The Official "What's on TCM?" Thread — Page 2

even in black and white, that hair coloring was wrong on her. I so adored the skank's role however. The whole scene leading up to her leaving the house in the beginning of the film was great.

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The 1936 version of Show Boat (which has yet to be released on DVD) is being shown Tuesday afternoon at 2:45 as part of an Irene Dunne marathon.

Bump for Irene Dunne and Show Boat. Love Affair is on right now.

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I watched SUNRISE too! Funny...

The MoMa is screening SUNRISE tomorrow--I think I might try to see it--I get in free, why not? The bf is a member...giggle...

That Grey Gardens screening is being hosted by Christine and Mary Louise, btw...

They have a schedule of films on the website--there is also an Otto Preminger festival as well. They're showing Skidoo, but only one night--really wish I could see that disaster!

Who else is watching "A Place in the Sun" right now?

Okay, maybe it's because I have a pitcher of Cosmos next to me... but Monty and Liz are so "scary-pretty" in this movie... and TALENTED to boot. Their acting is impeccable in this film.

And the way George Stevens directed them... and the way Bill Mellor PHOTOGRAPHED them... is nothing short of miraculous.

This is a prime example of "they don't make 'em like they used to."

But the real revelation is Shelley Winters. Her switch from pathetic frump to annoying shrew is brilliant. It makes us side with Monty, and stay on his side. But it's because of HER. I would have voted her the Oscar that year, for Best Actress.

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All right, no.

But such a tough year for Oscar, right?

Vivien's role is "showy" and Shelley's is anything BUT. Her subtle switch from sympathetic to intolerable is what makes this film WORK.

(But, okay, I would have voted for "Blanche" too.)

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Updated On: 10/14/06 at 09:15 PM

Annie Get Your Gun, featuring Benay Venuta - my friend's grandmother, and a very strong influence on my early days in NYC.

She's been gone just over 10 years now. You know how everyone likes to say they don't want a funeral, but a party when they die? She demanded it. A cocktail party, at her apartment, including some of New York's finest old dames and gents. The piano was played, we sang, and told Benay stories. Best "funeral" ever.

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Updated On: 10/17/06 at 08:07 PM

Indeed. One of the better "Screenings" Osborne has done. A very honest and forthright Betty, and funny, still.

Anyone catch the fantastic Pre Code "Skyscraper Souls" last Wednesday? Or the wonderful "Mandalay" with Kay Francis? The latter is a movie that proves that just because you've been sold into white slavery...there's no need to dress down or forget to wear your jewels.

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Just catching up here...

That Betty Hutton interview on "Private Screenings" was riveting. She is such an incredibly fascinating, funny, disturbing, emotional, truthful, energetic... and UNIQUE lady. I kept thinking "there's no one else like her." THAT's a true star.

I adored her then, and I adore her now. And Osborne handled her so beautifully. One of the best (if not the best) "golden age star" interviews in the last decade.

She was so candid about her life, and heart-breaking, but it was only afterwards that I realized she never mentioned her famous sister Marion, who grew up right along with her, and became a very popular singer with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. I did a little digging on the Internet, and found out that Marion Hutton was also an alcoholic, and ended up sober, and helped start a non-profit org to help other people with alcohol problems. Marion succumbed to cancer in 1987.

There has to be a reason why Betty and Robert never even mentioned Marion's existence once, though. She was probably "taboo" during the interview. I can hear Betty saying, "we can talk all you want to about me and my life, just leave my sister out of it... and my ex-husbands, too, while you're at it." (This is purely speculation on my part, though.)

And, yes, justme2, I fell asleep tonight watching House of Dark Shadows... a movie that scared the crap out of me when I saw it in the theatre, first run, at the age of eight. Come to think of it, what the hell was I doing seeing flicks like that when I was eight??

I was a horror film junkie as a kid though... saw every single one I could... before I discovered the MGM musical, that is.

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Updated On: 10/21/06 at 03:45 AM

Bump again... because Grey Gardens is on TONIGHT!!!

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Updated On: 10/29/06 at 06:55 PM

I didn't even realize I had TCM until I did a DVR search for Grey Gardens to see it for the first time. The rest of the schedule sounds great.

And Grey Gardens was spectacular viewing tonight.

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I love SISTERS. PEEPING TOM, not so much. Interesting, more for its place in film history, and how it ruined a fairly talented director's career.