Pointing to a brand new post at WarrenWilliam.com about The Woman from Monte Carlo starring Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William, and John Wray. Includes the 2014 Warren William birthday schedule on TCM.
News & Notes
Articles gathered under this heading include Cliff's monthly previews of Turner Classic Movies programming, reviews of movie books and interviews with film book authors, and site-related announcements including collectibles sales and book announcements.
TCM Preview December 2014 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
Preview and recommendations for December 2014 on Turner Classic Movies. Christmas movies and Star of the Month Cary Grant, plus daytime marathons featuring Warren William, Edward G. Robinson, Henry Fonda, and director King Vidor.
TCM Preview November 2014 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
Preview and recommendations for November 2014 on Turner Classic Movies. Various silent stars in several major silent films stand in for the more traditional Star of the Month. Other highlights include a Joel McCrea birthday tribute and a marathon of The Whistler.
TCM Preview October 2014 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
Preview and recommendations for October 2014 on Turner Classic Movies. Janet Leigh is Star of the Month and horror movies play throughout the month, but not any of the Universal classics. Highlights include mini-marathons of movies starring Tom Keene, Richard Dix, Sally Blane, and Lowell Sherman, plus films from producer William Le Baron and director John Francis Dillon.
RIP At Last, Joe Donahue, 1899–1943
It took a little time to procure the proper documents, but the IMDb has accepted changes regarding the date of death for Marilyn Miller’s Sunny co-star, Joe Donahue.
Pre-Code eBook for Kindle Now Available
11 Pre-Code Hollywood Movie Histories: Early Depression-Era Melodramas, Adaptations, and Headline Stories Kindle eBook is now for sale. Includes two exclusive entries, For the Defense (1930) and Only Yesterday (1933). Articles about 11 pre-Code movies that variously look at source material, pre-production notes, casting changes, basic story and plot, the history behind any story elements unique to their time, brief biographies of key film players, and other relevant aspects of each film.
Interviewed by BBC Newcastle About Paul Cavanagh
Shortly after Case No. 9840 revealed actor Paul Cavanagh as William Atkinson, a BBC journalist discovered even more information. Jordan Allen and I recently discussed Paul Cavanagh on BBC Newcastle. Listen here.
The Infinite Possibilities of Hemingway’s The Killers
Classic 1946 film noir The Killers is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway, but only for the first few minutes. Hemingway has nothing to do with the story after the Swede is killed. The later 1964 film adaptation proves how flexible Hemingway’s story is, as it spins a completely different movie out of the 1927 short story.
TCM Preview September 2014 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
Preview and recommendations for September 2014 on Turner Classic Movies. A especially heavy month for recommendations, highlighted by Classic Pre-Code on Friday nights and Melvyn Douglas as Star of the Month.
Charlie Chaplin Picto-Sked for TCM Summer Under the Stars 2014
Picto-Sked returns to illustrate each of the sixteen Charlie Chaplin movies showing during TCM’s Summer Under the Stars with vintage period newspaper advertisements posted under each title.
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