MARCH ON TCM

STAR OF THE MONTH: DORIS DAY (MONDAYS IN MARCH)

Doris Day marks her fourth time as TCM’s Star of the Month tying Greta Garbo with the most SOTM tributes. Since there has been a lot written about Day, I’m not going to give a biography this month. Instead, I’m recommending some of her lesser-known work.

It’s a Great Feeling (March 2 @ 5:15AM/4:15AM)-a meta comedy which mirrors Day’s attempts to be noticed by Hollywood producers. Actors Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson play “themselves” who vie for the lovely Doris and features multiple cameos who were currently working on the Warner Bros. lot in the late 1940s and poked fun at their images. Notable cameos include Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford and Edward G. Robinson.

Storm Warning (March 2 @ 7AM/6AM)-Doris is the younger sister of model Ginger Rogers. When Ginger arrives in town, she witnesses the murder of a man by the KKK. One of the murderers is Day’s husband! Rogers must decide whether to tell her pregnant sister the horrible truth about her groom. Ronald Reagan co-stars as a crusading lawyer.
Calamity Jane (March 8 @ 8PM/7PM)-Day’s favorite role. A musical about the gunslinger. Co-starring Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok.
Midnight Lace (March 15 @ 8PM/7PM)-Doris is terrorized and stalked while wearing glamourous costumes by Irene.
It Happened to Jane (March 23 @ 2AM/1AM)-Doris teams up with Jack Lemmon in their only film together.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (March 30 @ 2:15AM/1:15AM)-Doris is a housewife who deals with her husband’s new job, a move to the country and four rambunctious boys especially the youngest who has a knack for escaping from his crib. It’s so bad that the couple had to make the crib into a baby cage!

Edited to add: The Flight Attendant’s and The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco is going to be playing Day in a limited series. What do you think of her casting?

TCM SPOTLIGHT: GROWING UP ON SCREEN (TUESDAYS IN MARCH)

Many child stars fail to transition into adult stardom. This is not about them. These are the stories of the child stars who made it. TCM looks at ten children/teenagers who grew up before our eyes. TCM also interviews several former child stars including Alex Winter, Todd Bridges, Mara Wilson, film historian John Fricke, Natasha Gregson Wagner and her husband Barry Watson, and a little-known actress named Jodie Foster.

Night one stars teenage movie team Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. The duo appeared in ten films starting in 1937 when Judy was 15 and Rooney was 17. Other films show Judy at 26 and 32 years and Rooney again at 17, 23, 29, 38, and 58.

Night two features Dean Stockwell (who turned 85 on March 5) and Kurt Russell (who will be 70 on St. Patrick’s Day). The audience will see Stockwell at 9, 10, 14, and 34 while Russell is shown at 13, 29, and 36.

Night three features best friends Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowell starting with Liz at age 12, then 18, 26, and 34 then Roddy at age 15 (with an 11-year-old Taylor), 24, and 39.

Night four features Jodie Foster at ages 14 and 18 followed by Patty McCormack at ages 10, 15, 34 and 23.

Finally on night five it’s the works of Natalie Wood and Jackie Cooper. Wood is featured at 8, 17, 27, 3 and 43 while Cooper is shown at ages 12 and 18.

March 2 & 3: Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney-Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (March 2 @ 8PM/7PM); Easter Parade (March 2 @ 9:30PM/8:30PM); A Star is Born (March 2 @ 11:30PM/10:30PM); A Family Affair (March 3 @ 2:45AM/1:45AM); The Human Comedy (March 3 @ 4AM/3AM); Quicksand (March 3 @ 6AM/5AM); Andy Hardy Comes Home (March 3 @ 7:30AM/6:30AM); The Black Stallion (March 3 @ 9AM/8AM)
March 9 & 10: Dean Stockwell & Kurt Russell-Anchors Aweigh (March 9 @ 8PM/7PM); The Green Years (March 9 @ 10:30PM/9:30PM); Kim (March 10 @ 12:45AM/March 9 @ 11:45PM); The Dunwich Horror (March 10 @ 2:45AM/1:45AM) Guns of Diablo (March 10 @ 4:30AM/3:30AM); Fools’ Parade (March 10 @ 6AM/5AM); Overboard (March 10 @ 8AM/7AM)
March 16 & 17: Elizabeth Taylor & Roddy McDowell-National Velvet (March 16 @ 8PM/7PM); Father of the Bride (March 16 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (March 17 @ 12:15AM/March 16 @ 11:15PM); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (March 17 @ 2:15AM/1:15AM); Lassie Come Home (March 17 @ 4:30AM/3:30AM); The Steel Fist (March 17 @ 6:15AM/5:15AM); The Cool Ones (March 17 @ 7:45AM/6:45AM)
March 23 & 24: Jodie Foster & Patty McCormack-Bugsy Malone (March 23 @ 8PM/7PM); The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (March 23 @ 10PM/9PM); Foxes (March 24 @ midnight/March 23 @ 11PM); The Bad Seed (March 24 @ 2:15AM/1:15AM); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (March 24 @ 4:30AM/3:30AM); The Young Runaways (March 24 @ 6:30AM/5:30AM)
March 30 & 31: Natalie Wood & Jackie Cooper-The Green Promise (March 30 @ 8PM/7PM); Rebel Without a Cause (March 30 @ 9:45PM/8:45PM); Inside Daisy Clover (March 30 @ 11:45PM/10:45PM); The Candidate (March 31 @ 2AM/1AM); Brainstorm (March 31 @ 4AM/3AM); Treasure Island (March 31 @ 6AM/5AM); Gallant Sons (March 31 @ 8AM/7AM)

TCM SPECIAL THEME: REFRAMED (THURSDAYS IN MARCH)

I love classic movies which were made decades before I was born. However, the majority of films made then couldn’t be made today. Times change and so do people’s attitudes. Many classics of yesteryear are seen as “problematic” today. The five hosts from TCM look at 20 films that are classic, but have a lot of problems. The discussion includes the first sound film where the main character wears blackface during his act, pleasant views of slavery, stereotypes of non-white characters including Blacks, Asians, Arabs, and Native Americans, the “shame” of being homosexual or transgender, and misogyny. The 20 films in this series are:

Gone With the Wind (March 4 @ 8PM/7PM)-Positive views of the Confederacy, happy slaves and marital rape
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (March 5@midnight/March 4@11PM)-Sexism, the kidnapping and forced marriage of six women as “meet-cute.”
Rope (March 5 @ 2AM/1AM)-Homosexual undertones between the killers and their victim
The Four Feathers (March 5 @3:30AM/2:30AM)-British colonialism in India and Arabs as “savages”
Woman of the Year (March 11 @ 8PM/7PM)-the third act where apparently the main character had to be taken down a peg
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (March 11 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM)-Sidney Poitier is positioned as a perfect black man; daring in its time. Today people would be concerned about the couple’s age difference and life experience.
Gunga Din (March 12 @ 12:15AM/March 11 @ 11:15PM)-The title character is played by a white guy in brownface and British colonialism in India
Sinbad the Sailor (March 12 @ 2:30AM/1:30AM)-The title character is a white guy in brownface
The Jazz Singer (March 12@ 4:45AM/3:45AM)-The title character is in blackface
The Searchers (March 18 @ 8PM/7PM)-Cruelty towards Native Americans
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (March 18 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM)- Mickey Rooney in yellowface
Swing Time (March 19 @ 12:30AM/March 18 @ 11:30PM)-Fred Astaire in blackface
Stagecoach (March 19 @ 2:30AM/1:30AM)-Native Americans are treated as the bad guys
Tarzan. the Ape Man (March 19 @ 4:15AM/3:15AM)
My Fair Lady (March 25 @ 8PM/7PM)-Henry Higgins misogyny towards Eliza Doolittle
The Children’s Hour (March 25 @ 11PM/10PM)-portraying LGBT individuals in a bad light
Psycho (March 26 @ 1AM/midnight)-LGBTQ issues
Dragon Seed (March 26 @ 3AM/2AM)-the entire cast including star Katharine Hepburn portray Chinese characters

NOIR ALLEY

Noiristas, here’s the March schedule for Noir Alley. Remember, Noir Alley is taking the month of April off due to TCM’s annual but later this year, 31 Days of Oscar festival. See you in May!

Killers Kiss (March 6 & 7)-Stanley Kubrick’s second feature film about an aging boxer whose girlfriend is kidnapped by her violent boss. The boxer moves heaven and earth to find her.
The Night Holds Terror (March 13 & 14)-a film I’ve never heard of. Three hitchhikers take a family hostage.
The Third Man (March 20 & 21)-Joseph Cotten searches for an elusive “third man” after his childhood buddy Orson Welles has died. Shot on location in Vienna, Austria.
Pepe Le Moko (March 27 & 28)-French noir. Jean Gabin hides from the police in the Casbah. There was an American remake released one year later with Charles Boyer in the Gabin role.

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FEBRUARY ON TCM

Looking for 31 Days of Oscar? Well since the Oscars are postponed until April so is TCM’s annual festival.

STAR OF THE MONTH: JOHN GARFIELD (TUESDAYS)

Before there was Brando, there was John Garfield, the original Method actor. This is Garfield’s third time as TCM’s Star of the Month and the majority of Garfield’s films will air this month.

John Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle on March 4, 1913 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Russian Jewish immigrants. Sometime during his childhood, Garfield contracted scarlet fever which weakened his heart forever (shades of Beth from Little Women). Nicknamed “Julie” Garfield was on his way to taking a wrong path when a teacher encouraged him to memorize speeches and deliver them in class which led to winning a statewide oratory contest. Julie became interested in acting and boxing and later won a scholarship to the Maria Ouspenskya Drama School.

Garfield made his Broadway debut in 1932 and later met the playwright Clifford Odets who invited the actor to join the Group Theater. Odets wrote his play Golden Boy with the intention for Garfield to play the leading role but both were dismayed when Garfield was cast in a supporting role. John Garfield’s dream of starring in Golden Boy wouldn’t come to fruition until the early 1950s.

John Garfield instead signed a contract with Warner Bros. making his film debut in Four Daughters (February 16 @ 12:15AM/11:15PM) as a cynical and depressed composer. Garfield was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. The film was such a success that Warner Bros. greenlit a sequel, Four Wives (February 17 @ 2AM/1AM) which included footage of Garfield from the previous film and reunited nearly the entire cast for the similar Daughters Courageous (February 17 @ 3:45AM/2:45AM). Garfield secured top billing for the first time with Blackwell’s Island (February 3 @ 6:15AM/5:15AM) then played an important supporting role in Juarez (February 10 @ 3:30AM/2:30AM). He got to co-star with such heavyweights as Edward G. Robinson in The Sea Wolf (February 9 @ 8PM/7PM), Spencer Tracy in Tortilla Flat (February 17 @ 5:45AM/4:45AM) and Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice (February 2 @ 8PM/7PM).

The aforementioned heart issues kept Garfield out of World War II so he fought on the big screen in the Air Force (February 23 @ 12:45AM/11:45PM), under the sea in Destination: Tokyo (February 23 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM) and on the ground in The Fallen Sparrow (February 24 @ 3AM/2AM) and The Pride of the Marines (February 23 @ 8PM/7PM). John Garfield and Bette Davis co-founded the Hollywood Canteen (February 24 @ 10AM/9AM), an integrated club that provided entertainment, food and dancing for servicemen.

After John Garfield’s contract with Warner Bros. ended in 1947, he created his own production company, The Enterprise Studios. Their first film was the boxing drama Body and Soul (February 9 @ 9:45PM/8:45PM). Garfield was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. The company’s next picture was Force of Evil (February 2 @ 10PM/9PM) with Garfield playing a crooked lawyer. John Garfield’s final three films were John Huston’s We Were Strangers (February 9 @ 11:45PM/10:45PM), Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point (February 10 @ 1:45AM/12:45AM) and the film noir He Ran All the Way (February 2 @ 11:45PM/10:45PM).

It was during the late 1940s and the early 1950s that John Garfield became a victim of the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The witch hunt led to Garfield getting less and less work and the strain eventually caused a fatal heart attack on May 21, 1952. John Garfield was 39 years old and the public was robbed of future John Garfield performances. A tragic case of what might have been.

TCM SPOTLIGHT: KISS CONNECTION (THURSDAYS)

TCM does a “Six Degress of Separation” connecting stars by their kissing partners. The festival beings and ends with Irene Dunne. So this is how it goes: Irene Dunne kisses Cary Grant in My Favorite Wife (February 4 @ 8PM/7PM) then Cary Grant kisses Audrey Hepburn in Charade (February 4 @ 9:45PM/8:45PM) then Audrey Hepburn kisses Gary Cooper in Love in the Afternoon (February 4 @midnight/11PM) then Gary Cooper kisses Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (February 5 @ 2:30AM/1:30AM) and so on and so on…Then it closes out with Irene Dunne in Theodora Goes Wild (February 26 @ 8:30AM/7:30AM). Other stars featured include-in order-Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, James Garner, Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable (who also has a daytime birthday tribute on February 1), Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo, and Melvyn Douglas.

TCM SPECIAL THEME: NOTEWORTHY AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMANCES (WEDNESDAYS)

I had a photo of Canada Lee to represent TCM’s celebration of African-American film performances but then Cicely Tyson freakin’ DIED and I felt she should be honored. Ben Mankiewicz and film historian Donald Bogle look at 16 groundbreaking performances starting with a quartet of films starring February birthday boy Sidney Poitier. First is Cry, the Beloved Country (February 3 @ 8PM/7PM), also starring Canada Lee in his final film. The duo play two ministers fighting apartheid in South Africa. Sidney’s other three films include his breakthrough as a troubled teen in Blackboard Jungle (February 3 @ 12:30AM/11:30PM), playing the restless Walter Lee Younger in the film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s ground breaking play A Raisin in the Sun (February 3 @ 10PM/9PM) and bitch-slapping a racist white guy in 1967s Best Picture In the Heat of the Night (February 4 @ 2:30AM/1:30AM). Cicely Tyson gets her due co-starring along with Sammy Davis Jr. in the drama A Man Called Adam (February 11 @ 2AM/1AM) and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (February 10 @ 11:45PM/10:45PM) . Other performers include Rex Ingram in Moonrise (February 10 @ 8PM/7PM), and in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (February 10 @ 10PM/9PM), Juano Hernandez in Stars in My Crown (February 17 @ 8PM/7PM), Brock Peters and making his film debut, Morgan Freeman in The Pawnbroker (February 17 @ 9:45PM/8:45PM), Hattie McDaniel and Ernest Anderson (who should have had a bigger career) in In This Our Life (February 17 @ midnight/11PM), Ron O’Neal is Super Fly (February 18 @ 2AM/1AM), Ruby Dee and Beah Richards in Take a Giant Step (February 24 @ 8PM/7PM), Adolph Caesar, whose career was cut short by his untimely death in A Soldier’s Story (February 24 @ 10PM/9PM), Irene Cara and Lonette McKee in Sparkle (February 24 @ midnight/11PM) and Clarence Muse in Broken Strings (February 25 @ 2AM/1AM).

NOIR ALLEY

Guess what Noiristas? There’s no 31 Days of Oscar this month so here’s February’s lineup

1950’s The Killer That Stalked New York (February 6 & 7) starring Evelyn Keyes as a diamond thief/jilted wife and Patient Zero of a smallpox outbreak. Based off a month-long smallpox outbreak in 1947 New York City.
No noir on Valentine’s Day weekend
The TCM premiere of 1951’s Sangre Negra aka Native Son (February 20 & 21). Author Richard Wright played his own creation, Bigger Thomas.
1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow (February 27 & 28) starring Henry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley, Sr. as three amateur robbers who may make off with $50,000 dollars if they don’t kill each other first.

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JULY ON TCM

STAR OF THE MONTH: TONY CURTIS (MONDAYS IN JULY)

Tony Curtis finally gets his chance to be Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month this July. He was an early advocate and friend to TCM.

Tony Curtis was born Bernie Schwartz on June 3, 1925, the oldest of three sons to European immigrants. Curtis’s brother Julius was killed when he was struck by a car. A few years later, Tony enlisted in the Navy and was honorably discharged at the end of WWII. He took advantage of the GI Bill and enrolled at the City College of New York and then attended The New School where he studied acting with such luminaries as Bea Arthur, Rod Steiger, and Harry Belafonte.

A meeting with an agent led to a contract with Universal Pictures. Curtis made his film debut in the film noir Criss Cross in 1949. Tony Curtis would go on to make such films as Trapeze (July 6 @ 8PM/7PM), where he co-starred with Burt Lancaster; The Defiant Ones (July 6 @ 10PM/9PM), where he co-starred with Sidney Poitier and received his only Oscar nomination; The Vikings (July 6 @ 11:45PM/10:45PM) and Spartacus (July 20@ 8PM/7PM), where he co-starred with Kirk Douglas; Taras Bulba (July 20 @ 3:45AM/2:45AM), co-starring Yul Brynner and where he met his second wife, who was seventeen during filming; Some Like it Hot (July 13 @ 8PM/7PM), Curtis’ best-remembered performance; The Perfect Furlough (July 13 @ 12:30AM/11:30PM) and Who Was That Lady? (July 13 @ 2:15AM/1:15AM), where he co-starred with first wife Janet Leigh, who was also in The Vikings; The Boston Strangler (July 20 @ 1:30AM/12:30AM), where Tony was cast against type as alleged serial killer Albert DeSalvo; Sex and the Single Girl (July 27 @ 8PM/7PM ), co-starring Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall; and Don’t Make Waves (July 27 @ 10PM/9PM), a counter-culture comedy.

Tony Curtis would continue to make films until his death on September 25, 2010.

TCM SPOTLIGHT: FEEL-GOOD CLASSICS (WEDNESDAYS IN JULY)

Let’s face it: 2020 has SUCKED SO HARD (it’s why I’ve capitalized for emphasis), and it’s only July! The folks over at TCM recognized this and curated a month of escapist fare. Hopefully, viewers will crack a smile or two. Some of the films include Singin’ in the Rain (July 2 @ 8PM/7PM), Annie (10PM/9PM), Harvey (July 9 @ 8PM/7PM), Bringing Up Baby (July 9 @ 10PM/9PM), A Night at the Opera (July 9 @ midnight/11PM), Meet Me in St. Louis (July 15 @ 10:30PM/9:30PM), His Girl Friday (July 22 @ 1AM/midnight), It Happened One Night (July 15 @ 5AM/4AM), The Thin Man (July 29 @ 8PM/7PM), and The Lady Eve (July 29 @ 12:30AM/11:30PM). So sit back and laugh this month because we all need it.

TCM SPECIAL THEME: DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (FRIDAYS IN JULY)

John Ford once announced to his colleagues “My name is John Ford. I make Westerns.” Yes, Ford did make Westerns, very good Westerns, but he was so much more. TCM celebrates the only director with four Best Director Oscars every Friday in July. The fest starts with one of Ford’s personal favorites, Wagon Master (July 3 @ noon/11AM). Other movies airing July 3 include the first two films of the Calvary trilogy She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (July 3 @ 3:30PM/2:30PM) and Fort Apache (5:30PM/4:30PM). The evening lineup includes Ford masterpieces Stagecoach (12:15AM/11:15PM) and The Searchers (10PM/9PM). Some of Ford’s lesser-known films airing this month include one I’ve never even hear of, Flesh (July 10 @ noon/11AM), the American Revolutionary drama Drums Along the Mohawk (July 10 @ 6PM/5PM), the hysterical The Whole Town’s Talking (July 10 @ 8PM/7PM), the medical drama Arrowsmith (July 10 @ 10PM/9PM), another film I’ve never heard of, Gideon of Scotland Yard (July 17 @ noon/11AM), the Spencer Tracy runs for mayor drama The Last Hurrah (July 17 @ 3:15PM/2:15PM). John Ford shot footage and was actually shot at in The Battle of Midway (July 24 @ 1:30PM/12:30PM). Also check out Ford’s swan song Seven Women (July 24 @ 12:30AM/11:30PM) and final Western Cheyenne Autumn (July 31 @ 5PM/4PM) which focuses on the plight of Native Americans for once.

THE ESSENTIALS

This month’s lineup includes:

The Music Man (July 4) starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones
Dr. Strangelove (July 11) starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Sterling Hayden
The Maltese Falcon (July 18) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor
2001: A Space Odyssey (July 25) starring Keir Dullea and HAL

NOIR ALLEY

July’s month of noir includes:

The Sign of the Ram (July 4 & 5) starring Susan Peters and Alexander Knox

Bodyguard (July 11 & 12) starring Lawrence Tierney and Priscilla Lane (in her final film role)

Three Strangers (July 18 & 19) starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet

The Breaking Point (July 25 & 26) starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, and Phyllis Thaxter

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JUNE ON TCM

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STAR OF THE MONTH: ANN SHERIDAN (TUESDAYS IN JUNE)

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The “Oomph Girl”-which btw, was a nickname she hated, is June’s star of the month for the first time since 1996. The red-headed lady was successful in comedy, drama, and musicals and could hold her own with leading men such as James Cagney, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn (who she reportedly had an affair with), George Raft, and Jack Benny.

Ann was born Clara Lou Sheridan in Texas on February 21, 1915. She acted in plays while in high school and later sang with a band while attending a Texas college. While still in college, Sheridan’s sister, Pauline, sent a photo of Clara to Paramount Pictures as part of their “Search for Beauty” contest. Sheridan won and the prize was a bit part in a Paramount film called Search for Beauty.

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Ann dropped out of college and started her film career at Paramount in bit roles. Ann’s first leading role was in 1935 film with Fred MacMurray called Car 99 and then it was back to supporting roles. A casting director at Warner Bros. saw promise in Sheridan and she was invited to sign with the studio after Paramount let her go. In 1937, Ann made a whopping seven films including Black Legion (June 2 @ 8PM/7PM), Alcatraz Island (June 2 @ 2:30AM/1:30AM), The Great O’Malley (June 2 @ 6:15AM/5:15AM), San Quentin (June 30 @ 1:45AM/12:45AM). Sheridan quickly graduated to leads in B-movies and supporting roles in A-films such as Dodge City (June 2 @ 9:30PM/8:30PM).

By the early 1940s, Ann was a top star at Warner Bros. She made dramas (City for Conquest June 30 @ 8PM/7PM), comedies (George Washington Slept Here June 23 @ midnight/11PM), musicals (Shine on Harvest Moon June 16 @ 1:45AM/12:45AM), and film noir (Nora Prentiss June 16 @ 8PM/7PM & They Drive By Night June 16 @ midnight/11PM). Sheridan received rave reviews in 1942 working on two radically different films which showcased her range: the comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner (June 23 @ 10PM/9PM) where Ann played a over-the-top stage actress and the melodrama Kings Row (June 9 @ 8PM/7PM) where she plays a woman from the wrong side of the tracks who marries the local “bad boy” played by our 40th president Ronald Reagan!

Ann was unhappy with the scripts Warner Bros. was sending her and she ultimately bought out the last six months of her contract and went freelance. Her first film as a freelancer was a smash hit, the comedy I Was a Male War Bride (June 23 @ 8PM/7PM), but the victory was short-lived. Ann made her last feature film in 1957 and she went back to the stage and started working on TV. Sheridan’s biggest TV hits were the soap opera Another World and the western comedy Pistols n’ Petticoats.

During the shooting of her sitcom, Ann was diagnosed with cancer and died at the young age of 51 on January 21, 1967. The third-to-last episode of Pistols n’ Petticoats aired on the night she died.

TCM SPOTLIGHT: JAZZ IN FILM (MONDAYS & THURSDAYS IN JUNE)

Jazz and film go hand in hand. Both art forms came about at the end of the 19th century and flourished in the 20th century, especially during the 1920s. TCM’s jazz aficionado Eddie Mueller hosts a festival with special guest such as Mercedes Ellington, granddaughter of the legendary Duke Ellington and jazz pianist Monty Alexander.

The celebration is divided into nine categories beginning on June 2 with classic jazz scores continuing on June 4. Films included are A Streetcar Named Desire (June 2 @ 8PM/7PM), Anatomy of a Murder (June 2 @ 12:30AM/11:30PM), Cabin in the Sky (June 4 @ 8PM/7PM), and High Society (June 4 @ 3:15AM/2:15AM).

The evening of June 8 is devoted to life of a jazz musician started with A Man Called Adam (8PM/7PM) featuring Sammy Davis Jr. in a rare dramatic role. This is followed by Young Man with a Horn (10PM/9PM) and the TCM premiere of The Five Pennies (midnight/11PM) starring Danny Kaye.

June 11 focuses on jazz bands starting with The Glenn Miller Story (8PM/7PM) followed by The Gene Krupa Story (10:15PM/9:15PM). June 15 combines jazz with film noir. Films include Odds Against Tomorrow (8PM/7PM), Farewell, My Lovely (10PM/9PM), and The Man I Love (midnight/11PM).

The night of June 18 brings jazz to the other side of the world with such films as Elevator to the Gallows (9:30PM/8:30PM) and Black Orpheus (3AM/2AM).

June 22 brings a night of jazz documentaries and art house jazz (I don’t know what that means but that’s the name of the category). Films airing include Jazz on a Summer Day (8PM/7PM) which documents the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (9:30PM/8:30PM), and Shadows (11:30PM/10:30PM).

Finally, on June 28, its a Billie Holliday double feature starting with New Orleans (8PM/7PM) and a biopic of Holliday’s life, Lady Sings the Blues (9:45PM/8:45PM). Then a trio of films about the blues: Pete Kelly’s Blues (12:15AM/11:15PM), Blues in the Night (2AM/1AM), and Rhapsody in Blue (4AM/3AM).

TCM SPECIAL THEME: HISTORY OF THE SWIMSUIT (WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE)

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June is the start of swimwear season an TCM looks at the evolution of swimsuit starting with a performer who really be her own genre, Esther Williams. TCM will be showing Williams in Million Dollar Mermaid (June 10 @ 8PM/7PM), a biopic of swimmer Annette Kellerman who shocked the world when she wore A ONE-PIECE BATHING SUIT! The horror! Next is Sandra Dee in Gidget (June 10 @ 10PM/9PM); Gidget stands for “girl midget.” Other films include Bo Derek running on the beach in 10 (June 10 @ 1AM/midnight), Raquel Welch wearing a fur bikini in One Million Years, B.C. (June 10 @ 3:15AM/2:15AM), Johnny Weismuller donning a loincloth in Tarzan, the Ape Man (June 17 @ 8PM/7PM), Elvis in swim trunks in Blue Hawaii (June 17 @ 10PM/9PM), Burt Lancaster swims his way home in The Swimmer (June 17 @ 2AM/1AM) and a bunch of films on June 24 starring Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon.

DIRECTED BY SAM PECKINPAH (JUNE 3)

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TCM honors the director with four films and the TCM premiere of a 2019 documentary called Peckinpah Suite (8PM/7PM) told from the viewpoint of his daughter, Lupita. The films airing this evening include Ride the High Country (9:15PM/8:15PM), The Wild Bunch (11PM/10PM), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (3AM/2AM), and The Getaway (5AM/4AM).

THE FOUR MARX BROTHERS (JUNE 5)

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Whenever audiences think of the Marx Brothers, they think of a trio: Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. However there was a fourth Marx Brother, Zeppo who quit the group in 1933 and went on to become a successful talent agent. TCM celebrates the four Marx Brothers with four films they made at Paramount starting with Monkey Business (8PM/7PM), then Horse Feathers (9:30PM/8:30PM), Animal Crackers (10:45PM/9:45PM), and finally the classic Duck Soup (12:30AM/11:30PM).

LBGTQ CRITICS (JUNE 12 & 26)

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June is National Pride Month and TCM has invited two film critics to discuss the films they have chosen for this mini-festival. First up is Alonso Duralde on June 12 who selected the 1933 comedy Our Betters (8PM/7PM), the groundbreaking 1961 drama Victim (9:45PM/8:45PM), and the 1977 documentary Word is Out: Stories from Some of Our Lives (11:45PM/10:45PM).

On June 26 B. Ruby Rich takes her turn with a trio of TCM premieres starting with the 1931(?!) Madchen in Uniform (8PM/7PM), The Watermelon Woman (9:45PM/8:45PM), and Orlando (12:15AM/11:15PM).

FATHER’S DAY (JUNE 21)

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TCM presents its annual day of films featuring stories about dads including Edward G. Robinson in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1:30PM/12:30PM), William Powell as a fussy dad in Life With Father (8PM/7PM) and Spencer Tracy who walks his daughter Elizabeth Taylor down the aisle in Father of the Bride (10:15PM/9:15PM).

RAY HARRYHAUSEN’S CENTENNIAL (JUNE 29)

Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen would have turned 100 years young on June 29. Ray first became interested in stop-motion animation when he saw King Kong at the age of 13. While serving in WWII, Ray worked with animator George Pal on the “Puppetoon” cartoons. Harryhausen’s breakthrough came in 1949 with his work on Mighty Joe Young (1:30AM/12:30AM). Other films in the tribute include The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (8PM/7PM), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (10PM/9PM), Mysterious Island (11:30PM/10:30PM) and the 1981 version of Clash of the Titans (3:30AM/2:30AM).

APRIL ON TCM

Well the world has turned upside down since my last post. We’re all in quarantine and well, it’s no better time to catch up on some TCM. Come on, Tiger King can wait. We can even attend their annual classic film festival this year!

STAR OF THE MONTH: JANE RUSSELL (MONDAYS IN APRIL)

Can you believe this is the first time that Jane Russell is TCM’s Star of the Month?! TCM celebrates the actress with 17 films starting with her debut film The Outlaw (April 6 @ 8PM/7PM), which wasn’t released to the general public until three years after it was finished! So most audiences were introduced to Jane in 1946 with RKO’s Young Widow (April 6 @ 1:30AM/12:30AM). The film was not a success and Russell’s career may have been over before it started if not for Bob Hope selecting her to be his leading lady in The Paleface (April 6 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM). The film was a box-office smash; one of the top five highest-grossing films of 1948. In 1952, there was a sequel called Son of Paleface.

RKO teamed Jane up with Robert Mitchum for two movies, His Kind of Woman (April 13 @ 8PM/7PM) and Macao (April 13 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM). In 1953, Jane Russell made her best-known film, teaming up with Marilyn Monroe in the Howard Hawks musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (April 20 @ 8PM/7PM). As part of the film’s marketing campaign, Jane and Marilyn placed their feet and hands at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

Jane’s film career began to peter out in the mid-1950s. She started a nightclub career and appeared in a few films like 1967’s The Born Losers (April 27 @ 1:45AM/12:45AM). Jane Russell died on February 28, 2011.

NEW YORK IN THE 1970s (THURSDAYS IN APRIL)

Filmmakers love making movies in New York and during the 1970s it was booming. TCM spotlights the city and the decade with 25 films every Thursday night this month except for April 16 where the start of the social-distancing TCM Classic Film Festival will air, the movies scheduled for the 16th will now air on Tuesday the 28th. The festival starts with Al Pacino’s leading man debut in Panic in Needle Park (April 2 @ 8PM/7PM), followed by Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning role in Klute (April 2 @ midnight/11PM)-SPOILER ALERT: she’s not the title character. Next comes Woody Allen’s loves letters to his hometown with Annie Hall (April 9 @ 8PM/7PM) and Manhattan (April 9 @ 10PM/9PM). Other films in the spotlight include The Goodbye Girl (April 23 @ 8PM/7PM), Shaft (April 28 @ 8PM/7PM), and Network (April 30 @ 8PM/7PM)

DIRECTED BY PETER BOGDONAVICH (SATURDAYS IN APRIL)

Ben Mankiewicz sits down with the director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich for the TCM original podcast “The Plot Thickens: I’m Still Peter Bogdanovich” and every Saturday night in April (except April 18) will show a double feature directed by the New Hollywood director. The festival starts with Bogdanoivch’s debut film, 1968’s Targets (April 4 @ 8PM/7PM) followed by his Oscar-winning The Last Picture Show (April 4 @ 9:45PM/8:45PM). The next week features Peter’s homage to the screwball comedy What’s Up Doc? (April 11 @ 8PM/7PM) and Paper Moon (April 11 @ 10PM/9PM) featuring the youngest performer to ever win a competive Oscar. On the final night, it’s Bogdanovich’s love letter to the early days of Hollywood, Nickelodeon (April 25 @ 8PM/7PM) and a film I’ve never heard of, Saint Jack (April 25 @ 10:15PM/9:15PM).

TOSHIRO MIFUNE CENTENNIAL (APRIL 1)

The face of Japanese cinema during the post-WWII era would have been 100 years young on April 1. TCM celebrates the actor’s centennial with a 24-hour festival of the actor’s films, all directed by Akira Kurosawa. The tribute starts with one of Mifune’s earliest films, 1948’s Drunken Angel (6AM/5AM), playing a gangster with tuberculosis, followed by the noir cop drama Stray Dog (7:45AM/6:45AM), next is The Hidden Fortress (10AM/9AM), which became a major influence on George Lucas when he was developing Star Wars.

Mifune’s best-known films to international audiences are The Seven Samurai (8PM/7PM) and Rashomon (11:45PM/10:45PM). The Mifune-Kurosawa partnership/friendship ended bitterly during the production of the 1965 film Red Film (2:15PM/1:15PM). The two did reconcile in the early 1990s but never worked together again. Mifune died on Christmas Eve 1997.

STARRING HARRY BELAFONTE (APRIL 8)

The King of Calypso recently celebrated his 93rd birthday on March 1. TCM celebrates the man with five films this evening including his debut film Bright Road (4AM/3AM), and the musical Carmen Jones (8PM/7PM) where he was dubbed!!

STARRING CLIFTON WEBB (APRIL 14)

A character actor turned unlikely movie star, Clifton Webb has his night with four films showcasing his flair for comedy and drama. First up is the first adaptation of Cheaper By the Dozen (8PM/7PM) where his co-star was the lovely Myrna Loy. Next is the TCM premiere of The Man Who Never Was (9:45PM/8:45PM), then it’s his sound film debut Laura (11:45PM/10:45PM), and finally, the film that made Webb a leading man, 1948’s Sitting Pretty (1:30AM/12:30AM) where he would play the role of Lynn Belvedere twice more in 1949 and 1951.

LIVE FROM THE TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL: SOCIAL DISTANCING EDITION (APRIL 16-19)

As with all events for the foreseeable future, TCM had to cancel their 11th annual film festival due to coronavirus pandemic. A few weeks later, TCM announced that they would have a virtual film festival comprised of films and specials from previous festivals and showcasing some of the movies which would have been screened at this year’s festival. So sit on your couch and watch some of the film festival’s movies and highlights from previous years. What else do you have to do?

EARTH DAY 50TH ANNIVERSARY (APRIL 22)

It has been 50 years since Earth Day was recognized as a day of action and teaching. TCM celebrates with an evening of environmentally-friendly films starting with the TCM premiere of An Inconvenient Truth (8PM/7PM), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Next is the 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi (10PM/9PM), The Plow That Broke the Plains (11:45PM/10:45PM), The River (12:30AM/11:30PM), and The Sea Around Us (1:15AM/12:15AM).

BARBARA STANWYCK AND FRED MACMURRAY TRIPLE FEATURE (APRIL 24)

Double Indemnity (8PM/7PM), There’s Always Tomorrow (10PM/9PM), and the western The Moonlighter (11:45PM/10:45PM)

MARCH ON TCM

We are back with our regularly scheduled programming with a first-timer for Star of the Month, films focusing on the sea, a 24-hour memorial tribute to Kirk Douglas, a weekend starring the Mankiewicz brothers, and tributes for Women’s History Month including a night of films directed by pioneer Alice Guy-Blanche and the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment which finally gave women the right to vote.

STAR OF THE MONTH: JOE E. BROWN (WEDNESDAYS IN MARCH)

Joseph Evans Brown is March’s Star of the Month. Today’s viewers probably couldn’t pick him out of a lineup, even though he said one of the funniest lines in film history-“Nobody’s perfect” from Some Like it Hot (March 25 @ 8PM/7PM). Surprisingly, Brown was one of the top 10 box-office stars in the mid-1930s. His films were made cheaply and always made back their money which afforded his studio, Warner Bros., to make more financially-riskier movies.

Joe E. Brown was born in Holgate, Ohio on July 28, 1891. He spent most of his childhood in Toledo, OH and eventually joined a circus tumbling troupe called the Five Marvelous Ashtons. Brown would later joke that he was the only kid who ran away to join the circus with the blessing of his parents.

Joe also had a talent for baseball and apparently turned down a chance to play for the New York Yankees because he wanted to be an entertainer! Still, he loved the sport so much that he made several baseball-themed films, including his “pastime trilogy” he made during the mid-1930s, which all three will be airing on March 11. They are Fireman Save My Child (8PM/7PM), Elmer the Great (9:15PM/8:15PM), and Alibi Ike (10:45PM/9:45PM), co-starring a young Olivia de Havilland. Brown also would organize a studio baseball team and was a sometime announcer for Yankees games during the 1950s.

Brown’s film career waned during the 1940s but spent a lot of the time entertaining the troops during WWII. He also suffered a loss when his son, Dan, was killed in an airplane crash in 1942. As noted above with Hot, Joe appeared in several A-movies during the 1950s and 1960s such as Around the World in 80 Days (March 25 @ 5:30AM/4:30AM) and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1AM/midnight).

Joe E. Brown died in 1973.

TCM SPOTLIGHT: LIFE AT SEA (MONDAYS IN MARCH)

March’s TCM spotlight focuses on films set on or around the high seas. Every Monday this month is devoted to movies separated into eight categories starting with OCEAN WONDERS during the daytime hours of March 9 including the Technicolor documentary The Sea Around Us (6:15AM/5:15AM), The Most Dangerous Game (12:15PM/11:15AM), and the box-office disaster sequel Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (3:30PM/2:30PM). The evening hours are filled with DISASTERS AT SEA starting with The Poseidon Adventure (8PM/7PM), the 1941 adaptation of Jack London’s novel The Sea Wolf (10:15PM/9:15PM), the film where they sunk a real liner, The Last Voyage (12:15AM/11:15PM), and Britain’s take on the Titanic disaster, A Night to Remember (2AM/1AM).

March 16 starts with SEA ADVENTURES such as Spencer Tracy’s Oscar-winning role in Captains Courageous (8:15AM/7:15AM) and the Battleship Potemkin (11:45AM/10:45AM), which the most famous scenes take place on land. The evening is all about PIRATE TALES beginning with Errol Flynn’s star-making role Captain Blood (8PM/7PM), followed by Flynn in The Sea Hawk (10:15PM/9:15PM).

March 23 starts with ACTION ON THE SEA, mostly set in WWII with films such as Mister Roberts (6AM/5AM) and They Were Expendable (8:15AM/7:15AM). The evening goes underwater with SUBMERGED starting with Destination Tokyo (8PM/7PM), followed by Torpedo Run (10:30PM/9:30PM), then Ice Station Zebra (12:30AM/11:30PM), and Operation Pacific (3:15AM/2:15AM).

Finally, on March 30, we start with LOVE AT SEA. What is it about the sea that makes people want to fall in love? Is it the air? Films on the docket include Buster Keaton’s The Navigator (6AM/5AM), the romance One Way Passage (1PM/noon), and Doris Day’s film debut in Romance on the High Seas (6PM/5PM). In the evening hours, we go back underwater with UNDER THE SEA with Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (midnight/11PM) and the Don Knotts comedy The Incredible Mr. Limpet (10PM/9PM).

NOIR ALLEY (SATURDAY NIGHTS @ midnight/11PM & ENCORES ON SUNDAY @ 10AM/9AM)

Noir Alley makes it return with a new season

On March 21 and 22, Noir Alley crosses over with TCM Imports during the early hours of Sunday morning (technically, Monday morning-TCM’s schedule runs from 5AM to 5AM) for two nights of international noir films including the French noir Elevator to the Gallows (March 21 @ midnight/11PM) the Spanish noir Death of a Cyclist (March 22 @ 2AM/1AM), and the Japanese noir Pale Flower (March 22 @ 3:45AM/2:45AM).

The American noir films airing this month are Ride the Pink Horse (March 7), I Wake Up Screaming (March 14), and Crime Wave (March 28).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN HARLOW (MARCH 3-DAYTIME)

March 3rd is the 109th anniversary of Jean Harlow’s birth. Sadly, she was taken from us too soon at the age of 26 from kidney failure. Who knows what her career would have been like if she had lived longer.

TCM starts the celebration with Bombshell (8AM/7AM), based on an unproduced play about a star who is exploited by her family. The play was a tragedy, but the film is a comedy. Next is Red-Headed Woman (9:45AM/8:45AM), a comedy about a homewrecker. Other films airing today include the shockingly violent The Beast of the City (11:15AM/10:15AM), the screwball comedy Libeled Lady (12:45PM/11:45AM), and her final film, Saratoga (6PM/5PM).

AAFCA PRESENTS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE ON FILM (MARCH 3-EVENING)

TCM once again partners up with the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) for a night of documentaries featuring the Oscar-nominated documentary Freedom on My Mind (8PM/7PM), Crisis: Behind a Presidental Commitment (10PM/9PM), which focuses on the decision to integrate the University of Alabama, the TCM premiere of Say Amen, Somebody (11:30PM/10:30PM),which tells the story of the gospel music scene, and You Got to Move (1:30AM/12:30AM), where a group of individuals fight to desegregate the South.

KIRK DOUGLAS MEMORIAL TRIBUTE (MARCH 5)

One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age left this world on February 5.

Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch on December 9, 1916, to Russian Jewish immigrants Herschel and Bryna (whom he named his production company after), the only boy of seven siblings. The family anglicized its name to Demsky. Herschel worked as a junk dealer and the Demsky family lived in abject poverty as detailed in Douglas’ autobiography The Ragman’s Son, published in 1988. Douglas managed to land a wrestling scholarship to St. Lawrence University and then received another scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where his classmates included actress Lauren Bacall and his future first wife, Diana Dill. WWII interrupted Douglas’ career and he enlisted in the Navy. He married Dill in 1943 and they had two sons, Michael (who would win Oscars for producing and acting) in 1944 and Joel in 1947. The couple divorced in 1951 due to Douglas’ chronic infidelity. In 1954, Douglas married producer Anne Buydens and they had two sons, Peter in 1955 and Eric in 1958. Eric would predecease his parents in 2004. The Douglases were married for 65 years until Kirk’s death.

TCM celebrates the actor with 11 films and one documentary. Highlights include Out of the Past (2PM/1PM), Lust for Life (5:45PM/4:45PM), the anti-war Paths of Glory (8PM/7PM), and his iconic role, Spartacus (9:45PM/8:45PM).

UNAPPRECIATED SONGWRITERS (MARCH 10)

Friend of TCM Michael Feinstein hosts a night of films featuring songwriters who many don’t know about. First, we start with the TCM premieres of It’s Love Again (8PM/7PM) and Three Little Girls in Blue (10PM/9PM)

REMEMBERING ANNE FRANK (MARCH 13)

This April it will be 75 years since Anne Frank became one of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. TCM remembers her with the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank (8PM/7PM) and then with the TCM premiere of the award-winning documentary Anne Frank Remembered (11:15PM/10:15PM).

ST. PATRICK’S DAY (MARCH 17)

TCM celebrates St. Paddy’s day with their annual airing of John Ford’s The Quiet Man (8PM/7PM) and Young Cassidy (6PM/5PM).

DIRECTED BY ALICE GUY-BLANCHE (MARCH 24)

TCM celebrates the first female to direct a film (also one the first of either sex to direct a narrative film) with a night of her films and the TCM premiere of the 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice-Guy Blanche (8PM/7PM) and a night of her film shorts.

A MANKIEWICZ FAMILY WEEKEND (MARCH 27-29)

The final weekend in March will be taken over by the Mankiewicz family. Ben (grandson of Herman) co-hosts with cousin(?) Alex Mankiewicz (daughter of Joseph) and Sydney Ladensohn Stern, who wrote the 2019 biography The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics. Friday night focuses on the brothers’ early successes such as Joseph’s early story Million Dollar Legs (March 27 @ 8PM/7PM), Herman’s Dinner at Eight (9:15PM/8:15PM), and Joe’s Manhattan Melodrama (11:15PM/10:15PM).

Saturday, March 28, is all about Joseph’s directorial career with A Letter to Three Wives (8PM/7PM), where he won the Best Director Oscar and People Will Talk (10PM/9PM), starring Cary Grant.

Herman gets his day on Sunday evening with the classic Citizen Kane (8PM/7PM) and The Pride of the Yankees (10:15PM/9:15PM).

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT (MARCH 31)

100 years ago, groups of brave women fought for their right to vote. TCM honors the anniversary with a night of films featuring suffragettes such as Betty Grable in TCM premiere of The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (8PM/7PM), Shirley Temple in Adventures in Baltimore (9:45PM/8:45PM), and Olivia de Havilland in The Strawberry Blonde (11:30PM/10:30PM).

31 DAYS OF OSCAR DAY 31 SCHEDULE

Well, here we are. The final day of 31 Days of Oscar. Tomorrow is the start of the 26th season for Turner Classic Movies.

The Card (6AM/5AM)

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TCM premiere. Stars Alec “Original Obi-Wan-Kenobi” Guinness

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (7:45AM/6:45AM)

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Peter O’ Toole sings! Sort of.

Lawrence of Arabia (10:30AM/9:30AM)

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He really likes looking at himself.

The Window (2:30PM/1:30PM)

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Little boy with quite the imagination witnesses a murder done by his neighbors.

Strangers on a Train (4PM/3PM)

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He’s really focused on something.

I Want You (6PM/5PM)

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Laura (8PM/7PM)

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Cop falls in love with dead woman’s portrait.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (9:45PM/8:45PM)

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Woman and ghost fall in love with each other.

My Fair Lady (11:45PM/10:45PM)

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Audrey Hepburn goes from rags to this.

The Nun’s Story (3AM/2AM)

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She leaves the convent in the end.

Tom Jones (5:45AM/4:45AM)

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The final film of the 31 Days of Oscar Festival. The celebration started with Sir Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer and who was one of his co-stars? Albert Finney who played Olivier’s son.