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Part 2: May 2013 TCM Preview – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

May 14, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Dorothy Mackaill 1933 Abdulla Blank Back Tobacco Card

Turner Classic Movies preview for May 2013. Part two of my day-by-day look at the TCM May 2013 schedule picks up on May 16. Focus on 1930s movies, especially the daytime schedule.

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May 2013 TCM Preview – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

May 1, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Humphrey Bogart and Edward G Robinson 1940 A and M Wix Cinema Cavalcade Tobacco Card

Turner Classic Movies preview for May 2013. A day-by-day look at the TCM May 2013 schedule with daytime and late night DVR alerts. TCM puts the focus on Tough Guys, while I highlight Aline MacMahon, Busby Berkeley, Judy Garland, Joseph Cotten and others.

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Odds: Cracker Jacks, Site Updates, Lee Tracy

April 14, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Some odds and ends around the site winding up with a brief biography of the actor Lee Tracy posted to coincide with his April 14 date of birth.

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Melvyn Douglas – Biography of the Two-Time Oscar Winner

April 5, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A biography of two-time Academy Award winning actor Melvyn Douglas including several Douglas quotes from the 1960s and ’70s. With April 2013 TCM birthday schedule.

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Sidebar: Walter Huston and the Duke of Crovenay

April 3, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Walter Huston as picturing on 1933 Dixie Premium

A review of John Weld’s biography of Walter Huston, September Song, including a story about the fabled Duke of Crovenay and the birth of the Crovenay Society.

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April 2013 TCM Preview – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

April 1, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

1955 Press Photo picturing Laurence Olivier as Richard III

Turner Classic Movies preview for April 2013. A day-by-day look at the TCM April 2013 schedule with daytime DVR alerts. Laurence Olivier Star of the Month. Birthdays for Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Melvyn Douglas and others.

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Warner Baxter Day on TCM – Celebrating Baxter’s March 29 Birthday

March 29, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 9 Comments

Warner Baxter Philadelphia Record Newspaper Supplement photo dated August 27 1933

Turner Classic Movies airs nine movies starring Warner Baxter on the actor’s March 29 birth date. A preview including 42nd Street, Penthouse, and movies from the Crime Doctor series. With quotes from Baxter including how he visualized his way to success.

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Edward Everett Horton 2013 Birthday Celebration on TCM

March 18, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Edward Everett Horton 1930s era Columbia Promotional Still Photo

TCM’s Edward Everett Horton birthday schedule for March 18, 2013 plus a selection of later quotes from the very quotable Horton, 1960-62.

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Interview with Mae Murray Biographer Michael G. Ankerich

March 13, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

John Gilbert and Mae Murray in The Merry Widow

Film historian Michael G. Ankerich returns to the site for an interview about Mae Murray and his new biography Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips.

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Louise Beavers – Biography of Imitation of Life’s Aunt Delilah

March 11, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

California Eagle ad for Louise Beavers in Two in a Bed

A 4,000 word biography of the African American actress Louise Beavers whose greatest fame came as Aunt Delilah in 1934′s Imitation of Life. She enjoyed a long career in mostly maid roles including a starring role on early 1950s television series Beulah.