TCM Summer Under the Stars returns to Turner Classic Movies next month. Like many TCM fans, I always look forward to it, my only caveat being that Noir Alley is off for a whole month. Regardles, this year has some of my favourite stars and there are also several days devoted to stars who are entirely new to Summer Under the Stars. These include Diane Keaton, George Hamilton, Marie Windsor, Bonita Granville, and Brock Peters. TCM's hosts also got to pick stars to whom days would be devoted to. Eddie Muller picked Joan Bennett, Jacqueline Stewart picked Hattie McDaniel. Alicia Malone picked Barbara Stanwyck. And Dave Karger picked Dana Andrews.
One problem I do have with this year's Summer Under the Stars is some odd scheduling in my mind. While I love The Blob (1958), I would have probably scheduled one of the movies more representative of Steve McQueen's work, like The Magnificent Seven (1960) or The Great Esxape (1963), in prime time. With regards to Jack Lemmon's movies, I would have scheduled The Great Race (1965) later in the day. It's one of my all-time favourite movies, but I don't want to get up at 5:00 AM to watch it! And I honestly don't know what Turner Classic Movies was thinking with regards to the schedule for Robert Redford. They aren't showing Barefoot in the Park (1967) or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), yet we get Out of Africa (1985) in prime time. It may have won several Academy Awards, but is both one of my least favourite Robert Redford moives and my least favourite Sydney Pollack movies. Anyway, I will stop complaining. I guess we should be thankful we have Summer Under the Stars at all.
As is my custom here at A Shroud of Thoughts, I have picked out my favourite movies airing this Summer Under the Stars. Here is a when they air. As usual, all times are Central.
August 1, Doris Day:
10:30 AM Calamity Jane (1953)
2:45 PM Teacher's Pet (1958)
5:00 PM Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
7:00 PM Love Came Back (1962)
August 2, Humphrey Bogart:
7:00 AM Dark Victory (1939)
11L00 AM Casablanca (1942)
1:00 PM Beat the Devil (1954)
3:00 PM We're No Angels (1955)
5:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
1:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
August 4, Glenn Ford:
3:00 PM The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
7:00 PM The Big Heat (1954)
10:45 PM The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
August 5, Joan Bennett:
12:30 PM The Woman on the Beach (1954)
3:15 PM The Woman in the Window (1944)
5:00 PM Scarlet Street (1945)
7:00 PM Man Hunt (1941)
9:00 PM Father of the Bride (1950)
11:00 PM Suspira (1977)
1:00 AM House of Dark Shadows (1970)
August 6, Diane Keaton:
11:00 AM Baby Boom (1987)
7:00 PM Shoot the Moon (1982)
9:15 PM Annie Hall (1977)
12:45 AM Sleeper (1973)
August 7, Basil Rathbone:
10:30 AM A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
12:45 PM Captain Blood (1935)
4:30 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
5:45 PM Dressed to Kill (1946)
7:00 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
11:00 PM Tower of London (1939)
August 8, Steve McQueen:
7:15 AM The Getaway (1972)
11:45 PM The Magnificent Seven (1960)
2:00 PM The Great Escape (1963)
5:00 PM The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
7:00 PM The Blob (1958)
8:30 PM Bullitt (1968)
10:30 PM Papillon (1973)
August 9, Gene Tierney:
11:00 PM The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947)
1:00 PM Dragonwyck (1946)
5:00 PM Heaven Can Wait (1943)
7:00 PM Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
9:00 PM Night and the City (1950)
11:00 PM The Razor's Edge (1946)
August 10, George Hamilton:
1:00 PM Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
3:00 PM Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
9:00 PM Where the Boys Are (1960)
August 11, Barbara Stanwyck:
9:30 AM The Mad Mrs. Manton (1938)
7:00 PM The Lady Eve (1941)
9:00 PM Ball of Fire (1941)
11:00 PM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
12:45 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
August 12, Groucho Marx:
2:00 PM A Day at the Races (1937)
4:00 PM A Night at the Opera (1935)
5:45 PM Horse Feathers (1932)
7:00 PM Duck Soup (1933)
8:30 PM Animal Crackers (1930)
10:30 PM Monkey Busines (1931)
August 13, Susan Hayward:
5:00 AM Tulsa (1949)
7:00 PM Valley of the Dolls (1967)
11:30 PM I'l Cry Tomorrow (1955)
3:30 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
August 14, Jack Lemmon:
5:00 AM The Great Race (1965)
7:45 AM Mister Roberts (1955)
10:00 AM Irma La Douce (1963)
12:30 PM How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
2:30 PM The Fortune Cookie (1966)
4:45 PM The Apartment (1960)
10:45 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
August 15, Natalie Wood:
2:45 PM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
5:00 PM Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
7:00 PM West Side Story (1960)
11:45 PM Penelope (1966)
1:30 AM Cash McCall (1960)
August 16, Cary Grant:
7:00 AM Mr. Lucky (1943)
11:00 AM My Favorite Wife (1940)
12:45 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
4:30 PM North by Northwest (1959)
7:00 PM Gunga Din (1939)
August 17, Rosalind Russell:
10:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
12:00 PM Design for Scandal (1941)
5:15 PM The Velvet Touch (1948)
7:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
9:30 PM Gypsy (1962)
12:00 AM The Trouble with Angels (1966)
August 18, Robert Redford:
9:00 AM The Canidate (1972)
12:45 PM The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
5:00 PM The Way We Were (1973)
10:00 PM The Sting (1973)
August 20, Marlon Brando:
12:00 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
5:30 PM The Wild One (1953)
7:00 PM A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
August 21, Marie Windsor:
5:00 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
2:15 PM Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
7:00 PM The Narrow Margin (1952)
8:30 PM Force of Evil (1948)
10:00 PM The Killing (1956)
1:!5 AM The Outfit (1973)
3:15 AM Hearts of the West (1975)
August 22, John Wayne:
9:30 AM 3 Godfathers (1948)
7:00 PM The High and Mighty (1954)
1:45 AM Stagecoach (1939)
August 23, Katharine Hepburn:
9:15 AM Stage Door (1937)
11:00 AM Woman of the Year (1942)
3:00 PM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
5:00 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)
1:00 AM Rooster Cogburn (1975)
August 24, Dana Andrews:
7:00 AM A Walk in the Sun (1945)
11:00 AM While the City Sleeps (1956)
5:00 PM Brainstorm (1965)
7:00 PM Laura (1944)
10:15 PM The Loved One (1965)
12:30 PM The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
August 25, Bonita Granville:
8:00 AM Merrily We Live (1938)
11:00 AM Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
7:00 PM These Three (1936)
10:00 PM Nancy Drew...Detective (1938)
11:15 PM Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939)
12:30 AM Nancy Drew...Trouble Shooter (1939)
1:45 AM Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
August 26, James Stewart:
8:45 AM You Can't Take It With You (1938)
11:00 AM The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
3:00 PM Carbine Williams (1952)
5:00 PM Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
7:00 PM Vertigo (1958)
9:15 PM Rear Window (1954)
11:15 PM Rope (1952)
August 27, Bette Davis:
8:00 AM Of Human Bondage (1934)
3:00 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
7:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
9:30 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
11:30 PM The Little Foxes (1941)
August 28, Brock Peters:
5:00 AM Carmen Jones (1954)
8:45 AM Sergeant Dundee (1965)
1:15 PM Soylent Green (1973)
7:00 PM To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
11:00 PM The Pawnbroker (1964)
August 29, Rita Hayworth:
7:00 AM The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
9:00 AM Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
3:00 PM Pal Joey (1957)
7:00 PM Gilda (1944)
9:00 PM Cover Girl (1944)
August 30, Joel McCrea:
11:00 AM Sullivan's Travels (1941)
1:00 PM The Palm Beach Story (1942)
2:45 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
5:00 PM The More the Merrier (1943)
7:00 PM Ride the High Country (1962)
3:45 PM The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
August 31, Ava Gardner:
6:30 AM Lone Star (1952)
2:30 PM Seven Days in May (1962)
4:45 PM The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
9:15 PM Night of the Iguana (1964)
11:30 PM The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
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