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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:03:11 GMT
Here is the official voting thread for the TCM Programming Challenge 2.0!
Anyone can vote anytime now through next Sunday Night. The votes are due Sunday December 17 by 11:59pm Pacific Time. You can vote either by posting it here or sending me a private message.
Please take time to read the schedules and post some comments. These three schedules are great and deserve some compliments. 
Thanks for participating! Get those votes in!
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:04:17 GMT
TOPBILLED'S SCHEDULE:
Monday January 1, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Carole Landis
6:00 a.m. TURNABOUT (1940) with John Hubbard; UA; 83 mins.
7:30 a.m. ROAD SHOW (1941) with Adolphe Menjou; UA; 87 mins.
9:00 a.m. MOON OVER MIAMI (1941) with Betty Grable; FOX; 91 mins.
10:45 a.m. DANCE HALL (1941) with Cesar Romero; FOX; 72 mins.
12:00 pm. A GENTLEMAN AT HEART (1942) with Cesar Romero: FOX; 70 mins.
1:15 p.m. IT HAPPENED IN FLATBUSH (1942) with Lloyd Nolan; FOX; 80 mins.
2:45 p.m. MY GAL SAL (1942) with Rita Hayworth; FOX; 103 mins.
4:30 p.m. ORCHESTRA WIVES (1942) with Glenn Miller; FOX; 98 mins.
6:15 p.m. A SCANDAL IN PARIS (1946) with George Sanders; UA; 100 mins.
Primetime: Celebrity Crush Star of the Month (Male) — Gene Raymond
8:00 p.m. ZOO IN BUDAPEST (1933) with Loretta Young; FOX; 94 mins.
9:45 p.m. EX-LADY (1933) with Bette Davis; WB; 67 mins.
11:00 p.m. ANN CARVER’S PROFESSION (1933) with Fay Wray; COL; 68 mins.
12:15 a.m. BRIEF MOMENT (1933) with Carole Lombard; COL; 69 mins.
1:30 a.m. THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933) with Kay Francis: WB; 69 mins.
2:45 a.m. FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1933) with Dolores Del Rio; RKO; 89 mins.
4:15 a.m. SADIE MCKEE (1934) with Joan Crawford; MGM; 93 mins
Tuesday January 2, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Anna Lee
6:00 a.m. FIRST A GIRL (1935) with Jessie Matthews; GAU; 94 mins.
7:45 a.m. KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1937) with Paul Robeson; GAU; 80 mins.
9:15 a.m. NON-STOP NEW YORK (1937) with John Loder; GAU; 72 mins.
10:30 a.m. SEVEN SINNERS (1940) with John Wayne; UNIV; 87 mins.
12:00 p.m. MY LIFE WITH CAROLINE (1941) with Ronald Colman; RKO; 81 mins.
1:30 p.m. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) with Maureen O’Hara; FOX; 118 mins.
3:30 p.m. COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN (1942) with Paul Muni; COL; 100 mins.
5:15 p.m. G.I. WAR BRIDES (1946) with James Ellison; REP; 69 mins.
6:30 p.m. THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) with James Shigeta; COL; 82 mins.
Primetime: Celebrity Crush Star of the Month (Female) — Madge Evans
8:00 p.m. SON OF INDIA (1931) with Ramon Novarro; MGM; 73 mins.
9:15 p.m. SPORTING BLOOD (1931) with Clark Gable; MGM; 82 mins.
10:45 p.m. WEST OF BROADWAY (1931) with John Gilbert; MGM; 73 mins.
12:00 a.m. ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932) with William Haines; MGM; 72 mins.
1:15 a.m. HELL BELOW (1933) with Robert Montgomery; MGM; 101 mins.
3:00 a.m. THE NUISANCE (1933) with Lee Tracy; MGM; 83 mins.
4:30 a.m. BEAUTY FOR SALE (1933) with Alice Brady; MGM; 87 mins.
Wednesday January 3, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Ray Milland
6:00 a.m. EASY LIVING (1937) with Jean Arthur; PAR; 88 mins.
7:30 a.m. WISE GIRL (1937) with Miriam Hopkins; RKO; 70 mins.
8:45 a.m. HER JUNGLE LOVE (1938) with Dorothy Lamour; PAR; 81 mins.
10:15 a.m. BEAU GESTE (1939) with Gary Cooper; PAR; 112 mins.
12:15 p.m. IRENE (1940) with Anna Neagle; RKO; 101 mins.
2:00 p.m. ARISE MY LOVE (1940) with Claudette Colbert; PAR; 110 mins.
4:00 p.m. I WANTED WINGS (1941) with William Holden; PAR; 135 mins.
6:15 p.m. THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (1942) with Ginger Rogers; PAR; 100 mins.
Primetime: Background Filmmaker — Edith Head, Costume Designer
8:00 p.m. THE EMPEROR WALTZ (1948) with Joan Fontaine; PAR; 106 mins.
10:00 p.m. THE HEIRESS (1949) with Olivia de Havilland; PAR; 114
12:00 a.m. CARRIE (1952) with Jennifer Jones; PAR; 118 mins.
2:00 a.m. ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) with Audrey Hepburn; PAR; 118 mins.
4:00 a.m. THE ROSE TATTOO (1955) with Anna Magnani; PAR; 117 mins.
Thursday January 4, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Barbara Rush
6:00 a.m. QUEBEC (1951) with John Drew Barrymore; PAR; 85 mins.
7:30 a.m. THE FIRST LEGION (1951) with Charles Boyer; UA; 90 mins.
9:00 a.m. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) with Richard Derr; PAR; 83 mins.
10:30 a.m. FLAMING FEATHER (1952) with Sterling Hayden; PAR; 77 mins.
12:00 p.m. PRINCE OF PIRATES (1953) with John Derek; COL; 80 mins.
1:30 p.m. IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) with Richard Carlson; UNIV; 80 mins.
3:00 p.m. TAZA SON OF COCHISE (1954) with Rock Hudson; UNIV; 79 mins.
4:30 p.m. KISS OF FIRE (1955) with Jack Palance; UNIV; 87 mins.
6:00 p.m. COME BLOW YOUR HORN (1963) with Frank Sinatra; PAR; 112 mins.
Primetime: Background Filmmaker — Van Nest Polglase, Art Director
8:00 p.m. THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934) with Fred Astaire; RKO; 107 mins.
10:00 p.m. BRINGING UP BABY (1938) with Katharine Hepburn; RKO; 102 mins.
11:45 p.m. LOVE AFFAIR (1939) with Irene Dunne; RKO; 87 mins.
1:15 a.m. TOM DICK AND HARRY (1941) with Ginger Rogers; RKO; 87 mins.
2:45 a.m. SUSPICION (1941) with Cary Grant; RKO; 99 mins.
4:30 a.m. FATHER TAKES A WIFE (1941) with Gloria Swanson; RKO; 79 mins.
Friday January 5, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — George Reeves
6:00 a.m. FATHER IS A PRINCE (1940) with Grant Mitchell; WB; 57 mins.
7:00 a.m. TEAR GAS SQUAD (1940) with Dennis Morgan; WB; 55 mins.
8:00 a.m. ALWAYS A BRIDE (1940) with Rosemary Lane; WB; 58 mins.
9:00 a.m. CALLING ALL HUSBANDS (1940) with George Tobias; WB; 79 mins.
10:30 a.m. LADIES MUST LIVE (1940) with Wayne Morris; WB; 58 mins.
11:30 a.m. ARGENTINE NIGHTS (1940) with the Ritz Brothers; UNIV; 72 mins.
12:45 p.m. LYDIA (1941) with Merle Oberon; UA; 104 mins.
2:30 p.m. MAN AT LARGE (1941) with Marjorie Weaver; FOX; 70 mins.
3:45 p.m. BLUE WHITE AND PERFECT (1942) with Lloyd Nolan; FOX; 74 mins.
5:00 p.m. THE SAINTED SISTERS (1948) with Veronica Lake; PAR; 89 mins.
6:30 p.m. THE GOOD HUMOR MAN (1950) with Jack Carson; COL; 80 mins.
Fix the Oscars — Best Supporting Actress Oscars Before 1936
8:00 p.m. Hattie McDaniel for ALICE ADAMS (1935); RKO; 99 mins.
9:45 p.m. Louise Beavers for IMITATION OF LIFE (1934); UNIV; 111 mins.
11:45 p.m. Aline MacMahon for GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933); WB; 96 mins.
1:30 a.m. Mary Astor for RED DUST (1932); MGM; 83 mins.
3:00 a.m. Rose Hobart for DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931); PAR; 96 mins.
4:45 a.m. Marjorie Rambeau for MIN AND BILL (1930); MGM; 66 mins.
Saturday January 6, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Loretta Young
6:00 a.m. SUEZ (1938) with Tyrone Power; FOX; 104 mins.
7:45 a.m. KENTUCKY (1938) with Richard Greene; FOX; 96 mins.
9:30 a.m. THE STORY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1939) with Don Ameche; FOX; 98 mins.
11:15 a.m. THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE (1940) with Ray Milland; COL; 88 mins.
12:45 p.m. HE STAYED FOR BREAKFAST (1940) with Melvyn Douglas; COL; 89 mins.
2:15 p.m. THE LADY FROM CHEYENNE (1941) with Robert Preston; UNIV; 88 mins.
3:45 p.m. BEDTIME STORY (1941) with Fredric March; COL; 85 mins.
5:15 p.m. CHINA (1943) with Alan Ladd; PAR; 79 mins.
6:45 p.m. CAUSE FOR ALARM (1951) with Barry Sullivan; MGM; 74 mins.
Fix the Oscars — Best Supporting Actor Oscars Before 1936
8:00 p.m. Edward Everett Horton for TOP HAT (1935); RKO; 101 mins.
9:45 p.m. Walter Connolly for IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934); COL; 105 mins.
11:30 p.m. Paul Lukas for LITTLE WOMEN (1933); RKO; 115 mins.
1:30 a.m. Jean Hersholt for EMMA (1932); MGM; 72 mins.
2:45 a.m. Richard Bennett for ARROWSMITH (1931); UA; 108 mins.
4:45 a.m. Bramwell Fletcher for RAFFLES (1930); UA; 72 mins.
Sunday January 7, 2024
Daytime: Birthday — Terry Moore
6:00 a.m. THE RETURN OF OCTOBER (1948) with Glenn Ford; COL; 89 mins.
7:30 a.m. MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949) with Ben Johnson; RKO; 94 mins.
9:15 a.m. TWO OF A KIND (1951) with Lizabeth Scott; COL; 75 mins.
10:30 a.m. GAMBLING HOUSE (1951) with Victor Mature; RKO; 80 mins.
12:00 p.m. COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA (1952) with Shirley Booth; PAR; 99 mins.
1:45 p.m. BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF (1953) with Robert Wagner; FOX; 102 mins.
3:30 p.m. KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES (1953) with Tyrone Power; FOX; 100 mins.
5:15 p.m. PEYTON PLACE (1957) with Lana Turner; FOX; 157 mins.
Primetime: Adopt a Pet — Orangey
8:00 p.m. RHUBARB (1951) with Ray Milland; PAR; 94 mins.
9:45 p.m. THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) with Jeff Morrow: UNIV; 86 mins.
11:15 p.m. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) with Grant Williams; UNIV; 81 mins.
12:45 a.m. THE MATCHMAKER (1958) with Shirley Booth; PAR; 101 mins.
2:30 a.m. VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET (1960) with Jerry Lewis; PAR; 85 mins.
4:00 a.m. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) with Audrey Hepburn; PAR; 114 mins.
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:05:01 GMT
BUNNYWHIT'S SCHEDULE:
TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE #49 (THE REBOOT)
25 AUGUST 2024 through 31 AUGUST 2024
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2024
TEA LEAVES
06:00am Tea: With a Kick! (1923). Doris May, Creighton Hale, Ralph Lewis; dir Erle C. Kenton. Victor Halperin Productions. 60 mins. PREMIERE
07:00am Tea for Two (1950). Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson; dir David Butler. Warner Bros. 98 mins. P/S
08:45am Tea and Sympathy (1956). Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson; dir Vincente Minnelli. M-G-M. 122 mins. P/S
11:00am The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932). Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori; Frank Capra. Columbia Pictures. 88 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEL FERRER!
12:30pm Forbidden [Proibito] (1955). Mel Ferrer, Anedeo Nazzari, Lea Massari; dir Mario Monicelli. Documento Film, Union Générale Cinématographique, Le Louvre Film, Cormoran Films. 100 mins. PREMIERE
02:15pm Oh…Rosalinda!! (1955). Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price; dir Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Associated British Picture Corporation, The Archers. 101 mins. PREMIERE
04:00pm Fräulein (1958). Dana Wynter, Mel Ferrer, Dolores Michaels; Henry Koster. Twentieth Century Fox. 95 mins. PREMIERE
05:45pm Elena and Her Men [Elena et les hommes] (1956). Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer; dir Jean Renoir. Franco London Films, Les Films Gibé, Electra Compagnia Cinematografica. 95 mins. P/S
07:30pm Swedes in America (1943). Ingrid Bergman; dir Irving Lerner. U.S. Office of War Information. 17 mins. PREMIERE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEAN CONNERY!
08:00pm Woman of Straw (1964). Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson; dir Basil Dearden. Relph-Dearden Productions. 124 mins. P/S
10:15pm The Frightened City (1961). Herbert Lom, John Gregson, Sean Connery; dir John Lemont. Zodiac Productions. 97 mins. PREMIERE
SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT
12:00am Earth [Zemlya] (1930). Stephan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva; dir Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Kyivska Kinofabryka, Vseukrainske Foto Kino. 75 mins. P/S
01:15am Mother [Mat] (1926). Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov; dir Vsevolod Pudovkin. Mezhrabpom-Rus. 89 mins. PREMIERE
TCM IMPORTS
02:45am By the Law [Po zakonu] (1926). Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel; dir Lev Kuleshov. Goskino. 80 mins. PREMIERE
04:15am Bed and Sofa [Tretya meshchanskaya] (1927). Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova; dir Abram Room. Sovkino. 86 mins. PREMIERE
MONDAY 26 AUGUST 2024
19th CENTURY BRITISH POETS
05:45am Devotion (1946). Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland; dir Curtis Bernhardt. Warner Bros. 107 mins. P/S
07:45am The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957). Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers; dir Sidney Franklin. M-G-M British Studios. 105 mins. P/S
09:30am The Bad Lord Byron (1949). Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood; dir David MacDonald. Sydney Box Productions. 85 mins. PREMIERE
A LITTLE DICKENS
11:00am Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935). Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel; dir Stuart Walker. Universal Pictures. 87mins. P/S
12:30pm The Pickwick Papers (1952). James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick; dir Noel Langley. George Minter Productions. 109 mins. PREMIERE
02:30pm The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947). Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall; dir Alberto Cavalcanti. Ealing Studios. 108 mins. PREMIERE
04:30pm Oliver Twist (1948). Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh; dir David Lean. Cineguild. 116 mins. P/S
06:30pm A Christmas Carol (1910). Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, William Bechtel; dir J. Searle Dawley, Charles Kent, Ashley Miller. Edison Manufacturing Company. 11 mins. PREMIERE
06:45pm Bleak House (1922). Sybil Thorndike, Betty Doyle, Stacey Gaunt; dir Harry B. Parkinson. Master Films. 10 mins. PREMIERE
CHIMNEY SWEEP SHORTS
07:00pm The Miller and Chimney Sweep [The Miller and the Sweep] (1897). Dir George Albert Smith. George Albert Smith Films. 1 min. PREMIERE
07:05pm Chimney Sweep [Jack le ramoneur] (1906). Emile Gajean, Georges Méliès, The Ping-Pongs; dir Georges Méliès. Star-Film. 10 mins. PREMIERE
07:15pm The Chimney Sweep [Pérák a SS] (1946). Jirí Brdecka, Eduard Hofman, Ota Safránek; dir Jirí Brdecka, Jirí Trnka 16 mins. Studio Bratri v triku, Státní Pujcovna Filmu. 16 mins.PREMIERE
07:30pm Dirty Work (1933). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Samuel Adams; dir Lloyd French. Hal Roach Studios. 19 mins. P/S
BACKGROUND FILMMAKER (Challenge No. 2) – DIALECT COACH ROBERT EASTON
08:00pm The Last King of Scotland (2006). Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington; dir Kevin Macdonald. Searchlight Pictures [et al.] 123 mins. PREMIERE
10:15pm The Boys from Brazil (1978). Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason; dir Franklin J. Schaffner. Sir Lew Grade, Producers Circle, ITC Films. 125 mins. P/S
12:30pm Scarface (1983). Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer; dir Brian De Palma. Universal Pictures. 170 mins. P/S
03:30am The Molly Maguires (1970). Richard Harris, Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar; dir Martin Ritt. Tam Productions. 124 mins. PREMIERE
TUESDAY 27 AUGUST 2024
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARTHA RAYE!
05:45am Rhythm on the Range (1936). Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Bob Burns; dir Norman Taurog. Paramount Pictures. 87 mins. P/S
07:15am Hideaway Girl (1936). Shirley Ross, Robert Cummings, Martha Raye; dir Geroge Archainbaud. Paramount Pictures. 72 mins. PREMIERE
08:30am Double or Nothing (1937). Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine; dir Theodore Reed. Paramount Pictures. 90 mins. PREMIERE
10:00am Pin Up Girl (1944). Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye; dir H. Bruce Humberstone. Twentieth Century Fox. 84 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THEODORE DREISER!
11:30am The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951). Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane; dir Rudolph Maté. Universal International Pictures. 88 mins. PREMIERE
01:00am Jennie Gerhardt (1933). Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor; dir Marion Gering. Paramount Pictures. 85 mins. PREMIERE
02:30am An American Tragedy (1931). Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee; Josef von Sternberg. Paramount Pictures. 96 mins. P/S
04:15pm Carrie (1952). Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins; dir William Wyler. Paramount Pictures. 118 mins. P/S
06:15pm My Gal Sal (1942). Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton; dir Irving Cummings. Twentieth Century Fox. 103 mins. P/S
STAR OF THE MONTH: CELEBRITY CRUSH (Challenge No. 1) — DANNY KAYE
08:00pm Knock on Wood (1954). Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher; dir Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. Dena Productions. 103 mins. PREMIERE
09:49pm Nut Guilty (1936). Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, George Anderson; dir Lloyd French. Warner Bros. 11 mins. P/S
10:00pm Me and the Colonel (1958). Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey; dir Peter Glenville. William Goetz Productions. 109 mins. P/S
12:00am Up in Arms (1944). Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews; dir Elliott Nugent. The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Avalon Productions. 105 mins. P/S
(AND WILLIAM HOLDEN)
01:45am The Turning Point (1952). William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, Alexis Smith; dir William Dieterle. Paramount Pictures. 85 mins. P/S
03:15am Union Station (1950). William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald; dir Rudolph Maté. Paramount Pictures. 81 mins. P/S
04:45am The Dark Past (1948). William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb; dir Rudolph Maté. Columbia Pictures. 73 mins. P/S
WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST 2024
AUGUST: NATIONAL INVENTORS MONTH
06:00am The Man in the White Suit (1951). Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker; dir Alexander Mackendrick. Ealing Studios. 85 mins. P/S
07:30am Fast Life (1932). William Haines, Madge Evans, Conrad Nagel; dir Harry A. Pollard, Sam Wood. M-G-M. 82 mins. P/S
09:00am Mystery Plane (1939). Monogram Pictures. 60 mins. PREMIERE
10:00am Hot Money (1936). Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts, Joseph Cawthron; dir William C. McGann. Warner Bros. 68 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAMES WONG HOWE!
11:15am After Tomorrow (1932). Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell; dir Frank Borzage. Fox Film Corporation. 79 mins. PREMIERE
12:45pm Pursued (1947). Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Andersonl; dir Raoul Walsh. United States Pictures, Warner Bros. 101 mins. PREMIERE
02:30pm Danger Signal (1945). Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman; dir Robert Florey. Warner Bros. 78 mins. P/S
04:00pm Seconds (1966). Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Frances Reid; dir John Frankenheimer. Joel Productions, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Gibraltar Productions. 120 mins. P/S
06:00pm Go Man Go (1954). Dane Clark, Patricia Breslin, Sidney Poitier; dir James Wong Howe. Sirod Productions. 82 mins. PREMIERE
07:30pm James Wong Howe: Cinematographer (1973). James Wong Howe, Martin Ritt; dir Arthur M. Kaye. Davidson Films. 21 mins. PREMIERE
TCM SPOTLIGHT — THE ICONIC WHITE DRESS
08:00pm The Seven Year Itch (1955). Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes; dir Billy Wilder. Charles K. Feldman Group; Twentieth Century Fox. 105 mins. P/S
09:45pm Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives; dir Richard Brooks. Avon Productions. 108 mins. P/S
11:45pm Roman Holiday (1953). Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert; dir William Wyler. Paramount Pictures. 118 mins. P/S
01:45am The Band Wagon (1953). Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant; dir Vincente Minnelli. M-G-M. 112 mins. P/S
03:45am Pillow Talk (1959). Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall; dir Michael Gordon. Arwin Productions. 102 mins. P/S
THURSDAY 29 AUGUST 2024
THANKSGIVING: THE PLYMOUTH FOUR (Challenge No. 4)
05:30am Sunrise at Campobello (1960). Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn; dir Vincent J. Donehue. Dore Schary Productions. 144 mins. P/S
08:00am It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore; dir Frank Capra. Liberty Films. 130 mins. P/S
10:15am The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton; dir Sidney Franklin. M-G-M. 109 mins. P/S
12:15pm The Marriage of Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (1949). Angelika Hauff, Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender, Sabine Peters; dir Georg Wildhagen. Deutsche Film (DEFA). 107 mins. PREMIERE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRESTON STURGES!
02:15pm The Good Fairy (1935). Margaret Sullivan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan; dir William Wyler. Universal Pictures. 98 mins. P/S
04:00pm Thirty Day Princess (1934). Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold; dir Marion Gering. B.P. Schulberg Productions, Paramount Pictures. 74 mins. P/S
05:15pm They Just Had to Get Married (1932). Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young; dir Edward Ludwig. Universal Pictures. 69 mins. PREMIERE
06:30pm Diamond Jim (1935). Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes; dir A. Edward Sutherland. Universal Pictures. 88 mins. PREMIERE
ADOPT A PET!: ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (Challenge No. 3)
08:00pm The Bear (1988). Youk the Bear, Bart the Bear; dir Jean-Jacques Annaud. Price; Renn Productions. 96 mins. PREMIERE
09:45pm The Incredible Journey (1963). Syn Cat, Muffy, Rink; Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed; dir Fletcher Markle. Cangary; Walt Disney Productions. 80 mins. P/S
11:15pm Lassie Come Home (1943). Pal; Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty; dir Fred M. Wilcox. M-G-M. 89 mins. P/S
01:00am The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog (1980). Heinrich; Ronny Cox, Linda Sorensen, Andrew Ian McMillan; dir Peter Carter. Stanley Chase Productions. 100 mins. PREMIERE
DON’T KEEP US IN STITCHES: TRAGIC SEAMSTRESSES
02:15am The Rose Tattoo (1955). Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan; dir Daniel Mann. Hal Wallis Productions. 117 mins. P/S
04:00am La Bohème (1926). Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée; dir King Vidor. M-G-M. 95 mins. P/S
FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 2024
JUDY, JUDY, JUDY
05:45am The Strangler [East of Piccadilly] (1941). Judy Campbell, Sebastian Shaw, Niall MacGinnis; dir Harold Huth. Associated British Picture Corporation. 75 mins. PREMIERE
07:00am Four in the Morning (1965). Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway; dir Anthony Simmons. West One. 94 mins. PREMIERE
08:45am My Brilliant Career (1979). Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes; dir Gillian Armstrong. Margaret Fink Productions, New South Wales Film Corporation, Greater Union Organisation. 100 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOAN BLONDELL!
10:30am The Office Wife (1930). Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead; dir Lloyd Bacon, Michael Curtiz. Warner Bros. 59 mins. P/S
11:30am The Blue Veil (1951). Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell; dir Curtis Bernhardt, Busby Berkeley. Wald/Krasna Productions. 113 mins. PREMIERE
01:30pm Nightmare Alley (1947). Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray; dir Edmund Goulding. Twentieth Century Fox. 110 mins. P/S/
03:30pm Miss Pinkerton (1932). Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall; dir Lloyd Bacon. First National Pictures. 66 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RAYMOND MASSEY!
04:45pm The Woman in the Window (1944). Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey; dir Fritz Lang. Christie Corporation, International Pictures. 107 mins. P/S
6:45pm Footsteps in the Sand (1939). Joan Marion, Raymond Massey, Elliott Mason; dir Paul L. Stein. Associated British Pictures Corporation. 70 mins. PREMIERE
L-O-L-A: LOLA
08:00pm Damn Yankees (1958). Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston; dir George Abbott, Stanley Donen. Warner Bros. A George Abbott and Stanley Donen Production. 111 mins. PREMIERE
10:00pm Run Lola Run (1998). Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup; dir Tom Tykwer. X-Filme Creative Pool, ARTE, Westdeutscher Rundfunk. 81 mins. P/S
11:30pm Lola (1961). Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden; dir Jacques Demy. Rome Paris Films. 90 mins. P/S
01:00am There’s Always a Woman (1938). Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor; dir Alexander Hall. Columbia Pictures. 81 mins. P/S
TCM UNDERGROUND
02:30am Jail Bait (1954). Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller, Herbert Rawlinson; dir Edward D. Wood Jr. Howco Productions Inc. 71 mins. PREMIERE
03:45am Mesa of Lost Women (1953). Jackie Coogan, Allan Nixon, Richard Travis; dir Ron Ormond, Herbert Tevos. Ron Ormond Productions. 70 mins. PREMIERE
05:00am Joniko and the Kush Ta Ka (1969). Sheldon Allman, Penron James, Jimmy Kane; dir Ford Beebe Jr. Alaska Pictures. 92 mins. PREMIERE
SATURDAY 31 AUGUST 2024
CHALLENGE No. 5: FIX THE OSCARS – COMPETITIVE AWARD FOR LILLIAN GISH
06:30am Intolerance [Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages] (1916). Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron; dir D. W. Griffith. D. W. Griffith Productions. 163 mins. P/S
09:15am The Wind (1928). Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montague Love; dir Victor Sjöström. M-G-M. 95 mins. P/S
11:00am Way Down East (1920). Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau; dir D. W. Griffith. D. W. Griffith Productions. 145 mins. P/S
01:30pm Orphans of the Storm (1921). Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut. D. W. Griffith Productions, Polyphony Digital. 150 mins. P/S
04:00pm Broken Blossoms [Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl] (1919). Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp; D. W. Griffith. D. W. Griffith Productions. 90 mins. P/S
05:30pm The Scarlet Letter (1926). Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall; dir Victor Sjöström. M-G-M. 113 mins. P/S
07:30pm The Lady and the Mouse (1912). Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Lionel Barrymore; dir D. W. Griffith. BIograph Company. 17 mins. PREMIERE
THE ESSENTIALS
08:00pm Patterns (1956). Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley; dir Fielder Cook. Jed Harris, Michael Myerberg. 83 mins. P/S
09:30pm Executive Suite (1954). William Holden, June Allyson, Barbers Stanwyck; dir Robert Wise. M-G-M. 104 mins. P/S
11:45pm So You Want to Be Your Own Boss (1954). George O’Hanlon, Phil Arnold, Rodney Bell; dir Richard L. Bare. Richard L. Bare Productions. 10 mins. P/S
NOIR ALLEY
12:00am Larceny (1948). John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea; dir George Sherman. Universal International Pictures. 89 mins. PREMIERE
01:30am Hidden Fear (1957). John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel; dir André De Toth. St Aubrey-Kohn. 80 mins. P/S
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YVONNE DE CARLO!
03:00am Criss Cross (1949). Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea; dir Robert Siodmak. Universal International Pictures. 84 mins. P/S
04:30am The Gal Who Took the West (1949). Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady; dir Frederick De Cordova. Universal International Pictures. 84 mins. PREMIERE
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:05:41 GMT
BUNNYWHIT'S NOTES:
PROGRAMMING NOTES
TCM PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE #49 (THE REBOOT)
25 AUGUST 2024 through 31 AUGUST 2024
STAR OF THE MONTH: CELEBRITY CRUSH – (Tuesdays in primetime) — DANNY KAYE (AND WILLIAM HOLDEN)
TCM SPOTLIGHT (Wednesdays in primetime) — THE ICONIC WHITE DRESS
SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS (Monday @ midnight) — Earth [Zemlya] (1930), Mother [Mat] (1926)
TCM IMPORTS (Monday @ 2a) — By the Law [Po zakonu] (1926), Bed and Sofa [Tretya meshchanskaya] (1927)
TCM UNDERGROUND (Saturday @ 2a) — Jail Bait (1954), Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
THE ESSENTIALS (Saturday @ 8p) — Patterns (1956)
NOIR ALLEY (Sunday @ midnight) — Larceny (1948), Hidden Fear (1957)
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STAR OF THE MONTH: CELEBRITY CRUSH (Challenge No. 1) — DANNY KAYE
It sounds crazy, I know, but I had a tremendous crush on Danny Kaye when I was a very little kid. It probably worried my mother that at the age of three I went around talking about Danny Kaye in such fond terms. I found him funny, charming, and sincere, all attractive attributes of which I’ve never tired. Though not devastatingly handsome (in my book), I do always think of him first when the question of movie crushes arises.
(AND WILLIAM HOLDEN – When I was older, I found William Holden and discovered that it sure was nice to gaze upon an actor who had a handsome face, trim physique, and a strong, clear voice holding up a midwestern accent. These also are attributes of which I’ve never tired.)
TCM SPOTLIGHT — THE ICONIC WHITE DRESS
There are many white dresses in film that really pack a punch. The best ones stand out without ever reminding you of a wedding gown.
The Seven Year Itch – Designed by Charles Le Maire, Marilyn Monroe found a subway grate in THAT white dress. But there is also the white dress with those straps she couldn’t fasten. This film is a twofer!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Elizabeth Taylor floats down the stairs in the beautiful white dress designed by Helen Rose.
Roman Holiday – Audrey Hepburn wears a lovely white lace tea dress in the final scene of the film. The dress was designed by Edith Head, and Hubert de Givenchy reworked the bodice for Hepburn to wear to the Academy Awards ceremony.
The Band Wagon – Cyd Charisse wears a pretty white dress designed by Mary Ann Nyberg to dance in the dark with Fred Astair
Pillow Talk – Doris Day wears a lovely backless white gown designed by Jean Louise.
SILENT SUNDAY NIGHT
Celebrated Soviet Cinema
Earth [Zemlya] (1930). Award-winning Aleksandr Dovzhenko (1894-1956) directed Earth, the first Soviet film about collectivization. The film highlights the shift from agrarian to industrial society. The film was not released in its entirety in Russia until the 1970s. This film was added to the UNESCO list in 2015.
Mother [Mat] (1926). Based on Maxim Gorky’s 1906 novel of the same name, Mother was directed by Soviet heavyweight Vsevolod Pudovkin. It is the story of a family suffering through a workers’ strike. The cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya is beautiful.
TCM IMPORTS
Soviet Chamber Films
By the Law [Po zakonu] (1926) is based on the Jack London stories “The Unexpected” (1905) and “Just Meat” (1906). A group of Yukon gold prospectors must decide if they should wait until the thaw for authorities to arrive or administer justice on their own.
Bed and Sofa [Tretya meshchanskaya] (1927) is the love story of a young couple and their live-in friend, and is based on the real life story of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, his muse, and her husband.
Each of the films in Silent Sunday Night and TCM Imports were made before the Cultural Revolution, making them expressions of creativity rather than propaganda for the State.
TCM UNDERGROUND
Jail Bait (1954) and Mesa of Lost Women (1953) use the same musical composition by Hoyt Curtin for the soundtrack. The third film in the group also employs music composed by Curtin.
THE ESSENTIALS
Rod Serling wrote the teleplay for Patterns which aired on the Kraft Television Theater in 1955. It garnered Serling the first of his half-dozen Emmys. The airing was so well received that Kraft rebroadcast a second live performance the following month. Serling also wrote the screenplay for Patterns. The film was generally well received and featured some of the ensemble cast that had been in the television performance. Especially fine performances in the film were turned in by Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, and Ed Begley. Some exceptional dialogue proves that Serling had his finger on the pulse of corporate greed and power-mongering.
NOIR ALLEY
In Larceny and Hidden Fear (1957), John Payne can’t seem to get away from counterfeit bills in this fake paper double feature.
CHALLENGE No. 2: BACKGROUND FILMMAKER – DIALECT COACH ROBERT EASTON
Robert Easton overcame a severe childhood stutter after his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Texas. It was then that he began to understand regional dialects. He developed various Texas sounds which he used in his early acting work, but when he tired of playing dopey country hicks, he knew fostering different sounds would broaden his opportunities. As Easton learned various U.S. dialects and world accents, his acting work became much more varied. His peers noticed and asked for instruction. This became Easton’s side work, then his primary work. He taught a multitude of actors and actresses as well as professionals from other fields. Some of Easton’s stand-out students include:
Sean Connery, Julie Christie, Richard Harris, Charlton Heston, Dennis Hopper, Bob Hoskins, Sir Laurence Olivier, Al Pacino, Gregory Peck, and Forest Whitaker.
CHALLENGE No. 3: ADOPT A PET! – ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
Film is full of all manner of creatures we’d want to take home and love. The animals featured in the films for this week have become lost. We want to adopt them all as they carry out their mission to make it back home or to find a new one. Until they find their way, let’s adopt them into our hearts. (If you make it through The Bear with dry eyes, you might be a robot.)
CHALLENGE No. 4: THANKSGIVING – THE PLYMOUTH FOUR
Four adult women among the Pilgrims survived the first winter: Eleanor Billington, Mary Brewster, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Susanna White. Together they prepared the first Thanksgiving feast for the fifty Pilgrims and ninety Natives in attendance. It need not be November to honor these women, and I do so here by programming films featuring characters with each of their given names:
Eleanor – Sunrise at Campobello (1960) featuring Greer Garson as Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) featuring Donna Reed as Mary Hatch
Elizabeth – The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) featuring Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett
Susanna – The Marriage of Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (1949) featuring Angelika Hauff as Susanna
CHALLENGE No. 5: FIX THE OSCARS – COMPETITIVE AWARD FOR LILLIAN GISH
With a career that spanned eight decades, Lilliah Gish was known as the First Lady of American Cinema. She was tough, discerning, and forthright. She never married or had children, choosing instead to dedicate herself to the hard and artistic work that was acting for film and stage. Gish was nominated for a Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award in 1947 for Duel in the Sun, but never for another. She was nominated twenty years later for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in The Comedians (1968). Various other lifetime or body of work awards were given, mainly during the 1970s and 1980s, and the final award (so far) was the Online Film & Television Associations’s Hall of Fame for Acting in 2009. I guess there’s nothing to be done about Way Down East since it was made in 1920, but I believe I’d give the Oscar to Gish for 1928’s The Wind.
BIRTHDAYS & SPECIAL FEATURES
Happy Birthday, Mel Ferrer!
Happy Birthday, Sean Connery!
Happy Birthday, Martha Raye!
Happy Birthday, Theodore Dreiser!
Happy Birthday, James Wong Howe!
Happy Birthday, Preston Sturges!
Happy Birthday, Joan Blondell!
Happy Birthday, Raymond Massey!
Happy Birthday, Yvonne De Carlo!
Tea Leaves
19th Century British Poets
A Little Dickens
Chimney Sweep Shorts
August: National Inventors Month
Don’t Keep Us in Stitches: Tragic Seamstresses
Judy, Judy, Judy
L-O-L-A: Lola
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45 PREMIERES:
After Tomorrow (1932)
The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
The Bear (1988)
Bed and Sofa [Tretya meshchanskaya] (1927)
Bleak House (1922)
The Blue Veil (1951)
By the Law [Po zakonu] (1926)
Chimney Sweep [Jack le ramoneur] (1906)
The Chimney Sweep [Pérák a SS] (1946)
The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog (1980)
A Christmas Carol (1910)
Diamond Jim (1935)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Double or Nothing (1937)
Footsteps in the Sand (1939)
Four in the Morning (1965)
Forbidden [Proibito] (1955)
Fräulein (1958)
The Frightened City (1961)
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Go Man Go (1954)
Hideaway Girl (1936)
Jail Bait (1954)
James Wong Howe: Cinematographer (1973)
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
Joniko and the Kush Ta Ka (1969)
Knock on Wood (1954)
Larceny (1948)
The Lady and the Mouse (1912)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
The Marriage of Figaro [Figaros Hochzeit] (1949)
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
The Miller and Chimney Sweep [The Miller and the Sweep] (1897)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Mother [Mat] (1926)
Mystery Plane (1939)
Oh…Rosalinda!! (1955)
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
Pursued (1947)
The Strangler [East of Piccadilly] (1941)
Swedes in America (1943)
Tea: With a Kick! (1923)
They Just Had to Get Married (1932)
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107 FILMS BY DECADE:
1890-1899: 1 1960-1969: 8
1900-1909: 2 1970-1979: 4
1910-1919: 3 1980-1989: 3
1920-1929: 10 1990-1999: 1
1930-1939: 23 2000-2009: 1
1940-1949: 21 2010-2019:
1950-1959: 30
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:06:47 GMT
LYDECKER'S SCHEDULE:
TCM Programming Schedule # 49
Week of September 8 – 14, 2024
SUNDAY, September 8
“You mean you’re not hypnotized? Then get down off that ledge, you idiot!”
Hypnosis
6 AM Fear in the Night (1947) Paul Kelly & DeForest Kelley. Dir: Maxwell Shane. PAR, 72 min. Premiere
7:15 AM The Woman in Green (1945) Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce. Dir: Roy William Neill. UNIV, 68 min. p/s
8:30 AM Svengali (1931) John Barrymore & Marian Marsh. Dir: Archie Mayo. WB, 81 min. p/s
10 AM Whirlpool (1950) Gene Tierney & Richard Conte. Dir: Otto Preminger. FOX, 97 min. p/s
NOIR ALLEY
“You’re wiping away brain cells and there aren’t too many to spare.”
Spoiler Alert! (The Title Gives Away the Plot.)
12 PM Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) Rick Moranis & Matt Frewer. Dir: Joe Johnston. DIS, 93 min. p/s
1:45 PM Five Came Back (1939) Chester Morris & Lucille Ball. Dir: John Farrow. RKO, 75 min. p/s
3 PM And So They Were Married (1936) Melvyn Douglas & Mary Astor. Dir: Elliott Nugent., COL, 74 min. p/s
4:15 PM Death of a Salesman (1951) Fredric March & Mildred Dunnock. Dir: Laszlo Benedek. COL, 115 min. Premiere
6:15 PM I Found Stella Parish( 1935) Kay Francis & Ian Hunter. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. WB, 85 min. p/s
“I may be old fashioned, but I thought murder was against the law.”
Hitchcock & Trains
8 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938) Margaret Lockwood & Michael Redgrave. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Gainsborough Pictures, 97 min. p/s
10 PM Strangers on a Train (1951) Farley Granger & Robert Walker. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. WB, 101 min. p/s
“Look, can we skip the tea if you don’t mind? I didn’t come 3,000 miles for orange pekoe.”
Silent Sunday/TCM Imports -- British Cinema
12 AM The First Born (1928) Madeleine Carroll & Miles Mander. Dir: Miles Mander. Gainsborough Pictures, 101 min. Exempt Premiere
1:45 AM Black Limelight (1938) Joan Marion & Raymond Massey. Dir: Paul L. Stein. ABPC, 63 min. Exempt Premiere
3 AM Murder at Monte Carlo (1934) Errol Flynn & Eve Gray. Dir: Ralph Ince. WB/UK, 70 min. Exempt Premiere
4:15 AM Dear Murderer (1947) Eric Portman & Greta Gynt. Dir: Arthur Crabtree. Gainsborough Pictures, 90 min. p/s
MONDAY, September 9
“No one laughs at a master of Quack Fu!”
Thanksgiving -- Hollywood Turkeys (Challenge #4)
6 AM The Food of the Gods (1976) Marjoe Gortner & Pamela Franklin. Dir: Bert I. Gordon. AI, 88 min. p/s
7:30 AM Howard the Duck (1986) Lea Thompson & Jeffrey Jones. Dir: Willard Huyck. UNIV, 111 min. Premiere
9:30 AM The Story of Mankind (1957) Ronald Colman & Vincent Price. Dir: Irwin Allen. WB, 110 min. p/s
11:30 AM At Long Last Love (1975) Burt Reynolds & Cybill Shepherd. Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. FOX, 123 min. Premiere
“You produce one more mythical kingdom story and you’re going to be a mythical producer.”
Selznick at RKO
1 PM What Price Hollywood (1932) Constance Bennett & Lowell Sherman. Dir: George Cukor. RKO, 88 min. p/s
2:30 PM The Great Jasper (1933) Richard Dix & Edna May Oliver. Dir: J. Walter Ruben. RKO, 85 min. Premiere
4 PM Sweepings (1933) Lionel Barrymore & Eric Linden. Dir: John Cromwell. RKO, 80 min. p/s
5:30 PM A Bill of Divorcement (1932) John Barrymore & Katharine Hepburn. Dir: George Cukor. RKO, 70 min. p/s
7 PM Thirteen Women (1932) Irene Dunne & Ricardo Cortez. Dir: George Archainbaud. RKO, 59 min. p/s
“She looked like a very special kind of dynamite.”
Happy 100th Birthday, Jane Greer.
8 PM Two O’Clock Courage (1945) Tom Conway & Ann Rutherford. Dir: Anthony Mann. RKO, 68 min. p/s
9:15 PM They Won’t Believe Me (1947) Robert Young & Jane Greer. Dir: Irving Pinchel. RKO, 95 min. p/s
11 PM Out of the Past (1947) Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. RKO, 97 min. p/s
2:45 AM The Company She Keeps (1951) Lizabeth Scott & Jane Greer. Dir: John Cromwell. RKO, 82 min. p/s
4:15 AM Just Between Friends (1986) Mary Tyler Moore & Christine Lahti. Dir: Allan Burns. Orion, 110 min. Premiere
TUESDAY, September 10
“Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh my!”
Wild Things
6:15 AM The Lion (1962) William Holden & Trevor Howard. Dir: Jack Cardiff. FOX, 96 min. p/s
8 AM Bengal Tiger (1931) Barton MacLane & June Travis. Dir: Louis King. WB, 62 min. p/s
9:15 AM Paddington (2014) Hugh Bonneville & Sally Hawkins. Dir: Paul King. Studio Canal, 95 min. Premiere
“Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
Witches
11 AM I Married a Witch (1942) Fredric March & Veronica Lake. Dir: Rene Clair. PAR, 77 min. p/s
12:30 PM The Witches of Eastwick (1987) Jack Nicholson & Cher. Dir: George Miller. WB, 118 min. Premiere
2:30 PM Into the Woods (2014) Meryl Streep & Emily Blunt. Dir: Rob Marshall. DIS, 124 min. Premiere
4:45 PM The Wizard of Oz (1939) Judy Garland & Frank Morgan. Dir: Victor Fleming. MGM, 101 min. p/s
6:45 PM His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) Violet MacMillan & Frank Moore. Dir: J. Farrell MacDonald. PAR, 59 min. Premiere
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
It’s Curtains for You.
8 PM Curtain at Eight (1933) C. Aubrey Smith & Dorothy Mackaill. Dir: E. Mason Hopper. Majestic Pictures, 68 min. Premiere
9:15 PM Behind That Curtain (1929) Warner Baxter & Lois Moran. Dir: Irving Cummings. FOX, 91 min. Premiere
11 PM Curtain Call (1940) Barbara Read & Alan Mowbry. Dir: Frank Woodruff. RKO, 63 min. p/s
“Somebody messes with me, I’m gonna mess with him.”
Happy Birthday Brian DePalma
12 AM Obsession (1976) Cliff Robertson & Genevieve Bujold. Dir: Brian De Palma. COL, 98 min. p/s
1:45 AM The Untouchables (1987) Kevin Costner & Sean Connery. Dir: Brian De Palma. PAR, 119 min. Premiere
3:45 AM Dressed to Kill (1980) Michael Caine & Angie Dickinson. Dir: Brian De Palma. AI, 104 min. Premiere
WEDNESDAY, September 11
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys and things got out of hand.”
50th Anniversary of the End of Watergate
6 AM Mark Felt, The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) Liam Neeson & Diane Lane. Dir: Peter Landesman. SONY, 103 min. Premiere
7:45 AM Nixon (1995) Anthony Hopkins & Joan Allen. Dir: Oliver Stone. Buena Vista, 192 min. Premiere
11 AM All the President’s Men (1976) Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford. Dir: Alan J. Pakula. WB, 138 min. p/s
“I think Frankenstein should be required reading for all scientists.”
Technology Takes Over.
1:30 PM Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Eric Braeden & Susan Clark. Dir: Joseph Sargent. UNIV, 100 min. Premiere
3:15 PM Westworld (1973) Yul Brynner & Richard Benjamin. Dir: Michael Crichton. MGM, 88 min. Premiere
515 PM The Matrix (1999) Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne. Dir: The Wachowskis. WB, 136 min. Premiere
“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.”
SOTM Harrison Ford (Challenge #1)
8 PM Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Harrison Ford & Karen Allen. Dir: Steven Spielberg. PAR, 115 min. Premiere
10 PM The Fugitive (1993) Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones. Dir: Andrew Davis. WB, 130 min. Premiere
12:15 AM Presumed Innocent (1990) Harrison Ford & Brian Dennehy. Dir: Alan J. Pakula. 127 min. Premiere
2:30 AM Clear and Present Danger (1994) Harrison Ford & Willem Dafoe. Dir: Phillip Noyce. PAR, 141 min. Premiere
5 AM The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Harrison Ford & Mark Hamill. Dir: Irvin Kershner. FOX, 124 min. Premiere
THURSDAY, September 12
“Asta. What’s with you on this case? You seem to be losing your grip!”
Adopt a Pet (Challenge #3)
7:15 AM Eyes in the Night (1942) Starring “Friday” & Edward Arnold. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. MGM, 80 min. p/s
8:45 AM The Incredible Journey (1963) Starring “Bodger” & Emilie Genest. Dir: Fletcher Markle. DIS, 80 min. p/s
10:15 AM After the Thin Man (1936) Starring Skippy as “Asta” & William Powell & Myrna Loy. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke. MGM, 112 min. p/s
“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud.”
Background Filmmaker -- Art Director Carroll Clark (Challenge #2)
12:15 PM Top Hat (1935) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Dir: Mark Sandrich. RKO, 101 min. p/s
2 PM Murder My Sweet (1944) Dick Powell & Claire Trevor. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. RKO, 95 min. p/s
3:45 PM Notorious (1946) Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. RKO, 102 min. p/s
5:30 PM Tycoon (1947) John Wayne & Laraine Day. Dir: Richard Wallace. RKO, 128 min. p/s
“I’m not kind, I’m vicious. It’s the secret of my charm.”
Guest Programmer -- Waldo Lydecker
8 PM The Perfect Snob (1941) Charles Ruggles & Charlotte Greenwood. Dir: Ray McCarey. FOX, 63 min. Premiere
9:15 PM My Brilliant Career (1979) Judy Davis & Sam Neill. Dir: Gillian Armstrong. GUO Film, 100 min.
p/s
11 PM High Society (1956) Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly. Dir: Charles Walters. MGM, 111 min. p/s
1 AM The Big Clock (1948) Ray Milland & Charles Laughton. Dir: John Farrow. PAR, 95 min. p/s
“Archie Leach? What does he do? He seems to be doing fine since he changed his name to Cary Grant.”
Strange Things Come C.O.D.
2:45 AM The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) George Brent & Joan Blondell. Dir: Henry Levin. COL, 87 min. p/s
4:15 AM The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) James Cagney & Bette Davis. Dir: William Keighley. WB, 92 min. p/s
FRIDAY, September 13
“You’re doomed! You’re all doomed!”
Watch Out. It’s Friday the 13th.
6 AM Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Jessie Matthews & Ralph Richardson. Dir: Victor Saville. Gaumont, 89 min. Premiere
7:30 AM Friday the 13th (1980) Betsy Palmer & Adrienne King. Dir: Sean S. Cunningham. PAR, 95 min. Premiere
9:15 AM Friday the 13th, Part II (1981) Adrienne King & Amy Steel. Dir: Steve Miner. PAR, 87 min. Premiere
“What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin’ at her rear end.”
Fixing the 1951 Oscars (Challenge #5)
10:45 AM All About Eve (1950) Bette Davis & Anne Baxter. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. FOX, 138 min. p/s
(Best Supporting Actress -- Should have been Thelma Ritter)
(Best Actress -- Should have been Bette Davis)
1:15 PM Sunset Blvd (1950) William Holden & Gloria Swanson. Dir: Billy Wilder. PAR, 110 min. p/s
(Best Actor -- Should have been William Holden.)
3:15 PM Broken Arrow (1950) James Stewart & Jeff Chandler. Dir: Delmer Daves. FOX, 93 min. p/s
(Best Color Cinematography -- Should have been Ernest Palmer.)
5 PM Three Little Words (1950) Fred Astaire & Red Skelton. Dir: Richard Thorpe. MGM, 102 min.
(Music/Scoring -- Should have been Andre Previn.)
7 PM Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1984) BBC, 60 min. p/s
“Well, cut off my legs and call me Shorty.”
TCM Spotlight -- Character Actors We Love.
8 PM The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) Edna May Oliver & James Gleason. Dir: George Archainbaud. RKO, 66 min. p/s
9:15 PM Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940) Lloyd Nolan & Marjorie Weaver. Dir: Eugene Forde. FOX, 77 min Premiere
10:45 PM The Crowd Roars (1932) Frank McHugh & James Cagney. Dir: Howard Hawks. WB, 85 min. p/s
12:15 AM On Trial (1939) John Litel & Margaret Lindsay. Dir: Terry Morse. WB, 62 min. p/s
1:30 AM A Letter to Three Wives (1949) Thelma Ritter & Jeanne Crain. Dir: Joseph Mankiewicz. FOX, 103 min. p/s
3:15 AM Penthouse (1933) Nat Pendleton & Warner Baxter. Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. MGM, 90 min. p/s
4:45 AM The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) Ed Brophy & Tom Conway. Dir: Joseph Lewis. RKO, 66 min. p/s
SATURDAY, September 14
“Don’t worry. I may look weird, but otherwise I’m real normal.”
Singers Who Act
6 AM Suspect (1987) Cher & Dennis Quaid. Dir: Peter Yates. Tri-Star, 121 min. Premiere
8:15 AM Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1985) Bette Midler & Nick Nolte. Dir: Paul Mazursky. Touchstone, 103 min. Premiere
10 AM Prince of Tides (1991) Barbra Streisand & Nick Nolte. Dir: Barbra Streisand. COL, 132 min. p/s
“Just imagine. Four murders, all strangulations, no clues. The police were baffled. So, what do they do? They dump the whole thing in Nicky’s lap.”
Caught by Nick Charles
12:15 PM Destry Rides Again (1939) James Stewart & Marlene Dietrich. Dir: George Marshall. UNIV, 94 min. p/s
2 PM The Velvet Touch (1948) Rosalind Russell & Leon Ames. Dir: John Gage. RKO, 97 min. p/s
3:45 PM Strangers in the Night (1944) William Terry & Virginia Gray. Dir: Anthony Mann. REP, 56 min. Premiere
4:45 PM The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935) Warren William & Porter Hall. Dir: Archie Mayo. WB, 75 min. p/s
6 PM Lucky Night (1939) Myrna Loy & Henry O’Neill. Dir: Norman Taurog. MGM, 90 min. p/s
7:30 PM How to Be a Detective (1936) Robert Benchley, MGM, 9 min. p/s
“Why don’t you wise up, you wise guy?”
MGM Noir
8 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Sterling Hayden & Louis Calhern. Dir: John Huston. MGM, 112 min. p/s
10 PM The Bribe (1949) Robert Taylor & Ava Gardner. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. MGM, 98 min. p/s
12 AM Act of Violence (1949) Van Heflin & Robert Ryan. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. MGM, 82 min. p/s NOIR ALLEY
“You despise me, don’t you? If I gave you any thought, I probably would.”
Background Filmmakers -- The Epstein Brothers (Julius & Philip) (Challenge #2 Redux)
1:30 AM Casablanca (1942) Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman. Dir: Michael Curtiz. WB, 102 min. p/s
3:30 AM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Bette Davis & Monty Wooley. Dir: William Keighley. WB, 112 min. p/s
5:30 AM How Bogart Became a Star.
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 11, 2023 9:07:18 GMT
LYDECKER'S NOTES:
TCM Programming Challenge #49 -- “The Re-Boot”
September 8-14, 2024
SOTM: Harrison Ford
TCM Spotlight: Character Actors We Love
Guest Programmer: Waldo Lydecker
Noir Alley: Whirlpool (1950) & Act of Violence (1949)
Silent Sunday: The First Born (1928)
TCM Imports: Black Limelight (1938) Murder at Monte Carlo (1934) & Dear Murderer (1947)
Challenge #1: SOTM/Harrison Ford
Challenge #2: Background Filmmakers/Carroll Clark & Julius & Philip Epstein
Challenge #3: Adopt A Pet/Friday, Bodger & Asta
Challenge #4: Thanksgiving-Related/Hollywood Turkeys
Challenge #5: Fix The Oscars/1951 Oscars
TCM Premieres:
Face in the Night (1947)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
The First Born (1928)
Black Limelight (1936)
Murder at Monte Carlo (1934)
Howard the Duck (1986)
At Long Last Love (1975)
Just Between Friends (1986)
Paddington (2014)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Into the Woods (2014)
His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz (1914)
Curtain at Eight (1933)
Behind That Curtain (1929)
The Untouchables (1987)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Mark Felt, The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Nixon (1995)
Colossus, The Forbin Project (1970)
Westworld (1973)
The Matrix (1999)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Fugitive (1993)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Perfect Snob (1941)
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th, Part II (1981)
Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940)
Suspect (1987)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1985)
Strangers in the Night (1944)
By the decade:
1910’s: 1 1970’s: 7
1920’s: 2 1980’s: 12
1930’s: 25 1990’s: 6
1940’s: 25 2000’s: 0
1950’s: 11 2010’s: 3
1960’s: 2
Notes: It’s so good to be doing a TCM Challenge Schedule again! Schedule #49 includes kudos to several folks in front of and behind the curtain: SOTM Harrison Ford, Brian De Palma, a Happy 100th Birthday to the incredible Jane Greer and salutes to three wonderful “background filmmakers” -- art director Carroll Clark and writers Julius & Philip Epstein. My TCM Spotlight is: Character Actors We Love (I could do an entire week on Character Actors!) and my guest programmer is -- it had to happen -- Waldo Lydecker -- Some of his film picks include: My Brilliant Career, The Perfect Snob and The Big Clock. Oh, Waldo! I had a lot of fun correcting the 1951 Oscars -- How could they have ignored Bette Davis, William Holden and Thelma Ritter??? Also featured in Schedule #47 are: Spoiler Alerts, a day inspired by Wizard of Oz quotes, the 50th Anniversary of the End of Watergate, Strange Things Come C.O.D., Caught by Nick Charles, Singers Who Act, Technology Takes Over, MGM Noirs and more. Enjoy!
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Post by topbilled on Dec 12, 2023 1:23:34 GMT
Thanks Lonesome, for doing such a nice job moderating the programming challenge.
Your efforts are very much appreciated!
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 12, 2023 8:52:51 GMT
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 12, 2023 8:54:12 GMT
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 12, 2023 8:55:03 GMT
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Post by Swithin on Dec 13, 2023 1:45:44 GMT
These are wonderful schedules! Just some quick notes before I study them in more detail:
I love that TB gives Oscars to Louise Beavers, Walter Connolly, and Bramwell Fletcher.
I love that Bunnywhit schedules The Mystery of Edwin Drood in a Dickens series that avoids the usual suspects.
I love that Lydecker schedules The Food of the Gods. How could you not love a schedule that includes a film that features lines like this: "I used to fantasize the most horrible deaths. You know, the most frightening. None of them come close to being eaten by giant rats."
I don't plan to vote, it's too hard to choose.
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Post by kims on Dec 13, 2023 2:37:17 GMT
All are great schedules- can we forward these to TCM programmers? They are much better than some of the days TCM has given us.
I vote for Lydecker-the creative themes of the day nudged my vote to Lydecker.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 16, 2023 17:47:11 GMT
Thanks for the great programs, Topbilled and Lydecker! There is certainly a lot to like in both schedules:
Topbilled -- I especially enjoy your segments with Edith Head and Orangey, and Van Nest Polglase as your Background Filmmaker tribute is a great pick.
Lydecker -- Your special nods to Carroll Clark and the Epsteins are fab, and Hollywood Turkeys really made me chortle.
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Post by lydecker on Dec 16, 2023 23:13:38 GMT
First, LP, thank you so much for re-booting our beloved TCM Programming Challenge. Of all the things I missed about the closing down of the TCM message boards last fall, losing the chance to do these fun challenges was the toughest thing to take. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing it back! (And I thank your mother, your manager, your agent, your high school teacher, etc. etc. etc.) -- Do I hear the music telling me to get off the stage???
TB: Loved that you picked Madge Evans as your celebrity crush/SOTM. I love her, too. You and I were thinking alike in terms of art directors — Van Nest Polglase (best name ever?) for you, Carroll Clark for me. RKO had some fabulous behind-the-scenes filmmakers. Gotta love those Art Deco sets. Primo choices on fixing the supporting actor/actress Oscars, pre-1936, — I love all of your picks, especially Aline MacMahon and Bramwell Fletcher. Orangey is an inspired choice for your "adoptee." Plus, so many wonderful birthday salutes. Great job!!!
Bunny Whit: Ha! You beat me to picking William Holden as your SOTM — He is incredibly crush-worthy. Loved A Little Dickens and Chimney Sweep shorts and Don’t Keep Us in Stitches. Dialect coach Robert Easton is an inspired pick as is James Wong Howe who I worship. Your Thanksgiving choice — The Plymouth Four — is very clever (and I learned something!) and I’m thrilled that Rod Serling got a well-deserved tip ‘o the hat in your schedule. But, of all your terrific ideas, my favorite was definitely The Iconic White Dress — What a great theme (and I wish I had thought of it.)
Loved both schedules but my vote goes to Bunny Whit this time around. Let’s keep this going, folks.
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 17, 2023 1:44:34 GMT
Thanks for the great programs, Topbilled and Lydecker! There is certainly a lot to like in both schedules:
Topbilled -- I especially enjoy your segments with Edith Head and Orangey, and Van Nest Polglase as your Background Filmmaker tribute is a great pick.
Lydecker -- Your special nods to Carroll Clark and the Epsteins are fab, and Hollywood Turkeys really made me chortle.
Silent Sundays/TCM Imports full of great British films, fixing the 1951 Oscars, and "It's Curtains for You" pushed my vote Lydecker's direction. |
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