Happy Thanksgiving: Soup's On (1948) [Walt Disney Company]

TCM Christmas Schedule 2016

Thursday, December 1st

Christmas Classics

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

7:00 The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

9:00 It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

11:00 O. Henry's Full House (1952)

1:15 am Meet John Doe (1941)

3:30 Fitzwilly (1961)

Sunday, December 4

[Wish your friendly blogger a Happy Birthday today]

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

6:45 am Never Say Goodbye (1946)

8:30 A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)

10:00 Little Women (1933)

12:00 pm A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)

Monday, December 12

Christmas Classics

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

7:00 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

9:00 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

11:00 A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)

12:15 am Bachelor Mother (1939)

1:45 Bundle of Joy (1956)

3:30 Susan Slept Here (1954)

Thursday, December 15

Christmas Classics

Desk Set (1957)

7:00 pm The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

9:00 Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

11:00 Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

12:45 Desk Set (1957)

2:45 Period of Adjustment (1962)

Sunday, December 18

A Christmas Carol (1938)

6:30 am The Great Rupert (1950)

8:00 A Christmas Carol (1938)

9:15 All Mine to Give (1957)

11:00 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Thursday, December 22

Christmas Classics

Remember the Night (1940)

7:00 pm Holiday Affair (1949)

8:45 Remember the Night (1940)

10:30 A Christmas Carol (1951)

12:15 am Babes in Toyland (1934)

1:45 Little Women (1949)

4:00 A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)

Saturday, December 24

Holiday Affair (1949)

5:45 am Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)

7:00 Meet John Doe (1941)

9:15 Scrooge (1970)

11:15 It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

1:15 pm Holiday Affair (1949)

3:00 The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

5:00 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

7:00 Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

9:00 The Dolly Sisters (1945)

11:00 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

1:00 am The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

3:00 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

5:00 Going My Way (1944)

10 "Chicken Soup" Films That Will Last You Through the Winter

Chicken Soup Movie. "Films that make you feel better when you're sick, and others that you might discover when you're housebound." (48 Chicken Soup Movies)

[click on title for trailer or full movie]

The Lady Killers (1955)

Old Mrs. Wilberforce finds her world completely upside-down when a new tenant (Alec Guinness) turns out to be plotting a heist with three other criminals.

The Grass is Greener (1960)

The wife of a British Earl (Deborah Kerr) finds herself attracted to a Texas Oilman (Robert Mitchum) who visits their estate with a tourist group, When she leaves her boring husband (Cary Grant) a friend and rather annoying old flame (Jean Simmons) comes back into his life then manners and hijinks ensue.

Miranda (1948)

A regular everyday Doctor (Griffith Jones) finds himself fishing bait while on a fishing trip by a beautiful blond mermaid (Glynis Johns, "Mary Poppins") who convinces him to take her home with him.

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Divorced actors Fred Graham (Howard Keel) and Lilli Vanessi (Kathryn Grayson) still harbor feelings for one another while starring in a musical production of "The Taming of the Shrew" even with mobsters and Graham's younger girlfriend and co-star running around both on stage and off.

My Man Godfrey (1936)

It all started with a scavenger hunt which brings a "forgotten man" Godfrey Park to the rich and elite Bullock family. The older daughter (Gail Patrick) despises him for his status, the mother too ditzy to notice anything, the father (Eugene Pallette) too befuddled by all that high powered estrogen, but  there is something about the younger daughter (Carole Lombard) he rather likes. 

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Part comedy, part musical, and part pure Frank Capra wit, a hard-nosed reporter (Crosby) finds himself adopting two children while on location in an orphanage in France. Now the problem is Pete can't keep them unless he gets married so his sights land on his ex-love Emmadale (Jane Wyman) who will be getting married soon if he doesn't do something about it.

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

In order for his youngest two daughters to marry their respective beaus despite wanting all three to marry in succession, nightclub owner Eduardo Acuna (Adolphe Menjou) decides to melt his oldest daughter's heart to the idea of love. While the flowers and anonymous notes work, it is accidentally allowing an annoying out of work dancer (Fred Astaire) to play messenger which takes the situation to an even stranger place. 

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

In one of Jack Benny's rare opportunities to act, a subpar Shakespearean actor and troop-manager  in Nazi-occupied Poland discovers his actress wife (Carole Lombard) having an affair with a lieutenant. When a Polish Resistance leader comes to town with intentions of sweating out his wife in search for Lieutenant Sobinski and his men, Tura and his theater company is forced to leap into action to save Maria and getting the hell out of the country.

Summertime (1955)

A middle-aged woman (Hepburn) on her first vacation out of the United States discovers herself and her first love in Venice. 

Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)

Poetically shot before and after the assassination of JFK, "Robin and the Seven Hoods" is a parody on the great English legend now based in 1930s Chicago full of guns, violence, and jazz as well as three out of the five members of the infamous Rat Pack. 

Cartoon Fridays: Jerky Turkey (1945) [Metro Goldwyn Mayor]

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Anita Loos

Anita Loos
(1889-1981)

• First screenplay adapted to the screen was "My Baby" (1912) starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore
• First staff script writer at Triangle Film Cooperation and paid $75 a week plus a bonus for every produced script
• Assisted the French author Colette in adapting "Gigi" to the stage and launching the career of Audrey Hepburn
• Praised by MGM producer Samuel Marx as "a very valuable asset for MGM, because the studio had so many femme fatales [...] that we were always on the lookout for 'shady lady' stories. But they were problematic because of the censorship code. Anita, however, could be counted on to supply the delicate double entendre, the telling innuendo."
• Received $25 dollars for her first screenplay "He Was a College Boy" to Biograph Company
• First screen credit was for "MacBeth" (1916)
• Photoplay Magazine dubbed Loos "The Soubrette of Satire"
• First film with MGM was an adaptation of Katherine Brush's "Red-Headed Woman" starring Jean Harlow and Charles Boyer
• Got Aldous Huxley his screenwriting job at MGM
• Helped launch the career of Douglas Fairbanks, having written his first five films
• Best known for writing "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" which opened on stage in 1926 and spurned two films adaptation in 1928 (now lost) and the 1953 Marilyn Monroe vehicle.

#ManCrushMonday 10 Times Jimmy Stewart Owned the Screen

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Harvey (1950)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Rose-Marie (1936)

Shenandoah (1965)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Remake this, Not This!: Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Remake This...

The 1953 film adaptation of the musical was received lukewarmly, having been considered the first 3D musical. "Kiss Me Kate" earned $2,011,000 both in the US and Canada as well as $1,106,000 internationally, but reviews earned mixed messages. "For the voices and the playing of Miss Grayson and Mr. Keel as the acting team who work out their own domestic squabbles in romping through Shakespeare's "Shrew" are juicy and uninhibited, the costumes and settings are fine and the performers who accompany the principals are in joyous and compatible gear," Bosley Crowther of The New York Times explained. But Variety praised "under George Sidney's skilled direction, Kate unfolds smoothly all the way as it goes back and forth from the backstage story to the play within the play and works in the numerous - and brilliant - Cole Porter tunes."

Dream Cast:

Catherine Zeta Jones as Lilli Vanessi (Katherine)
Hugh Jackman as Fred Graham (Petruchio)
Kate Hudson as Lois Lane (Bianca)
Ryan Gosling as Bill Calhoun (Lucentio)
Christopher Walken as "Lippy"
Nathan Lane as "Slug"

...Not This!

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Gilda (1946)

The Lady of Shanghai (1947)

You've Never Been Lovelier (1942)

Gilda (1946)

You've Never Been Lovelier (1942)