2019 SCHEDULE

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The schedule has just been made available:



1    henry fonda
2    ruth hussey (tcm backlot selection)
3    marlon brando
4    shirley temple
5    melvyn douglas
6    lena horne
7    james stewart
8    ava gardner
9    red skelton
10  rita moreno
11  humphrey bogart
12  ann sothern
13  brian donlevy
14  liv ullmann
15  rod steiger
16  irene dunne
17  errol flynn
18  audrey hepburn
19  buster keaton
20  dorothy mcguire
21  joel mccrea (tcm backlot selection)
22  leila hyams
23  fred astaire
24  shirley maclaine
25  dustin hoffman
26  mary astor
27  walter brennan
28  june allyson
29  paul lukas
30  susan hayward
31  kirk douglas

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Melvyn Douglas, Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Dorothy McGuire ...all good choices. Well deserved recognition.

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The undeserved oversight of Robert Donat continues for another year.

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1st of august 2019

Henry Fonda was the oldest person to earn a best actor Oscar...at age 76.

that certain woman (1937)
the mad miss manton (1938) 
let us live (1939)
young mr. lincoln (1939)
the long night (1947)
the fugitive (1947)
mister roberts (1955)
the wrong man (1956)

the lady eve (1941)
12 angry men (1957)
yours mine and ours (1968)
the grapes of wrath (1940)
the rounders (1965)

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2nd of august 2019

Ruth Hussey made six films with Robert Young.

rich man poor girl (1938)
spring madness (1938)
within the law (1939)
fast and furious (1939)
h.m. pulham esq. (1941) 
pierre of the plains (1942)
susan and god (1940)
tender comrade (1943)
the facts of life (1960)

the philadelphia story (1940)
the uninvited (1944)
our wife (1941)
married bachelor (1941)
blackmail (1939)
free and easy (1941)

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3rd of august 2019

Marlon Brando appeared with his sister Joceyln in two films.

julius caesar (1953)
reflections in a golden eye (1967) 
the fugitive kind (1960)
morituri (1965)
mutiny on the bounty (1962)
a streetcar named desire (1951)

on the waterfront (1954)
the wild one (1953)
guys and dolls (1955)
a dry white season (1989)
the freshman (1990)

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4th of august 2019

Shirley Temple made four movies with Bill Robinson.

adventure in baltimore (1949)
honeymoon (1947)
that hagen girl (1947)
almost a bride (1949)
kathleen (1941)
the story of seabiscuit (1949)
fort apache (1948)
the bachelor and the bobby-soxer (1947)

rebecca of sunnybrook farm (1938)
wee willie winkie (1937)
susannah of the mounties (1939)
the poor little rich girl (1936)
heidi (1937)
the little princess (1939)

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5th of august 2019

Melvyn Douglas earned two Oscars as best supporting actor.

arsene lupin returns (1938)
fast company (1938)
tell no tales (1939)
there's always a woman (1938)
there's that woman again (1938)
mary burns fugitive (1935)
the shining hour (1938)
that uncertain feeling (1941)
a woman's face (1941)

ninotchka (1939)
i met him in paris (1937)
third finger left hand (1940)
i never sang for my father (1970)
being there (1979)

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6th of august 2019

Lena Horne would only play for mixed audiences, not segregated audiences.

swing fever (1943)
panama hattie (1942)
i dood it (1943)
duchess of idaho (1950)
two girls and a sailor (1944)
ziegfeld follies (1946)
words and music (1948)

stormy weather (1943)
the duke is tops (1938)
cabin in the sky (1943)
broadway rhythm (1944)
till the clouds roll by (1946)

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7th of august 2019

James Stewart and Henry Fonda were friends. But on opposite sides, politically.

after the thin man (1936)
no time for comedy (1940)
the stratton story (1949)
the naked spur (1953)
the man from laramie (1955)
the mortal storm (1940)
the shop around the corner (1940)

harvey (1950)
anatomy of a murder (1959)
the spirit of st. louis (1957)
mr. smith goes to washington (1939)

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8th of august 2019

Ava Gardner was in three films based on Ernest Hemingway stories.

the bribe (1949)
the great sinner (1949)
show boat (1951)
ride vaquero! (1953)
mogambo (1953)
knights of the round table (1953)
bhowani junction (1956)

ava gardner: the gipsy of hollywood (2017)
the killers (1946)
pandora and the flying dutchman (1951)
the barefoot contessa (1954)
the angel wore red (1960)

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9th of august 2019

Red Skelton's father had been a circus clown and clowns became part of Red's act.

merton of the movies (1947)
the great diamond robbery (1953)
the show-off (1946)
watch the birdie (1951)
a southern yankee (1948)
ship ahoy (1942)
texas carnival (1951)
bathing beauty (1944)
neptune's daughter (1949)

whistling in the dark (1941)
whistling in dixie (1942)
whistling in brooklyn (1943)
the yellow cab man (1950)
du barry was a lady (1943)
the clown (1953)

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10th of august 2019

Rita Moreno has received an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Tony, several Emmys and a Grammy award.

the toast of new orleans (1950)
singin' in the rain (1952)
latin lovers (1953)
fort vengeance (1953)
seven cities of gold (1955)
the lieutenant wore skirts (1956)
summer and smoke (1961)

popi (1969)
west side story (1961)
the ritz (1976)
marlowe (1969)
carnal knowledge (1971)

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11th of august 2019

Humphrey Bogart appeared in four films with Lauren Bacall.

the petrified forest (1936)
all through the night (1942)
action in the north atlantic (1943)
passage to marseille (1944)
the big sleep (1946)
the treasure of the sierra madre (1948)
in a lonely place (1950)

the african queen (1951)
the caine mutiny (1954)
dark passage (1947)
they drive by night (1940)
high sierra (1941)

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12th of august 2019

Ann Sothern replaced Jean Harlow as Maisie Ravier. She played Maisie in ten films.

walking on air (1936)
there goes my girl (1937) 
maisie (1939)
congo maisie (1940)
gold rush maisie (1940)
maisie was a lady (1941)
ringside maisie (1941)
shadow on the wall (1950)
the blue gardenia (1953)

a letter to three wives (1948)
cry havoc (1944)
the whales of august (1987)
nancy goes to rio (1950)
april showers (1948)

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13th of august 2019

Brian Donlevy did not smoke. The only smoking he did was for the movies.

another face (1935)
barbary coast (1935) 
two yanks in trinidad (1942)
billy the kid (1941) 
an american romance (1944)
the beginning or the end (1947)
impact (1949)
the quatermass xperiment (1956)

the great mcginty (1940)
beau geste (1939)
the glass key (1942)
hangmen also die (1942)
heaven only knows (1947)

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14th of august 2019

Liv Ullmann's often mistaken for being Swedish...but she is Norwegian.

the night visitor (1971)
lost horizon (1972)
the abdication (1974)
zandy's bride (1974)
the emigrants (1971)
the new land (1973)

liv & ingmar (2012)
autumn sonata (1978)
hour of the wolf (1968)
persona (1967)
scenes from a marriage (1973)

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15th of august 2019

Rod Steiger took the role of Sheriff Gillespie after George C. Scott dropped out.

teresa (1951)
cry terror! (1958)
the loved one (1965)
the unholy wife (1957)
back from eternity (1956)
the sergeant (1968)
al capone (1959)

in the heat of the night (1967)
a fistful of dynamite (1972)
the big knife (1955)
the harder they fall (1956)
run of the arrow (1957)

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16th of august 2019

Irene Dunne played Cary Grant's wife in three films.

ann vickers (1933)
the age of innocence (1934)
if i were free (1934)
sweet adeline (1935)
show boat (1936)
joy of living (1938)
love affair (1939)
penny serenade (1941)

the awful truth (1937)
i remember mama (1948)
when tomorrow comes (1939)
high wide and handsome (1937)
over 21 (1945)

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17th of august 2019

Errol Flynn costarred with Olivia de Havilland nine times.

footsteps in the dark (1941)
northern pursuit (1943)
the master of ballantrae (1953)
the sea hawk (1940)
the adventures of robin hood (1938)
the private lives of elizabeth and essex (1939)
santa fe trail (1940)

captain blood (1935)
gentleman jim (1942)
the dawn patrol (1938)
dodge city (1939)
cry wolf (1947)

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18th of august 2019

Audrey Hepburn only made two films in the 1970s.

robin and marian (1976)
green mansions (1959)
the nun's story (1959)
the children's hour (1961)
love in the afternoon (1957)
my fair lady (1964)

sabrina (1954)
funny face (1957)
charade (1963)
paris when it sizzles (1963)
wait until dark (1967)

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19th of august 2019

Buster Keaton did his own stunts and sometimes was the stunt double for other actors.

battling butler (1926)
the cameraman (1928)
spite marriage (1929)
doughboys (1930)
parlor bedroom and bath (1931)
sidewalks of new york (1931)
the passionate plumber (1932)
in the good old summertime (1949)
how to stuff a wild bikini (1965)

the great buster: a celebration (2018)
the general (1927)
sherlock jr. (1924)
the great buster: a celebration (2018)
seven chances (1925)
steamboat bill jr. (1928)
the navigator (1924)

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20th of august 2019

Dorothy McGuire founded the La Jolla Playhouse with Gregory Peck and Mel Ferrer.

trial (1955)
flight of the doves (1971)
till the end of time (1946)
the enchanted cottage (1945)
gentleman's agreement (1947)
mother didn't tell me (1950)
susan slade (1961)

a summer place (1959)
a tree grows in brooklyn (1945)
friendly persuasion (1956)
invitation (1952)
callaway went thataway (1951)

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21st of august 2019

Joel McCrea was married to Frances Dee for exactly 57 years.

the most dangerous game (1932)
bed of roses (1933)
gambling lady (1934)
the richest girl in the world (1934)
dead end (1937)
primrose path (1940)
wichita (1955)
colorado territory (1949)
the palm beach story (1942)

sullivan's travels (1941)
the more the merrier (1943)
union pacific (1939)
ride the high country (1962)
stars in my crown (1950)

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22nd of august 2019

Leila Hyams was popular in silent pictures and talkies.

the idle rich (1929)
the bishop murder case (1930)
the girl said no (1930)
sins of the children (1930)
way for a sailor (1930)
gentleman's fate (1931)
men call it love (1931)
stepping out (1931)
red-headed woman (1932)

freaks (1932)
the thirteenth chair (1929)
way out west (1930)
the big house (1930)
island of lost souls (1932)
the phantom of paris (1931)
yellow dust (1936)