LINDA DARNELL for Star of the Month October 2013

[Arturo]

Fox.will show show the excellent period thriller HANGOVER SQUARE, this Wednesday, June 25 @ 6 am eastern, 3 am pacific. Highly recommended.

 

From the Fox Movie Channel Website:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE

Set in Victorian London, a composer (Laird Cregar) in love with a heartless performer (Linda Darnell) becomes mad when he hears loud discordant sounds and cannot remember his actions. Haunting Bernard Herrmann score.

Cast: Alan Napier, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell

Director: John Brahm

1945

 

This is one of several movies with Linda Darnell in the coming week or so, including BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE as part of TCM's Friday Night Spotlight. More on these movies later.

[Arturo]

Fox.will show show the excellent period thriller HANGOVER SQUARE, this Wednesday, June 25 @ 6 am eastern, 3 am pacific. Highly recommended.

 

From the Fox Movie Channel Website:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE

Set in Victorian London, a composer (Laird Cregar) in love with a heartless performer (Linda Darnell) becomes mad when he hears loud discordant sounds and cannot remember his actions. Haunting Bernard Herrmann score.

Cast: Alan Napier, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell

Director: John Brahm

1945

 

This is one of several movies with Linda Darnell in the coming week or so, including BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE as part of TCM's Friday Night Spotlight. More on these movies later.

Just a reminder....tomorrow morning on Fox:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE (1944) @ 6 am est, 3 am pst

 

And on Thursday, 06/26, on Fox: 

 

THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1942) @ 6 AM EST, 3 AM PST: 

Biography of the famed 19th century writer and the women who influenced him.

Cast: Frank Conroy, Harry Lachman, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Linda Darnell, Shepperd Strudwick

Director: Harry Lachman

 

 

 

On TCM, this Friday, 06/27:

 

BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE (1952).  Linda Darnell plays the damsel taken by a hammy Robert Newton as the title character.  Fun matinee item.  With William Bendix, Keith Andes, and Irene Ryan.

 

On Encore Westerns, this Saturday, 06/28 @ 8 pm est, 5 pm pst, and Sunday, 6/29 @ 2:50 am est, Sat. 6/28 @ 11;50 pm pst:

 

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)...From the EW website:

Classic John Ford Western following the adventures of legendary gun-slinging marshal Wyatt Earp as he tries to clean up the lawless city of Tombstone. Ford's direction proves as gripping as ever, with breathtaking landscapes and emotional confrontations throughout, while Henry Fonda has never been better as the heroic lawman, supported by Victor Mature on top form as his deadly sidekick Doc Holliday

[JamesJazGuitar]

Just a reminder....tomorrow morning on Fox:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE (1944) @ 6 am est, 3 am pst

 

And on Thursday, 06/26, on Fox: 

 

THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1942) @ 6 AM EST, 3 AM PST: 

Biography of the famed 19th century writer and the women who influenced him.

Cast: Frank Conroy, Harry Lachman, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Linda Darnell, Shepperd Strudwick

Director: Harry Lachman

 

 

 

On TCM, this Friday, 06/27:

 

BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE (1952).  Linda Darnell plays the damsel taken by a hammy Robert Newton as the title character.  Fun matinee item.  With William Bendix, Keith Andes, and Irene Ryan.

 

On Encore Westerns, this Saturday, 06/28 @ 8 pm est, 5 pm pst, and Sunday, 6/29 @ 2:50 am est, Sat. 6/28 @ 11;50 pm pst:

 

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (1946)...From the EW website:

Classic John Ford Western following the adventures of legendary gun-slinging marshal Wyatt Earp as he tries to clean up the lawless city of Tombstone. Ford's direction proves as gripping as ever, with breathtaking landscapes and emotional confrontations throughout, while Henry Fonda has never been better as the heroic lawman, supported by Victor Mature on top form as his deadly sidekick Doc Holliday

 

MOVIES is planning on showing Blackbread the Pirate and they showed some cuts from the film in their promo.    Yea,  that Newton performance is very hammy.   ARR!   (he uses this so often it is almost camp!).     But Darnell looks great.  Really great.  But I did wonder if any of the males in this film had the type of star power (e.g. like Flynn or Power),  to make this type of picture work.  

[Arturo]

MOVIES is planning on showing Blackbread the Pirate and they showed some cuts from the film in their promo. Yea, that Newton performance is very hammy. ARR! (he uses this so often it is almost camp!). But Darnell looks great. Really great. But I did wonder if any of the males in this film had the type of star power (e.g. like Flynn or Power), to make this type of picture work.

 

Robert Newton was given free rein it seems, with his over the top performance, first seen in 1950s TREASURE ISLAND. As for the other males, Bendix is his usual self, Richard Egan has a small prestardom part, and the romantic, heroic lead,.Keith Andes, doesn't quite cut it as such. You are right, a Flynn or Power would have been infinitely better. An intriguing notion is that RKO had once considered this film for its top male star, Robert Mitchum, who I can't quite see as a "sore bones" (or is it "saw bones"), but would have been an improvement.

 

Linda Darnell does look good, if not having a whole lot to do. She does show a rather surprising amount of cleavage in one scene, rather gratuitously, but this was a Raoul Walsh film in the 50s at Howard Hughes' playpen. Overall, I enjoy BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE, with my objections being some inane dialogue, and some obvious miniature sets of a fortress.

 

This was also her first film released just after the end of her contract at Fox; upon her completing BTP she went to Italy to meet with producer Giuseppe Amato, for whom she would make a couple of films. But he would not be ready to film for a year or so, so she went back home sfter a couple of months, spend time at her ranch in New Mexico, drink heavily and gain some weight. When she was next offered a film, again at RKO, she was feeling decidely overweight, so she filmed SECOND CHANCE wearing a suit through most of the movie, dodging Jack Palance running through the hilly streets of Taxco Mexico, and thereby thwarting Hughes' hope of exploiting her bouncing breasts in his first 3D feature.

[Arturo]

Robert Newton was given free rein it seems, with his over the top performance, first seen in 1950s TREASURE ISLAND. As for the other males, Bendix is his usual self, Richard Egan has a small prestardom part, and the romantic, heroic lead,.Keith Andes, doesn't quite cut it as such. You are right, a Flynn or Power would have been infinitely better. An intriguing notion is that RKO had once considered this film for its top male star, Robert Mitchum, who I can't quite see as a "sore bones" (or is it "saw bones"), but would have been an improvement.

 

Linda Darnell does look good, if not having a whole lot to do. She does show a rather surprising amount of cleavage in one scene, rather gratuitously, but this was a Raoul Walsh film in the 50s at Howard Hughes' playpen. Overall, I enjoy BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE, with my objections being some inane dialogue, and some obvious miniature sets of a fortress.

 

This was also her first film released just after the end of her contract at Fox; upon her completing BTP she went to Italy to meet with producer Giuseppe Amato, for whom she would make a couple of films. But he would not be ready to film for a year or so, so she went back home sfter a couple of months, spend time at her ranch in New Mexico, drink heavily and gain some weight. When she was next offered a film, again at RKO, she was feeling decidely overweight, so she filmed SECOND CHANCE wearing a suit through most of the movie, dodging Jack Palance running through the hilly streets of Taxco Mexico, and thereby thwarting Hughes' hope of exploiting her bouncing breasts in his first 3D feature.

Just a reminder....tomorrow evening, as the last night of June's Friday Night Spotlight of pirate movies, TCM will air BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE @ 10 PM Pacific time (that'll be Saturday, June 28 @ 1 am Eastern).  See above for more info.

 

Btw, jamesjazzguitar had mentioned the promo for this film being shown on MOVIES, or so I understood.  Anyway, yesterday evening I saw the trailer for BTP shown on TCM.  It was interesting in that it has a couple of scenes of Linda Darnell, in Blackbeard's cabin, where in the movie the camera is focused on Robert Newton, although you hear Darnell's voice.  Much more aesthetic if they had kept the clips showing her in the movie.  I wonder if this is what Linda meant where she said she felt that director Raoul Walsh favored the men in the film during the shoot.  Now I have to look at my dvd of this film to see if it has the trailer as an extra.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Just a reminder....tomorrow evening, as the last night of June's Friday Night Spotlight of pirate movies, TCM will air BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE @ 10 PM Pacific time (that'll be Saturday, June 28 @ 1 am Eastern).  See above for more info.

 

Btw, jamesjazzguitar had mentioned the promo for this film being shown on MOVIES, or so I understood.  Anyway, yesterday evening I saw the trailer for BTP shown on TCM.  It was interesting in that it has a couple of scenes of Linda Darnell, in Blackbeard's cabin, where in the movie the camera is focused on Robert Newton, although you hear Darnell's voice.  Much more aesthetic if they had kept the clips showing her in the movie.  I wonder if this is what Linda meant where she said she felt that director Raoul Walsh favored the men in the film during the shoot.  Now I have to look at my dvd of this film to see if it has the trailer as an extra.

 

I believe I did make a mistake and saw the promo on TCM.    But my mistake is evidence that I'm watching MOVIES more and more for films TCM doesn't show or shows very rarely.    So now I'm confusing the two stations.   

[Arturo]

Coming up over the weekend, per the Fox Movie Channel website:

 

 

Sunday, July 6:

 

 

6:00 am est, 3 am pst:

 

 

HANGOVER SQUARE

Set in Victorian London, a composer (Laird Cregar) in love with a heartless performer (Linda Darnell) becomes mad when he hears loud discordant sounds and cannot remember his actions. Haunting Bernard Herrmann score.

Cast: Alan Napier, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell

Director: John Brahm

1945

 

 

Monday, July 7:

 

6:00 am est, 3 am pst:

 

THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

Biography of the famed 19th century writer and the women who influenced him.

Cast: Frank Conroy, Harry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Linda Darnell, Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore

Director: Harry Lachman

1942

[Arturo]

TCM's recent showing of BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE had me thinking about Linda Darnell's costar, Keith Andes.  They were both later in a TV movie together, HOMEWARD BORNE.  This film was done in 1957 for the Playhouse 90 TV series, but was also released theatrically the following year in some markets. 

 

Linda plays a mother wanting to adopt an orphan that had been in a concentration camp.  Her husband, played by Richard Kiley, returns from the war in Europe, and cannot adjust to the constant reminded of the conflict that he sees in the gaunt boy.  He also resents that his wife wants to eliminate anything that upsets the boy by reminding him of his experience.  Keith Andes plays the understanding schoolteacher neighbor, only too willing to take over if LInda leaves her husband.

 

Anyway, when this was filmed, Linda was going through her career troubles, where circumstances had conspired to be away from Hollywood for 2-3 years, at a time that studios were cutting back on personnel.  Her time away had led to a decrease in film offers, and Linda turned to TV for work.  Another reason given was her increased weight, supposedly caused by heavy drinking due to her bitterness over her personal and professional setbacks.

 

Linda does look a little heavy, but she always had weight issues, with it fluctuating up and down.  A recent showing of CHAD HANNA (1940) shows that even then, when she was not yet 17 years of age, she was on the plump side, both in face and figure.  However, in CH it looks like baby fat.  In HB it makes her look older than her age (33), and on the matronly side.  But her face is still beautiful, and her figure doesn't look much worse than it did in, say, ISLAND OF DESIRE (1952), where it was presented in skimpy outfits, showing it for the voluptuous knockout that it was.

[Arturo]

Sorry.about the late.notice, bit.EncoreBlack will feature NO WAY OUT today @11:25 am.. They will repeat it tomorrow morning @ 4:14 am.

 

NWO has one of Linda Darnell's best performances,.although she is hardly alone in this harrowing drama of racial tensions. Richard Widmark plays a.sociopathic hoodlum, racebaiting Sidney Poitier (in his film debut), a young doctor, accusing him of killing his brother. Widmark inadvertently gets Darnell help start a race riot; she later comes around and sees Widmark for the vicious hood he is.

 

Linda Darnell Was.exceedingly proud of her nonglamorous role in this film, the second she made with Joseph Mankiewicz, the other being A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949). She received much acclaim for both movies, but her involvement was a double edged sword. She fell madly in love with Mankiewicz, and had an affair with him for six years. Both were married when it started, and Linda would soon leave her husband; Mank couldn't, or wouldn't, leave his wife. Darnell became despondent over this, and had suicidal tendencies on at least one occasion.

 

Other negative effects from this relationship were several. In seeking a divorce, she was made to pay first husband Peverell Marley a reputed $125,000 to keep him quiet about the affair. This led Linda to suddenly have financial troubles, from which she'd never escape, leading her to accept just about any role offered to keep afloat, instead of waiting for good ones as she had hoped. It would also lead her into a loveless marriage with a wealthy businessman, for the security, but who kept her from working for the duration. Her time away from Hollywood in the mid 50s,, when it was in retrenchment, would have negative implications on her being considered for roles,.especially upon her return.

 

Mankiewicz had convinced Darnell to get psychoanalysis, which unleashed her inner demons. She had started to drink heavily in her bitterness over her life and career, further loosening these demons, as sell.as exacerbating her ever.present weight problems. She finally ended the affair after he cast Ava Gardner in THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, a role he had apparently promised Linda,.although he would remain the love of her life.

[DownGoesFrazier]

Sorry.about the late.notice, bit.EncoreBlack will feature NO WAY OUT today @11:25 am.. They will repeat it tomorrow morning @ 4:14 am.

NEO has one of Linda Darnell's best performances,.although she is hardly alone in this harrowing drama of racial tensions. Richard Widmark plays a.sociopathic hoodlum, racebaiting Sidney Poitier (in his film debut), a young doctor, accusing him of killing his brother. Widmark inadvertently gets Darnell help start a race riot; she later comes around and sees Widmark for the vicious hood he is.

 

Linda Darnell Was.exceedingly proud of her nonglamorous role in this film, the second she made with Joseph Mankiewicz, the other being A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949). She received much acclaim for both movies, but her involvement was a double edged sword. She fell madly in love with Mankiewicz, and had an affair with him for six years. Both were married when it started, and Linda would soon leave her husband; Mank couldn't, or wouldn't, leave his wife. Darnell became despondent over this, and had suicidal tendencies on at least one occasion.

 

Other negative affects from this relationship were several. In seeking a divorce, she was made to pay first husband Peverell Marley a reputed $125,000 to keep him quiet about the affair. This led Linda to suddenly have financial troubles, from which she'd never escape, leading her to accept just about any role offered to keep afloat, instead of waiting for good ones as she had hoped. It would also lead her into a loveless marriage with a wealthy businessman, for the security, but who kept her from working for the duration. Her time away from Hollywood in the mid 50s,, when it was in retrenchment, would have negative implications on her being considered for roles.

 

 

Mankiewicz had convinced Darnell to get psychoanalysis, which unleashed her inner demons. She had started to drink heavily in her bitterness over her life and career, further loosening these demons. She finally ended the affair after he cast Ava Gardner in THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, a role he had apparently promised Linda.

I assume that YOU think Linda Darnell deserves it more than Susan Hayward.

[Arturo]

I assume that YOU think Linda Darnell deserves it more than Susan Hayward.[/

 

Finance,.Susan.Hayward.and.Linda.Darnell.are.equally deserving.for.SOTM. For.Darnell, since.her.90th birthday.went.unacknowledged.by TCM, another opportunity could.be April 2015,.marking the 50th anniversary of her tragic death.

[Arturo]

Linda Darnell will be featured in two movies over the next couple of days.

 

Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 16 @ 6;10 am pacific, on FMC:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)

Darnell plays a sexy conniving singer hoping to get ahead by using her wiles into having composer Laird Cregar write songs for her.

 

What she doesn't know is that he is deranged.  This atmospheric drama set in gas-lit London features a great score, moody cinematography, and a game cast also featuring George Sanders, Faye Marlowe, Alan Napier and Glenn Langan.  Recommended.

 

 

Thursday, July 17 @ 7;45 pm pacific on Encore Westerns:

 

TWO FLAGS WEST (1950)

Interesting western during Civil War dealing with Rebel prisoners offered freedom if they fight Indians in the West.  Linda plays the widowed sister-in-law of a brooding Jeff Chandler, who loves her along with Cornel Wilde and Joseph Cotten.  Great battle scenes. 

[Arturo]

This Tuesday evening, @ 9:45 am eastern, as.part of the Maureen O'Hara SOTM, TCM will show BUFFALO BILL (1944), a Technicolor biography of the western legend. O'Hara stars as Bill's prim well bred Eastern wife, Joel McCrea the larger than life hero,.and Linda Darnell and Anthony Quinn as native americans. William Wellman directed, and he and thr writers realized.they couldnt show the warts of a real life hero, and focused on the legend. Linda's role.is distinctly secondary, as she was still on the outs with.the studio heads at Fox. But things would soon change. She would soon film her image shattering role in SUMMER STORM (UA), where her femme.fatale rid her girl.next door image with a vengeance.

 

On Wednesday, July 23 @ 9 am eastern,.FMC.will.have Linda in another biopic, THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1942). This movie traced her initial fall from grace at her studio, coincidentally (or not) soon after her 18th birthday. This film, while of some interest, belies its origins at Fox' B unit.

[Arturo]

A couple of days ago, I received a vintage magazine I purchased on E-Bay, specifically for an article on Linda Darnell.  It was the September 1962 copy of Screenland (I believe), and has Elizabeth Taylor on the cover, in Cleopatra get-up.  It appears that it was probably on sale in the summer, probably July or August, of 1962.  It has several interesting articles, as well as tidbits on stars and goings-on in the columns.  Included are: a cover story on Liz, asking if her fans still like her (apparently the Liz-Dick whirlwind, with papal condemnation, was happening at this point); a counterpoint to all this was an article speculating whether Eddie Fisher and Edie Adams were an item.   There were several items re: Marilyn Monroe's firing from SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, and whether she would return or be replaced; Lee Remick had been ok initially with Dean Martin, but apparently Sinatra had him changing his mind a day later.  Ironically, MM's suicide probably happened while this issue was on sale.

 

Well, the main reason I bought it, the article on Linda Darnell, I found was quite illuminating.  Titled "Great Movies Stars: Where Are They Now-Linda Darnell", it basically caught the reader up on Linda's recent activity.  It dealt with problems in her marriage to Robbie Robertson, stating they were basically due to both being away so much, she on tour in stage productions, he due to being an airline pilot, and both being of a jealous and accusatory nature (she soon file for divorce over allegations of adultery). 

 

The article also mentioned that she had not done a movie in several years, since that late 1957 release of ZERO HOUR! (although a TV movie done just before, HOMEWARD BORNE, was released theatrically in some areas in 1958).  Linda herself states that she had been busy touring with her nightclub act as well as in stage plays, and felt it was a case of "Out of sight, out of mind".  At this time, her focus in these areas had kept her from doing tv shows in over a couple of years, other than in talk shows (it did mention she had recently done a pilot for a show title "Folk Song Festival (?)", where she would sing as well as host other acts.  It did mention a movie project she hoped to star in, "The Virgin Heart", with her production company would soon do in Greece; according to the article, she had been there the previous summer to do it, but there had been technical difficulties (it would never get made).  It did say she had then done British TV shows (I had read somewhere about this once, but had discounted it).   

 

The article did mention that Linda also would be going to Spain shortly, to do some tv shows, before heading to Greece.  If she had done this shortly thereafter, in 1962, this would possibly explain her phantom credit, for 1963's THE CASTILIAN/VALLEY OF THE SWORDS.  Maybe she was offered a role in it while there, but she is apparently not in in, unless her part was cut out, or she appeared as an extra (her old friend César Romero was topbilled in this).  The article also mentioned that a role she was being considered for called for her to test for it; she became upset and felt humiliated over the suggestion, and refused (earlier, in late 1956, she had done a test for a role at her old studio, 20th Century Fox, for THE WAYWARD BUS, but it was given to a contractee, Joan Collins). 

 

The writer gave a positive spin to Linda and her career at that time, when she was having marital, financial and, apparently, weight and alcohol problems.  It stated more than once, that at 39, she never looked more beautiful, and that she still had her knockout voluptuous figure.  The two contemporary photos of her in the article bear this out.  It was a bittersweet article, and that the promise of a resuscitated career were there, but alas, this was not to be.

[Arturo]

Upcoming Linda Darnell films, all on FXM Retro (all times eastern):

 

Tomorrow, Sept. 9 @ 6 am:

 

HANGOVER SQUARE (1945). Atmospheric classic with Linda Darnell as a singer, working her wiles on deranged composer Laird Cregar, in order to get him to write songs for her. Great cast, also including George.Sanders, Faye Marlowe, Glenn Langan and Alan Napier; excellent Bernard Herrmann score, and moody cinematography.

 

Will be repeated on Sunday, 9/21 @ 8:45 am.

 

 

Sunday, Sept. 14 @ 4:50 am;

 

THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1942): Interesting but uninspired biography of the 19th century writer. Linda, John Sheppard and Virginia Gilmore are top.starred.

 

 

Monday, Sept. 15 @ 7:45 am, and Tuesday, Sept. 16 @ 4:30 am:

 

CHAD HANNA (1940): Leisurely, colorful tale of a small traveling circus in 1840s Upstate New York. Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell join the circus as small town runaways, Dorothy Lamour as the reason Fonda joins. A game cast full of familiar character names.

[Arturo]

Tomorrow,.Sunday, October 5, on the FXM Retro Channel, they will show two Linda Darnell films:

 

7:40 am est: THE LOVES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1942)

10:40 am est: SWEET AND LOWDOWN (1944); it will repeat on Thurs. 10/9 @ 4:40 am est.

 

Neither was a prestige assignment for Linda (they bookended her early fall from grace at Fox), they each have some redeeming qualities....the former a biopic given a pedestrian treatment, the latter a big band musical featuring the Benny Goodman Orchestra. In between, the station will air ORCHESTRA WIVES (1942), another big band story with Glenn Miller, which ironically, Darnell had started.to do, much to her displeasure. She was removed after.a couple of weeks on the set.

 

Two altogether better Darnell films will be shown in the coming week:

 

HANGOVER.SQUARE (1945), on FXM Retro, on Sunday, 10/12 @ 8 am est, and Monday, 10/13 @ 7:30 Est.

 

And on Encore Classic Channel:

 

NO WAY OUT (1950), Sunday, 10/13 @ 6:35 am,.and Monday, 10/13 @ 4:30 am.

 

 

I wonder if any of her films will air on her birthday, October 16?

[Arturo]

Today would have been Linda Darnell's 91st birthday. I am trying to attach a couple of pictures of her here, not sure if it'll work.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Today would have been Linda Darnell's 91st birthday. I am trying to attach a couple of pictures of her here, not sure if it'll work.

 

I can see the picture and I can tell you;  THEY WORK FOR ME!!!        What a beauty as well as a fine actress.

[JR33928]

Fallen Angel (1945) is a good but rarely shown Linda Darnell movie.I saw it a coupla days ago for the first time.Definitely worth a watch IF you can find it. JR.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Fallen Angel (1945) is a good but rarely shown Linda Darnell movie.I saw it a coupla days ago for the first time.Definitely watch it IF you can find it. JR.

 

MOVIES has it from time to time on their Saturday night noir series,  but I don't think TCM has shown it.

[JR33928]

MOVIES has it from time to time on their Saturday night noir series,  but I don't think TCM has shown it.

I found it at a movie website called VEEHD.It's a good site,no malware.I DL'd a copy that is in good shape PQ wise.There's literally hundreds of films in the film noir genre there,some of them are pretty rare.Lots of other of films from every genre too.If you go there you must become a member first,it's free and no personal questions asked.The site is Ad supported.

[Arturo]

MOVIES has it from time to time on their Saturday night noir series, but I don't think TCM has shown it.

I believe TCM has shown it a couple of times or so. I think it was first shown in August 2011, during Linda Darnell's SUTS day. I remember it being discussed in a thread on the (Film Noir?) Boards here after its aTCM prrmiere.

[JamesJazGuitar]

I believe TCM has shown it a couple of times or so. I think it was first shown in August 2011, during Linda Darnell's SUTS day. I remember it being discussed in a thread on the (Film Noir?) Boards here after its aTCM prrmiere.

 

I'm always thinking of this movies since the MOVIES promo for their noir night is a scene from the diner with Linda and than Charles Brickford.    This is a movie I have never seen and it is the top "unseen by me" noir on my list and the only Andrews' noir I haven't seen.

[JamesJazGuitar]

Well what do you know:  MOVIES is showing Fallen Angel tonight.   Good thing it is the first noir film for their Saturday night noir series so I'll be awake!  

 

After this is The Line-up.   That is a really hardnosed noir film,  but I have seen it.

[Arturo]

Well what do you know:  MOVIES is showing Fallen Angel tonight.   Good thing it is the first noir film for their Saturday night noir series so I'll be awake!  

 

After this is The Line-up.   That is a really hardnosed noir film,  but I have seen it.

Did you get to.see.FALLEN ANGEL last night?