Quick Preview of TCM in August: Summer Under the Stars
The complete list for the actors to be celebrated in the annual Summer Under the Stars festival on TCM this August is now available!
Here are the actors to be celebrated this August, in date order:
Humphrey BogartDoris Day
Alec Guinness
Mary Boland
Charlton Heston
Joan Fontaine
Fred MacMurray
Ramon Navarro
Steve McQueen
Lana Turner
Henry Fonda
Catherine DeneuveMickey Rooney
Bette Davis
Gregory Peck
Ann Blyth
Wallace BeeryNatalie Wood
Randolph Scott
Hattie McDaniel
William Holden
Maggie Smith
Elizabeth Taylor
Charles Coburn
Clark Gable
Jeanne Crain
Martin Balsam
Shirley Jones
Glenda Farrell
Kirk Douglas
Rex Harrison
This is a terrific list, with many personal favorites including MacMurray, Fontaine, Blyth, Scott, and Crain.
I'm also glad to see an early Joan Fontaine film I've never seen on her list, MUSIC FOR MADAME (1937). And ESCAPE (1948), with Rex Harrison and Peggy Cummins, looks interesting too.
Gregory Peck's day will include the rarely seen THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (1947)! It's a very interesting movie costarring Joan Bennett and Robert Preston.The complete official schedule isn't available yet, but many of the titles are now listed at the TCM discussion forum.
For anyone who's curious about which actors have been part of Summer Under the Stars in recent years, here are the lists for 2010, 2011, and 2012.
I'll be posting more details on the August schedule at the end of July. In the meantime, Eleanor Parker is the Star of the Month for June and Paul Henreid will be celebrated in July.
June 1st Update: A link is now available for the tentative complete online schedule for August.
August 1st Update: For more details on the August schedule, please visit TCM in August: Summer Under the Stars Highlights.
posted by Laura @ 5:24 PM
6 Comments:
I too am excited about GUNS OF THE TIMBERLAND.I have seen it,but that was when it was first released.
I enjoyed it very much at the time.
What is really interesting is that it is one of Alan Ladds Jaguar productions,that Warners until recently at least do not hold the rights to.
I have an idea this may have been resolved,perhaps someone can ask on the Warner Archive Facebook page.It has been annoying to see some of these Jaguar films turn up in p.d. hell.Other much sought after Jaguar films are
HELL ON FRISCO BAY (lots of people are after this one) THE BIG LAND,DRUM BEAT and THE DEEP SIX.
The fact that TCM are showing GUNS OF THE TIMBERLAND means that a DVD release should follow soon.
There are a couple of Jaguar Productions that Ladd did not star in that sound interesting too:
ISLAND OF LOST WOMEN and A CRY IN THE NIGHT
Wow! so much great news today!
I am really excited about ESCAPE which I understood
to be a "lost" film.
I do have a really bad transfer from 16mm and would love
an upgrade. ESCAPE is a British film with an American
producer,director and screenwriter.
Wonderful Fifties England rural vibe,Rex Harrison and Peggy
Cummins make a most engaging twosome.
Only complaint I really wanted this film to be longer than it is.Harrison really excellent in an offbeat role.
The Macomber Affair is particularly effective. At the time of its release was not considered successful...sure has a chance on DVD to make up for that.
The three films mentioned in the comments so far have long been on my list and really jumped out in your overview.
I have never seen any of these three films, which seem to have long been missing, so will make a point of GUNS OF THE TIMBERLAND, ESCAPE and THE MACOMBER AFFAIR.
ESCAPE has the lowest reputation of any film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz but it is the ONLY movie of his I've never seen, so will be nice to be complete with this major filmmaker.
John Knight, you should know that TCM has shown THE BIG LAND and DRUM BEAT and THE DEEP SIX is on this weekend. They've also shown A CRY IN THE NIGHT. So maybe hopefully the Jaguar issue is resolved. I've never seen HELL ON FRISCO BAY.
THE MACOMBER AFFAIR does have a very strong reputation and I've always very much wanted to see it. Hemingway's story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" was one of his best, which is saying a lot.
For those with a taste for really strong modern films, I highly recommend MA SAISON PREFEREE with Catherine Deneuve, one of the her best performances ever and one of the best movies of brilliant French director Andre Techine.
Your comments are all greatly appreciated!
John, I'd love to see more Jaguar films too. Saw A CRY IN THE NIGHT a few weeks ago and found it interesting. I'm very anxious to see ESCAPE, having enjoyed Peggy Cummins so much in GUN CRAZY and HELL DRIVERS in the past year. I'd also love to see her in MOSS ROSE. Blake, that's pretty amazing you only have one Mankiewicz film left to see!
I found THE MACOMBER AFFAIR to be an interesting film and am glad it's going to be more widely seen thanks to TCM. The '40s Joan Bennett pretty much can't do wrong for me as a viewer. :)
Best wishes,
Laura
Peggy Cummins had some really interesting credits;
two of her films are bona-fide "cult classics"
(NIGHT OF THE DEMON;GUN CRAZY)
Another great film with Peggy is STREET CORNER; 1953
(aka Both Sides Of The Law)
She is aces as a bored young mother who gets mixed
up with gangsters.
A very sharp London based crime thriller with a
brilliant cast. Yet another "lost" film awaiting
re-discovery.
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