It's Fay Wray Day today on TCM! Twenty-four hours of Fay Wray Summer Under the Stars programming begins at 6:00 am ET with The Unholy Garden (1931).
This is one of my two or three most anticipated days on TCM this month, both because of the classics I love and a couple I've been dying to see. I'm most excited to see Josef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929) for the first time later tonight, though I'm also looking forward to upgrading my glitchy copy of strange underwater action-drama Below the Sea (1933).
I had planned on posting a review of Wray's 1990 autobiography On the Other Hand today, but I have another couple days of reading to do before I start to put that together. It's actually a re-read for me, so if you had any doubts, without getting into specifics yet, I give it a high recommendation. Look for my review soon, though not necessarily next.
Today's TCM US schedule follows and under that you'll find one vintage newspaper advertisement for each of the sixteen(!) movies on today's schedule. Also included are a few old movie card images to add some splashes of color and clarity to the otherwise black and white page Enjoy!
Fay Wray TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 4-5, 2016
- 6:00 am - The Unholy Garden (1931)
- 7:30 am - Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
- 9:00 am - Wildcat Bus (1940)
- 10:15 am - Doctor X (1932)
- 11:45 am - The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
- 1:15 pm - Black Moon (1934)
- 2:30 pm - Captain Thunder (1931)
- 3:45 pm - The Clairvoyant (1935)
- 5:15 pm - The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- 6:45 pm - It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- 8:00 pm - The Wedding March (1928)
- 10:00 pm - King Kong (1933)
- 12:00 am - Thunderbolt (1929)
- 1:45 am - Below the Sea (1933)
- 3:15 am - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- 4:30 am - One Sunday Afternoon (1933) - Covered in review of 1941 remake The Strawberry Blonde
The Unholy Garden (1931)
Above clipped from the Logansport-Pharos Tribune (IN), 19 December 1931, page 2.
Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
Above clipped from the Cumberland Evening Times (MD), 27 July 1933, page 11.
Wildcat Bus (1940)
Above clipped from The Daily Mail of Hagerstown, MD, 25 November 1940, page 3.
Doctor X (1932)
Above clipped from the Appleton Post Crescent (WI), 20 August 1932, page 7.
The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
Above clipped from the Chillicothe Constitution Tribune (MO), 6 October 1934, page 6. Review here.
Black Moon (1934)
Above clipped from the Harrisburg Evening News (PA), 31 August 1934, page 15.
Captain Thunder (1931)
Above clipped from the Corsicana Daily Sun (TX), 7 May 1932, page 5.
The Clairvoyant (1935)
Above clipped from the Zanesville Signal (OH), 24 October 1935, page 13.
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Above clipped from the Eugene Register Guard (OR), 1 June 1933, page 7.
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
Above clipped from the Idaho Falls Post Register, 24 December 1937, page 3. Review here.
The Wedding March (1928)
Above clipped from the Havre Daily News (MT), 24 November 1928, page 8.
King Kong (1933)
Above clipped from the Big Spring Daily Herald (TX), 4 June 1933, page 1. Related: King Kong (1933) in New York, March 1933
Thunderbolt (1929)
Above clipped from the Marion Star (OH), 13 July 1929, page 15.
Below the Sea (1933)
Above clipped from the Shamokin Dispatch (PA), 8 May 1933, page 6.
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Above clipped from the Oakland Tribune, 1 October 1932, page 8-B.
One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
Above clipped from the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star (NB), 3 September 1933, page 8-B.. Covered in review of 1941 remake The Strawberry Blonde
The text schedule once more:
Fay Wray TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 4-5, 2016
- 6:00 am - The Unholy Garden (1931)
- 7:30 am - Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
- 9:00 am - Wildcat Bus (1940)
- 10:15 am - Doctor X (1932)
- 11:45 am - The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
- 1:15 pm - Black Moon (1934)
- 2:30 pm - Captain Thunder (1931)
- 3:45 pm - The Clairvoyant (1935)
- 5:15 pm - The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- 6:45 pm - It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- 8:00 pm - The Wedding March (1928)
- 10:00 pm - King Kong (1933)
- 12:00 am - Thunderbolt (1929)
- 1:45 am - Below the Sea (1933)
- 3:15 am - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- 4:30 am - One Sunday Afternoon (1933) Covered in review of 1941 remake The Strawberry Blonde
Enjoy them!
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