samuel Fuller. p/s 4:45 a,m, - DANGEROUS WHEN WET (1953) C-95 min. MGM. w/Esther Walters, Fernando Lamas. D: Charles Walters. p/s Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 A Tribute to Barbara Rush 6:30 a.m. ? ROBIN AND THE SEVEN HOODS (1964) C-123 min. WB. w/Frank Sinatra. D: Gordon Douglas. p/s 8:45 a.m. ? MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) C-108 min. Universal. w/Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman. D: Douglas Sirk. p/s 10:45 a.m. ? THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (1959) BW-136 min. WB. w/Paul Newman. D: Vincent Sherman. p/s 1:15 p.m. ? BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956) C-95 min. Fox. w/James Mason. D: Nicholas Ray. p/s 3:00 p.m. ? THE YOUNG LIONS (1958) BW-167 min. Fox. w/Marlon Brando. D: Edward Dmytryk. p/s 6:00 p.m. ? HOMBRE (1967) BW-111 min. Fox. w/Paul Newman. D: Martin Ritt. PREMIERE #7. My (Very Long) Dinner with Andre 8:00 p.m. ? D: Andre De Toth. RAMROD (1947) BW-95 min. UA. w/Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake. PREMIERE #8. 9:45 p.m. ? w/Andre the Giant. THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987). C-98 min. Fox. D: Rob Reiner. PREMIERE #9. 11:30 p.m. ? Music by Andre Previn. THE CATERED AFFAIR. BW-92 min. MGM. w/Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine. D: Richard Brooks. p/s 1:15 a.m. ? Mel Ferrer as Andre. WAR AND PEACE. C-208 min. Paramount. w/Audrey Hepburn. D: King Vidor. p/s 4:45 a.m. ? w/Andre Gregory. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) C-110. Saga. D: Louis Malle. p/s Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 Sunset Blvd. Challenge #5 ? Older Woman/Younger Man: Consider the Possibilities 6:45 a.m. ? LAURA (1944) BW-88 min. Fox. Judith Anderson/Vincent Price. D: Otto Preminger. p/s 8:15 a.m. ? SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1962) C-120 min. MGM. Geraldine Page/Paul Newman. D: Richard Brooks. p/s 10:30 a.m. ? WHEN LADIES MEET (1941) BW-105 min. MGM. Alice Brady/Rafael Storm. D: Robert Z. Leonard. p/s 12:30 p.m. ? SUMMER OF ?42 (1971) C-102 min. WB. Jennifer O?Neill/Gary Grimes. D: Robert Mulligan. p/s PREMIERE #10. 2:15 p.m. ? CAMILLE (1936) BW-109 min. MGM. Greta Garbo/Robert Taylor. D: George Cukor. p/s 4:15 p.m. ? LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING (1973) C-110 min. Columbia. Maggie Smith/Timothy Bottoms. D: Alan J. Pakula. p/s 6:15 p.m. ? HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) C-91 min. Paramount. Ruth Gordon/Bud Cort. D: Hal Ashby. p/s Friday Night Spotlight: The 1950s Western 8:00 p.m. ? DAY OF THE OUTLAW (1959) BW-93 min. UA. w/Robert Ryan, Burl Ives. D: Andre De Toth. p/s 9:45 p.m. ? WARLOCK (1959) C-121 min. Fox. w/Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda. D: Edward Dmytryk. p/s 12:00 a.m. ? WESTWARD THE WOMEN (1951) BW-118 min. MGM. w/Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel. D: William Wellman. p/s 2:15 a.m. ? 3:10 TO YUMA (1957) BW-92 min. Columbia. w/Glenn Ford, Van Heflin. D: Delmer Daves. p/s 4:00 a.m. ? THE BIG SKY (1952) BW-140 min. RKO. w/Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin. D: Howard Hawks. p/s Saturday ? A Day of Essentials 6:30 a.m. ? ON THE TOWN (1949) C-98 min. MGM. w/Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra. D: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly. p/s 8:15 a.m. ? MY MAN GODFREY (1936) BW-94 min. Universal. w/Carole Lombard, William Powell. D: Gregory La Cava. p/s 10:00 a.m. ? LOST HORIZON (1937) BW-132 min. Columbia. w/Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt. D: Frank Capra. p/s 12:15 p.m. ? THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) C-129 min. Columbia. w/Michael Caine, Sean Connery. D: John Huston. p/s 2:30 p.m. ? SECONDS (1966) BW-106 min. Paramount. w/Rock Hudson, John Randolph. D: John Frankenheimer. p/s 4:30 p.m. ? MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) BW-95 min. RKO. w/Dick Powell, Claire Trevor. D: Edward Dmytryk. p/s 6:15 p.m. ? BONJOUR TRISTESSE (1958) C-94 min. Columbia. w/Jean Seberg, David Niven. D: Otto Preminger. p/s 8:00 p.m. ? THE ESSENTIALS: THE RED SHOES (1948) C-133 min. Rank. w/Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook. D: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. p/s 10:30 p.m. ? THE KILLING (1956) BW-85 min. UA. w/Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor. D: Stanley Kubrick. p/s 12:00 a.m. ? CHINATOWN (1974) C-130 min. Paramount. w/Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway. D: Roman Polanski. p/s Saturday Night Underground 2:15 a.m. ? THE FOOL KILLER (1965) BW-99 min. Allied/AIP. w/Anthony Perkins, Dana Elcar. D: Servando Gonzalez. 4:00 a.m. ? PSYCHO (1960) BW-109 min. Paramount. w/Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh. D: Alfred Hitchcock. p/s

I love *Act of Violence*, MissW. One of the great noirs, and simply a great film. Mary Astor, who played so many upper-crust women, is just terrific as a down-and-outer.

Adding comments about some others not previously mentioned: The Rains of Ranchipur is a rather dull remake of the very fine film The Rains Came. Johnny Apollo is a nifty noir or gangster film, with Tyrone Power in a good role, Dorothy Lamour proving herself a really fine actress (wish she'd had more parts like this), and strong direction by Henry Hathaway. The 1953 Julius Caesar is pretty good. Brando got vocal coaching from John Gielgud and made a strong Antony. Cassius was one of Gielgud's favorite Shakespearean roles. Blues in the Night turns into a kind of noir musical. The shift in tone when Lloyd Nolan is helped onto the train shouldn't work, but I think it does. Band of Angels, not great, is still worth seeing, and Yvonne DeCarlo could believably be mixed race.

qpdoll, If an event is one you absolutely don't want to miss, one of your two or three tops for the whole festival, then show up 45 minutes in advance. When I've shown up an hour in advance, I'm usually in the first 10 in line. I've never missed a movie this way, and I always get the Classic pass rather than the more expensive ones. When the attendants begin handing out numbers, you can take your number, go to the restroom or get a snack if you like, then return to the line 20-30 minutes before the show. The attendants will tell you when you need to be there. Everyone will then line up by number, and about 20-25 will be seated at a time. They have the system down to a T, and it works extremely well. You'll have a great time!

Most classic movie fans seem to adulate Gloria Grahame, who had sex with her 13-year-old stepson. Today she would be considered a pedophile and would need to register as a sex offender.

We need to bump this great thread up! I have six days done, but no days typed, so will probably finish this up next weekend. To my surprise, 1) I found a fun way to include a favorite film by Lonesome Polecat and 2) it has been fun to think of different ways to use Sunset Blvd. as a jumping off point for several threads. An excellent challenge, with so many outstanding schedules.

Hi, Maven! Looking forward to seeing you again at the festival. Thanks for recommending Her Sister's Secret so strongly. That's probably the one I'll go for.

SueSue, there is now a handy Print Schedule icon and it works! Click on TCM Festival, then click on Schedule and you will see the Print Schedule to the right of the days.

If you've already seen *The Thin Man*, *East of Eden*, and *Stagecoach*, don't overlook the other movie showing Friday morning: *On Approval*, an English comedy in the manner of Ernst Lubitsch's *Design for Living*. Beatrice Lillie, better known for her stage and television appearances, stars as the insufferable Maria (pronounced like Mariah Carey). Two couples decide to live together before marriage "on approval" to see if they are compatible. I remember enjoying this film on television a number of years ago. I don't think it's ever been shown on TCM. Three of the films which had interested me the most--*Sorcerer,* *The Pawnbroker*, and *Her Sister's Secret*--are, naturally, being shown at the same time. I also need to remember to schedule time for meals. Food is now available inside the Chinese mallplex, so that makes things a little easier.

Thanks so much for posting the information about the schedule and the theaters! If you are standing in line for the show at the Grauman's Chinese or the Egyptian, you will be standing outside. Pack sunscreen--unless it rains like it did a couple of years ago, in which case you will need an umbrella! For the mallplex theaters--Chinese 1, Chinese 4, and Chinese 6--you will be standing in line inside, with a very few exceptions for the most popular movies. The Chinese 1 is fairly large and comfortable. The smaller theaters are below average in quality for a mallplex--but oh, the movies you get to see there!

Thanks for an excellent schedule, speedracer5! Hope you had as much fun making it as we've had reading it. I particularly like the films where real-life couples met. The trajectory of a star's life is another fine theme.

Thank you for the great pictures and discussions. So the famous opening credits of the Andy Griffith Show were filmed at the same location as a well-known Rolling Stones cover! That is a fun fact.

Mark Harris provides a great snapshot of the way Hollywood was in 1967 in his *Pictures at a Revolution*, discussing the five movies nominated for Best Picture: *Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*, and *Doctor Dolittle*.

Great news about Charlton Heston. And we now know when TOUCH OF EVIL will be shown. TCM sent an email today saying that we should receive our Passes by Friday, March 14 unless we asked to have them held at Will Call. In previous years TCM has announced the full schedule about three weeks before the festival, which means we should hear sometime next week.

A thought or two about *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*: Muriel Spark, author of the novel, was a devout Catholic. She was sometimes lumped with writers like Flannery O'Connor and Graham Greene as "gloomy Catholics"--not the *Going My Way* kind. We never see the process of Sandy finding religious faith. We can infer that her selfishness and envy and betrayal eventually lead her to a renunciation of her sins, and of the world. Miss JB was turned into a hit play, with Vanessa Redgrave as Miss Brodie. There's a later mini-series starring Geraldine McEwan, who is also great. The role is so good that just about any appropriately cast actress can make a great success with it. The movie follows the novel closely.

finance, you'll be pleased that daytime on June 30 is devoted to Susan Hayward. That should make a lot of us happy. Note to self: the Rene Clair films are scheduled on June 18, which is definitely not Bastille Day. Still, that should be an enjoyable evening. Sam Peckinpah tribute on June 11, Ida Lupino tribute on June 12, and for hard-core noir fans, an evening of Lawrence Tierney films on June 25.