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January 21, 2025
Garth Hudson, Last Surviving Member of The Band, Dies at 87 (Variety)
Chest Fever - The Band -- Garth Hudson R.I.P.
Garth Hudson, Last Surviving Member of The Band, Dies at 87 (Variety)
January 21, 2025
By Chris Morris
Garth Hudson, whose fantastical approach to the organ and virtuosity on a panoply of other instruments lent a distinctive touch to the roots-rock of the Canadian-American group the Band, has died, according to the Toronto Star. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” Tuesday morning at a nursing home in the Band’s longtime home base of Woodstock, New York, the musician’s estate executor confirmed to the publication. He was 87.
Retiring and seldom interviewed, Hudson was the quiet man in the group that began life as the Hawks, Arkansas-born rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ backup band, who in 1966 graduated to supporting Bob Dylan on his tumultuous first tour as a rock ‘n’ roll performer.
After woodshedding with Dylan in West Saugerties, N.Y. — where Hudson served as recording engineer for Dylan and the group’s legendary “basement tapes” – the musicians stepped out as the Band on a stunning 1968 debut, “Music From Big Pink.” That album and the self-titled 1969 sequel established them as one of the day’s top rock acts.
In a typically self-effacing, and typically rare, interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s in 2003, Hudson – the only Band member who never contributed vocally on stage or on record — minimized his unique accomplishments. “It was a job,” he said. “Play a stadium, play a theater. My job was to provide arrangements with pads underneath, pads and fills behind good poets. Same poems every night.”
Read more: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/garth-hudson-last-member-the-band-dead-1236280162/
Garth Hudson, Last Surviving Member of The Band, Dies at 87 (Variety)
By Chris Morris
Garth Hudson, whose fantastical approach to the organ and virtuosity on a panoply of other instruments lent a distinctive touch to the roots-rock of the Canadian-American group the Band, has died, according to the Toronto Star. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” Tuesday morning at a nursing home in the Band’s longtime home base of Woodstock, New York, the musician’s estate executor confirmed to the publication. He was 87.
Retiring and seldom interviewed, Hudson was the quiet man in the group that began life as the Hawks, Arkansas-born rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ backup band, who in 1966 graduated to supporting Bob Dylan on his tumultuous first tour as a rock ‘n’ roll performer.
After woodshedding with Dylan in West Saugerties, N.Y. — where Hudson served as recording engineer for Dylan and the group’s legendary “basement tapes” – the musicians stepped out as the Band on a stunning 1968 debut, “Music From Big Pink.” That album and the self-titled 1969 sequel established them as one of the day’s top rock acts.
In a typically self-effacing, and typically rare, interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s in 2003, Hudson – the only Band member who never contributed vocally on stage or on record — minimized his unique accomplishments. “It was a job,” he said. “Play a stadium, play a theater. My job was to provide arrangements with pads underneath, pads and fills behind good poets. Same poems every night.”
Read more: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/garth-hudson-last-member-the-band-dead-1236280162/
January 21, 2025
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Garth Hudson, Last Surviving Member of The Band, Dies at 87
Source: Variety
By Chris Morris
Garth Hudson, whose fantastical approach to the organ and virtuosity on a panoply of other instruments lent a distinctive touch to the roots-rock of the Canadian-American group the Band, has died, according to the Toronto Star. Hudson “passed away peacefully in his sleep” Tuesday morning at a nursing home in the Band’s longtime home base of Woodstock, New York, the musician’s estate executor confirmed to the publication. He was 87.
Retiring and seldom interviewed, Hudson was the quiet man in the group that began life as the Hawks, Arkansas-born rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ backup band, who in 1966 graduated to supporting Bob Dylan on his tumultuous first tour as a rock ‘n’ roll performer.
After woodshedding with Dylan in West Saugerties, N.Y. — where Hudson served as recording engineer for Dylan and the group’s legendary “basement tapes” – the musicians stepped out as the Band on a stunning 1968 debut, “Music From Big Pink.” That album and the self-titled 1969 sequel established them as one of the day’s top rock acts.
In a typically self-effacing, and typically rare, interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s in 2003, Hudson – the only Band member who never contributed vocally on stage or on record — minimized his unique accomplishments. “It was a job,” he said. “Play a stadium, play a theater. My job was to provide arrangements with pads underneath, pads and fills behind good poets. Same poems every night.”
Read more: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/garth-hudson-last-member-the-band-dead-1236280162/
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January 21, 2025
This month (and into early March): 31 Days of Oscar - beginning February 1 and ending March 3. (Star of the Month returns in March.)
The 97th Oscars® will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and will air live at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST on ABC and Hulu (the latter for the first time) and in more than 200 territories worldwide from the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
This year's host is Conan O'Brien, who will be hosting for the first time. “America demanded it and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars,” said O’Brien.
31 Days of Oscar Daily Schedules At A Glance
(See daily schedules for times and film details.)
Saturday, February 1
- BEST PICTURE
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Sounder (1972)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- SHOW BUSINESS
All About Eve (1950)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Star Is Born, A (1937)
Goodbye Girl, The (1977)
Morning Glory (1933)
Sunday, February 2
- BEST PICTURE
Smilin' Through (1932)
Four Daughters (1938)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Passage to India, A (1984)
Tom Jones (1963)
Oliver! (1968)
- TEACHERS
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
Paper Chase, The (1973)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Monday, February 3
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Merry Widow, The (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Little Women (1949)
Young Bess (1953)
Kismet (1944)
Brigadoon (1954)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- CRIMINALS
Sting, The (1973)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Algiers (1938)
Tuesday, February 4
- BEST SCREENPLAY
In Which We Serve (1942)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
North Star, The (1943)
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947)
Designing Woman (1957)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Band Wagon, The (1953)
- ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS
Harvey (1950)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Being There (1979)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Wednesday, February 5
- BEST WRITING: STORY
Doorway to Hell, The (1930) (7:15 am ET)
One Way Passage (1932)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Stratton Story, The (1949)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Brave One, The (1956)
- ROYALS
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Madness of King George, The (1994) (TCM Premiere)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)
Thursday, February 6
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Great Waltz, The (1938) (7:15 am ET)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Gypsy (1962)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- AT SEA
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Ship of Fools (1965)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964)
Old Man and the Sea, The (1958)
Friday, February 7
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Blues in the Night (1941) (7:15 am ET)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Born to Dance (1936)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Calamity Jane (1953)
- ILLNESSES
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
Love Story (1970)
TBA
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Camille (1937)
Saturday, February 8
- BEST PICTURE
Flirtation Walk (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Cimarron (1931)
How the West Was Won (1962)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- MOTHERS
Places in the Heart (1984)
TBA
Imitation of Life (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Sunday, February 9
- BEST PICTURE
One Foot in Heaven (1941) (6:45 am ET)
Good Earth, The (1937)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Gigi (1958)
My Fair Lady (1964)
- TRIALS
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Trial (1955)
Free Soul, A (1931)
Monday, February 10
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Rashomon (1950) (6:30 am ET)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
America America (1963)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Red Shoes, The (1948)
- CHILDREN
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
TBA
These Three (1936)
Skippy (1931)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Tuesday, February 11
- BEST WRITING
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
400 Blows, The (1959)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Candidate, The (1972)
North by Northwest (1959)
- TROUBLED WOMEN
Jezebel (1938)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Possessed (1947)
Wednesday, February 12
- BEST SCORE
Summer of '42 (1971) (6:45 am ET)
Easter Parade (1948)
Camelot (1967)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
On the Town (1949)
Oklahoma! (1955)
- BOXERS
Champ, The (1931)
TBA
Raging Bull (1980)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Thursday, February 13
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) (6:15 am)
Naked City, The (1948)
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
- LADIES OF THE EVENING
Sin of Madelon Claudet, The (1931)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Klute (1971)
Primrose Path (1940)
Anna Christie (1930)
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Star Is Born, A (1954)
Friday, February 14
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Sandpiper, The (1965) (8:15 am ET)
Dear Heart (1964)
Swing Time (1936)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
Tender Trap, The (1955)
High Society (1956)
- ROMANCE
Casablanca (1942)
Marty (1955)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Brief Encounter (1945)
- BEST PICTURE
Racket, The (1928)
Saturday, February 15
- BEST PICTURE
Big House, The (1930) (7:00 am ET)
Farewell to Arms, A (1932)
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Yearling, The (1946)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- WESTERNS
TBA
Cat Ballou (1965)
Giant (1956)
Westerner, The (1940)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)
Sunday, February 16
- BEST PICTURE
Alice Adams (1935) (8:00 am ET)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Top Hat (1935)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Ben-Hur (1959)
- NEW YORK
West Side Story (1961)
Annie Hall (1977)
TBA
Apartment, The (1960)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Monday, February 17
- BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Loves of a Blonde (1966) (7:00 am ET)
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
Kapo (1959)
Burmese Harp, The (1956)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Mon Oncle (1958)
La Strada (1954)
- POLITICIANS
All the King's Men (1949)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Best Man, The (1964)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Tuesday, February 18
- POLITICIANS
Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SCREENPLAY
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Pygmalion (1938)
Room at the Top (1959)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (1948)
Henry V (1944)
Romeo and Juliet (1937)
Julius Caesar (1953)
- BEST FILM EDITING
Air Force (1943)
Wednesday, February 19
- BEST FILM EDITING
Odd Man Out (1947) (8:00 am ET)
Z (1969)
Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
TBA
Bullitt (1968)
- COMING OF AGE
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
American Graffiti (1973)
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968)
- BEST DIRECTOR
Human Comedy, The (1943)
Thursday, February 20
- BEST DIRECTOR
Crowd, The (1928) (6:30 am ET)
Divine Lady, The (1929)
Stage Door (1937)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Search, The (1948)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- CONVICTS
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Friday, February 21
- CONVICTS
Caged (1950) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Gate of Hell (1954)
Les Girls (1957)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
8 1/2 (1963)
- COMEDY
Circus, The (1928)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Ninotchka (1939)
Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929)
Saturday, February 22
- BEST PICTURE
Tale of Two Cities, A (1935) (7:45 am ET)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Stagecoach (1939)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- WAR
Sergeant York (1941)
TBA
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
Battleground (1949)
Sunday, February 23
- BEST PICTURE
49th Parallel (1941) (8:00 am ET)
42nd Street (1933)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- NEWS REPORTERS
All the President's Men (1976)
China Syndrome, The (1979)
Network (1976)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Front Page, The (1931)
Monday, February 24
- BEST DOCUMENTARY
Battle of Midway, The (1942) (6:45 am ET)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
Sea Around Us, The (1952)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
When We Were Kings (1996)
For All Mankind (1989)
- SUSPENSE
Suspicion (1941)
Psycho (1960)
Gaslight (1944)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Tuesday, February 25
- BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Little Caesar (1930)
Great Expectations (1946)
Baby Doll (1956)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
TBA
Lolita (1962)
- MUSICALS
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Cabaret (1972)
Lili (1953)
Broadway Melody, The (1929)
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Wednesday, February 26
Sunshine Boys, The (1975) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SOUND
Topper Returns (1941)
Gay Divorcee, The (1934)
San Francisco (1936)
Grand Prix (1966)
Great Race, The (1965)
- PRIESTS
Going My Way (1944)
TBA
On the Waterfront (1954)
Boys Town (1938)
TBA
Thursday, February 27
- BEST DIRECTOR
Speedy (1928) (7:00 am ET)
Romance (1930)
Informer, The (1935)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Random Harvest (1942)
Southerner, The (1945)
East of Eden (1955)
- HISTORICAL FIGURES
Gandhi (1982)
Iron Lady, The (2011)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Conquest (1937)
Friday, February 28
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Juarez (1939) (6:30 am ET)
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Raintree County (1957)
Tess (1979)
- FAMILY DRAMAS
TBA
On Golden Pond (1981)
TBA
Great Santini, The (1979)
Life with Father (1947)
31 Days of Oscar Premieres
Feb 5 - The Madness of King George (1994)
TCM February 2025 At a Glance - 31 Days of Oscar Begins
This month (and into early March): 31 Days of Oscar - beginning February 1 and ending March 3. (Star of the Month returns in March.)
The 97th Oscars® will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, and will air live at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST on ABC and Hulu (the latter for the first time) and in more than 200 territories worldwide from the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
This year's host is Conan O'Brien, who will be hosting for the first time. “America demanded it and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars,” said O’Brien.
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars®, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The Oscars® are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry.
The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony.
The first Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony in 1930 was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.
The Academy Awards are the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight, rendered in the Art Deco style.
The major award categories, known as the Academy Awards of Merit, are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony.
The first Academy Awards were held in 1929. The second ceremony in 1930 was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.
The Academy Awards are the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight, rendered in the Art Deco style.
31 Days of Oscar Daily Schedules At A Glance
(See daily schedules for times and film details.)
Saturday, February 1
- BEST PICTURE
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
Great Dictator, The (1940)
Sounder (1972)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
12 Angry Men (1957)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- SHOW BUSINESS
All About Eve (1950)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Star Is Born, A (1937)
Goodbye Girl, The (1977)
Morning Glory (1933)
Sunday, February 2
- BEST PICTURE
Smilin' Through (1932)
Four Daughters (1938)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Passage to India, A (1984)
Tom Jones (1963)
Oliver! (1968)
- TEACHERS
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
Paper Chase, The (1973)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Monday, February 3
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Merry Widow, The (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Little Women (1949)
Young Bess (1953)
Kismet (1944)
Brigadoon (1954)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- CRIMINALS
Sting, The (1973)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Algiers (1938)
Tuesday, February 4
- BEST SCREENPLAY
In Which We Serve (1942)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
North Star, The (1943)
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947)
Designing Woman (1957)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Band Wagon, The (1953)
- ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS
Harvey (1950)
Auntie Mame (1958)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Being There (1979)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Wednesday, February 5
- BEST WRITING: STORY
Doorway to Hell, The (1930) (7:15 am ET)
One Way Passage (1932)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Stratton Story, The (1949)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Brave One, The (1956)
- ROYALS
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Lion in Winter, The (1968)
Madness of King George, The (1994) (TCM Premiere)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Private Life of Henry VIII, The (1933)
Thursday, February 6
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Great Waltz, The (1938) (7:15 am ET)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Gypsy (1962)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- AT SEA
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Ship of Fools (1965)
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964)
Old Man and the Sea, The (1958)
Friday, February 7
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Blues in the Night (1941) (7:15 am ET)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Born to Dance (1936)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Calamity Jane (1953)
- ILLNESSES
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
Love Story (1970)
TBA
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Camille (1937)
Saturday, February 8
- BEST PICTURE
Flirtation Walk (1934) (6:15 am ET)
Here Comes the Navy (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
Cimarron (1931)
How the West Was Won (1962)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- MOTHERS
Places in the Heart (1984)
TBA
Imitation of Life (1959)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Sunday, February 9
- BEST PICTURE
One Foot in Heaven (1941) (6:45 am ET)
Good Earth, The (1937)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Gigi (1958)
My Fair Lady (1964)
- TRIALS
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Trial (1955)
Free Soul, A (1931)
Monday, February 10
- BEST ART DIRECTION
Rashomon (1950) (6:30 am ET)
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1937)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
America America (1963)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Red Shoes, The (1948)
- CHILDREN
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
TBA
These Three (1936)
Skippy (1931)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Tuesday, February 11
- BEST WRITING
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
400 Blows, The (1959)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Candidate, The (1972)
North by Northwest (1959)
- TROUBLED WOMEN
Jezebel (1938)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Possessed (1947)
Wednesday, February 12
- BEST SCORE
Summer of '42 (1971) (6:45 am ET)
Easter Parade (1948)
Camelot (1967)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
On the Town (1949)
Oklahoma! (1955)
- BOXERS
Champ, The (1931)
TBA
Raging Bull (1980)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Thursday, February 13
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) (6:15 am)
Naked City, The (1948)
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
Black Narcissus (1947)
- LADIES OF THE EVENING
Sin of Madelon Claudet, The (1931)
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
Klute (1971)
Primrose Path (1940)
Anna Christie (1930)
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Star Is Born, A (1954)
Friday, February 14
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Sandpiper, The (1965) (8:15 am ET)
Dear Heart (1964)
Swing Time (1936)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
Tender Trap, The (1955)
High Society (1956)
- ROMANCE
Casablanca (1942)
Marty (1955)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Brief Encounter (1945)
- BEST PICTURE
Racket, The (1928)
Saturday, February 15
- BEST PICTURE
Big House, The (1930) (7:00 am ET)
Farewell to Arms, A (1932)
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (1934)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Yearling, The (1946)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- WESTERNS
TBA
Cat Ballou (1965)
Giant (1956)
Westerner, The (1940)
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)
Sunday, February 16
- BEST PICTURE
Alice Adams (1935) (8:00 am ET)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Top Hat (1935)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Ben-Hur (1959)
- NEW YORK
West Side Story (1961)
Annie Hall (1977)
TBA
Apartment, The (1960)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Monday, February 17
- BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Loves of a Blonde (1966) (7:00 am ET)
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
Kapo (1959)
Burmese Harp, The (1956)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Mon Oncle (1958)
La Strada (1954)
- POLITICIANS
All the King's Men (1949)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Best Man, The (1964)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Tuesday, February 18
- POLITICIANS
Gorgeous Hussy, The (1936) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SCREENPLAY
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Pygmalion (1938)
Room at the Top (1959)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (1948)
Henry V (1944)
Romeo and Juliet (1937)
Julius Caesar (1953)
- BEST FILM EDITING
Air Force (1943)
Wednesday, February 19
- BEST FILM EDITING
Odd Man Out (1947) (8:00 am ET)
Z (1969)
Dirty Dozen, The (1967)
TBA
Bullitt (1968)
- COMING OF AGE
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
American Graffiti (1973)
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968)
- BEST DIRECTOR
Human Comedy, The (1943)
Thursday, February 20
- BEST DIRECTOR
Crowd, The (1928) (6:30 am ET)
Divine Lady, The (1929)
Stage Door (1937)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Search, The (1948)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- CONVICTS
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Friday, February 21
- CONVICTS
Caged (1950) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Gate of Hell (1954)
Les Girls (1957)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
8 1/2 (1963)
- COMEDY
Circus, The (1928)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Ninotchka (1939)
Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929)
Saturday, February 22
- BEST PICTURE
Tale of Two Cities, A (1935) (7:45 am ET)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Stagecoach (1939)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- WAR
Sergeant York (1941)
TBA
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Story of G.I. Joe, The (1945)
Battleground (1949)
Sunday, February 23
- BEST PICTURE
49th Parallel (1941) (8:00 am ET)
42nd Street (1933)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- NEWS REPORTERS
All the President's Men (1976)
China Syndrome, The (1979)
Network (1976)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Front Page, The (1931)
Monday, February 24
- BEST DOCUMENTARY
Battle of Midway, The (1942) (6:45 am ET)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
Sea Around Us, The (1952)
Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976)
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
When We Were Kings (1996)
For All Mankind (1989)
- SUSPENSE
Suspicion (1941)
Psycho (1960)
Gaslight (1944)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Tuesday, February 25
- BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Little Caesar (1930)
Great Expectations (1946)
Baby Doll (1956)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
TBA
Lolita (1962)
- MUSICALS
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Cabaret (1972)
Lili (1953)
Broadway Melody, The (1929)
Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Wednesday, February 26
Sunshine Boys, The (1975) (6:45 am ET)
- BEST SOUND
Topper Returns (1941)
Gay Divorcee, The (1934)
San Francisco (1936)
Grand Prix (1966)
Great Race, The (1965)
- PRIESTS
Going My Way (1944)
TBA
On the Waterfront (1954)
Boys Town (1938)
TBA
Thursday, February 27
- BEST DIRECTOR
Speedy (1928) (7:00 am ET)
Romance (1930)
Informer, The (1935)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Random Harvest (1942)
Southerner, The (1945)
East of Eden (1955)
- HISTORICAL FIGURES
Gandhi (1982)
Iron Lady, The (2011)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Conquest (1937)
Friday, February 28
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Juarez (1939) (6:30 am ET)
Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, The (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Raintree County (1957)
Tess (1979)
- FAMILY DRAMAS
TBA
On Golden Pond (1981)
TBA
Great Santini, The (1979)
Life with Father (1947)
31 Days of Oscar Premieres
Feb 5 - The Madness of King George (1994)
January 16, 2025
Read more: https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/brewers-baseball-world-mourn-passing-of-bob-uecker
The inside story of Uecker's final game as baseball bids farewell to legend
MILWAUKEE -- Jeff Levering, the Swiss Army knife of the Brewers’ broadcast team who bounces between radio and television depending on the need, has a voicemail from Bob Uecker which he will treasure forever. It is short and sweet.
“Great job tonight,” Uecker said with the upbeat lilt known to generations of baseball fans. “We’ll see you tomorrow.”
It was the night of Oct. 2. The Brewers had just rallied to beat the Mets in Game 2 of the National League Wild Card Series with eighth-inning home runs from 20-year-old phenom Jackson Chourio and Garrett Mitchell. Uecker was listening to Levering and Lane Grindle call the thrilling finish on his car radio during his drive home.
Uecker hadn’t called a Brewers game for some time, weakened by myriad health concerns including, his family revealed on Thursday after news of Uecker’s passing at age 90, a multi-year battle with small cell lung cancer. He’d come to American Family Field for Game 1 of that series but was unable to work. Uecker intended to work Game 2 and even did his pregame show with Brewers manager Pat Murphy, but by game time he was spent. He told Levering, “All right, you got it.”
“Great job tonight,” Uecker said with the upbeat lilt known to generations of baseball fans. “We’ll see you tomorrow.”
It was the night of Oct. 2. The Brewers had just rallied to beat the Mets in Game 2 of the National League Wild Card Series with eighth-inning home runs from 20-year-old phenom Jackson Chourio and Garrett Mitchell. Uecker was listening to Levering and Lane Grindle call the thrilling finish on his car radio during his drive home.
Uecker hadn’t called a Brewers game for some time, weakened by myriad health concerns including, his family revealed on Thursday after news of Uecker’s passing at age 90, a multi-year battle with small cell lung cancer. He’d come to American Family Field for Game 1 of that series but was unable to work. Uecker intended to work Game 2 and even did his pregame show with Brewers manager Pat Murphy, but by game time he was spent. He told Levering, “All right, you got it.”
Read more: https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/brewers-baseball-world-mourn-passing-of-bob-uecker
January 16, 2025
I hate seeing even a small part of this agreement credited to Trump.
How the Biden and Trump teams worked together to get the Gaza ceasefire and hostages deal done
Source: CNN
By Kevin Liptak, Michael Williams, Nikki Carvajal, Alayna Treene and Arlette Saenz, CNN
Updated 8:02 PM EST, Wed January 15, 2025
Washington
CNN
—
When Qatar’s prime minister emerged Wednesday to declare — at long last — that a ceasefire-for-hostage deal had been struck in Gaza, representatives for two American administrations were on hand in Doha to bask in the victory.
The cooperation between the two was “almost unprecedented,” a senior Biden administration official said after the deal was clinched, made possible by a rare intersection of interests between bitter rivals who both saw an opening following Trump’s victory.
Brett McGurk, the longtime Middle East negotiator for President Joe Biden, had been planted in the Qatari capital for weeks in the hopes of a final agreement. He was joined in recent days by President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, for the final push.
At points, McGurk and Witkoff divvied up meetings across the Middle East to push the deal across the line, including critical talks between Witkoff and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that McGurk joined by phone. If McGurk was focused primarily on the parameters of the deal, Witkoff was on hand to emphasize Trump’s desire to see a deal finished by Inauguration Day.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/politics/biden-trump-gaza-ceasefire-deal/index.html
I hate seeing even a small part of this agreement credited to Trump.
January 14, 2025
Washington Examiner (!) headline critical of Trump for flying flags at full staff in Carter mourning period
Headline: Trump defies Biden and DeSantis by raising flags at Mar-a-Lago
Link: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3285684/trump-defies-biden-desantis-raises-flags-mar-a-lago/
For those looking for blatantly critical headlines, as someone who wrote headlines on a daily newspaper copy desk in the late '90s and early 2000s, it's really a matter of judgment (and desk chief preference) as to how a headline like this should be phrased. So it could have gone either way. But what's most interesting here is that it's the Washington Examiner, a longtime conservative news source. I don't recall ever seeing them being that critical of him (though I admit I don't pay that much attention to them, either).
Additionally, critical headlines are found on stories that are reviews of movies, TV and the like, and rarely on news stories.
Wonder how many readers will complain.
January 13, 2025
By Sean Axmaker
January 15 and 22 at 8pm | 11 Movies
BECOMING HITCHCOCK, PART 1 (Times ET)
8:00 PM Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of
Blackmail (2024)
9:15 PM Blackmail (1929) (silent version)
11:00 PM Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of
Blackmail (2024)
12:15 AM Blackmail (1929) (sound version)
2:00 AM Murder! (1930)
4:00 AM The Skin Game (1931)
Before Alfred Hitchcock became a worldwide sensation for directing some of the greatest and most recognizable thrillers ever made in Hollywood, he honed his craft and his cinematic obsessions in England. He rose from the ranks of set designer and graphic artist to the director's chair, eventually making his mark as Britain's most celebrated director with such classics as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). While these films are hardly unknown to American audiences—they have been revived in retrospectives and released on excellent home video editions—they are only the tip of the iceberg of his British output. The dozen features he made between Blackmail (1929), his first sound feature, and Jamaica Inn (1939), his final British production before heading to Hollywood, reveal a filmmaker constantly innovating, challenging himself, searching for new and different ways of cinematic expression in every arena, from revealing character to creating suspense to crafting haunting images that suggest terrors left offscreen.
(snip)
BECOMING HITCHCOCK, PART 2 (Times ET)
8:00 PM The Man Who Knew
Too Much (1934)
9:30 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
11:00 PM Sabotage (1936)
12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
2:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
3:45 AM Becoming Hitchcock:
The Legend of Blackmail (2024)
5:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Wednesday, January 15: Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (2024) delves into this fecund, and often unexplored, period to examine and identify the origins of the style and themes that defined such films as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and North By Northwest (1959), to cite just a few.
Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau spent decades documenting film and filmmakers both on screen and in print, from some of the most illuminating behind-the-scenes documentaries and featurettes produced for TV and special edition discs to the limited series documentary Five Came Back (2017) and feature documentaries Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) and Faye (2024), with Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway. But he has always held a special interest in Hitchcock. His feature-length documentary The Making of 'Psycho' (1997) was the first of dozens of projects that explored the films by the Master of Suspense, and Bouzereau’s 2010 book "Hitchcock, Piece by Piece" is guided by the themes and ideas that recur through his long career.
(snip)
Wednesday, January 22: The second night of the series opens with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), the film Hitchcock once called "the real start of my career." The story of a British family tangled up in an assassination plot was Hitchcock's first international thriller featuring innocents caught up in the intrigue of spies and killers. He delivers two magnificent set pieces—an assassination attempt in London's Royal Albert Hall (which Hitchcock managed to create without ever taking the company into the venue) and a stand-off that snowballs into a massive shout-out on the streets of London. It's also the English language debut of Peter Lorre, who was newly arrived in England and hardly spoke a word of English when he was cast. You'd never know from his performance and Hitchcock was so taken with Lorre that he kept expanding the role during production. Not only was it a hit in England, it was Hitchcock's first sound film to find success in America, and he remade it 20 years later with a bigger budget, a larger canvas and two of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood: James Stewart and Doris Day.
Read more: https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021960/becoming-hitchcock-and-early-hitchcock-festival
Becoming Hitchcock Festival on TCM Jan. 15 & 22
By Sean Axmaker
January 15 and 22 at 8pm | 11 Movies
BECOMING HITCHCOCK, PART 1 (Times ET)
8:00 PM Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of
Blackmail (2024)
9:15 PM Blackmail (1929) (silent version)
11:00 PM Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of
Blackmail (2024)
12:15 AM Blackmail (1929) (sound version)
2:00 AM Murder! (1930)
4:00 AM The Skin Game (1931)
Before Alfred Hitchcock became a worldwide sensation for directing some of the greatest and most recognizable thrillers ever made in Hollywood, he honed his craft and his cinematic obsessions in England. He rose from the ranks of set designer and graphic artist to the director's chair, eventually making his mark as Britain's most celebrated director with such classics as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). While these films are hardly unknown to American audiences—they have been revived in retrospectives and released on excellent home video editions—they are only the tip of the iceberg of his British output. The dozen features he made between Blackmail (1929), his first sound feature, and Jamaica Inn (1939), his final British production before heading to Hollywood, reveal a filmmaker constantly innovating, challenging himself, searching for new and different ways of cinematic expression in every arena, from revealing character to creating suspense to crafting haunting images that suggest terrors left offscreen.
(snip)
BECOMING HITCHCOCK, PART 2 (Times ET)
8:00 PM The Man Who Knew
Too Much (1934)
9:30 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
11:00 PM Sabotage (1936)
12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
2:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
3:45 AM Becoming Hitchcock:
The Legend of Blackmail (2024)
5:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Wednesday, January 15: Becoming Hitchcock: The Legacy of Blackmail (2024) delves into this fecund, and often unexplored, period to examine and identify the origins of the style and themes that defined such films as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Notorious (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and North By Northwest (1959), to cite just a few.
Filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau spent decades documenting film and filmmakers both on screen and in print, from some of the most illuminating behind-the-scenes documentaries and featurettes produced for TV and special edition discs to the limited series documentary Five Came Back (2017) and feature documentaries Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020) and Faye (2024), with Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway. But he has always held a special interest in Hitchcock. His feature-length documentary The Making of 'Psycho' (1997) was the first of dozens of projects that explored the films by the Master of Suspense, and Bouzereau’s 2010 book "Hitchcock, Piece by Piece" is guided by the themes and ideas that recur through his long career.
(snip)
Wednesday, January 22: The second night of the series opens with The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), the film Hitchcock once called "the real start of my career." The story of a British family tangled up in an assassination plot was Hitchcock's first international thriller featuring innocents caught up in the intrigue of spies and killers. He delivers two magnificent set pieces—an assassination attempt in London's Royal Albert Hall (which Hitchcock managed to create without ever taking the company into the venue) and a stand-off that snowballs into a massive shout-out on the streets of London. It's also the English language debut of Peter Lorre, who was newly arrived in England and hardly spoke a word of English when he was cast. You'd never know from his performance and Hitchcock was so taken with Lorre that he kept expanding the role during production. Not only was it a hit in England, it was Hitchcock's first sound film to find success in America, and he remade it 20 years later with a bigger budget, a larger canvas and two of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood: James Stewart and Doris Day.
Read more: https://www.tcm.com/articles/Programming%20Article/021960/becoming-hitchcock-and-early-hitchcock-festival
January 13, 2025
Film poster signed by Jake LaMotta
January 18 At A Glance
- TCM SPOTLIGHT: IT WAS ALL A DREAM?
Artists and Models (1955)
Billy Liar (1963)
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
Feminine Touch, The (1941)
- TCM DAYTIME - WEEKEND FEATURES
Story of Will Rogers, The (1952)
MGM Cartoons: Little 'Tinker (1948)
Bermuda Cockleshells (1957) (short)
Believe It or Not #10 (1932) (short)
Smugglers' Cove (1948)
Galloping Ghost Ch. 3: The Master Mind (1931)
(TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Elephant Stampede (1951)
Roaring Guns (1944) (short)
Say Amen, Somebody (1982) (Musical Matinee)
High Sierra (1941)
Whiplash (1948)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
- TCM PRIMETIME - SCREENWRITER PAUL SCHRADER
Yakuza, The (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
- NOIR ALLEY
Without Pity (1948)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DIR. JACK BERNHARD NOIR
Blonde Ice (1948) (TCM Premiere)
Hunted, The (1948)
Decoy (1946)
January 18 Full Day Schedule
11:00 PM Artists and Models (1955)
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Rick Todd is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies' man. Rick uses the dreams of his goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack as the basis for a successful comic book.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:
Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "Whispers In The Dark," Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin
Trivia: Jerry Lewis saw Shirley MacLaine on stage in "The Pajama Game", where she was understudy for Carol Haney, and convinced the producer to use her in this film, thereby launching her career.
1:00 AM Billy Liar (1963)
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An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: This movie made a star of Julie Christie, despite the fact that she's only in it for a total of 12 minutes.
2:45 AM Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
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A girl accepts three wedding proposals at once and dreams of marriage to each man.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Paul Jarrico
Trivia: During the shooting of this film, Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her previous film, Kitty Foyle (1940). The day after, all of the male cast and crew met her on the set in top hats and tails.
4:15 AM The Feminine Touch (1941)
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Don Ameche's first film for MGM. He had made a screen test there in 1935 and was rejected, but was signed the following year by 20th Century-Fox.
6:00 AM The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
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Oklahoma lad grows up to become America's favorite humorist.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Eddie Cantor appears as himself in support of Will Rogers, Jr. who portrays his father, a contemporary of Cantor's. The next year Rogers, Jr. would return the favor, again appearing as his father in The Eddie Cantor Story. Both films were made by Warner Brothers.
8:00 AM Cartoon: Little Tinker (1948)
A young skunk is looking for a girlfriend but his odor is too much for most females to handle.
Dir: Tex Avery Cast: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Walter Craig
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Much fun is poked at Frank Sinatra's ultra-thin appearance. Sinatra, in fact, was known as the skinny kid from Hoboken in his early days, but audiences still swooned at his crooning.
8:10 AM Short: Bermuda Cockleshells (1957)
This short film focuses on sailboat racing in Bermuda.
Dir: Harry W. Smith Cast: Peter Roberts, Herman Fuchs, Earle Luby
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:20 AM Short: Believe It or Not #10 (1932)
This entry features various sights and oddities, such as a golf course made from Civil War trenches and a Native American who can paint upside down. Vitaphone Release 1364.
Dir: null Cast: Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:30 AM Smugglers' Cove (1948)
The Bowery Boys take on a gang of German smugglers.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:40 AM Serial: The Galloping Ghost - Chapter 3, The Master Mind (1931) (TCM Premiere)
A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N
10:10 AM Cartoon: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Popeye, saddened by the sight of dogs in a pet shop, buys them and releases them into the streets. Pursued by a dog catcher, the hungry dogs discover freedom isn't so great after all. They gladly follow Popeye back to the pet shop.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:20 AM Elephant Stampede (1951)
Bomba The Jungle Boy fights off elephant poachers to help a missionary.
Dir: Ford Beebe Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, John Kellogg
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: As usual, Bomba wears anachronistic, often visible, dark underwear beneath his loincloth, in order to placate the members of the production code committee who expressed their usual concern over the possibility of undue exposure resulting from what is now referred to as "wardrobe malfunction."
11:35 AM Short: Roaring Guns (1944)
Farmers clash with miners when runoff from water pressure mining destroys their farms.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Robert Shayne, Mark Stevens, Victor Cox
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)
The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented. Performers who are highlighted include Sallie Martin, the Barrett Sisters, and the O'Neill Brothers, but much of the focus is on the legendary singers Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey.
Dir: George T Nierenberg Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'Neal, Zella Jackson Price
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
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An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: This was the last movie Humphrey Bogart made where he did not receive top billing. The studio thought that Ida Lupino should have top billing because she had been such a big hit in They Drive by Night (1940) (which also featured Bogart), and so her name ended above Bogart's on the title card. Bogart was reportedly unhappy about receiving second billing.
4:00 PM Whiplash (1948)
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An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
Dir: Lew Seiler Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Before becoming an actor, Dane Clark had some experience as a professional boxer. Freddie Steele who portrays Mike's final opponent Duke Carney, was also a professional boxer before his retirement led to him becoming an actor.
5:45 PM Operation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: As Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries because of her portrayal of a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, in Daniel Mann's Judith (1966), which was shot in Israel, this movie was shown in Beirut, Lebanon with all of the Loren bits removed. The movie poster was changed, and her name removed from the top billing. This movie was shown at the Cinema Strand and the audience never suspected Loren was part of this production.
Trivia: For the scene in which a street is wiped out by a V2, the filmmakers destroyed a row of flats which were slated for demolition.
Trivia: In an interview on WABC Radio in New York in 1965, George Harrison talked about seeing this film on the Beatles flight to the city. The Beatles were in New York to play Shea Stadium.
8:00 PM The Yakuza (1974)
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Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: Martin Scorsese wanted to direct after Mean Streets (1973) but the producers wanted Sydney Pollack. Scorsese has gone on record that he would very much have liked to direct the film and was disappointed that he was passed over. However, he got to direct Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) instead after being sought out by Ellen Burstyn. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ended up making more than 20 times it's budget and won Burstyn an academy award while The Yakuza became a box office bomb.
10:00 PM Raging Bull (1980)
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The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion--particularly towards his wife and manager/brother--which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert De Niro {"Jake LaMotta"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Joe Pesci {"Joey LaMotta"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Cathy Moriarty {"Vicki LaMotta"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Michael Chapman
DIRECTING -- Martin Scorsese
(*WINNER*) FILM EDITING -- Thelma Schoonmaker
BEST PICTURE -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz
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Trivia: When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him break down in tears and realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."
Trivia: In preparation for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in three genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won two of them.
Trivia: In 1978, Martin Scorsese was at an all-time low after his last movie New York, New York (1977) had bombed at the box office, followed by a near-overdose resulting from an addiction to cocaine. Robert De Niro visited him at the hospital, and told him that he had to clean himself up and make this movie about a boxer. De Niro had asked Scorsese many times before, but he had always refused (he didn't like sports movies anyway), but due to De Niro's persistence, he eventually gave in. Scorsese believed that his American career was over anyway, so he wanted to do one final film there, and then move to Europe to make smaller movies. Many (including Scorsese) claim that De Niro saved Scorsese's life by getting him back into work, and that this movie cemented Scorsese's reputation as one of the most important American filmmakers of all time.
12:15 AM Without Pity (1948)
A black American GI decides to remain in Italy than return to a racially divided United States and falls in love with an Italian girl.
Dir: Alberto Lattuada. Cast: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N
Trivia: Sister Gertrude (Enza Giovine) was based on a real person. She was a nun who cared for young women in the 5th Pavillion of Livorno Hospital.
Trivia: Because of its unflattering portrait of the US military occupation staff in Italy, the film was not allowed to be shown in either the American or the British sectors of Germany.
2:00 AM Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N
3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Novelist and screenwriter Steve Fisher was a staple in film noir with his original screenplays as well as a pulp fiction magazine icon. Fisher was one of the most popular writers in Hollywood, penning original stories and adapted screenplays, such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and Destination Tokyo (1943), both original stories adapted for the screen and the latter earning Fisher an Academy® Award Nomination for Best Original Story.
5:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
Trivia: The following snipe was stapled and pasted on all of the printed material sent to the exhibitors that booked this film: IMPORTANT! The Motion Picture Association's Advisory Council has urgently requested that there be no mention of specific poisons in publicizing "DECOY." Please eliminate all names of poisons (such as cyanide or methylene blue) from the publicity, exploitation and advertising on this picture.
Trivia: The bottle of methylene blue is a real one from the actual firm of Coleman & Bell, Co. of Norwood, Ohio (later Matheson Coleman & Bell) now known as Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
TCM Schedule Saturday Jan. 18: Raging Bull, High Sierra, The Story of Will Rogers, four late-night film noirs
Film poster signed by Jake LaMotta
January 18 At A Glance
- TCM SPOTLIGHT: IT WAS ALL A DREAM?
Artists and Models (1955)
Billy Liar (1963)
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
Feminine Touch, The (1941)
- TCM DAYTIME - WEEKEND FEATURES
Story of Will Rogers, The (1952)
MGM Cartoons: Little 'Tinker (1948)
Bermuda Cockleshells (1957) (short)
Believe It or Not #10 (1932) (short)
Smugglers' Cove (1948)
Galloping Ghost Ch. 3: The Master Mind (1931)
(TCM Premiere)
Popeye: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Elephant Stampede (1951)
Roaring Guns (1944) (short)
Say Amen, Somebody (1982) (Musical Matinee)
High Sierra (1941)
Whiplash (1948)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
- TCM PRIMETIME - SCREENWRITER PAUL SCHRADER
Yakuza, The (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
- NOIR ALLEY
Without Pity (1948)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: DIR. JACK BERNHARD NOIR
Blonde Ice (1948) (TCM Premiere)
Hunted, The (1948)
Decoy (1946)
January 18 Full Day Schedule
11:00 PM Artists and Models (1955)
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Rick Todd is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies' man. Rick uses the dreams of his goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack as the basis for a successful comic book.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:
Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "Whispers In The Dark," Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin
Trivia: Jerry Lewis saw Shirley MacLaine on stage in "The Pajama Game", where she was understudy for Carol Haney, and convinced the producer to use her in this film, thereby launching her career.
1:00 AM Billy Liar (1963)
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An emotionally stunted clerk retreats into his fantasies.
Dir: John Schlesinger Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: This movie made a star of Julie Christie, despite the fact that she's only in it for a total of 12 minutes.
2:45 AM Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
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A girl accepts three wedding proposals at once and dreams of marriage to each man.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Paul Jarrico
Trivia: During the shooting of this film, Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award® for Best Actress for her previous film, Kitty Foyle (1940). The day after, all of the male cast and crew met her on the set in top hats and tails.
4:15 AM The Feminine Touch (1941)
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Don Ameche's first film for MGM. He had made a screen test there in 1935 and was rejected, but was signed the following year by 20th Century-Fox.
6:00 AM The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
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Oklahoma lad grows up to become America's favorite humorist.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Eddie Cantor appears as himself in support of Will Rogers, Jr. who portrays his father, a contemporary of Cantor's. The next year Rogers, Jr. would return the favor, again appearing as his father in The Eddie Cantor Story. Both films were made by Warner Brothers.
8:00 AM Cartoon: Little Tinker (1948)
A young skunk is looking for a girlfriend but his odor is too much for most females to handle.
Dir: Tex Avery Cast: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Walter Craig
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Much fun is poked at Frank Sinatra's ultra-thin appearance. Sinatra, in fact, was known as the skinny kid from Hoboken in his early days, but audiences still swooned at his crooning.
8:10 AM Short: Bermuda Cockleshells (1957)
This short film focuses on sailboat racing in Bermuda.
Dir: Harry W. Smith Cast: Peter Roberts, Herman Fuchs, Earle Luby
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:20 AM Short: Believe It or Not #10 (1932)
This entry features various sights and oddities, such as a golf course made from Civil War trenches and a Native American who can paint upside down. Vitaphone Release 1364.
Dir: null Cast: Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N
8:30 AM Smugglers' Cove (1948)
The Bowery Boys take on a gang of German smugglers.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:40 AM Serial: The Galloping Ghost - Chapter 3, The Master Mind (1931) (TCM Premiere)
A gambling ring is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, who try to eliminate him from playing.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason Cast: Harold "Red" Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N
10:10 AM Cartoon: Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Popeye, saddened by the sight of dogs in a pet shop, buys them and releases them into the streets. Pursued by a dog catcher, the hungry dogs discover freedom isn't so great after all. They gladly follow Popeye back to the pet shop.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:20 AM Elephant Stampede (1951)
Bomba The Jungle Boy fights off elephant poachers to help a missionary.
Dir: Ford Beebe Cast: Johnny Sheffield, Donna Martell, John Kellogg
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: As usual, Bomba wears anachronistic, often visible, dark underwear beneath his loincloth, in order to placate the members of the production code committee who expressed their usual concern over the possibility of undue exposure resulting from what is now referred to as "wardrobe malfunction."
11:35 AM Short: Roaring Guns (1944)
Farmers clash with miners when runoff from water pressure mining destroys their farms.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Robert Shayne, Mark Stevens, Victor Cox
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical (1982)
The lives and music of early gospel artists are documented. Performers who are highlighted include Sallie Martin, the Barrett Sisters, and the O'Neill Brothers, but much of the focus is on the legendary singers Willie Mae Ford Smith and Thomas A. Dorsey.
Dir: George T Nierenberg Cast: Rhodessa Barrett Porter, Edgar O'Neal, Zella Jackson Price
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
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An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: This was the last movie Humphrey Bogart made where he did not receive top billing. The studio thought that Ida Lupino should have top billing because she had been such a big hit in They Drive by Night (1940) (which also featured Bogart), and so her name ended above Bogart's on the title card. Bogart was reportedly unhappy about receiving second billing.
4:00 PM Whiplash (1948)
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An artist becomes a boxer but finds that it may not have been the best career choice.
Dir: Lew Seiler Cast: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
Trivia: Before becoming an actor, Dane Clark had some experience as a professional boxer. Freddie Steele who portrays Mike's final opponent Duke Carney, was also a professional boxer before his retirement led to him becoming an actor.
5:45 PM Operation Crossbow (1965)
Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.
Dir: Michael Anderson Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: As Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries because of her portrayal of a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, in Daniel Mann's Judith (1966), which was shot in Israel, this movie was shown in Beirut, Lebanon with all of the Loren bits removed. The movie poster was changed, and her name removed from the top billing. This movie was shown at the Cinema Strand and the audience never suspected Loren was part of this production.
Trivia: For the scene in which a street is wiped out by a V2, the filmmakers destroyed a row of flats which were slated for demolition.
Trivia: In an interview on WABC Radio in New York in 1965, George Harrison talked about seeing this film on the Beatles flight to the city. The Beatles were in New York to play Shea Stadium.
8:00 PM The Yakuza (1974)
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Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Trivia: Martin Scorsese wanted to direct after Mean Streets (1973) but the producers wanted Sydney Pollack. Scorsese has gone on record that he would very much have liked to direct the film and was disappointed that he was passed over. However, he got to direct Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) instead after being sought out by Ellen Burstyn. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ended up making more than 20 times it's budget and won Burstyn an academy award while The Yakuza became a box office bomb.
10:00 PM Raging Bull (1980)
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The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion--particularly towards his wife and manager/brother--which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
Oscar nominations:
(*WINNER*) ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert De Niro {"Jake LaMotta"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Joe Pesci {"Joey LaMotta"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Cathy Moriarty {"Vicki LaMotta"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Michael Chapman
DIRECTING -- Martin Scorsese
(*WINNER*) FILM EDITING -- Thelma Schoonmaker
BEST PICTURE -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz
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Trivia: When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him break down in tears and realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."
Trivia: In preparation for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in three genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won two of them.
Trivia: In 1978, Martin Scorsese was at an all-time low after his last movie New York, New York (1977) had bombed at the box office, followed by a near-overdose resulting from an addiction to cocaine. Robert De Niro visited him at the hospital, and told him that he had to clean himself up and make this movie about a boxer. De Niro had asked Scorsese many times before, but he had always refused (he didn't like sports movies anyway), but due to De Niro's persistence, he eventually gave in. Scorsese believed that his American career was over anyway, so he wanted to do one final film there, and then move to Europe to make smaller movies. Many (including Scorsese) claim that De Niro saved Scorsese's life by getting him back into work, and that this movie cemented Scorsese's reputation as one of the most important American filmmakers of all time.
12:15 AM Without Pity (1948)
A black American GI decides to remain in Italy than return to a racially divided United States and falls in love with an Italian girl.
Dir: Alberto Lattuada. Cast: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N
Trivia: Sister Gertrude (Enza Giovine) was based on a real person. She was a nun who cared for young women in the 5th Pavillion of Livorno Hospital.
Trivia: Because of its unflattering portrait of the US military occupation staff in Italy, the film was not allowed to be shown in either the American or the British sectors of Germany.
2:00 AM Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N
3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
Trivia: Novelist and screenwriter Steve Fisher was a staple in film noir with his original screenplays as well as a pulp fiction magazine icon. Fisher was one of the most popular writers in Hollywood, penning original stories and adapted screenplays, such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and Destination Tokyo (1943), both original stories adapted for the screen and the latter earning Fisher an Academy® Award Nomination for Best Original Story.
5:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
Trivia: The following snipe was stapled and pasted on all of the printed material sent to the exhibitors that booked this film: IMPORTANT! The Motion Picture Association's Advisory Council has urgently requested that there be no mention of specific poisons in publicizing "DECOY." Please eliminate all names of poisons (such as cyanide or methylene blue) from the publicity, exploitation and advertising on this picture.
Trivia: The bottle of methylene blue is a real one from the actual firm of Coleman & Bell, Co. of Norwood, Ohio (later Matheson Coleman & Bell) now known as Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
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