Ruby Keeler day on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) starts Friday at 6:30 am ET with Mother Carey’s Chickens (1941). That’s actually late Ruby Keeler: ten of today’s twelve films were originally released between 1933 and 1938, right in the Immortal Ephemera sweet-spot, so there had to be a Picto-Sked!
By the way, I do hope to post a review or article in the near future, but the Picto-Skeds have been getting a great response throughout Summer Under the Stars this month, so you’ll probably see a couple of more of them before I return to the more traditional stuff come September.
Note: Today’s Ruby Keeler TCM Summer Under the Stars TCM mini-site is here.
Today’s TCM US schedule follows and under that you’ll find one vintage newspaper advertisement for each of the twelve movies on today’s schedule. Also included are a few old movie card images to add splashes of color and clarity to the otherwise black and white page. Enjoy!
Ruby Keeler TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 19-20, 2016
- 6:30 am – Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
- 8:00 am – Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938)
- 10:00 am – Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
- 12:00 pm – Colleen (1936)
- 2:00 pm – Shipmates Forever (1935)
- 4:00 pm – Flirtation Walk (1934)
- 6:00 pm – Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- 8:00 pm – 42nd Street (1934)
- 9:45 pm – Go Into Your Dance (1935)
- 11:30 pm – Dames (1934)
- 1:30 am – Footlight Parade (1933)
- 4:00 am – The Phynx (1970)
Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
Above clipped from the Lawrence Daily Journal-World (KS), 19 July 1941, page 3.
Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938)
Above clipped from the Eugene Register Guard (OR), 7 August 1938, page 9.
Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Above clipped from the Lawrence Daily Journal-World (KS), 8 March 1937, page 3.
Colleen (1936)
Above clipped from the Pittsburgh Press (PA), 29 March 1936, page 27.
Related article: Hugh Herbert biography.
Shipmates Forever (1935)
Above clipped from the San Jose News (CA), 25 December 1935, page 15.
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Above clipped from the Schenectady Gazette (NY), 2 January 1935, page 12.
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Above clipped from the Tuscaloosa News (AL), 30 July 1933, page 9.
Ruby isn’t mentioned much, but here’s my look at Gold Diggers of 1933 at my Warren William fansite – All about J. Lawrence Bradford.
1933 Press photo picturing Aline MacMahon, Joan Blondell and Ruby Keeler in Gold Diggers of 1933
42nd Street (1934)
Above clipped from the Sarasota Herald (FL), 7 May 1933, page 2.
Related post: Warner Baxter – A Brief Biography.
Above: Keeler stands aside Warner Baxter while George Brent comforts Bebe Daniels, cropped from real photo postcard.
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Above clipped from the Spartanburg Herald Journal (SC), 21 April 1935, page 10.
Dames (1934)
Above clipped from the Schenectady Gazette (NY), 15 September 1934, page 11.
Related Post: Guy Kibbee biography.
Footlight Parade (1933)
Above clipped from the Spartanburg Herald Journal (SC), 24 December 1933, page 16.
Related post covers this era of Joan Blondell’s career and beyond.
The Phynx (1970)
Yep, it’s a cheat: that’s the Warner Archive DVD-R cover. I couldn’t find a newspaper ad for The Phynx, but here’s a vintage poster someone else spotted.
The text schedule once more:
Ruby Keeler TCM Summer Under the Stars
US schedule, all times Eastern, August 19-20, 2016
- 6:30 am – Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
- 8:00 am – Mother Carey’s Chickens (1938)
- 10:00 am – Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
- 12:00 pm – Colleen (1936)
- 2:00 pm – Shipmates Forever (1935)
- 4:00 pm – Flirtation Walk (1934)
- 6:00 pm – Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- 8:00 pm – 42nd Street (1934)
- 9:45 pm – Go Into Your Dance (1935)
- 11:30 pm – Dames (1934)
- 1:30 am – Footlight Parade (1933)
- 4:00 am – The Phynx (1970)
It’s a fun lineup, enjoy!
Thanks for putting these Picto-Skeds™ together, Cliff..always rare images I haven’t see, like the one of Ruby with her dog
Glad you like them, Paula, and thanks so much for sharing them on Twitter!