“Oh, what a beautiful mornin’, Oh, what a beautiful day! I got a beautiful feelin’ Everything’s goin’ my way.”
Yep, that just about sums it up — the head-over-heels happy feeling I had every day during the TCM Classic Film Festival — a sublimely delightful 4-day whirlwind of watching fabulous films, attending very special events and meeting wonderful fellow film fans (many of whom I now count as friends)…
And, if that’s not enough of a tribute to TCM and its efforts on behalf of the Classic Movie Community, I will say that, the minute I returned home, I started counting the days until next year’s festival…
That said, I’ll be posting a few articles over the next few days highlighting some special TCMFF moments… and I’ll start right now with some photos from the Opening Night Red Carpet Event in celebration of the World Premiere of the Restoration of the 1955 film, Oklahoma!
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Shirley Jones made her feature film debut in Oklahoma! almost 60 years ago.
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Shirley Jones and Genevieve McGillicuddy (Managing Director of the TCM Film Festival).
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Marty Ingels, who at one point held up a sign that said ’37 years’ which is the number of years he has been married to Shirley Jones. (sorry for the bad picture with Marty’s eyes closed)…
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Film Critic and Historian, Leonard Maltin.
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Bo Hopkins starred in American Graffiti with Candy Clark, Paul Le Mat and Richard Dreyfuss. All three stars will attend the American Graffiti screening which runs directly after the Red Carpet event.
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Film and TV Casting Director, Lynn Stalmaster, cast talent for The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Fortune Cookie, In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, Hogan’s Heroes, My Favorite Martian and Gunsmoke among others. Lynn will attend the Fiddler on the Roof screening with Director Norman Jewison and composer John Williams on the last day of the Festival.
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Harold Lloyd’s grand daughter, Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, will introduce Lloyd’s 1923 film, Why Worry? when it screens with a Live Orchestra accompaniment later on in the Festival.
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Actress Ileanna Douglas (Goodfellas, Ghost World, Cape Fear 1991) is the grand daughter of Melvyn Douglas.
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George Chakiris won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1962 for his role as Bernardo, leader of The Sharks, in the film version of West Side Story
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Tippi Hedren and Kim Novak are both Hitchcock ‘alumni’ (The Birds and Vertigo respectively). Kim Novak will attend the screening of Bell, Book and Candle later on in the Festival.
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‘Child Star’ Margaret O’Brien will introduce the film, Meet Me in St. Louis, with Robert Osborne later on in the Festival.
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And last but not least, the lovely Maureen O’Hara, who will introduce the film, How Green Was My Valley, with Robert Osborne later on in the Festival
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Now, I did not attend the Opening Night After Party Event, but I did want to share some pictures from it anyway, as the Celebs looked simply marvelous…
George Chakiris with Margaret O’Brien (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/WireImage)
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Robert Osborne with Maureen O’Hara (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/WireImage)
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Candy Clark (American Graffiti) and Bo Hopkins (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/WireImage)
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Alec Baldwin (TCM Essentials co-host) and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/WireImage)
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Make-up artist Rick Baker (Men in Black, Planet of the Apes 2001, Star Wars IV), actress Tippi Hedren and director Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins, The Hole) (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage)
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All photos by Classic Movie Hub except where noted.
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–Annmarie Gatti for Classic Movie Hub
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