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Kings Row (1942) with Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan

August 5, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 13 Comments

Harry Davenport as Colonel Skeffington

A look at the darker side of Kings Row (1942) starring Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan. Some think it’s not dark enough

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1942, Adaptations, Ann Sheridan, Betty Field, Charles Coburn, Claude Rains, Ernest Cossart, Harry Davenport, henry bellamann, Historical, Judith Anderson, kaaren verne, king's row, Maria Ouspenskaya, nancy coleman, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Sam Wood, small town life

Claude Rains – From Call Boy to Stage Manager to The Invisible Man

August 5, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Click on Clude to visit the Summer Under the Stars blogathon for August 5

Claude Rains press clippings dating back as far as 1912 trace his rise from call boy to stage manager and later casting in The Invisible Man. Plus TCM’s August 5, 2012 Claude Rains Summer Under the Stars schedule.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Claude Rains, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Mmmm Girl Marilyn Monroe – Press Coverage of the Late 1940’s

August 3, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Marilyn Monroe El Paso Herald 1948

A brief essay on celebrity along with a look at some pre-1950 Marilyn Monroe press clippings. Plus the TCM Summer Under the Stars schedule.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Marilyn Monroe, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Johnny Weissmuller After the Olympics and Before Tarzan

August 2, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Johnny Weissmuller 1930s Film Weekly Postcard

TCM airs all twelve Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies for Summer Under the Stars on August 3. We look at news clippings from 1929-1931, between Weissmuller’s swimming career and the start of his run as Tarzan..

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Johnny Weissmuller, jungle jim, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, tarzan, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Penthouse (1933) Starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy

August 2, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter stars as a mobster’s mouthpiece in Penthouse (1933) also featuring Myrna Loy. And, in one of his best, Nat Pendleton plays the mobster.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Albert Hackett, C. Henry Gordon, charles butterworth, Frances Goodrich, George E. Stone, Lawyers, Mae Clarke, Martha Sleeper, murder, Myrna Loy, Mysteries, Nat Pendleton, penthouse, Phillips Holmes, pre-Code, Robert Emmett O'Connor, W.S. Van Dyke, Warner Archive, Warner Baxter

“She Came from Montana” – Myrna Loy as Covered by Newspapers of the 1920s

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Myrna Loy 1920s 5x7 Fan Photo

Local girl Myrna Loy featured in a Helena, Montana, newspaper article from 1926, plus some other old Loy clippings and pre-Thin Man biography and information.

Filed Under: News - Notes, Research Tagged With: Myrna Loy, pretty ladies, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

John Wayne on Football and Movies from a 1933 Newspaper Interview

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

John Wayne 1955 Kane Products trading card

The Big Trail’s flop was still fresh on the mind of John Wayne during a 1933 interview when he thought he’d hit it big as a B western star.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: b-westerns, John Wayne, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

Tony Martin, 1913-2012

August 1, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Tony Martin 1940s Engravotints Weight Machine Card

Singer-actor Tony Martin died Friday at age 98. Remembering the versatile performer who earned four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. With links to other impressive remembrances of Martin.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Alice Faye, cyd charisse, obituary, tony martin

John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) Starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor

July 31, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

John Wayne in Stagecoach

The classic John Ford western Stagecoach (1939) is a movie for everybody. Forget genre prejudices and thrill to John Wayne, Claire Trevor and all of the rest of one of the richest supporting casts you’ll ever encounter.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1939, Andy Devine, berton churchill, claire trevor, Donald Meek, ernest haycox, George Bancroft, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, louise platt, stagecoach, Thomas Mitchell, tim holt, tom tyler, Westerns

August 2012 TCM Summer Under the Stars Preview and Recommendations

July 30, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 12 Comments

Kay Francis 1938 Polo L Tobacco Card

TCM Summer Under the Stars 2012 preview with recommendations for most days. A rundown covering each of the 31 days. Plus the usual tally along with the first annual Oldies Ranks for fellow classic movie obsessives.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: previews, schedules, Summer Under the Stars, suts, suts 2012, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

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