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If it’s September, then I’m still basking in the afterglow of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars event. If you’re ever looking for something to watch and you want to review my recommendations and new-to-me picks, this will provide one-stop shopping, with every post from the August read more

My pal Kristina, over at the Speakeasy blog, has introduced a new feature where she offers a prompt and invites bloggers to answer the question on their blogs. She recently posted her second prompt, and it’s another good one! Film Friday #2 celebrates Back to School Time and Kristina invit read more

Well, now that it’s been close to five months since I had the pleasure of attending my 10th in-person Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, I think this would be a great time to share my experience. After all, better late than really late, amirite? In my previous post about this year’s trip to Los read more

Happy Month After SUTS! I hope you all enjoyed TCM’s Summer Under the Stars as much as I did; the channel is continuing to serve up a lovely selection of goodies for the month of September, which features Lauren Bacall as the Star of the Month. Mark your calendars for September 16th, when you read more

We’ve come to the last day of Summer Under the Stars 2024, y’all. And while I’m a little sad, as always, to see August come to an end, I can honestly say this has been my best SUTS ever! Identifying a daily new-to-me movie has led me to watch so many good films, a great number of which I’d never read more

Ginger Rogers is the lovely spotlight recipient for Day 30 of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars. I’d hoped that a couple of my favorite Rogers pre-Codes – Finishing School and Underworld, both released in 1934 – would be offered, but no such luck. (If you see ‘em around, be sure to check ‘em read more

Day 29 of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars features the last of the 13 stars making their SUTS debut this year: Leo Gorcey. If you’re familiar with Gorcey, it’s likely for his role as one of the Dead End Kids, later known as the East Side Kids, later known as The Bowery Boys. These hard-shelled, tough-t read more

For Day 28 of Summer Under the Stars, TCM is shining the spotlight on the fabulous Marlene Dietrich, and there are so many good ones on the docket! These include Manpower (1941), where she’s in the center of love triangle with George Raft and Edward G. Robinson; Rancho Notorious (1952), a color west read more

Day 27 of Summer Under the Stars brings us another first-timer – Raiford Chatman “Ossie” Davis who, in addition to his career as an actor, was also a writer, director, producer, and civil rights activist. (He got the name “Ossie” from his mother’s pronunciation of the first letters read more

For Day 26 of Summer Under the Stars, TCM shines its cinematic spotlight on Donna Reed. I enjoyed her in the few films I’ve seen her in, but I viewed her with new eyes after the 2019 TCM Film Festival, where her daughter shared the story of finding a collection of wartime letters, after her mother&# read more

Day 25 of Summer Under the Stars shines the spotlight on Fred MacMurray, who started his performing career as a musician – in high school, he formed his own orchestra, called Mac’s Melody Boys. (Heh.) His musical talent led him to Hollywood, where he made his name in a series of breezy comedies, read more

Grace Kelly is the lovely and talented star for Day 24 of Summer Under the Stars. She’s one of those stars I could have included in my earlier “Film Friday” post of performers who I wish had made more movies – after her 1956 fairytale marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco, her acting came to read more

Day 23 of Summer Under the Stars is yet another SUTS newbie: Robert Shaw, whose 1975 film, Jaws, is the movie that always comes to mind when I hear his name. When I saw that Jaws wasn’t on the SUTS menu, I was a bit concerned (as that certainly would have been in the running for my pick o’ the day), read more

She’s my all-time favorite actress, and her Summer Under the Stars spotlight on Day 22 is one of those that I’ve been looking most forward to: It’s Bette Davis! But since she is my favorite actress, that made coming up with a recommended film all that more difficult. How to choose between read more

For Day 21 of Summer Under the Stars, TCM features one of its first-timers: Jose Ferrer. A native of Puerto Rico, Ferrer had quite an interesting life, both on screen and off. He was a talented pianist, a graduate of Princeton University and, before he was bitten by the proverbial acting bug, planne read more

Released by 20th Century Fox in 1953 (and the remake of the 1941 noir, I Wake Up Screaming), Vicki tells the story of the title character who, as we see in the opening reel, has been murdered in her New York apartment. Employing the use of flashbacks, the film shows us Vicki’s rags-to-riches story, read more

 Day 20 of Summer Under the Stars features Jeanne Crain, who I happened to have watched in Vicki (1953) just yesterday while preparing my post for the (Aaron) Spellingverse Blogathon. Unfortunately, Vicki isn’t one of the films airing on Crain Day, but you can see features like The Tattered Dress read more

So much good stuff is on tap for Day 19 of Summer Under the Stars, y’all! It’s John Gilbert Day – one of the top three days that I’ve been looking forward to! I know that Gilbert’s been saddled with a bad rap as far as his career once the talkies began; it was long held that his voice read more

Holy cannoli, y’all – Jerry Lewis is the star for Day 17 of Summer Under the Stars, and once again I’m confronted with a slate of movies that are completely unknown to me! Even though I have some baking to do (I bake every Friday and this coffee cake recipe is calling my name!), I decided to watch read more

It’s Day 18 of Summer Under the Stars (I really do not appreciate how quickly this month is flying by) and the star of the day is Miss Katharine Hepburn. For you lovers of her films with Spencer Tracy, there are several from which to choose, including Woman of the Year (1942) and State of the Union read more