The Silver Screen Oasis

August is Summer Under the Stars and TCM aims to keep you glued to your tv or your DVR recording like a fiend with this line-up:

8.01 JANE FONDA
8.02 DAVID NIVEN
8.03 WALTER PIDGEON
8.04 JUDY GARLAND
8.05 BARBARA STANWYCK
8.06 PAUL MUNI
8.07 JAMES STEWART
8.08 JEANNE MOREAU
8.09 WILLIAM POWELL
8.10 CAROLE LOMBARD
8.11 MARLON BRANDO
8.12 ALEXIS SMITH
8.13 CARY GRANT
8.14 CHARLIE CHAPLIN
8.15 FAYE DUNAWAY
8.16 HERBERT MARSHALL
8.17 JOHN HODIAK
8.18 CLAUDETTE COLBERT
8.19 PAUL NEWMAN
8.20 THELMA RITTER
8.21 LEE TRACY
8.22 AUDREY HEPBURN
8.23 ERNEST BORGNINE
8.24 GLADYS GEORGE
8.25 DICK POWELL
8.26 SOPHIA LOREN
8.27 EDMOND O’BRIEN
8.28 ARLENE DAHL
8.29 JOSEPH COTTEN
8.30 BETTY GRABLE
8.31 ALAN LADD

What do you think? Who will you be watching?

There are some interesting names in there. Edmund O'Brien and John Hodiak caught my attention. Not exactly names you think of for SUTS. Thelma Ritter should make many here happy.

I suspect Borgnine will be one other I'll watch as he had quite a variety of genres.

Herbert Marshall!! John Hodiak!! THELMA jiminy christmas RITTER!!! Alexis Smith!!! Lee Tracy! And GLADYS freakin' GEORGE!!!!

Yippee, zippee. They dun good. They dun real good. Thanks, TCM!*

And no Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. That's a first, I think. There will be tears, slaps, and the gnashing of teeth in heaven (or someplace) over those omissions.

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*And thanks to a certain Ms. Alexa Foreman, who I think was pulling for Gladys George's day in the summer sun along with me and others.

Hi,

Well Moira, as long as they're not slapping us, we can rest easy!!

After watching "The Gold Rush" some weeks ago on TCM and marvelling at Charlie Chaplin, I will probably view his films.
And, I always enjoyed Herbert Marshall and Gladys George; both never disappoint.
Love Claudette Colbert in anything and have only seen Arlene Dahl in a couple of movies, so would like to see their day.

Larry

I will be glued to the TV Set that Month ... and using my DVR like crazy ... pretty much everyone on that list is a favorite of mine!

Vecchiolarry wrote:Well Moira, as long as they're not slapping us, we can rest easy!!

No kidding!

Vecchiolarry wrote:...I always enjoyed Herbert Marshall and Gladys George; both never disappoint.
Love Claudette Colbert in anything and have only seen Arlene Dahl in a couple of movies, so would like to see their day.

I hope that they are able to get some of Colbert's less well known '30s films such as The Gilded Lily, Private Worlds, Tovarich, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife and Zaza are shown on her day.

I bet that Arlene Dahl Day must mean that Scene of the Crime, She Played With Fire and Wicked as They Come will be shown. I've only seen a few of her movies, but like her vague air and that strangely intense beauty of hers is hard to fathom as real.

My one regret:
No Gilbert Roland day....ah, well.

Erik--I think I will run out of room on my DVR pretty quickly.

Gee, I hope that they have a chance to show The Dolly Sisters on Betty Grable day. That's such ludicrous fun.

Thelma has her own day??????? Hooray!!! Moe is one happy gal. Betty Grable, Herbert Marshall, Gladys George? Somebody has been listening for sure.

Very happy to see Gay Purree on Judy Garland's day. I love the voice work of Garland, Robert Goulet and Red Buttons in this film (I haven't seen it in what has to be almost forty years and only once before that when it came out).

But most of all, I love the artwork of the animation in this film!

Gladys George and Thelma are both high on my list! I love George in The Roaring Twenties.

I'm with you, Larry, sighing for more Gilbert Roland. Especially after seeing him shirtless in those home movies the Academy showed at the Film Festival!

Maybe next year.

Lzcutter wrote:Very happy to see Gay Purree on Judy Garland's day. I love the voice work of Garland, Robert Goulet and Red Buttons in this film (I haven't seen it in what has to be almost forty years and only once before that when it came out).

But most of all, I love the artwork of the animation in this film!

Thanks Lzcutter for sharing about Gay Purree ... I haven't seen this movie in 30 years! ... I'm very excited about that; and it's one of my favorite Judy Garland's movies.

I am so enthusiastic about this year's Summer Under The Stars, and I am over the moon for Thelma's day! Finally!

As August comes along, TCM will be devoting 24 hours to a different actor each day of the month. This year promises to be interesting, with some obscure movies tossed into the mix and a few of our dear character actors in the mix, along with actors overdue for their day in the sun, as previously discussed above. To see the entire schedule for the month please click here:

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/august2014.html

As always, TCM also created an impressive interactive site devoted to this event:

http://summer.tcm.com/

Alright folks, heeere we go. Get your DVRs ready. Here’s hoping to read some interesting conversation based upon your favorite movies this summer. Thanx! TCM:

Definitely an intriguing lineup, CineMaven.

But I'm still gonna have to rely on my trusty old VCR.