therealfuster Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 if your tastes are a bit bent like mine! Today at 4pm you can see "Babes on Broadway" with Judy and Mickey. But it is also your chance to see who Monty Wooley was impersonating in "The Man Who Came to Dinner"! Yes, the snide Alexander Woolcott plays himself in this Busby Berkeley film, which really makes it worth seeing. The credits also list Joe Yule [Mickey's dad] though I've never noticed him in it. He is listed in the credits as Mason, the aide to Reed. At 6pm today TCM is showing "Bathing Beauty" with Esther and even Keaton's last wife Eleanor. Also look for famed British stage performer, Elsbeth Dudgeon as Miss Travers. At 10pm you can view "Now, Voyager" with the classic cigarette scene. Here's another chance to see Elspeth Dudgeon as Aunt Hester! Oh and also famed extra Bess Flowers as an uncredited woman at concert "Humoresque" comes on at 2:15am. Want to see Robert Blake as the young Garfield? Then this is your movie....also again with an uncredited appearance by Bess Flowers as a fan of the adult Garfield. "The Letter" with La Davis is on at 4:30am. This is a great adaption of the Somerset Maugham book. Davis is at the top of her deceitful form, with Gale Sondergaard scary as all get out, and Herbert Marshall walking placidly through it, in spite of his wooden leg. This film is repeated on Saturday at Noon. Tomorrow, Wednesday is Western day at TCM! See "Duel in the Sun" at 3pm. The inspiration for John Waters "Lust in the Dust" this King Vidor melodrama has Lillian Gish and Butterfly McQueen to aid the festivities and beautiful cinematography by Lee Garmes and Harold Rosson with music by Dimitri Tiomkin. On Thurday, one of Mitchum's most appealing performanca is in "Rachel and the Stranger" at 4:30pm. Nuf said.... 12:30 am brings a classic film of silent cinema.... "Sparrows". Watch this just to see the work of famed speedy director, William [one shot] Beaudine! Learn how he honed his technique, so as to still be working for Disney in the Fifties directing episodes of the kid's tv serial, "Spin and Marty". "Sparrows" is also notable for the appearance of silent screen villain, Gustav von Seyffertitz of the most imperious manner and distasteful attitude. The scenes of "Little Mary" and the children escaping from the crocodiles through the swamp is unbelievably graphic and harrowing! On Friday at 2:30 pm, one can catch " The Alphabet Murders". Besides getting to see the great Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot, assisted by Robert Morley, this film is directed by the amazing, Frank Tashlin known for his live action cartoons, like "The Girl Can't Help It", and "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter". In the foreign cinema slot at 2am, TCM is showing "Kapo" (1959)...an earlier film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo of "Battle of Algiers" fame. Stay up till 4:00 am and see "Don't Make Waves" with the lovely Claudia Cardinale and Sharon Tate. Though this is light weight fare, nevertheless it was directed by the marvelous Alexander Mackendrick. If you like the Ealing classics, that he did with Alec Guinness, then you might enjoy his work outside of England, even this is no way close to his American classic, "The Sweet Smell of Success", even though it also stars Tony Curtis. And then there's Kubrick Saturday, but that is a bit far in the future..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
path40a Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Those are some great choices and many mirror my own in the Great Movie Alert! thread (Favorites folder). You're welcome to post your weekly selections there even though it may seem like it's my thread or something. It's not, and I personally used to get a lot of great suggestions there, even if other's participation was infrequent at best;- ) Several in your post below, though not on my "posted" list, are ones I was planning to tape 'cause I've yet to see them myself. I mostly leave these OUT of my Great Movie Alert! 'cause I think it gets rather boring for folks to read "I'm looking forward to seeing this one for the first time;- ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealfuster Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 Very nice of you to invite me to post in your thread, and I may take you up on it. My only problem would be...that often I point out films that really might not qualify under the "Great Movie" tagline, since it's not the whole movie which makes it watching, but just sometimes one tiny bit or appearance by someone special. As I said...my choices are a bit "bent"! Who else might be excited about seeing Bess Flowers? But she is part of film history, and the movies most famous extra and I always get a kick out of spotting her in a film. Of course her absolutely most famous bit has to be when she congratulates Eve Harrington on her Sarah Siddons award, at the end of "All About Eve". Other than that I don't think I've seen Bess talk.... I hope to "butt" in on your thread with some recommended "greats" very soon. Especially if TCM finds any Maria Montez films to screen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayresorchids Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Real, if you are one of those folks (like me) who always looks for the ubiquitous Bess Flowers, you might enjoy this article: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/23/symposium1.html#flowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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