tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62760988179156277462026-02-23T14:14:57.563-06:00The Original Unofficial TCM Twitter account for Turner Classic Movies. Fellow classic movie maniacs join the conversation on twitter, facebook & blog #tcmaniacsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12621618004452219276noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276098817915627746.post-11059721050716471972015-03-16T11:16:00.000-05:002015-03-17T17:45:35.003-05:00

3 Women (1977) poster Director  Robert Altman Cast  Shelley Duvall  Sissy Spacek  Janice Rule  The two main characters, both named Mildred have emigrated from Texas to a small dusty Californian town off the highway that could pass for Texas -- the younger Mildred remarks, "Sure does look like Texas". The attention-seeking, loquacious Mildred #1, alias "Millie" (

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My latest and only broadcast TV source of classic film getTV is celebrating the entertainment icon, Frank Sinatra's 99th birthday with an all day movie marathon and a social networking birthday party. Anybody can join in the @getTV hosted party on Twitter with the hashtag #99ReasonsWeLoveSinatra. With the remaining characters we are to express why we adore Ol' Blue Eyes. If your adoration

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Every year struggle to catch viewings of my favorite Christmas classic movies. So this year I am compiling lists. I am a purist so I usually only consider Christmas movies as "classics" if they predate 1960. Doing a search for "christmas classic movies" on Amazon Instant Video doesn't filter according to my strict parameters. So here's a list of timeless holiday classics I gathered for

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Beginning Thursday, December 4, every Thursday leading up to Christmas Day TCM has yuletide classics scheduled. For your convenience I have posted TCM's categorized schedule of Christmas Classics, Religious Favorites, Robert Osborne's Christmas Eve Picks, Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, and the jolly Christmas with Mel Brooks! The list is not necessarily sequential as many of our seasonal

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Cover of The Black Book Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) is a 1949 drama film set in the French Revolution. Plotters of François Barras seek to bring down Maximilien Robespierre and end his bloodthirsty regime. Although ostensibly an historical thriller, the film also has the characteristics of film noir in style, and numerous elements of chase films. "For The Black Book, working

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Cover via Amazon The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film made by Paramount Pictures about the life of Catherine the Great. It was directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg, with Emanuel Cohen as executive producer, from a screenplay by Eleanor McGeary, based on the diary of Catherine arranged by Manuel Komroff. Marlene Dietrich as Catherine, with John Davis Lodge, Sam Jaffe 

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Too Many Husbands (released in the United Kingdom as My Two Husbands) is a 1940 romantic comedy film about a woman who loses her husband (Cardew) in a boating accident and remarries, only to have her first spouse reappear. The film starred Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas. It is based on the 1919 play "Home and Beauty" by W.

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 The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. This film was ranked #28 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions. In 1999, The Shop Around the Corner was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of

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Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester Elsa Lanchester met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. Laughton's success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. They appeared together in several films, including Rembrandt (1936), Tales of Manhattan&

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Lucille Ball attended the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City with fellow actress Bette Davis. Ball went home a few weeks later when drama coaches told her that she "had no future at all as a performer." Ball was determined to prove her teachers wrong, and returned to New York City in 1929, where she landed work as a model and

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Early Goldwyn Girls The Goldwyn Girls were a musical stock company of female dancers employed by Samuel Goldwyn.  Famous actresses whose career included a stint in the Goldwyn Girls include Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Ann Sothern, Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce,Virginia Grey, Mary Meade, and Virginia Mayo. Paulette

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The Formula is a mystery film directed by John G. Avildsen released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1980. It features a preeminent cast of Marlon Brando, John Gielgud,George C. Scott and Marthe Keller. Craig T. Nelson also makes a brief appearance as a geologist. Despite recieving 1st Golden Rasberry Award, the film is

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right click mage to download poster On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. The soundtrack score was composed by&nbsp

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right click image to download poster A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American film adaptation of the 1947 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, who also wrote the screenplay with Oscar Saul. The film, a romantic drama, was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh

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Scroll down for the complete 2011 Summer Under The Stars Schedule. TCM will have the repertoire of 17 newbies featured an entire day for the first time:  Paulette Goddard   Ronald Colman  Peter Lawford  Joan Blondell Conrad Veidt Lon Chaney Howard Keel, Orson Welles, Charles Laughton, Jean Gabin, Joanne Woodward, Montgomery Clift, Anne

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This year TCM will take us on an All-American road trip for Summer of the Stars 2011. The artist uses nostalgic images from days when The American Automobile ruled the highways! We get to “tune into” SUTS by means of a dashboard with great radio dials to select “channels” for each day of the month. Conveniently placed road signs and neon drive in signs also help us navigate through SUTS. Each

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Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for best screenplay and three more nominations. My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical,

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Patty McCormick as Rhoda in 1956 film The Bad Seed Last weekend I finally had the opportunity to see a theatrical production of The Bad Seed.  When asked by my son who escorted me  to classify the Bad Seed,  I first called it a black comedy because of the movies high camp value, but clarified it later to be a comedic thriller. The intensity of the subject of serial killing

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Image via WikipediaThe Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King, and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan HaywardConsidered by Hemingway to be one of his finest stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936 and then republished in

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Image via WikipediaThe Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent film co-written (with Frank E. Woods), co-produced (with Harry Aitken), and directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. It was originally released on February 8, 1915. The film was originally presented in two parts, separated by an intermission

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Though its impossible to appropriately eulogize Elizabeth Taylor in a blog post, I will take the time just to express my sincere love for my favorite movie star. From as early as I can remember she was the my ideal woman. I rated her beauty, talent and personality above every other actress in black-in-white or technicolor, as a child star up til her the last days of her golden years. Not to

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After the Fox  is a 1966 Italian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci, also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise who accepts the contract for smuggling the gold with Okra (Akim Tamiroff) the mastermind of the heist, Two policemen are constantly on his trail and Aldo has to use many disguises and tricks to

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Image via WikipediaThe Bobo is a 1967 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and co-starring his then-wife Britt Ekland. Based on a 1959 novel "Olimpia" by Burt Cole, aka Thomas Dixon, Sellers is featured as the would-be Spanish singing matador, Juan Bautista. A theater manager offers to give him a big break if he seduces the beautiful Olympia (Ekland) and spends an hour in her apartment

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I am posting on my blog, because a 140 character tweet just couldn't do justice for the explanation for why I suddenly stopped my maniacal tweeting for TCM the 2 months. November 8th was a typical lazy Sunday except I was full of anticipation like every other true movie enthusiast for the premier of the 2010 renovation of Metropolis at 10pm ON TCM that night. An otherwise typical Sunday was

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Cover of Once Upon a Time in the West  Once Upon a Time in The West is my all time favorite film as well as my favorite movie score. Bernardo Bertolucci, the co-writer of Once Upon a Time in The West, later directs The Last Emperor, which is my second all time favorite film as well as my second favorite movie score. Beware this is not your usual western. It is epic poetry. It is opera.

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