Summer Under the Stars Starts Today

The annual Summer Under the Stars festival starts today on Turner Classic Movies.

TCM has added even more visually stunning new film posters to the set first described here a couple weeks ago. Click the title of this post to visit TCM's Summer Under the Stars page and take a look.

I particularly adore the poster of Ida Lupino sprawled in front of a truck for THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT and the twist on SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE's classic poster used for AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER. The NXNW design for NORTH BY NORTHWEST is amazing as well. Someone went to a lot of effort on this project and deserves high praise for the fresh spins on familiar classics.

Some of the films airing in August which I've never seen and will be recording this month:

August 1: THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1935) with Henry Fonda and Janet Gaynor

August 2: THE WICKED LADY (1945) with James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, and Michael Rennie

August 3: EVER SINCE EVE (1937) with Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery

August 12: LOVE ON THE RUN (1936) with Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone

August 17: LOVE LETTERS (1945) with Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten

August 20: THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (1934) with Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins and WISE GIRL (1937) with Hopkins and Ray Milland

August 25: THE DIVORCE OF LADY X with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier and THE LION HAS WINGS with Oberon and an all-star British cast

August 30: THE IMPATIENT YEARS with Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn

TCM had a particularly excellent July, with a wide variety of films shown, and it looks like August is going to be great fun as well.