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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Turner Classic Movies</title>
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		<title>Ginger Rogers on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carefree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolores del Rio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying Down to Rio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Follow the Fleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Astaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ginger Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Sandrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swing Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gay Divorcee]]></category>
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Ginger Rogers is Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Star of the Month of March. Most of the films &#8212; perhaps all of them &#8212; have been shown on TCM before. So, don&#8217;t expect hard-to-find titles such as The Confession, Forever Female, The Groom Wore Spurs, Young Man of Manhattan, Sitting Pretty (1933), A Shriek in the Night, or Harlow (the Carol Lynley version).
TCM&#8217;s Ginger Rogers salute begins tonight at 5 p.m. Pacific Time with a screening of The Gay Divorcee (above), one of Rogers&#8217; best pairings with Fred Astaire, partly thanks to a top-notch supporting cast that includes Alice Brady, Eric Blore, and Erik Rhodes. That will be followed by the other nine Rogers-Astaire (I know it&#8217;s usually the other way around) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akira Kurosawa TCM Tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/akira-kurosawa-tcm-tribute-712/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hakuchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ikiru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hidden Fortress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Throne of Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toshiro Mifune]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Academy had its John Hughes tribute on Sunday. Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is paying tribute to someone who may not be a household name in the United States, but who merits recognition as well. The guy, after all, made quite a few films that won awards here and there even though they were mostly  in black and white, and didn&#8217;t star Rob Lowe, Macaulay Culkin, or Demi Moore. Does Rashomon ring a bell? Seven Samurai? Yojimbo? Ran? Kagemusha? Dersu Uzala?
 Akira Kurosawa &#8212; believe it or not, I actually have a photo of myself standing right next to him &#8212; will be honored tonight on TCM. Four of the director&#8217;s films will be shown, including the little-known Hakuchi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCM Remembers 2008, or How the Oscars Should Learn to Do an &#8220;In Memoriam&#8221; Segment</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/tcm-remembers-in-memoriam-segment-876/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anita Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breno Mello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dino Risi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eva Dahlbeck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marpessa Dawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Scofield]]></category>
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In the 2008 TCM Remembers clip above, you&#8217;ll find a collection of film personalities, from Ingmar Bergman  star Eva Dahlbeck to Jaws&#8216; Roy Scheider, from Rear Window screenwriter John Michael Hayes to Il Sorpasso director Dino Risi, from silent film actress Anita Page (seen with Joan Crawford) to Black Orpheus&#8216; Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn, from Oscar winner Paul Scofield to schlock goddess Vampira. I dare you not to get choked up even if you don&#8217;t recognize most of them.
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		<title>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on TCM: Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/kareem-abdul-jabbar-tcm-574765/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humphrey Bogart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Wayne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Osborne]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Big Sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Maltese Falcon]]></category>
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Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne  to present four of his favorite films in TCM&#8217;s &#34;Guest Programmer&#34; series on   Monday, March 22.
Most &#34;Guest Programmer&#34; evenings are devoted to the best-known old classics, and Abdul-Jabbar (and Raquel Welch&#8217;s on April 1) will be no exception. Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s  tough-guy flicks consist of   two of Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s and two of John Wayne&#8217;s best-remembered vehicles, respectively, The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon; and The Shootist and Stagecoach. Who knows? Perhaps if you watch The Big Sleep a tenth time you&#8217;ll be able to figure out what actually takes place in that movie.
The following is a schedule for Abdul-Jabbar’s Monday, March 22, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raquel Welch to Present Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hebpurn, Lauren Bacall Movies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/raquel-welch-tcm-katharine-hepburn-23985/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam's Rib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Arthur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Bacall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raquel Welch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[To Have and Have Not]]></category>
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Raquel Welch   will join Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies this spring to present four of her favorite films in TCM&#8217;s &#34;Guest Programmer&#34; series on Thursday, April 1. 
 Welch will discuss  Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall&#8217;s To Have and Have Not, in addition to a couple of films featuring strong-willed women: George Cukor&#8217;s Adam&#8217;s Rib, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy,  and Frank Capra&#8217;s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, with Jean Arthur and James Stewart. The last presentation of the Welch evening will be  the girl flick of 1961, Blake Edwards&#8216; Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s, in which Audrey Hepburn&#8217;s sweet sex worker (not that you&#8217;d actually be told what the character does for a living) finds both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turner Classic Movies: Campaign to Save Los Angeles&#8217; Cahuenga Peak</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/tcm-save-cahuenga-peak-98112/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campaign to Save Cahuenga Peak]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is joining  efforts to save the land surrounding one of the nation’s most iconic  landmarks – the famous Hollywood sign.  TCM will help raise  awareness for the Campaign to Save Cahuenga  Peak through a multi-faceted plan that will leverage the excitement  for the first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival,  which takes place in Hollywood  April 22-25.
“The  Hollywood sign is an iconic symbol known the  world over, but the land surrounding it is in grave danger of being developed  in a way that could destroy its appearance,” said TCM host Robert  Osborne.  “As we’re about to celebrate the history of Hollywood with our  first-ever TCM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Simmons on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-simmons-on-tcm-189/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burt Lancaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmer Gantry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Expectations]]></category>
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Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in Great Expectations (Universal)

Jean Simmons, who died on Jan. 22 at age 80, will have next Friday evening dedicated to her on Turner Classic Movies. Beginning at 5pm PT, TCM will show three Jean Simmons movies: David Lean&#8217;s Great Expectations (1946), and Richard Brooks&#8216; Elmer Gantry (1960) and The Happy Ending (1969).
Many  consider the Academy Award-nominated Great Expectations the greatest film adaptation of a Charles Dickens&#8216; novel. Needless to say, I disagree. (I much prefer the mostly forgotten and generally dismissed Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1947.) Yet, even this naysayer must agree that Lean&#8217;s Great Expectations has much to offer, including Guy Green&#8217;s superb black-and-white cinematography and Finlay Currie&#8217;s flawless portrayal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Jones Tribute on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jennifer-jones-tribute-tcm-9987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Turner Classic Movies will present a four-film  tribute to Jennifer Jones, who died yesterday at the age of 90,  on Thursday, Jan. 7, beginning at  5 p.m. (PT). The four films are: 
Duel in the Sun (above, 1946), a campy Western in which Jones plays a fiery &#34;half-breed&#34; desired by two brothers, dour Joseph Cotten and smirky Gregory Peck. Veteran King Vidor was one of the men who directed this attempt by David O. Selznick &#8212; Jones was his protegee and future wife &#8212; to achieve two goals with one single megaproduction: to create another Gone with the Wind and to transform his beloved Jennifer  into a superstar. Selznick failed on both counts even though Duel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Movies on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/christmas-movies-on-tcm-485/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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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&#8216; Christmas movie series this month.
But there are other goodies &#8212; or potential goodies &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray in REMEMBER THE NIGHT on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/stanwyck-macmurray-remember-the-night-493/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A digitally restored version of Remember the Night, the 1940  classic written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is one of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Christmas presentations this December. Remember the Night will air several times throughout the month, including on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. (PT).  
“It’s one of those quirky twists of fate that a film as exceptional as Remember the Night has been so overlooked when it comes to great Christmas movies,”  TCM host Robert Osborne was quoted as saying.  “It’s our hope at TCM that our special Christmas Eve showing of this holiday gem, now fully remastered, will help give it a much-deserved new life.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tyrone Power VIII: Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/tyrone-power-legacy-348/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyrone Power VII: Popularity
If there is a failing in name recognition, I blame Turner Classic Movies for not licensing more Fox films. People who watch Turner think that the only stars worked for MGM, WB, and RKO. In point of fact, Tyrone Power was #5 in the world &#8212; above Gable &#8212; for the Gone with the Wind year, 1939, and #2 in 1940, and unlike Errol Flynn, who only made a top box-office list once, Power stayed a mega movie star until his death, demanding a percentage of his films&#8217; gross.
 If one looks at the Top Ten Reviews list, which lists actors according to box office and reviews, Power is listed as the #151st most popular actor. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tyrone Power VII: Popularity</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/tyrone-power-popularity-994/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tyrone Power, wife Deborah Ann Minardos on the set of Solomon and Sheba. Power suffered a fatal heart attack during filming.

Tyrone Power VI: Lana Turner, Sonja Henie, Janet Gaynor
Why do you think that Tyrone Power isn&#8217;t as well-remembered today as, say, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and several other top stars of the studio era?
I love this question because it&#8217;s such bunk. That&#8217;s nothing against you &#8212; I understand why it was asked, but it&#8217;s not true. If you go out on the street and ask any twenty-something about any of these people, they&#8217;ll tell you they don&#8217;t know who any of them are. I have a friend who is a voice teacher who just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, HIGH SOCIETY, THE SWAN</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-high-society-the-swan-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society

Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress&#8217; last three films: Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters&#8216; musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with  Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor&#8217;s romantic drama The Swan (1956), in which Kelly has to make up her mind between plebeian Louis Jourdan or blue-blooded Alec Guinness.
I wouldn&#8217;t call any of those three films a masterpiece, but both To Catch a Thief and The Swan have their own particular charms. In the former, Grace Kelly is at her most relaxed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TCM Classic Film Festival: A STAR IS BORN, METROPOLIS, BREATHLESS, 2001</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/turner-classic-film-festival-a-star-is-born-metropolis-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom)

Turner Classic Movies&#8216;  first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor’s  A Star is Born (1954), starring Judy Garland and James Mason; the North American premiere of the  restored version of Fritz Lang’s  Metropolis (1927); and a 50th anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s Breathless, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.  
The TCM Classic Film Festival will also feature a special presentation of Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey, including a discussion with Oscar-winning visual-effects artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: GREEN FIRE, THE ROCKINGHAM TEA SET</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/grace-kelly-green-fire-the-rockingham-tea-set-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger in Green Fire

Grace Kelly is once again the focal point of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Thursday evening schedule. And as far as I&#8217;m concerned, next Thursday, Nov. 19, is going to be the most interesting of the Grace Kelly evenings this month.
The reason for that is simple:  TCM will be showing the one Kelly feature I&#8217;ve yet to see &#8212; the Colombian-set adventure drama Green Fire (1954), co-starring Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas &#8212;  and two of Kelly&#8217;s pre-stardom television vehicles that I&#8217;ve also yet to see &#8212;  &#34;The Rockingham Tea Set&#34; (1950) and &#34;The Kill&#34; (1952), both made for the Studio One anthology series and both directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, best known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/ruby-dee-jack-lemmon-sidney-poitier-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun

Screen Actors Guild Life  Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM&#8217;s sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010   Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Of the four films &#8212; the short Tit for Tat, and the features The Out-of-Towners, A Raisin in the Sun, and Last Train from Gun Hill &#8212; I&#8217;ve only seen the moderately entertaining John Sturges Western Last Train from Gun Hill, whose most memorable feature is Carolyn Jones as the female lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12, with  three of Kelly&#8217;s biggest hits, all from 1954: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and The Country Girl. Kelly, who died in 1982 following a car accident in Monaco, would have turned 80 on Nov. 12.
Some consider Dial M for Murder a minor Alfred Hitchcock effort. Personally, I find it more enjoyable than Hitchcock&#8217;s revered Rear Window. Part of the reason is a pair of deadly scissors found in the former but not in the latter;  yet, I&#8217;d say that the chief reason is that neither one of Kelly&#8217;s leading men in Dial M for Murder is James Stewart. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, THE SWAN</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-to-catch-a-thief-the-swan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I
Thanks to Kelly&#8217;s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity &#8212; it&#8217;s the sort of &#34;gutsy&#34; and &#34;realistic&#34; film adaptation of a  respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby&#8217;s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly&#8217;s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn&#8217;t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself  received Academy Award nominations.  Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grace Kelly on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/grace-kelly-on-tcm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Stating the obvious:  most people take great pleasure in idealizing  their idols &#8212; which is why idols are idols. 
Whether we&#8217;re talking of gods, saints, prophets, or pop stars,  the process is pretty much the same: flaws are expunged, deeds that never took place are turned into (at times miraculous) facts,  the Pantheon of the Immortals becomes their abode following their earthly demise. (In some extreme cases &#8212; assorted gods, Elvis &#8212; the idol in question doesn&#8217;t die, period.)
Grace Kelly, Turner Classic Movies&#8217; Star of the Month, is one of the lofty ones now dwelling in the aforementioned Pantheon. True, the flesh-and-bood Philadelphia-born (Nov. 12, 1929) woman (nee Grace Patricia Kelly) may have been quite different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia Schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/shadows-of-russia-schedule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate

Below is the complete &#34;Shadows of Russia&#34; schedule on Turner Classic Movies:

Wednesday, Jan. 6
Part One:   Twilight of the Tsars
8  p.m.              The Scarlet Empress (1934)  – starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge.
10  p.m.            Rasputin and the Empress (1932) –  starring John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore.
Part Two:  Red  Romance
12:15 a.m.       Red Danube (1949) – starring Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore.
2:30  a.m.         Reds (1981) – starring Warren Beatty, Diane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/shadows-of-russia-communism-tcm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)

From the  Romanovs&#8217; last stand to Warren Beatty&#8217;s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies  will present the 20-film festival &#34;Shadows of Russia,&#34;  a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears &#8212; mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind.
I must red-facedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Osborne, Alec Baldwin to Host TCM&#8217;s 2010 &#8220;The Essentials&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/television/robert-osborne-alec-baldwin-the-essentials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Two-time Emmy winner Alec  Baldwin will be returning for a second season as co-host of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; &#34;The Essentials,&#34; joining forces with   TCM host Robert  Osborne to present a new slate of must-see movies every Saturday at 5 p.m. (PT).
The 10th season of &#34;The Essentials&#34; will kick off in March 2010 with Elia Kazan’s 1951  version of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire,  starring Oscar nominee Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter  and Karl Malden. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, yet, you must. If you have, it&#8217;s one of those movies that can be watched again and again.
As per the TCM press release, the season will also feature four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CRANES ARE FLYING, WILD ORANGES on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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A couple of recommendations for Turner Classic Movies viewers on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 20.
Wild Oranges (1924) is an early King Vidor effort featuring Virginia Valli, a popular leading lady of the 1920s. In this drama set on an island off the Florida coast, Valli plays a young woman whose quiet life with her grandfather  is disturbed following the appearance of an evil escaped prisoner.
Winner of the Palme d&#8217;Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, Mikhail Kalatozov&#8217;s The Cranes Are Flying (adapted by Viktor Rozov from his own play) is a beautifully photographed romantic drama about a young woman who goes through some rough times after her boyfriend, without having the chance to say goodbye, is sent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, JUAREZ</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-caesar-and-cleopatra-juarez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claude Rains, Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse

Turner Classic Movies will be showing eight movies featuring Claude Rains, TCM&#8217;s Star of the Month of September, beginning at 5PM Pacific Time.
Of those, I&#8217;ve seen only three:
Juarez (1939) could have been a good historical biopic, but things go wrong from the start thanks to the miscasting of Paul Muni as Benito Juárez. Even Bette Davis, who plays the mad Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg, would have been more believable as Mexico&#8217;s first full-blooded American Indian to be elected president. William Dieterle was also the wrong man to direct Juarez, as Dieterle&#8217;s hand tended to be quite heavy when dealing with real-life  subjects, e.g.,  The Life of Emile Zola,  The Story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, DECEPTION</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/claude-rains-here-comes-mr-jordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claude Rains returns this Wednesday, Sept. 9, in more films featuring Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Star of the Month.
Every single one of the titles listed below is worth watching if only because of Rains&#8217; presence. That said, a couple of them actually have considerably more to offer: Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) and Deception (1946).
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a witty, romantic comedy about love, death, reincarnation, greed, bad timing, and prizefighting. I know,  this all (minus the prizefighting) sounds like some heavy-duty drama  straight out of the Bible or some other holy book, but director Alexander Hall and screenwriters Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, adapting Harry Segall&#8217;s play Heaven Can Wait,  handle those serious themes with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Rains on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Rains, one of the greatest actors of the studio era &#8212; in fact, one of the greatest film actors of the 20th century &#8212; is Turner Classic Movies&#8216; Star of the Month of September.
What would I recommend? 
Well, whether on TCM or on DVD or on VHS or in some hidden vault somewhere, I&#8217;d say check him out in The Invisible Man and (ouch!) The Lost World; his supporting roles opposite Priscilla Lane and Bette Davis; his Oscar-nominated roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Mr. Skeffington, and Notorious;  his brief appearances in Lawrence of Arabia and The Greatest Story Ever Told; his cinematic swan song, Twilight of Honor. In sum, if Claude Rains is in it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claire Bloom on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Claire Bloom, Julie Harris in The Haunting. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.

Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and stunning-looking actresses of her generation, will have her &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Monday, Aug. 31. 
Handpicked by Charles Chaplin to be her young leading lady in the 1952 melodrama Limelight, the British-born Claire Bloom developed into a fantastic actress; one who should have become an international film superstar. That never happened, perhaps because Bloom was more enamored of the stage (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Cherry Orchard, A Doll&#8217;s House) than she was of film, and wasn&#8217;t as discerning in her film choices as she should have been.
I knew of her, but was mostly unfamiliar with her work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claire Bloom TCM Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claire Bloom on Turner Classic Movies

Claire Bloom, Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Claire Bloom on TCM
Pacific Time
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3:00 AM Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm, The (1962)
  Fanciful biography of the German fairy-tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden. Dir: Henry Levin, George Pal. C-136 mins.
5:30 AM Outrage, The (1964)
  A Mexican bandit&#8217;s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses. Cast: Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson. Dir: Martin Ritt. BW-96 mins.
7:30 AM Brothers Karamazov, The (1958)
  In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Arthur on Turner Classics</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/jean-arthur-movies-turner-classics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Jean Arthur is one of my all-time favorite performers. So, it&#8217;s great to see her listed as one of Turner Classic Movies&#8216; &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; stars. Jean Arthur Day will take place on Sunday, Aug. 30.
Jean Arthur was Columbia&#8217;s top star from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s,  when Rita Hayworth became the studio&#8217;s reigning queen and Arthur semi-retired from films. Her characters were cynical but idealistic,  strong but vulnerable, independent-minded but deeply devoted to whoever her leading man might be. In other words, Jean Arthur was the Ideal Woman: complex, passionate, warm &#8212; and she had sparkling eyes only matched by her equally sparkling smile. (And there was that voice. It should have been trademarked.)
Of course, since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Sellers on TCM</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Peter Sellers in Lolita. Photo: Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.

Peter Sellers will have his &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; day on Saturday, Aug. 29.
Turner Classic Movies will present thirteen Peter Sellers vehicles, including two TCM premieres, John Guillermin&#8217;s Waltz of the Toreadors and Robert Day&#8217;s Two-Way Stretch.
First of all, I must admit that I&#8217;m not that familiar with Sellers&#8217; film career. Among the few of his films I&#8217;ve seen are a couple of the Pink Panther flicks &#8212; neither of which was very good &#8212; in addition to  his two Oscar-nominated performances in Dr. Strangelove and Being There. So, this Peter Sellers Day on TCM will be a good opportunity for myself &#8212; and others &#8212; to become  better [...]]]></description>
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