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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 3:45:37 GMT
I would quote people directly so they know they're being quoted, but I don't know how to do that on this site. So, I usually just copy and paste, a feature that's been around for at least 30 years, when I was still young enough to master simple computer functions.
"And of course Korngold's brilliant music was "stolen" by John Williams for Star Wars!"
This I hadn't heard before. I am exhaustingly familiar with the Star Wars score. I will have to listen carefully the next time I watch Kings Row to see if I can detect smiliarities.
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 4:10:05 GMT
Daytime June 12 Crooked There are several MGM shorts, each only about 20 minutes long, that I'm leaving out. Party Girl also airs June 1 as part of the daytime Showgirls theme. So, thus far, I believe there are three non-Noir Alley features airing twice this month: The Women, Viva Las Vegas and Party Girl.
The Marshal of Mesa City (George O'Brien, Virginia Vale) (RKO, 1939)
The Big Shot (Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning) (Warner Bros., 1942)
The Racket (Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott) (RKO, 1951)
A Lion Is in the Streets (James Cagney, Barbara Hale) (Warner Bros., 1953)
Wichita (Joel McCrea, Vera Miles) (Allied Artists, 1955)
Party Girl (Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse) (MGM, 1958)
McQ (John Wayne, Eddie Albert) (Warner Bros., 1974)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 4:21:12 GMT
Primetime June 12 Judy Holliday, Subtitled Radio to Screen I guess that means all these movies were adapted from radio productions?
Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday, William Holden) (Columbia, 1950)
Phffft (Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon) (Columbia, 1954)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas) (Columbia, 1956)
Full of Life (Judy Holliday, Richard Conte) (Columbia, 1956)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 4:41:51 GMT
Daytime June 13 Basil Rathbone's 131st Birthday
The Bishop Murder Case (Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams) (MGM, 1930)
The Lady of Scandal (Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone) (MGM, 1930)
Sin Takes a Holiday (Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna) (RKO, 1930)
The Last Days of Pompeii (Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone) (RKO, 1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan) (MGM, 1935)
Romeo and Juliet (Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard) (MGM, 1936)
The Dawn Patrol (Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone) (Warner Bros., 1938)
The Woman in Green (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) (Universal, 1945)
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Post by I Love Melvin on May 29, 2023 11:54:13 GMT
Primetime June 9 Night Two of the Month-Long Summer Camp Theme, Subtitled Mondo Melodramas Queen Bee (Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan) (Columbia, 1955) The Bad Seed (Patsy Kelly, Patty McCormack) (Warner Bros., 1956) Written on the Wind (Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack) (Universal, 1957) Two Weeks in Another Town (Kirk Douglas, Cyd Charisse) (MGM, 1962) Love Has Many Faces (Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson) (Columbia, 1965) The Valley of the Dolls (Barbara Perkins, Patty Duke) (20th Century Fox, 1967) I'm loving this Summer Camp theme, especially this line-up here. For anyone who hasn't seen it, Love Has Many Faces is definitely one to catch. With the exception of Madame X (1966) it's Lana's last major film, which is too bad because "jaded" looks great on her and it could have opened up new possibilities. She plays a bored heiress lording over the beach community in Acapulco, along with her basically bought-and-paid-for husband, former beach bum Cliff Robertson. The peace of their blissful ennui is shattered when a local cop questions her about the drowning death of a young man who washed up on the beach with a love token from Lana still on his arm, bearing the inscription "Love is thin ice". The rest of the cast...and by the way, thank you, casting gods...consists of Ruth Roman and Virginia Grey as rich touristas out to sample the local "atmosphere" and Hugh O'Brian (Yes, that Hugh O'Brian.) as a beach bum gigolo ready to provide (or should I say sell?) it to them. Stephanie Powers shows up as the sister of the drowned kid looking for answers and catches Cliff Robertson's eye and if you want to know more, watch this amazingly amoral piece of trash art.  |
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 16:34:29 GMT
Primetime June 13 Night Three of what I'm now understanding is a month-long theme, Hollywoodland.I guess it's running on Tuesday and Wednesday nights all month long. Tuesday nights for scripted films, Wednesday nights for documentaries. The sub-theme this week is Scripted Stories, I guess movies about screenwriters. Tonight is the scripted films.
Crashing Hollywood (Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury) (RKO, 1938)
Boy Meets Girl (James Cagney, Marie Wilson) (Warner Bros., 1938)
In a Lonely Place (Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame) (Columbia, 1950)
Best Friends (Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn) (Warner Bros., 1982)
The Player (Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi) (Fine Line, 1992)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 20:40:52 GMT
Daytime June 14 This Sporting Life Besides the features, there's a Bobby Jones short. As I recall, James Cagney would often turn up in those.
Pat and Mike (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (MGM, 1952)
The Great American Pastime (Tom Ewell, Anne Francis) (MGM, 1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Paul Newman, Pier Angeli) (MGM, 1956)
Grand Prix (James Garner, Jessica Walter) (MGM, 1966)
Greased Lightning (Richard Pryor, Pam Grier) (Warner Bros., 1977)
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters) (United Artists, 1979)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 20:51:52 GMT
Primetime June 14 Night Four of the Month-Long Theme of Hollywood Land. This runs until about 10:15 sm on June 15. It's all documentaries. There are documentaries on Carl Laemmle and Oscar Michaeux and Raoul Walsh, the doc on the making of Fitzcarraldo, the TCM premiere of A Fuller Life which is about Sam Fuller and four more chapters in the series about female directors. Everything came out in the last 10 years excapt for the doc on Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski et al., which is from the early '80s.
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Post by Fading Fast on May 29, 2023 21:01:44 GMT
Daytime June 14 This Sporting Life Besides the features, there's a Bobby Jones short. As I recall, James Cagney would often turn up in those. Pat and Mike (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (MGM, 1952) The Great American Pastime (Tom Ewell, Anne Francis) (MGM, 1956) Somebody Up There Likes Me (Paul Newman, Pier Angeli) (MGM, 1956) Grand Prix (James Garner, Jessica Walter) (MGM, 1966) Greased Lightning (Richard Pryor, Pam Grier) (Warner Bros., 1977) The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (Julius Erving, Jonathan Winters) (United Artists, 1979)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 21:21:29 GMT
She is lovely. I also find Jessica Walter quite attractive in this movie.
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 22:24:25 GMT
Daytime June 15 European Vacation (The lineup doesn't include the disappointing Vacation sequel European Vacation)
The League of Gentlemen (Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick) (Dist. in the US by Kingsley-International Productions, 1961)
Murder She Said (Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1962)
Escape from East Berlin (Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1962)
Light in the Piazza (Olivia DeHavilland, Yvette Mimieux) (MGM, 1962)
Made in Paris (Ann-Margaret, Louis Jourdan) (MGM, 1966)
Double Trouble (Elvis Presley, Annette Day) (MGM, 1967)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 22:33:34 GMT
Primetime June 15 Night Three of SOTM Katharine Hepburn It's all four movies for which she won the Best Actress Oscar
Morning Glory (Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) (RKO, 1933)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (RKO, 1967)
The Lion in Winter (Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn) (Dist. in the US by Embassy, 1968)
On Golden Pond (Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn) (Universal, 1981)
Late Night
Lovely to Look At (Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel) (MGM, 1952)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 29, 2023 22:49:33 GMT
Daytime June 16 Directed by Clarence Brown
Possessed (Joan Crawford, Clark Gable) (MGM, 1931)
Anna Karenina (Greta Garbo, Frederic March) (MGM, 1935)
Wife vs. Secretary (Clark Gable, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1936)
Of Human Hearts (James Stewart, Ann Rutherford) (MGM, 1938)
Song of Love (Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid) (MGM, 1947)
Intruder in the Dust (David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr.) (MGM, 1949)
To Please a Lady (Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck) (MGM, 1950)
When in Rome (Van Johnson, Paul Douglas) (MGM, 1952)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 30, 2023 2:11:52 GMT
Primetime June 16 Night Three of the Month-Long Summer Camp theme, subtitled Over the Top Productions
Queen of Outer Space (Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming) (Allied Artists, 1958)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Gregory Walcott, Mona MacKinnon) (Distributors Corp. of America, 1959)
Beach Blanket Bingo (Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello) (AIP, 1965)
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (Kirk Morris, Diletta D'Andrea) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1965)
Barbarella (Jane Fonda, John Philip Law) (Dist. in the US by Paramount, 1968)
The Apple (Catherine Mary Stewart, George Gilmour) (Dist. in the US by Cannon, 1980)
Earth Girls are Easy (Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum) (Vestron, 1988)
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Post by sewhite2000 on May 30, 2023 3:13:53 GMT
Morning June 17 Saturday Matinee There are only two scripted "features", each running fewer than 65 minutes
Central Park (Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford) (Warner Bros., 1932)
The Garden Murder Case (Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce) (MGM, 1936)
Musical Matinee
Reveille with Beverly (Ann Miller, William Wright) (Columbia, 1943)
Afternoon Random Programming
Kansas City Confidential (John Payne, Coleen Gray) (United Artists, 1952)
How the West Was Won (Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb) (MGM, 1962)
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