#FridayShort Hollywood on Parade 3

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Ruth Hussey as Norma Haven in "Married Bachelor" (1941)

Norma Haven has been a secretary to her con-man husband of 7 years (Robert Young) and is getting really fed up with the situation. Fed up with living paycheck to paycheck and fed up with Randolph's inability to find steady work outside of illegal activity. Norma ends up going out and getting a job at a department store without any help from anyone. She kicks Randolph out of the apartment after finding out he owes money and stooping so low to sell a manuscript about the psychology of marriage that he didn't even write in order to cover up the bet. He even has to pretend to be a bachelor in order to pose as the real author. During a reading of The Psychology of Marriage at the department store, Norma accidentally attracts the attention of a publisher. Randolph's sucker of a publisher. 

#ManCrushMonday Tom Neal as Al Roberts in "Detour" (1945)

Piano player Al Roberts is making his way to California just for a girl. On the way, he gets a ride from an Arizonian pill-popping bookie, but while Roberts is behind the wheel, he discovers Charles dead in the passenger seat. He dumps the body off the road knowing the police would suspect him. He assumes the bookie's identity taking the car as well as his clothes and money. But when Roberts picks up his own beautiful hitch-hiker (Ann Savage), he finds out she was also picked up by Charles and almost raped. Vera might also know how Charles really died, but she isn't talking and threatens Al that she will call the police on him although for a crime he didn't commit. In Hollywood, they sell Charles's car and discover he is the son of money ready to offer any amount for Haskell Sr.'s long estranged son. This is the beginning of the end for Roberts, who refuses to pose just for her no matter how much Vera blackmails him or is holding all the purse strings of the money Haskell already had. The incoming fight has dire consequences for the both of them.

Turner Classic Movies October 2019 Schedule

Horror Hotel (1960)

Thursday, October 3rd
Bewitched!

7:00 pm Bell, Book and Candle (1958) [TRAILER]
8:45 Horror Hotel (1960) [TRAILER]
10:15 The Devil's Own (1966) [TRAILER]
12:00 am Suspiria (1977) [TRAILER]
1:45 The Night of Dark Shadows (1971) [TRAILER]
3:30 Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) [FULL MOVIE]

The Black Cat (1934)

Thursday, October 10th
Black Magic

7:00 pm The Black Cat (1934) [TRAILER]
8:15 Curse of the Demon (1958) [TRAILER]
9:45 The Seventh Victim (1943) [TRAILER]
11:15 The Devil's Bride (The Devil Rides Out) (1968) [TRAILER]
1:00 am The Blood on Satan's Claw (1970) [TRAILER]
2:45 Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) [TRAILER]
4:30 Eye of the Devil (1966) [TRAILER]

The Uninvited (1944)

Thursday, October 17th
Ghost Stories

7:00 pm The Uninvited (1944) [TRAILER]
9:00 The Haunting (1963) [TRAILER]
11:00 The Fog (1980) [TRAILER]
12:45 am Poltergeist (1982) [TRAILER]
2:45 Kuroneko (1968) [TRAILER]
4:30 The Phantom Carriage (1921) [TRAILER]

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Thursday, October 24th
The Undead

7:00 pm Horror of Dracula (1958) [TRAILER]
8:30 The Gorgon (1964) [TRAILER]
10:15 The Plague of the Zombies (1966) [TRAILER]
12:00 am Night of the Living Dead (1968) [TRAILER]
2:00 The Hunger (1983) [TRAILER]
3:45 Nosferatu (1922) [FULL MOVIE]

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Wednesday, October 30th
Short and Sweet

7:00 pm Mad Love (1935) [TRAILER]
8:15 The Most Dangerous Game (1932) [TRAILER]
9:30 Cat People (1942) [TRAILER]
10:45 I Walked with a Zombie (1943) [TRAILER]
12:00 am The Walking Dead (1936) [CLIP]
1:15 Mark of the Vampire (1935) [TRAILER]
2:30 Little Shop of Horrors (1960) [TRAILER]
3:45 A Bucket of Blood (1959) [TRAILER]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Thursday, October 31st

5:45 am Freaks (1932) [TRAILER]
7:00 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) [CLIP]
8:45 The Bat (1959) [TRAILER]
10:15 House on Haunted Hill (1958) [TRAILER]
11:45 Black Cats and Broomsticks (1955)
12:00 am Beyond the Grave (1973) [TRAILER]
1:45 Black Sabbath (1963) [TRAILER]
3:30 Chamber of Horrors (1966) [TRAILER]
5:15 House of Wax (1953) [TRAILER]

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Horror Classics

7:00 pm Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [TRAILER]
8:30 The Devil-Doll (1936) [TRAILER]
10:00 House of Usher (1960) [TRAILER]
11:30 Pit and the Pendulum (1961) [TRAILER]
1:00 am The Haunted Palace (1963) [TRAILER]
2:45 Die, Monster, Die (1965) [TRAILER]
4:15 The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) [TRAILER]
5:45 Prince of Darkness (1966) [TRAILER]

#FridayShort "Grand Hotel" Premiere

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday Ginger Rogers as "Kitty Foyle" (1940)

Kitty Foyle is a successful saleswoman in a department store in New York City. A strong and independent woman, but her main downfall comes in two words. Wyn Stafford. (Dennis Morgan) Her ex-employer and ex-husband and father to a stillborn son. He doesn't want to lose his rich Philadelphia privilege, although a family who hates her, but Stafford doesn't want to give Kitty up even after they divorce and even after he marries someone else. Somewhere in the middle of all of that toxicity, she meets Dr. Mark Elsen (James Craig) during an accidental happenstance involving wrongly pushing the burglar alarm and feigning a fainting spell. But now the man she's been in love with for years now asks her to run away to South America with him. Elsen also has asked her to marry him, forcing Kitty to make a choice. 

#ManCrushMonday Cesar Romero as Joe Rocco in "Coney Island" (1943)

Joe Rocco is a night club owner on Coney Island and absolutely attracted to his star Kate Farley (Betty Grable). He's doing alright for himself until con-man and old friend Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) weasels himself into a job as essentially Kate's publicist. He tries to soften her image and styles her in more glamorous clothes. Over time, Eddie spends even more time with her. Rocco is getting worried, eventually finding out the two are in love with each other. 

Remake This: "The Upturned Glass" (1947)

When the "The Upturned Glass" premiered in theaters June 17, 1947, James Mason was just emotionally over with movies in general. His wife had successfully written the script and was excited about the move to Hollywood, but Mason was already slowly alienating everyone he knew. "There was precious little glamour in British films," James Mason explained in a 1945 magazine article, "in the sense that making movies was hard, not glamorous work." (Sweeney, Kevin. James Mason: A Bio-bibliography. 1999) But Mason was not entirely convinced Hollywood held the creative freedom he really wanted. The British trade papers considered "The Upturned Glass" a "notable box office" for the year, being made for £196,000 and the estimating £45,800 at the box office. (Spicer, Andrew. Sydney Box. 2006) The New York Times called "The Upturned Glass" "a story of vengeance that is too understated for its own good" and Mason in "one of his fattest roles, though he does not always make the most of the opportunities in this study..."

Ashley Walters as Michael Joyce

Fola Evans-Akingbola as Emma Wright

Kat Graham as Kate Howard

Skai Jackson as Ann Wright

Jeremy Irons as Dr. Farrell