Preview and recommendations for May 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: Sweepings (1933) on May 5. Star of the Month is Sterling Hayden. Friday Night Spotlight on Orson Welles. Plus Immortal Ephemera site news.
TCM Recommendations April 2015; Site News
Preview and recommendations for April 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: NIGHT COURT (1932) on April 6. Star of the Month is Anthony Quinn. Post also includes a look at David Meuel’s new book and Immortal Ephemera site news.
TCM Preview & Recommendations for March 2015
Preview and recommendations for March 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: Big City Blues (1932) on March 6. TCM’s Star of the Month is Ann Sothern. Other marathons feature Guy Kibbee, Robert Donat, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Granville Bates, and the Perry Mason movies.
TCM Preview & Recommendations for January 2015
Preview and recommendations for January 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. TCM’s focus may be on Robert Redford and Neil Simon, but Loretta Young and John Barrymore are preferred here.
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.
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.
TCM Preview July 2014 – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide
TCM recommendations for July 2014 with emphasis on the Golden Age titles showing on Turner Classic Movies throughout the month. Maureen O’Hara is Star of the Month but I like the World War I spotlight best this month. Plus birthdays for Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney, even C. Aubrey Smith and additional marathons of Kay Francis and Mae West movies.
TCM Tally by Decade – 2014
A decade by decade count of the movies TCM plays each month throughout 2014. Do they play more 1960s movies than 1930s movies? The tally will tell over time. Updated through May 31.
