Harold Lloyd on TCM
Silent-comedy fans will be rejoicing today, as Turner Classic Movies‘ "Summer Under the Stars" series continues with a day dedicated to Harold Lloyd, one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1920s.
Personally, I’m not a fan of knockabout silent comedies, which usually leave me as stone-faced as Buster Keaton. That said, Lloyd’s go-getter was a pleasant character (even if a tad creepy-looking, what with those geeky glasses and all that makeup plastered on his face), and some of his stunts remain as remarkable today as they were more than eight decades ago. Particularly memorable is his spider-man bit in Safety Last! (1923), in which he scales the side of a Los Angeles building.
Speedy (1928), directed by Ted [...]
by Andre Soares | August 5, 2009
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Tags: Bebe Daniels, Classic Movies, Constance Cummings, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Davis, Safety Last!, Silent Films, Speedy, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, Turner Classic Movies
Best Films – 1940
Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath
FILM
The Blue Bird
d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal
The Grapes of Wrath
d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson
Kitty Foyle
d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo
The Letter
d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch
The Mark of Zorro
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Pinocchio
d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: Ted Sears, Otto Englander and others
Pride and Prejudice
d: Robert Z. Leonard; scr: Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin
Rebecca
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Waterloo Bridge
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
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Busman’s Honeymoon / Haunted Honeymoon
d: Arthur B. Woods; scr: Monckton Hoffe, Angus MacPhail, Harold Goldman
His Girl Friday
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer
The Long Voyage Home
d: John [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: Aldous Huxley, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Newman, Anita Loos, Basil Rathbone, Bella Spewack, Bess Meredyth, Best Films, Bette Davis, Busman's Honeymoon, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Chaplin, Charles Lederer, Classic Movies, Constance Cummings, Edna May Oliver, Ernest Haller, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort, George Barnes, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, Herbert Marshall, Herbert Stothart, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Howard Koch, Irene Dunne, Irving Pichel, Jack Oakie, James Stephenson, Jane Darwell, Jane Murfin, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Joan Harrison, Joel McCrea, John Ford, Judith Anderson, Karl Freund, Kitty Foyle, Laurence Olivier, Leo McCarey, Marjorie Main, Mary Boland, Max Steiner, Melville Cooper, Mervyn LeRoy, Micheline Presle, Nunnally Johnson, Pinocchio, Pride and Prejudice, Ray Rennahan, Rebecca, Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard, Rosalind Russell, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Webb, Sam Spewack, Sam Wood, Susan and God, The Blue Bird, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, The Man I Married, The Mark of Zorro, The Philadelphia Story, Tyrone Power, Virginia City, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, Waterloo Bridge, William Wyler
Best Films – 1945
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter
FILM
Blithe Spirit
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward
Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner
d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson
Brief Encounter
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Dead of Night
d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail
Les Enfants du paradis / Children of Paradise
d: Marcel Carné; scr: Jacques Prévert
Leave Her to Heaven
d: John M. Stahl; scr: Jo Swerling
Love Letters
d: William Dieterle; scr: Ayn Rand
Mildred Pierce
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Ranald McDougall, Catherine Turney
A Royal Scandal
d: Otto Preminger; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer
State Fair
d: Walter Lang; scr: Paul Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sonya Levien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Tess Slesinger, Frank [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Royal Scandal, A Song to Remember, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Alberto Cavalcanti, Aldo Fabrizi, Alexis Smith, Along Came Jones, Angel and Sinner, Ann Blyth, Anna Magnani, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ayn Rand, Basil Dearden, Best Films, Blithe Spirit, Boris Karloff, Boule de suif, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Casey Robinson, Catherine Turney, Celia Johnson, Charles Coburn, Charles Crichton, Children of Paradise, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Confidential Agent, Constance Cummings, Cyril Raymond, David Lean, Dead of Night, DeWitt Bodeen, Donna Reed, Dorothy McGuire, Douglas Slocombe, Edward Cronjager, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Justus Mayer, Eleanor Parker, Elia Kazan, Ernest Haller, Eve Arden, Federico Fellini, Frank Davis, Franz Waxman, Gary Cooper, Gene Lockhart, Gene Tierney, Harry Stradling, Henri Jeanson, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques Prevert, James Dunn, Jennifer Jones, Jo Swerling, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Joan Lorring, John Cromwell, John M. Stahl, Kay Hammond, Leave Her to Heaven, Lee Garmes, Leon Shamroy, Les Enfants du Paradis, Love Letters, Marcel Carne, Margaret Rutherford, María Casarès, Max Steiner, Michael Curtiz, Michael Redgrave, Micheline Presle, Mildred Pierce, Nob Hill, Noel Coward, Open City, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Preminger, Pavel Kadochnikov, Peggy Ann Garner, Pierre Brasseur, Pride of the Marines, Ranald McDougall, Rhapsody in Blue, Richard Rodgers, Robert Hamer, Robert Krasker, Roma citta aperta, Ronald Neame, Scarlet Street, Sergio Amidei, State Fair, Tallulah Bankhead, Ted Tetzlaff, Tess Slesinger, The Body Snatcher, The Corn Is Green, The Enchanted Cottage, The House on 92nd Street, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Southerner, The Woman in the Window, They Were Expendable, Tony Gaudio, Trevor Howard, Victor Young, Vincent Price, Walter Lang, William Dieterle, Zachary Scott