If you’re a fan of classic movies, you’re going to love the “Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars” movie festival. Each day in August, TCM will feature movies of a single star. Today, it’s the underrated Gene Tierney. Which stars will you watch? Here’s the complete schedule and the web site link:
August 1 – Gene Tierney
August 2 – Olivia de Havilland
August 3 – Adolphe Menjou
August 4 – Teresa Wright
August 5 – Fred Astaire
August 6 – Michael Caine
August 7 – Katharine Hepburn
August 8 – Raymond Massey
August 9 – Robert Walker
August 10 – Joan Crawford
August 11 – Rex Ingram
August 12 – Robert Mitchum
August 13 – Ann-Margaret
August 14 – Groucho Marx
August 15 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
August 16 – Patricia Neal
August 17 – Lee J. Cobb
August 18 – Vivien Leigh
August 19 – John Wayne
August 20 – Mae Clarke
August 21 – Alan Arkin
August 22 – Marlene Dietrich
August 23 – Debbie Reynolds
August 24 – Warren Oates
August 25 – Virginia Bruce
August 26 – Greta Garbo
August 27 – Monty Woolley
August 28 – Ingrid Bergman
August 29 – George C. Scott
August 30 – Gary Cooper
August 31 – Shelley Winters
Wow–what a great lineup! I’d love to be able to watch all of these, but I’ll probably do what I always do: find the movies when I go channel surfing (TCM is usually the first place I go when I turn on the tv). It is nice to see the lesser-known or underrated actors (Mae Clark, Warren Oates, Virginia Bruce) getting their due.
Gene Tierney was so beautiful– and always projected an air of fragility. I seem to remember reading somewhere that part of the plot of Agatha Christie’s THE MIRROR CRACKED was inspired by something that happened to Tierney’s child.
Deb, our DVR will be busy this month recording some of these SUMMER UNDER THE STARS movies. I agree with you on Gene Tierney: fragile but beautiful.
What! No Sonny Tufts?!?
Dan, maybe you can lobby for Sonny Tufts to be included in the 2016 SUMMER UNDER THE STARS movie festival. Of course, next August, it will be competing with the Olympics.
Nice list. I’ll probably do the same I did for the “Friday noir” movies they ran in June and July – go down the list and see which movies I haven’t seen and which interest me enough to record. (Judging by ARMORED CAR ROBBERY and THE HITCH-HIKER they should have done a William Talman day!) I’d say first look will be at the Mitchum and Warren Oates lists.
Yes, Gene Tierney was the supposed inspiration for the Christie book, as Deb said. In 1943, she gave birth to a daughter Daria who was deaf and mentally disabled, the result of a fan breaking out of rubella quarantine and infecting the pregnant Tierney while she volunteered at the Hollywood Canteen. She was married to fashion designer Oleg Cassini at the time.
Her best for me was LAURA.
Jeff, I love Gene Tierney in LAURA, too.
I believe only five of the actors on the list are still alive, including de Havilland, who turned 99 on July 1. (An aside – 100 year old Norman Lloyd played a supporting role in Amy Schumer’s TRAINWRECK.)
Jeff, Norman Lloyd was great in his role in TRAINWRECK.
FYI: LAURA is on this afternoon at 3:45. And there is a Sonny Tufts movie on one of the days.
Jeff, Dan will be watching that Sonny Tufts movie.