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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 15, 2023 21:58:00 GMT
I didn't do much for the last couple of months but will try to post the April schedule on here before April starts. Stolen almost wholesale from the Escape Press listings. Everyone knows this is an all-Warner Bros. month, so I won't bother to list the studio 350 times!
Daytime April 1 Saturday Matinee/The Early Years
Beau Brummel (John Barrymore, Mary Astor) (1924)
Noah's Ark (Dolores Costello, George O'Brien) (1928)
Disraeli (George Arliss, Joan Bennett) (1930)
The Dawn Patrol (Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) (1930)
Night Nurse (Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable) (1931)
Jewel Robbery (William Powell, Kay Francis) (1932)
Blessed Event (Lee Tracy, Mary Brien) (1932)
Employees' Entrance (Warren William, Loretta Young) (1933)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 15, 2023 23:18:05 GMT
Primetime April 1 How It Started and the Dawn of Sound. There are no fewer than three documentaries this night: one on the actual Warner Bros., one on the beginning of sound film and one on Baby Rose Marie. There are also shorts featuring the Cocanut Grove Orchestra, Baby Rose Marie and Lambchop (separate ones - not all together!) I will list only the scripted films.
Clash of the Wolves (Charles Farrell, June Marlowe) (1925)
Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor) (1926)
The Jazz Singer (Al Jolson, May McAvoy) (1928)
Lights of New York (Helene Costello, Cullen Landis) (1928)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 15, 2023 23:39:07 GMT
Oops, did I call this month January already? Just caught myself accidentally doing it on this post. If I have done so, I will go back and correct on the previous posts.
Daytime April 2 Crime Features
Little Caesar (Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) (1931)
G Men (James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay) (1935)
Bullets or Ballots (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell) (1936)
Each Dawn I Die (James Cagney, George Raft) (1939)
High Sierra (Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart) (1941)
Larceny, Inc. (Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman) (1942)
Key Largo (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall) (1948)
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Post by topbilled on Mar 16, 2023 1:59:33 GMT
Yay...glad you are doing these again!
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 2:29:47 GMT
Primetime April 2 Pre-Code Classics and an Emphasis on Realism. Also included in the evening's programming is a documentary from the '90s on Jack Warner
The Public Enemy (James Cagney, Jean Harlow) (1931)
One Way Passage (William Powell, Kay Francis) (1932)
Two Seconds (Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne) (1932)
Life Begins (Loretta Young, Eric Linden) (1932)
Baby Face (Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent) (1933)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 2:40:16 GMT
Daytime April 3 Here's where the daytime and nightime themes become subdivided. We begin with Musicals Coreographed by Busby Berkeley
Dames (Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell) (1934)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (Dick Powell, Joan Blondell) (1936)
And then Films Composed by Max Steiner (I'm assuming the Gershwin pic doesn't have a lot of original Steiner music, but he was credited). There's also a doc about Steiner
The Adventures of Mark Twain (Frederic March, Alexis Smith) (1944)
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Joan Leslie) (1945)
Helen of Troy (Rossana Podesta, Jack Sernas) (1956)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 3:16:33 GMT
Primetime April 3 Great Directors at Warner Bros
1) William Wellman
Safe in Hell (Dorothy Mackail, Donald Cook) (1931)
Heroes for Sale (Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young) (1933)
2) Mervyn LeRoy
Page Miss Glory (Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien) (1935)
Anthony Adverse (Frederic March, Olivia DeHavilland) (1936)
3) Lloyd Bacon
Cain and Mabel (Marion Davies, Clark Gable) (1936)
Marked Woman (Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) (1937)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 3:56:04 GMT
Daytime and Primetime April 4 This is Day One of a 48-hour marathon of Studio Contract Players. Day One is all women, and the men get their turn the next day.
1) Myrna Loy
The Great Divide (Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith) (1929)
The Truth about Youth (Loretta Young, Conway Tearle) (1930)
2) Bebe Daniels
My Past (Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone) (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez) (1931)
3) Dolores Del Rio
Madame DuBarry (Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen) (1933)
In Caliente (Dolores Del Rio, Pat O'Brien) (1935)
4) Ann Dvorak
Love is a Racket (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak) (1932)
Murder in the Clouds (Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak) (1934)
5) Glenda Farrell
Little Big Shot (Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell) (1935)
Smart Blonde (Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane) (1937)
6) Ginger Rogers
42nd Street (Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels) (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warren William, Joan Blondell) (1933)
7) Joan Blondell
Three on a Match (Joan Blondell, Warren William) (1932)
Footlight Parade (James Cagney, Joan Blondell) (1933)
8) Kay Francis
Mary Stevens, M.D. (Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot) (1933)
I Found Stella Parish (Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) (1935)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 4:20:03 GMT
Daytime and Primetime April 5 Day Two of Studio Contract Players, the men this time
1) John Barrymore
When a Man Loves (John Barrymore, Dolores Costello) (1927)
Svengali (John Barrymore, Marian Marsh) (1931)
2) Joe E. Brown
You Said a Mouthful (Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers) (1932)
Elmer the Great (Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis) (1933)
3) Pat O'Brien
Oil for the Lamps of China (Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson) (1935)
The Great O'Malley (Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason) (1937)
4) Dick Powell
Flirtation Walk (Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler) (1934)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart) (1935)
5) Edward G. Robinson
Brother Orchid (Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern) (1940)
The Sea Wolf (Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino) (1941)
6) Paul Muni
The Story of Louis Pasteur (Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson) (1936)
The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard) (1937)
7) George Brent
So Big! (Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent) (1932)
From Headquarters (George Brent, Margaret Lindsay) (1933)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 4:42:20 GMT
Daytime April 6 First, Warner Goes to School
The Corn is Green (Bette Davis, John Dall) (1945)
Our Miss Brooks (Eve Arden, Robert Rockwell) (1956)
Up the Down Staircase (Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford (1967)
Then, Warner Joins the Team
Jim Thorpe, All-American (Burt Lancaster, Phyllis Thaxter) (1951)
The Winning Team (Doris Day, Ronald Reagan) (1952)
Trouble Along the Way (John Wayne, Donna Reed) (1953)
One on One (Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole) (1977)
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 16, 2023 8:04:52 GMT
sewhite2000, like Topbilled, I'm really happy you are doing these again. Thank you.
For those who are fans or for those who know her name but not her work, TCM's April 3rd showing of "Safe in Hell" (my comments on it here: "Safe in Hell") is a really good introduction to one of my favorite early pre-code girls - Dorothy MacKaill.
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 14:04:47 GMT
That is definitely a pre-Code photo. Mackaill is indeed only a name I've heard. Unsure if I've ever seen any of her performances. I must confess, given the black-and-white photography, I can't tell if she's wearing some kind of sheer, monochromatic slip from the base of her neck down to her panty line underneath her open robe, which probably would have been scandalous enough in those days, or if that's bare flesh. Just, um, curious. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Her left arm is perfectly positioned to hide the presence of a potentially exposed navel, which would answer my question. That was still mostly verboten, even in the pre-Code days, I think. I believe even Ginger Rogers singing "We're in the Money" in pig Latin kept her belly button hid. I think I detect some billowing out of fabric away from the body on her lower right side. But I'm going to try to stop being so patheric as to continue to examine this photo in excruciating detail. Ahem. Everyone return to what you were doing!
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 16, 2023 14:15:13 GMT
That is definitely a pre-Code photo. Mackaill is indeed only a name I've heard. Unsure if I've ever seen any of her performances. I must confess, given the black-and-white photography, I can't tell if she's wearing some kind of sheer, monochromatic slip from the base of her neck down to her panty line underneath her open robe, which probably would have been scandalous enough in those days, or if that's bare flesh. Just, um, curious. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. Her left arm is perfectly positioned to hide the presence of a potentially exposed navel, which would answer my question. That was still mostly verboten, even in the pre-Code days, I think. I believe even Ginger Rogers singing "We're in the Money" in pig Latin kept her belly button hid. I think I detect some billowing out of fabric away from the body on her lower right side. But I'm going to try to stop being so patheric as to continue to examine this photo in excruciating detail. Ahem. Everyone return to what you were doing!
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 15:36:34 GMT
Primetime April 6 Night Two of Great Directors at Warner Bros. Looks like this runs every Monday and Thursday night the entire month. And no matter how celebrated the individual director, everyone is limited to two films.
1) Michael Curtiz
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (1938)
Life with Father (William Powell, Irene Dunne) (1947)
2) William Wyler
Jezebel (Bette Davis, George Brent) (1938)
The Letter (Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall) (1940)
3) Archie Mayo
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young) (1933)
Bordertown (Paul Muni, Bette Davis) (1935)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Mar 16, 2023 15:48:12 GMT
Daytime April 7 First, Warner Learns to Read
Moby Dick (John Barrymore, Joan Bennett) (1930)
The Fountainhead (Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal) (1949)
The Old Man and the Sea (Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos) (1958)
Then, Warner Studies History (Given the accuracy of some of these adaptations, I'm not sure how much they learned!)
Alexander Hamilton (George Arliss, Doris Kenyon) (1931)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (1936)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Bette Davis, Errol Flynn) (1939)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon) (1970)
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