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new article on Novak: http://fan.tcm.com/blogpost/kim-novak-the-other-blonde

http://fan.tcm.com/blogpost/dorothy-gish-the-other-sister

http://fan.tcm.com/blogpost/dorothy-gish-the-other-sister

Rewatched About Mrs. Leslie last night. Great film with super performance by Shirley Booth. Improbable on some levels, but it never gets mawkish. Booth and Robert Ryan turn in understated performances which balance nicely with the comic relief (poor Percy Helton and his wine glasses), and the "young" love story (Alex Nicol and Marjie Martin). Booth's 4 starring films could certainly have earned her 4 Oscar nominations.

In November 2014 TCM presented SILENT STARS OF THE MONTH and featured a bunch of stars who probably don't have enough films available for a month-long salute: Gloria Swanson, Marion Davies, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Wallace Reid among them.

Booth also starred in a TV movie of The Glass Menagerie

http://fan.tcm.com/b...g-shirley-booth article I posted just this week......

As with Hot Spell and probably almost all of the films that were released years ago on VHS, there are copies of it floating around. Hysterically, there's a VHS on Amazon for only $99.95. My guess is that there are DVDs from the old VHS out there.

No idea. I think it was out on VHS in the 70s or 80s because I've seen it. Booth appears as herself, along with a lot of the Broadway stars of the time. This was an indie production although released by MGM. Her other films are Paramount releases.

What does that mean?

Booth appeared in five films in the 1950s and a few TV movies ... probably nowhere near enough for a SOTN but enough for a Summer Under the Stars tribute....

VHS of Hot Spell was released decades ago and is still around.... http://vhscollector.com/movie/hot-spell

DVD from an old VHS release......

In some ways, Booth's performance is better in Hot Spell than in Sheba because she gets to do a little comic relief with Heckart, and yes the ending is excellent. The character she plays may be a little more realistic, but she's great in both. What a pity she didn't come to films earlier.

Hot Spell is around. I just watched it the other night. No idea if TCM has ever aired it. Shirley Booth is excellent again as the silly wife who's always talking about going back to some town when they were all happy. Anthony Quinn is a philandering husband, the "kids" are all grown and ready to leave. She'll be alone. So there's this "Trip to Bountiful" thing going on. Of course, you can't go home again. Amid the drama there's this very funny scene when breezy Eileen Heckart drops by and tries to jazz up Booth by teaching her to flirt by smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. Hysterical. The kids are played by Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman, Clint Kimbrough. Maybe TCM can't get it because it was a Paramount release???

"Arcane" is hardly the word to use. It's just period slang popularized by the movies.

http://fan.tcm.com/blogpost/remembering-shirley-booth

King of Alcatraz (1938) is floating around....

Thunderbolt is floating around also....

Valiant is another one that's floating around....

Yup, the (bad) luck of the draw. She's basically remembered for her films with Fields, but she had a solid career aside from that. Had she been an MGM actress, she'd be better remembered today and her films would be seen more often on TCM.

Alison Skipworth is always good. She's one of those performers who always lift a picture and add interest. Just saw her in Becky Sharp. Her best role may be in Outward Bound with Leslie Howard.

It's on Youtube.