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Cute avatar Sue Sue. :)
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Thanks, Erik, and safe travels abroad! :D
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Please feel free to share some of your "Dream Screenings for the Turner Classic Film Festival 2015!"

Possible film screenings that are having anniversaries
(Parentheses indicate previously screened films at the TCM Film Festival)

1930-85th
Puttin' on the Ritz
The Blue Angel
Anna Christie
Animal Crackers
Kismet with Loretta Young (considered lost)
Madame Satan
Playboy of Paris
Midnight in a Toy Shop (Disney animation)
Montana Moon (one of the first films to feature a singing cowboy, with Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown.)


1940--75th
Fantasia (2011, with Diane Disney Miller in attendance)
Pinocchio
Tin Pan Alley
Panama Hattie
Cabin in the Sky (2011)
His Girl Friday
Pride and Prejudice
The Letter
They Drive By Night
Grapes of Wrath


1945-79th
Anchors Aweigh
State Fair

1950-65th
Annie Get Your Gun

1955-60th
Night of the Hunter (2013, with an intro by Shannon Clute, attended by Preston Neal Jones, author of Heaven and Hell to Play With, the making of the film)
Love Me or Leave Me
Many Rivers to Cross
Far Country (Anthony Mann)
Last Frontier (Anthony Mann)
Man From Laramie (Anthony Mann)
The Seven Year Itch
To Catch a Thief (2012)
The Trouble With Harry (2011)


Sue Sue's Selections for Screenings...

The Oxbow Incident introduced by Peter Fonda
Viva Las Vegas with Ann-Margret
My Darling Clementine with Peter Fonda
Once Upon a Time in the West with Claudia Cardinale
Sophia Loren and Quo Vadis
Love Me or Leave Me with Doris Day ( I know. But we can all wish, can't we?)
Julia with Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, and/or Vanessa Redgrave
Chaplin with Robert Downey, Jr. ( suggested by lzcutter, and I like it, too!)
The Opposite Sex with Joan Collins
Many Rivers to Cross (1955 film with Eleanor Parker, Robert Taylor, Alan Hale, Jr., and James Arness--a favorite of mine and Butterscotch Greer's)
Dark Passage with Stephen or Leslie Bogart


This is definitely not a complete list, but some of my findings and a few of my favorites.
I am open for suggestions for silent films!

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One of our favorite Red Carpet Revelers is getting married soon! I was lucky enough to enjoy the fun at one of her bridal showers....
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Her seams are always straight, her smile is always sincere, and her friends always share her joy...

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Me, too! I had so much fun, and all her family and friends were there.

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They had a poster of Many Rivers to Cross (Eleanor Parker, Robert Taylor, Alan Hale, Jr., and James Arness, 1955) as that is one of her favorites. (I like it, too.) Remember the song? "The higher up the cherry tree, the sweeter grows the berry. The more you hug and kiss a gal, the more she wants to marry!" ( I think it's true! :D )

I'll post wedding photos a little later...
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This Saturday in Austin, Texas, saw the excitement of the TCM Film Festival Fan Wedding of the Century. Our very own Theresa, the Queen of the Red Carpet and all things vintage, wore her grandmother's wedding dress when she married Joe, the man of her dreams, in a historic St. Mary's Cathedral, situated in the heart of the city just a block or so from the pink granite Capitol building.Image
St. Mary's Cathedral in Austin, Texas....

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Theresa and Joe saying their "I do's."

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Mr. and Mrs. .......

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A little bit of all the fun and ambiance from the church and Villa St. Clare, the reception venue...

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Each table had it's own bouquet with a different "classic" Hollywood couple...

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The first dance was to Louis Armstrong's "A Kiss To Build a Dream On." (Lots of 'oohs' and 'ahs' were heard all over the room....)

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A special treat for all the guests made signing the guest book even more personalized and touching. Each guest posed for a silhouette rendered by Cindi, and then the guest kept the portrait, but the silhouette frame was pasted into a huge guest register, and each guest wrote a special, personal message for Joe and Theresa beside the silhouette. (The one posted was mine!) A lovely, unique gift for each guest and the wedding couple!
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"SueSue," Butterscotchgreer," and "Coopsgirl" all met originally on the TCM Message Boards, and "Coopsgirl" and I felt so lucky to share the experience of such a beautiful ceremony and a lovely day with our friend.

Congratulations to Theresa and Joe!

We'll all be able to see the newlyweds in LA for the TCM Film Festival 2015.

And, yes, I danced the night away!

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On the set of "That's What I'm Talking About" in Austin

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The Texas Capitol building. New management coming soon! :D

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Mary shares the logo for the production company somewhere in Austin...

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Actor Wally Welch, Assitant Charlie Colter, and Producer Roy Burger...

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With Actor Wally Welch...

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With Director Richard Linklater. We chatted a little about his appearance on TCM, and seemed pleased to know I liked what he had to say. He is very easygoing and his crew are a happy group. Lunch was a delicious German-themed feast and lots of healthy goodies and snacks, and an endless glass of iced tea at least until it was time to go back to the set.
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Meeting Preston Neal Jones at a screening of Night of the Hunter during the Turner Classic Film Festival 2013 was a lovely treat for me, and I am happy to write that he will visit us this weekend, November 1 & 2.

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If you have ever wondered about the filming of Director Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter, you might want to read Preston Neal Jones’ Heaven and Hell to Play With: The Filming of Night of the Hunter if you haven’t already, or listen to the commentary on the Criterion DVD of the iconic 1955 film that is now being required viewing in some freshman college classes.

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If you are a Star Trek fan, you might enjoy Jones' latest book, Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek, TMP.

Author Preston Neal Jones, originally from Connecticut, calls himself a producer-writer-actor-director-teacher-artist-lyricist-poet-raconteur-bon vivant. "In New York, a producer is someone who has a show running. In Hollywood, a producer is anybody who knows a writer. I know myself, and that's why I call myself a producer."

In high school, Jones produced and directed Masters' Spoon River Anthology at the University of Bridgeport and acted onstage in Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman opposite future troubadour Loudon Wainwright III as his son Biff.

Jones has studied directing, writing, and acting at Carnegie Mellon University alongside future thespic luminaries including Judith Light, Francesca James, Sonya Monzano and William Atherton, and production notables including producer Paula Wagner, composer Stephen Schwartz and playwright John Michael Tebelak. He originally came to Hollywood after being an early winner on The 10,000 Pyramid, and calls his relocation funds, "a grant" courtesy of the game show. He also worked as a Columbia Pictures Television executive, a free-lance script analyzer, and a play doctor making minor contributions to Godspell.

As a production assistant in Connecticut, Jones worked on the films The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster and Man on a Swing with Cliff Robertson and Joel Grey.

Jones has also hosted and introduced screenings at UCLA and American Cinematheque, as well as lecturing on film music at UCLA in Society of Film Music events.

His brushes with greatness include encounters with baseball immortal Jackie Robinson, actors Fred Astaire, Peter Sellers, Joan Rivers, Hans Conried, Barney Miller cast members, composers David Raksin, Miklos Rozsa, Ernest Gold, Henry Mancini, John Barry and Elmer Bernstein, sci-fi authors Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, musician/comedían Victor Borge, and actor Hal Holbrook during his appearance as Mark Twain, as well as the muscial group, The Manhattan Transfer. His list of celebrity contacts also include the casts and crews of NIght of the Hunter and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Jones was also befriended by actor Raymond Massey and Hans J. Salter, composer of Universal Monsters fame, about whom he authored the Cinefantastique cover story, "The Ghost of Hans J. Salter."

In the 1970s, he served two years as a conscientious objector as noted in Sherry Gottlieb's oral history entitled Hell No, We Won't Go, which also includes comments from Actor Richard Dreyfuss, who was recently a guest at the Turner Classic Film Festival, and the TCM Cruise.

Jones' liner notes appear on soundtrack albums for classic film scores by Alfred Newman, Cyril J. Mockridge, and Hans J. Salter, and he has also corresponded with writer Ray Bradbury and director John Huston.

His current book projects include interviews with various movie crew members in Los Angeles and other áreas of the country.

Jones’ Interview with Dan Gunther of Trek Core on Return to Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek, TMP: http://trekcore.com/blog/2014/08/interv ... -trek-tmp/

The Criterion Collection: Night of the Hunter: http://www.criterion.com/films/27525-th ... the-hunter

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Please welcome Preston Neal Jones, author of Heaven and Hell to Play With-The Making of NIght of the Hunter, and his current release, Return To Tomorrow: The Filming of Star Trek-The Motion Picture.
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Thank you, Christy -- what a wonderful post, if I do say so myself!
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Thank you so much, David! My little orbit seems very busy right now! :D

Here's info directly from the announcement:

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has landed four film restorations set to make their world premieres during the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival, taking place March 26-29, 2015, in Hollywood. The movies, each from a different era in cinema history, including Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995), Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960), William Dieterle's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) and Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928). The Keaton comedy will be accompanied by legendary silent film composer Carl Davis conducting the world premiere performance of his new score for the film.

Passes for the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival are set to go on sale to the public Thursday, Nov. 13, at noon (ET). Passes can be purchased exclusively through the official festival website: http://www.tcm.com/festival. A limited number of festival passes will also be available to Citi cardmembers via an exclusive online only presale at http://www.citiprivatepass.com. This exclusive presale begins at 10 a.m. (ET), Tuesday, Nov. 11, and ends at 10 a.m. (ET), Thursday, Nov. 13.

Here's the link to the full announcement post on the TCM WEBSITE: http://248058275.r.cdn77.net/wp-content ... -03-14.pdf
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Author Sheana (pronounced 'Shayna') Ochoa evokes a Marlon Brando moment with Christy Putnam....

I was lucky enough to meet Sheana Ochoa this Wednesday at the Brazos Book Store in Houston as she was winging her way through Houston for her book tour promoting STELLA! Mother of Modern Acting. Here's a link to my Examiner article about the encounter: http://www.examiner.com/article/author- ... for-stella

And don't forget about purchasing those passes to the Turner Classic Film Festival 2015 this week.
On Tuesday, you can purchase passes at the CITIBANK link at http://www.citiprivatepass.com.
(You don't need to have a Citibank card.)
On Thursday, you can purchase passes at the TCM link: http://www.tcm.com/festival or call 877-TCM-5764 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET.
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Superfans of Gone With The Wind attended a special tour of the "Making of Gone With The Wind" exhibit Friday at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and TCM is a major sponsor. TCM Host Robert Osborne wrote the introduction to the exhibition catalog, and this Friday, CBS journalist Bill Geist and his staff from CBS Sunday Morning ventured to the Texas capital to interview experts and memorabilia collectors of the film.

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Character actor Don Beddoe is my choice for the What A Character! Blogathon 2014!
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