filmlover
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It was a very good film. I haven't seen it since it came out.
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Who cares if she can act?
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Saturday, October 21st,1939
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My favorite Beach movie. But with all the pics here, people are forgetting the best part of it...
Marta Kristen as lovely and sweet Lorelei. She gave Jody McCrea a chance to finally show some acting.
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Kyle, we miss you around here, buddy. I hope you are just taking a vacation. We can't have you and Robert O. both be missing in action.
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Fri., Oct. 20th, 1939
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Thurs., Oct. 19th, 1939
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I prefer David Lean when he didn't have big budgets and years to make films. Give me Brief Encounter, Oliver Twist, and In Which We Serve over Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter any day.
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42nd Street set a style in musicals, that of Busby Berkeley, while combining a look at the Depression as it was happening. In that sense it was a first. Look at some of the musicals just prior, such as Broadway Melody, and the staging seems stodgy. 42nd Street was remarkable, and got better with pictures like Footlight Parade.
Bonnie and Clyde, too, was a trendsetter. Violence was extreme, and it had two attractive actors just on the cusp of stardom, and it appealed to the young crowd who, like the outlaws (at least as they were depicted in the movie), were rebelling against society.
Grapes of Wrath - A brilliant film at any time. People, who through no fault of their own, have to give up their home and cross America to California to find work, and meet brutal conditions along the way. Who could fall asleep in this?
Yes, there are films that have been overrated over the years, but these three are not. I mean, you shouldn't go into a film like 42nd Street and expect to see full color extravaganzas. It was of its time.
Films I consider overrated: Citizen Kane, 2001, Lawrence of Arabia. Oddly enough, I just realize that the connection between all three is they are big, but take a long time to get anywhere.
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Thanks, LP!
I've also now allowed myself a look at the other schedules. Congrats to Sansfin, JamesinArlington, skimpole, and kingrat. Excellent!!!
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Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Clark Kent/Superman and Lois Lane in the serials Superman and Atom Man vs. Superman (she was also Lois in most of the TV series), and played Lois' parents in the 1978 Superman.
Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in the TV series. and Neill were in the Superman Returns movie.
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Wed, Oct. 18th, 1939
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{font:Arial}{color:black}Notes:
I know, I know, just a few days ago I said I wouldn't be able to contribute a schedule due to time, but then over the weekend inspiration struck. I was listening to the soundtrack of That's Entertainment and suddenly thought all the films featured in the movie would make an impressive lineup. I also thought it was an idea that would write itself and no one had ever done it before. Halfway through getting them all into a list, I realized why no one had. It's a daunting job!
(The only films left out were those ones in quick Gable clips during "You Made Me Love You" and one flash clip of Judy Garland "For Me and My Gal" in Summer Stock's "Get Happy" number)
For the "In My Background" section, I chose Cinema Paradiso (because I used to hang around the projection booth when I was young at a local theatre), Those Lips Those Eyes (because that was what I was like when I was about 18), and Play It Again Sam (because I was a writer and liked Bogart, just like Woody Allen did in the film).
For "In the Background," I chose editor Verna Fields, who was supposedly the person who introduced Steven Spielberg to George Lucas.
p.s. -- Much as I would like to take credit for the title "The Fu Manchurian Candidate", I have to admit it came from a film magazine of the Sixties.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
*In My Background*6:00 am Cinema Paradiso (Mirimax, 1990) Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio 123 min p/s
8:15 am Those Lips Those Eyes (UA, 1980) Frank Langella, Tom Hulce 105 min. p/s10:00 am Play It Again, Sam (Par., 1972) Woody Allen 86 min. p/s11:30 am The Court Jester (Par., 1956) Danny Kaye 101 min. p/s*But I Thought They Were the Good Guys?*
1:15 pm Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (WB, 1950) James Cagney, Ward Bond & Barton MacLane 103 min. PREMIERE
3:00 pm Appointment With Danger 1951 (Par., 1951) Alan Ladd, Jack Webb & Harry Morgan 90 min. PREMIERE*That Hagen Girl*
4:30 pm The Asphalt Jungle (MGM, 1950) Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen 115 min. ps
6:30 pm Half A Hero (MGM, 1953) Red Skelton, Jean Hagen 75 min.*The Titanic: 100th Anniversary of the Sinking*
8:00 pm Titanic (Par. 1997) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslett 194 min. PREMIERE
11:30 PM SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS Saved From The Titanic (Eclair, 1912( Dorothy Gibson 10 min.12 mid. TCM IMPORTS Titanic (Tobis, 1943) German propaganda film 85 min. p/s1:30 am A Night to Remember (Rank, 1958) Kenneth More 123 min. p/s4:00 am Titanic (Fox, 1953) Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck 98 min. PREMIERE*THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT - A 5-Day Look at the Movies that Made Up the Movie*
Monday, April 16, 2012{font}
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Day 1{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 am Hollywood Revue of 1929 (MGM, 1929) Cliff Edwards 119 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 am Speak Easily (MGM, 1932) Jimmy Durante 82 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:30 am Little Nellie Kelly (MGM, 1940) Judy Garland 99 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:15 am Singin' in the Rain (MGM, 1952) Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds 103 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:00 pm The Broadway Melody (1929) Anita Page, Bessie Love 101 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:45 pm Rosalie (MGM, 1937) Eleanor Powell 124 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}5:00 pm The Great Ziegfeld (MGM, 1936) William Powell 176 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 pm Rose Marie (MGM, 1936) Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald 111 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:00 pm Broadway Melody of 1940 (MGM, 1940) Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell 102 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:45 am It Happened in Brooklyn (MGM, 1947) Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante 103 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:30 am Cynthia (MGM, 1947) Elizabeth Taylor 98 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:30 am Thousands Cheer (MGM, 1947) Gene Kelly, Lena Horne 126 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Tuesday, April 17, 2012{font}
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Day 2{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 am Take Me Out to the Ball Game (MGM, 1949) Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly 93 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}7:45 am Words and Music (MGM, 1948) Mickey Rooney 122 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:00 am Good News (MGM, 1947) June Allyson, Peter Lawford 94 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}12:00 pm On An Island With You (MGM, 1948) Esther Williams, Peter Lawford 108 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:00 pm Two Weeks With Love (MGM, 1950) (MGM, 1950) Debbie Reynolds 93 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:45 pm A Date With Judy (MGM, 1948) Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell 114 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 pm The Harvey Girls (MGM, 1946) Judy Garland 102 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 pm Free and Easy (MGM, 1930) Robert Taylor 93 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:00 pm Reckless (MGM, 1935) Jean Harlow 98 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}12:00 mid Suzy (MGM, 1936) Jean Harlow, Cary Grant 94 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:00 am Born to Dance (MGM, 1936) Eleanor Powell, James Stewart 106 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}4:00 am Idiot's Delight (MGM, 1939) Clark Gable, Norma Shearer 111 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Wednesday, April 17, 2012{font}
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Day 3{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 am Broadway Melody of 1938 (MGM, 1937) Judy Garland 111 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 am Broadway to Hollywood (MGM, 1933) Mickey Rooney 85 min.Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland 92 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:45 am Babes in Arms (MGM, 1939) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland 97 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:30 am Strike Up the Band (MGM, 1940) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland 121 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:00 pm Babes on Broadway (MGM, 1942) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland 118 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}4:00 pm Girl Crazy (MGM, 1943) Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland 99 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 pm Ziegfeld Follies (MGM, 1946) Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly 110 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 pm Barkleys of Broadway (MGM, 1949)Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers 109 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:00 pm Dancing Lady (MGM, 1933) Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire 92 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:45 pm The Band Wagon (MGM, 1952) Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse 113 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:45 am Royal Wedding (MGM, 1951) Fred Astaire 94 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:30 am Toast of New Orleans (MGM, 1950) Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza 98 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}5:15 am Short: Some of the Best - Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (MGM, 1949) incl All Star Luncheon 42 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Thursday, April 18, 2012{font}
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Day 4{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 am Bathing Beauty (MGM, 1944) Red Skelton, Esther Williams 102 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}7:45 am Pagan Love Song (MGM, 1950) Esther Williams, Howard Keel 76 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:15 am Dangerous When Wet (MGM, 1953) Esther William, Fernando Lamas 96 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:00 am Neptune's Daughter (MGM, 1949) Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban 93 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}12:45 pm Easy to Love (MGM, 1953) Esther Williams, Van Johnson 97 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:30 pm Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM, 1952) Esther Williams 111 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}4:30 pm Pagan Love Song (MGM, 1950) Esther Williams, Howard Keel 76 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 pm Three Little Words (MGM, 1950) Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Debbie Reynolds 103 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 pm The Pirate (MGM, 1948) Gene Kelly 102 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:45 pm Living In A Big Way (MGM, 1947) Gene Kelly 104 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:45 pm On the Town (MGM, 1949) Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra 98 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:30 am Anchors Aweigh (MGM, 1945) Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly 140 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}4:00 am Summer Stock (MGM, 1950) Gene Kelly, Judy Garland 110 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Friday, April 19, 2012{font}
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Day 5{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 am In the Good Old Summertime (MGM, 1949) Judy Garland 103 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Short: La Fiesta De Santa Barbara (MGM, 1935) Gumm Sisters 19 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Short: Every Sunday (MGM, 1936) Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin 11 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:30 am The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939) Judy Garland 102 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:15 am Meet Me In St. Louis (MGM, 1944) Judy Garland 113 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}12:15 pm Going Hollywood (MGM, 1933) Bing Crosby 78 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:45 pm High Society (MGM, 1956) Bing Crosby 107 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:45 pm Hit the Deck (MGM, 1955) Jane Powell 113 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}6:00 pm Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (MGM, 1956) Howard Keel, Jane Powell 103 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}8:00 pm Small Town Girl (MGM, 1953) Ann Miller 95 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:45 pm Show Boat (MGM, 1951) Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel 108 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:45 pm Gigi (MGM, 1958) Leslie Caron, Louis Jordan 116 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:45 pm An American in Paris (MGM, 1951) 114 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:45 pm That's Entertainment (MGM, 1974) 135 min.{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}Saturday, April 20, 2012{font}
*The Fu Manchurian Candidate*
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6:00 am The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (Par., 1929) Warner Oland, Jean Arthur 80 min. PREMIERE{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}7:30 am The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (Par., 1930) Warner Oland, Jean Arthur 73 min. PREMIERE{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}9:00 am Paramount on Parade (Par., 1930) Warner Oland 102 min.PREMIERE{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:00 am Drums of Fu Manchu (Republic, 1940) chap. 1 Fu Manchu Strikes PREMIERE{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:30 am Drums of Fu Manchu (Republic, 1940) chap. 2 The Monster{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}12:00 pm Daughter of the Dragon (Par., 1931) Warner Oland, Anna May Wong 70 min.{font}
*In the Background: Verna Fields, Editor*
{font:Arial}{color:black}1:30 pm What's Up Doc? (WB, 1972) Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal 94 min. PREMIERE{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}3:15 pm American Graffiti (Univ., 1973) Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss 113 min p/s{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}5:30 pm Jaws (Univ., 1975) Roy Scheider 124 min. p/s{font}
*Star of the Month: Playmates of the Month*
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8:00 pm THE ESSENTIALS: The Seven Year Itch (Fox, 1955) Marilyn Monroe 105 min. p/s{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}10:00 pm The Ghost and Mr.Chicken (Univ., 1966) Don Knotts, Joan Staley 90 min. p/s{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}11:45 pm The Nutty Professor (Par., 1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens 108 min. p/s{font}
{font:Arial}{color:black}2:00 am TCM UNDERGROUND Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (Univ. 1969) Anthony Newley, Connie Kreski, Joan Collins, Milton Berle, George Jessel 104 min. PREMIERE
{font}4{font:Arial}{color:black}:00 am They All Laughed (PSO, 1981) Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Dorothy Stratten 115 min. PREMIERE{font}
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Tuesday, Oct. 17th, 1939
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Monday, Oct. 16, 1939
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On TCM today...
A US/UK co-production...
...and a US/UK/Switzerland effort
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New Criterion releases for January
January 17:
Belle de joure (Luis Buñuel, 1967) on DVD and Blu-ray
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) on Blu (already available on DVD)
Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin DVD only
January 24:
The Moment of Truth (Francesco Rosi, 1964) DVD and Blu
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954) DVD and Blu
Technical specs and special features include:
*Belle de jour*
* New high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour
* New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams
* New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
* Excerpt from the French television program Cinéma, featuring interviews with Carrière and actress Catherine Deneuve
* Original and American release trailers
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson and a 1970s interview with director Luis Buñuel
*Traffic*
* Restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Steven Soderbergh and supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Larry Blake with 5.1 and 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks
* Three audio commentaries, featuring Soderbergh and writer Stephen Gaghan; producers Laura Bickford, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz and consultants Tim Golden and Craig Chretien; and composer Cliff Martinez
* Twenty-five deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Soderbergh and Gaghan
* Three sets of demonstrations: one on film processing and the look of the Mexico sequences; one on film editing, with commentary by editor Stephen Mirrione; and one on dialogue editing
* Additional unused footage of various scenes, from multiple angles
* Theatrical trailers and television spots
* Gallery of trading cards depicting the U.S. Customs canine squad used to detect narcotics and illegal substances
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Manohla Dargis
*Godzilla*
* New high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series)
* New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse's 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
* Audio commentary for Godzilla, King of the Monsters by Kalat
* New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
* Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
* Featurette detailing Godzilla's photographic effects
* New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
* The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
* Theatrical trailers
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
*The Moment of Truth*
* New high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Interview with director Francesco Rosi from 2004
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Peter Matthews
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Hi, Lonesome,
I really wanted to participate this time but my 1939 thread takes a bunch of time. I have several ideas I want to use in the Challenge; however, I may wait until next time. But one never knows...I have until the end of October to do something. In the meantime, I still will be taking my bus tour of America to your town...oh, wait, that's Sarah Palin, not me.
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I was one of the early people on this board and so I lucked into being able to have my screenname be what we all are.
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Into 1940...God forbid! This has been a lot of work, LOL, trust me!!! And beside, it was only luck that I was able to get the whole year.
As to reprinting them...no need to. Just click above on "Original Post" and that will take you back to the very beginning of 1939 and you can read them all until you get to today.
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Two UK productions today
The Third Man
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Glad to hear it!
And it is because I know some of us like to see what the entertainment news and movies playing were on our birthday that I run all the ads that appear each day, even if some of them don't alter much day to day.
Wow, only two and a half months more of 1939.
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Saturday, Oct. 14th, 1939
[B]1939: HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST YEAR - DAY BY DAY - as it happens!!![/B]
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I am glad you are still a fan of it.