Sue Sue's TCM Film Festival Tidbit Travel Blog

[Vecchiolarry]

I Christy,

I'm just back from my Istanbul to Venice cruise and who do I see on TCM last night - YOU!!!!
Loved it and thought you were really great - very professional and nice outfit. So happy you didn't fall off the roof - no Agnes Moorehead pulmetting for you, darling...

Larry

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Thank you, dear Larry! I did my best not to fall off of the roof!
Glad you enjoyed it!

I just returned from a jaunt to the Bay Area, visiting friends, and going to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. But I can't compete with Venice and Istanbul!

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Writer, speaker, producer and world traveler Cari Beauchamp will join us next weekend on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28, to discuss her latest book, My First Time in Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers and Misfits Who Made the Movies

Academy Award-winning film preservationist, historian, and author Kevin Brownlow revealed that Beauchamp's latest book is “what every film fan yearns for––first-hand, eyewitness accounts of a Hollywood none of us can remember and all of us wish we’d known. Completely fascinating.”

Cari Beauchamp is the award-winning author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. She also edited and annotated Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by the Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and co-wrote Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival.

Her book, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s, was published in 2006 and has been optioned for television. Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, was published by Knopf and Vintage. Her books have been selected for “Best of the Year” lists by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Amazon.

Cari wrote the 2003 Emmy nominated documentary film The Day My God Died which played on PBS and concerned the horrific abuses of the child sex trade in Nepal and India. She was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for Without Lying Down: The Power of Women in Early Hollywood which she wrote and coproduced for Turner Classic Movies.

She has also been interviewed in over a dozen documentaries including Turner Classic Movie’s Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood and Mark Cousin’s The Story of Film.

She has written for Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and various other magazines and newspapers. She has twice been named the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and is currently serving as resident scholar of the Mary Pickford Foundation.

She has appeared as a featured speaker at venues throughout the United States and Europe including The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, The Edinburgh Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Women’s Museum of Art in Washington D.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Before turning to writing on a full time basis in 1990, she worked as a private investigator, a campaign manager and served as Press Secretary to California Governor Jerry Brown. She lives in Los Angeles.

At this year's TCM Film Festival, Cari Beauchamp moderated the interview with Oscar-winning editor Anne Coates in Club TCM, and introduced the presentation of Calamity Jane with Doris Day, remarking that it was time for Day's honorary Oscar "whether she shows up to accept it or not." (Beauchamp got my vote for "Best Introduction To A Classic Film 2015" for that remark!)

Blog link to an excellent account of Cari Beauchamp's interview with Oscar-winning editor Anne V. Coates on Saturday, March 28, in Club TCM during the TCMFF 2015:
http://www.theblackmaria.org/2015/03/30 ... -v-coates/

One of the most interesting articles I've ever read in Vanity Fair was also co-authored by Beauchamp, "Cary in the Sky With Diamonds" : http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/ ... ood-201008

And another Vanity Fair article solely authored by Beauchamp about Joseph Kennedy and Hollywood, "The Mogul in Mr. Kennedy": http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2002/04/joekennedy200204

TCM partners with Women in Film to Spotlight Gender Inequality in the Film Industry: http://deadline.com/2015/06/turner-clas ... 201445747/

Cari Beauchamp's Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Cari-Beauchamp/e/B001IXROKW

You can access Cari Beauchamp's web page here: http://caribeauchamp.com

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Well, I've been selected as one of TCM's Noir Summer top ten script writers during the Twitter Noir Summer contest. I feel very privileged and lucky, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the Summer of Darkness on TCM. Here's a link to the announcement: http://bit.ly/1S6W1tG

[moira finnie]

Congratulations, Christy. It sounds as though we have had similar Friday nights, you gumshoe!

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Moira, I am glad Theresa added a link to your article about Her Sister's Secret before I watched it last night. It illuminated so much for me, and I enjoyed seeing the film for the first time. I love our community here!


Here are my four entries for the contest:

@suesueapplegate: He dropped the lit cigarette in the dark puddle, and it sizzled out to silence like his last marriage. The streets were lonely. #NoirSummer

@suesueapplegate: The last bullet, the last chance. He rolled under the tank car, and looked out from the tracks. Crunching gravel startled him. #NoirSummer

@suesueapplegate: A flimsy negligee was no match for his resolve, and she knew it. As she moved closer, it was salvation or a silver bullet. #NoirSummer

This one was in the top 10: @suesueapplegate: Four beers and a cold sandwich are no way to spend a Friday night, but the dame has to be tailed by some bum, so I'm elected. #NoirSummer

When I was writing them, I just channeled Alan Ladd, Dick Powell, and ole' Bob MIthcum. They were all sporting trench coats at the time. Here's a link to the other finalists: http://bit.ly/1S6W1tG


I haven't heard anything about the winners yet, but there is some tough competition.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

The Houston Press includes Fathom Events' screening of DOUBLE INDEMNITY in "The 5 Best Things to Do in Houston This Weekend": http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-5- ... re-7597424


Do you have a date with Walter and Phyllis on July 19 or 20?

Check out your local theatres at Fathom Events: http://www.fathomevents.com/event/double-indemnity

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Tonight, Joan Collins is TCM's Guest Programmer, and she chose Gilda, Boom Town, The Women, and THE OPPOSITE SEX as her selections.


The fun begins at 7 p.m. Central. Thanks, Charlie​, and Dennis!

In the meantime, read all about THAT DARN SMACK! between Collins and June Allyson here: https://suesueapplegate.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/that-darn-smack/

Wednesday, July 22, 7 p.m. Central. It's one of Sue Sue's "guilty pleasure" films. Be there for the fun!

[Professional Tourist]

Enjoy The Opposite Sex, Sue Sue. I think it's fun.

On the train to Reno. . . .

[Sue Sue Applegate]

I hope you did, too, PT!

Agnes Moorehead is at her most stylishly gorgeous in The Opposite Sex! Those Helen Rose ensembles suited her style, and she looks fabulous in that lilac gown at the final party.

She portrayed the Countess DeLave in a very sophisticated manner, and I think elevated the character to a more savvy, but distracted persona who was up-to-date for the 50s and also made her more endearingly focused on her mission--have fun, look fab, find a millionaire.

Do you have a photo of her in that lilac gown from the party in your Agnes treasure chest?

[Professional Tourist]

Well, I agree with you completely, Sue Sue.

Do you have a photo of her in that lilac gown from the party in your Agnes treasure chest?

I'm afraid this is all I have that's in color, and the color is somewhat off:



I think AM is her most beautiful in her early to mid fifties, as she is here.

I never screen-capped the Countess once the movie was released on DVD, because I had pretty much stopped screen-capping by then. But I really should do it some time.

[Sue Sue Applegate]

PT, I did find Aggie's prop ring from The Opposite Sex for sale. I love it!

[Sue Sue Applegate]

Two hours from now, Eddie Muller with discuss the Into The Darkness, the Summer of Noir on TCM, with Professor Richard Edwards. Here's the link:

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[Sue Sue Applegate]

Enhance your Summer Under the Stars viewing experience! Tomorrow is Robert Mitchum's celebration, and 1948's "Blood on the Moon" screens at 12:30 p.m. Central. Here's a little background info to help you relish the moment: https://suesueapplegate.wordpress.com/2 ... ir-cowboy/






Robert Mitchum and Barbara Bel Geddes in 1948's Blood on the Moon....

[Sue Sue Applegate]

I've updated my photos from the Harry Ransom Center exhibit "The Making of Gone WIth The Wind," in honor of Vivien Leigh's Summer Under The Stars Celebration: https://suesueapplegate.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/1209/

TCM will be screening GWTW and "The Making of Gone WIth The Wind" special tonight!

Hope you've been enjoying Vivien Leigh ALL DAY!