Christmas Movies on TCM
Joan Bennett, Spring Buyington, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (top); Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (bottom)
The digitally remastered Remember the Night (1940), written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is the highlight of Turner Classic Movies‘ Christmas movie series this month.
But there are other goodies — or potential goodies — as well. One such is It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947), a minor Allied Artists (ex-Monogram) comedy directed by former WB contractee Roy Del Ruth, and featuring Don DeFore, former RKO star Ann Harding, and Gale Storm. The story centers on a hobo and his buddies who take over a mansion while the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 7, 2009
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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Beyond Tomorrow, Christmas in Connecticut, Classic Movies, Fred MacMurray, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, Katharine Hepburn, Little Women, Remember the Night, Roy Del Ruth, Sydney Greenstreet, Turner Classic Movies
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
Best Films – 1931
Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances
FILM
À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us
d, scr: René Clair
City Streets
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett
Daybreak
d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath
Five Star Final
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Robert Lord, Byron Morgan
Der Kongreß tanzt / Congress Dances
d: Erik Charell; scr: Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
The Maltese Falcon / Dangerous Female
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
d: Sam Wood; scr: Charles MacArthur
The Public Enemy
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Kubec F. Glasmon, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A nous la liberte, Alfred E. Green, Aline MacMahon, Barney McGill, Bartlett Cormack, Best Films, Boris Karloff, Brown Holmes, Byron Morgan, Carl Hoffman, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Charles Lederer, Charpin, Cimarron, City Streets, Classic Movies, Congress Dances, Cuban Love Song, Cyril Hume, Dashiell Hammett, Daybreak, Der Kongress tanzt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dudley Digges, Edmund Lowe, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Torrence, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Five Star Final, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, Gary Cooper, George J. Folsey, Greta Garbo, Guy Bolton, Guy Kibbee, Harvey Thew, Helen Chandler, J. Grubb Alexander, Jacques Feyder, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janie Mareze, John Barrymore, John L. Balderston, Joseph Jackson, Karl Freund, Karl Struss, La Chienne, Lee Garmes, Lewis Milestone, Lilian Harvey, Little Caesar, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Hubbard, Lyn Harling, Marius, Marlene Dietrich, Mata Hari, Maude Fulton, Max Marcin, Merritt B. Gerstad, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Michel Simon, Miriam Hopkins, Ona Munson, Otto Matieson, Paul Lukas, Percy Heath, Raimu, Ramon Novarro, René Clair, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Lord, Robert N. Lee, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Del Ruth, Ruth Cummings, Sam Wood, Samson Raphaelson, Samuel Hoffenstein, Smart Money, Sylvia Sidney, The Bitch, The Hot Heiress, The Mad Genius, The Maltese Falcon, The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, The Public Enemy, The Smiling Lieutenant, Transatlantic, Willi Fritsch, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Haines, William K. Howard, Zelda Sears