Happy Thanksgiving: Looney Tunes - "Holiday For Drumsticks" (1949)

5 More of the Best Dressed Dresses

Hilary Brooke in Edith Head
in "Ministry of Fear" (1944)

Lena Horne in Helen Rose
in "Stormy Weather" (1943)

Linda Darnell in Kay Nelson
in "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949)

Jane Greer in Edward Stevenson
in "Out of the Past" (1947)

Lena Horne in Irene
in "Cabin in the Sky" (1943)

#FridayShorts Tony Curtis Janet Leigh Universal Newsreel Compilation Parts 1 & 2

#WomanCrushWednesday 5 Times When Ruth Hussey's Hat Game was On Point

"Another Thin Man" (1939)

"Married Bachelor" (1941)

"The Philadelphia Story" (1940)

"Married Bachelor" (1941)

"The Philadelphia Story" (1940)

#ManCrushMonday Richard Conte in "Call Northside 777" (1948)

Frank Wiecek was arrested a little too quickly following the murder of a policeman in a Chicago speakeasy in 1932. He is immediately sentenced to 99 years in prison along with another man who insists he had no part in the murder either. But 11 years later, his mother puts an ad in the newspaper for information on who really killed the police officer with a reward of $5,000 without Wiecek ever knowing. Tillie, his wife, has found someone new and his own son doesn't even know who he is. Soon a reporter from the Chicago Times (Jimmy Stewart) comes around asking questions and convinces Wiecek to take a lie detector test administered by the Polygraph's inventor Leonarde Keeler himself.

4 More of the Coolest Hollywood Friendships

Joan Crawford and Cesar Romero

Linda Darnell and Lana Turner (with Turner's husband, Steven Crane)

Clark Gable and Joan Crawford

Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball

TCM Christmas 2019 Schedule

Little Women (1949)

Sunday, December 1st

11:00 am Lady in the Lake (1947) [TRAILER]
1:00 pm Little Women (1949) [TRAILER]
3:15 Holiday Affair (1949)
5:00 The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Christmas Double Feature
7:00 pm A Christmas Carol (1951) [TRAILER]
9:00 The Bishop's Wife (1947) [TRAILER]

3 Godfathers (1949)

Sunday, December 8th

11:00 am A Christmas Carol (1938) [TRAILER]
12:30 pm The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
2:45 O. Henry's Full House (1952) [FULL MOVIE]
5:00 3 Godfathers (1949)

The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

Christmas Double Feature
7:00 pm It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) [TRAILER]
9:15 The Holly and the Ivy (1952) [TRAILER]

Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Sunday, December 15th

11:00 am Lady on a Train (1945) [TRAILER]
12:45 pm It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
3:00 Bell Book and Candle (1958) [TRAILER]
5:00 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Holiday Affair (1949)

Christmas Double Feature
7:00 pm Holiday Affair (1949) [TRAILER]
9:00 Remember the Night (1940) [TRAILER]

King of Kings (1961)

Sunday, December 22nd

11:00 am A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011) [ROBERT OSBORNE'S INTRO AND OUTRO]
12:15 pm King of the Kings (1961) [TRAILER]
3:15 The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [TRAILER]

Going My Way (1944)

Christmas Double Feature
7:00 pm Going My Way (1944) [TRAILER]
9:15 The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) [TRAILER]
11:30 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
2:00 am Merry Christmas. Mr. Lawrence (1983) [TRAILER]

Monday, December 23rd

Bundle of Joy (1956)

Remakes
7:00 pm The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [TRAILER]
9:00 In the Good Old Summertime (1949) [TRAILER]
11:00 Bachelor Mother (1939) [TRAILER]
12:30 am Bundle of Joy (1956) [TRAILER]
2:30 Three Godfathers (1936) [TRAILER]
4:00 3 Godfathers (1948) [TRAILER]

It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Tuesday, December 24th

6:00 am Beyond Tomorrow (1940) [TRAILER]
7:30 Fitzwilly (1967) [TRAILER]
9:15 Period of Adjustment (1962) [TRAILER]
11:15 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
1:00 pm The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) [TRAILER]
3:00 It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
5:15 Holiday Affair (1949)

All Mine to Give (1957)

Christmas Eve
7:00 pm The Bishop's Wife (1947)
9:00 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) [TRAILER]
11:00 A Christmas Carol (1938)
12:30 am Meet John Doe (1941) [TRAILER]
2:45 All Mine to Give (1957) [ROBERT OSBORNE'S INTRO]
4:30 The Great Rupert (1950) [FULL MOVIE]

Little Women (1933)

Wednesday, December 25th

6:00 am Babes in Toyland (1934) [TRAILER]
7:30 Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) [TRAILER]
9:00 Little Women (1933) [TRAILER]
11:00 O. Henry's Full House (1952)
1:15 pm Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) [TRAILER]
3:00 The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
5:00 Susan Slept Here (1954) [TRAILER]

#FridayShorts SCREEN SNAPSHOTS Hollywood Make-Up Artists

#WomanEmpowermentWednesday #SilentEdition Lenore Coffee

Lenore Coffee got a job right out of graduating Dominican College in working as "the only girl assistant director in the business" for Louis B. Mayer. She started with selling stories to perspective actors then moved to continuity and story editing and then to writing screen titles. Coffee was offered a job to edit and title by Irving Thalberg over at Universal, but chose to work with writers than producers. 

When Garson Studios put out an advertisement in the Motion Pictures Exchange Herald for a script for their actress Clara Kimball Young, Coffee immediately answered it. The studio sent her $100 for her story, but instead of cashing the check, she sent a telegram to the studio insuring that "I am given screen recognition." When she met Henry Garson himself, she admitted she couldn't afford to move to Hollywood from San Francisco since she was supporting her mother. Garson responded immediately, "I think you're going a long way in this business. I'll pay your fare and your mother's fare. ... I'll give you fifty dollars a week on a year's contract." (Coffee, Lenore (c. 1897-1984) | Encyclopedia.com)The script she wrote for the ad manifested itself as "The Better Wife" in 1919. At Garson, Coffee considered herself a "fixer-upper" and received $1,000 a week to ten days of labor per project. 

Coffee would continue her writing at home in Mandeville Canyon and only came into the studios she worked at when necessary. "I wrote the first 20 pages and turned them in. Then I let time pass. They said, 'Where's the rest?' I said, 'I can't work away from home so let's call it off.' They liked the first pages I sent so much they told me I could work at home."

In 1938, she moved to working in the script department at Warner Brothers as the only woman in the department. During this time she also wrote a play and a novel titled Another Time, Another Place which the Los Angeles Times described as "show [ing] that a woman would be a career woman with lots of brains and have no sense." 

Coffee moved to England in 1959 with her director husband William Joyce Cowen but moved back to California, where she lived in retirement in the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills. She passed away on July 2, 1984. 

Links to Check Out

Lenore Coffee - Women Film Pioneers Project

#ManCrushMonday Kirk Douglas in "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949)

George Phipps is married to Rita and feels a little emasculated considering his wife makes more money than he does in being a story writer for radio soap operas. But he loves his job as a schoolteacher and thinks it is important despite the low pay. It also doesn't help that Rita will bend over backwards for her boss, going as far as forgetting her husband's birthday was the same night as a dinner party she gave for Mrs. Manleigh. Rita had forgotten about the whole night except for the part her enigmatic friend, Addie Ross, gives George a rare Brahms recording on vinyl. But he is witty and clearly intelligent and a good friend to Brad and his new wife Deborah, although in clear competition for Addie Ross. Sometime passes and all three women in their circle sends each of them a little that she is running off with one of their husbands.