Gene Hackman on TCM
Gene Hackman’s "Summer Under the Stars" day is Friday, Aug. 21.
Turner Classic Movies will present 11 films featuring or starring two-time Academy Award-winner Gene Hackman (The French Connection and, in the supporting category, Unforgiven), whom some consider one of the best American actors of the last four decades.
I can’t say that I agree with that assessment, though throughout his long career Hackman has delivered some truly remarkable performances. My personal favorite is his paranoid surveillance expert in writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s intriguing The Conversation (top photo, 1974), which is part of TCM’s Hackman line-up.
This Academy Award-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning drama, released not long after the Watergate scandal (though made before the shady events became public knowledge), [...]
by Andre Soares | August 16, 2009
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Tags: Bonnie and Clyde, Classic Movies, Gene Hackman, I Never Sang for My Father, Mad Dog Coll, Melvyn Douglas, Mississippi Burning, Summer Under the Stars, TCM, The Conversation, Turner Classic Movies
Greta Garbo’s NINOTCHKA Screening
Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with the ninth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Autograph Hound, featuring Donald Duck.
In Ninotchka, Garbo (above, with Lubitsch) plays a Russian agent out to retrieve three other agents who have been corrupted by the decadent lights of Paris. While in [...]
by Andre Soares | July 11, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Four-Star Oscar Movies, Greta Garbo, Los Angeles Screenings, Melvyn Douglas, Ninotchka, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Romantic Comedies
Best Films – 1936
Sacha Guitry in The Story of a Cheat
FILM
Follow the Fleet
d: Mark Sandrich; scr: Dwight Taylor
Fury
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang
Libeled Lady
d: Jack Conway; scr: Maurine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, George Oppenheimer
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin
My Man Godfrey
d: Gregory La Cava; scr: Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch
Le Roman d’un tricheur / The Story of a Cheat
d, scr: Sacha Guitry
Show Boat
d: James Whale; scr: Oscar Hammerstein II
Theodora Goes Wild
d: Richard Boleslawsky; scr: Sidney Buchman
These Three
d: William Wyler; scr: Lillian Hellman
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton in Dodsworth
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César
d, scr: Marcel Pagnol
Club de femmes
d, scr: Jacques Deval
Desire
d: Frank Borzage; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer, Waldemar Young, Samuel Hoffenstein
Dodsworth
d: William [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A Day in the Country, A Woman Rebels, Alice Brady, Allan Scott, Anthony Adverse, Archie Mayo, Arthur Treacher, Bartlett Cormack, Basil Rathbone, Bert Glennon, Best Films, Carole Lombard, Catherine Doucet, Cecil B. DeMille, César, Charles Chaplin, Charles Kenyon, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Claude Renoir, Club de femmes, Delmer Daves, Desire, Dodsworth, Dorothy Fields, Double or Nothing, Douglas Dumbrille, Dwight Taylor, Edwin Justus Mayer, Elizabeth Risdon, Eric Hatch, Eugene Pallette, Follow the Fleet, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Fred Jackman, Fritz Lang, Fury, Gale Sondergaard, Gary Cooper, George Cukor, George J. Folsey, George Oppenheimer, George Stevens, Ginger Rogers, Gregg Toland, Gregory La Cava, H. B. Warner, Harold Lamb, Harold Rosson, Harriet Hilliard, Hattie McDaniel, Herbert Stothart, Howard Emmett Rogers, Howard Lindsay, Irene Dunne, Irving Berlin, Jack Conway, Jacques Deval, James Whale, Jean Arthur, Jean Bourgoin, Jean Renoir, Jerome Kern, John Barrymore, Joseph Kosma, Le Roman d'un tricheur, Leslie Howard, Libeled Lady, Lillian Hellman, Love Before Breakfast, Luise Rainer, Lynn Riggs, Marcel Pagnol, Marguerite Moreno, Mark Sandrich, Maurine Watkins, Melvyn Douglas, Miriam Hopkins, Mischa Auer, Modern Times, Morrie Ryskind, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, My Man Godfrey, Norma Shearer, Oliver T. Marsh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Partie de campagne, Paulette Goddard, Raimu, Ray June, Richard Boleslawsky, Robert de Grasse, Robert Riskin, Romeo and Juliet, Roy Mack, Rudolph Maté, Ruth Chatterton, Sacha Guitry, Samuel Hoffenstein, Show Boat, Sidney Buchman, Sidney Howard, Sol Polito, Spring Byington, Stowaway, Swing Time, Sylvia Sidney, Talbot Jennings, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Garden of Allah, The Great Ziegfeld, The Petrified Forest, The Plainsman, The Prisoner of Shark Island, The Story of a Cheat, Theodora Goes Wild, These Three, Tony Gaudio, W. Howard Greene, Waldemar Young, Walter Huston, William H. Daniels, William Powell, William Wyler
Best Films – 1932
Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House
FILM
Beauty and the Boss
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Joseph Jackson
Blessed Event
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Howard J. Green
Jewel Robbery
d: William Dieterle; scr: Erwin S. Gelsey
The Most Dangerous Game / The Hounds of Zaroff
d: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel; scr: James Ashmore Creelman
The Old Dark House
d: James Whale; scr: Ben W. Levy, R.C. Sheriff
One Way Passage
d: Tay Garnett; scr: Wilson Mizner, Joseph Jackson
Tod Browning and cast on the Freaks set
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The Animal Kingdom
d: Edward H. Griffith; scr: Horace Jackson
Freaks
d: Tod Browning; scr: Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf
Rain
d: Lewis Milestone; scr: Maxwell Anderson
The Hatchet Man
d: William A. Wellman; scr: J. Grubb Alexander
Trouble in Paradise
d: Ernst Lubitsch; [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: Beauty and the Boss, Best Films, Blessed Event, Charles Laughton, Charpin, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Ernst Lubitsch, Fanny, Freaks, Guy Kibbee, Howard J. Green, James Whale, Jewel Robbery, Joseph Jackson, Kay Francis, Leslie Banks, Melvyn Douglas, One Way Passage, Que Viva Mexico!, Raimu, Roy Del Ruth, Tay Garnett, The Hatchet Man, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Most Dangerous Game, The Old Dark House, The Sign of the Cross, Tod Browning, Trouble in Paradise, Warren William, William Dieterle, William Powell
Jean Arthur TCM Schedule
Jean Arthur on Turner Classic Movies
Charles Coburn, Jean Arthur in The More the Merrier
Jean Arthur on TCM: Part I
Jean Arthur on TCM: Part II
Schedule: EST
Jan. 9
8:00 PM Silver Horde, The (1930)
An Alaskan fisherman is dogged by a ruthless competitor and an ambitious dance hall girl. Cast: Joel McCrea, Evelyn Brent, Jean Arthur. Dir: George Archainbaud. BW-75 mins.
9:30 PM Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
A hotshot reporter and a temperamental actress clash when he investigates the backer of her latest show. Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen. Dir: Edward Ludwig. BW-73 mins.
11:00 PM More the Merrier, The (1943)
The World War II housing shortage brings three people together for an unlikely romance. Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2007
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Tags: Arizona, Charles Coburn, Classic Movies, Jean Arthur, Melvyn Douglas, TCM, The More the Merrier, Too Many Husbands, Turner Classic Movies
Best Films – 1948
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman
FILM
Anna Karenina
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier
Cry of the City
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy
Johnny Belinda
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent
Key Largo
d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston
Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Oreste Biancoli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini
Letter from an Unknown Woman
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Howard Koch
Portrait of Jennie
d: William Dieterle; scr: Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, Leonard Berrovici
State of the Union
d: Frank Capra; scr: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly
The Winslow Boy
d: Anthony Asquith; scr: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald
Joan [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Foreign Affair, Adolfo Franci, Alec Guinness, Alessandro Cicognini, Allen Vincent, Anatole de Grunwald, Anatole Litvak, Angela Lansbury, Anna Karenina, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Veiller, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm, Cesare Zavattini, Charles Bickford, Charles Brackett, Charles Frend, Charles Lawton Jr., Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Cry of the City, Daniele Amfitheatrof, David Wechsler, Desmond Dickinson, DeWitt Bodeen, Edith Evanston, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Lanchester, Enzo Staiola, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Lang, George Sidney, George Stevens, Gerardo Guerrieri, Gherardo Gherardi, Guy Morgan, H. C. Potter, Hamlet, Henri Alekan, Hope Emerson, Howard Koch, I Remember Mama, Irene Dunne, Irmgard von Cube, Ivan Jandl, Jane Wyman, Jean Anouilh, Jean Arthur, Jean Negulesco, Jennifer Jones, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Farrow, John Huston, John Ireland, Johnny Belinda, Jonathan Latimer, Joseph Cotten, Joseph H. August, Julien Duvivier, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Key Largo, Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Ladri di biciclette, Lamberto Maggiorani, Leonard Berrovici, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Fletcher, Marlene Dietrich, Max Ophüls, Melvin Frank, Melvyn Douglas, Michèle Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Myles Connolly, Norman Panama, Oliver Twist, Oreste Biancoli, Orson Welles, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis, Portrait of Jennie, Quartet, Ralph Richardson, Red River, Richard Breen, Richard Brooks, Richard Leacock, Richard Murphy, Richard Schweizer, Rita Hayworth, Robert Ardrey, Robert Donat, Robert Planck, Robert Siodmak, Russell Metty, Scott of the Antarctic, Secret Beyond the Door, Silvia Richards, Sonia Dresdel, Sorry Wrong Number, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Cortez, State of the Union, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Terence Rattigan, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Clock, The Fallen Idol, The Kissing Bandit, The Lady from Shanghai, The Louisiana Story, The Search, The Snake Pit, The Three Musketeers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Winslow Boy, Thomas Gomez, Vittorio De Sica, Vivien Leigh, Walter Huston, William Dieterle
