Well August was certainly a busy month for me movie wise! There were so many great movies airing for TCM's Summer Under the Stars. I was most excited for the days devoted to Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan. I also was able to get even more acquainted with Greer Garson and watch my first real Esther Williams swimming movie (I'd only seen The Hoodlum Saint and Easy to Wed) on Ricardo Montalban day. What days were you the most excited for/watched the most movies on? Did one of the features stars become a new favorite?
Not listed below as I didn't watch the entire movie but I also watched the first 30 or so minutes of the (definitely!) French film La Ronde (1950) for the segment with Simone Simon.
- Today We Live (1933) - Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
- The Unguarded Hour (1936) - Franchot Tone & Loretta Young, Roland Young, Lewis Stone
- The Sisters (1938) - Bette Davis & Errol Flynn
- The Mad Miss Manton (1938) - Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda
- Remember? (1939) - Robert Taylor & Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke
- Wings for the Eagle (1942) - Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Jack Carson
- What a Woman! (1943) - Rosalind Russell & Brian Aherne
- The Desert Song (1943) - Dennis Morgan
- *The Very Thought of You (1944) - Dennis Morgan & Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark & Faye Emerson
- Shine on Harvest Moon (1944) - Dennis Morgan & Ann Sheridan, Jack Carson
- Cover Girl (1944) - Rita Hayworth & Gene Kelly, Eve Arden
- The Locket (1946) - Larraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
- The Late George Apley (1947) - Ronald Colman
- On an Island with You (1948) - Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante
- Three Husbands (1950) - Eve Arden
- The Law and the Lady (1951) - Greer Garson, Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main
- Niagara (1953) - Marilyn Monroe & Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
- Jeopardy (1953) - Barbara Stanwyck & Ralph Meeker
- Her Twelve Men (1954) - Greer Garson & Robert Ryan, Tim Considine
- Valley of the Kings (1954) - Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker
- Many Rivers to Cross (1955) - Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker
- *Lilies of the Field (1963) - Sidney Poitier
- Shenandoah (1965) - James Stewart, Doug McClure, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross, Glenn Corbett
- Do Not Disturb (1965) - Doris Day & Rod Taylor
- The Liquidator (1966) - Rod Taylor & Jill St. John
- The Undefeated (1969) - John Wayne, Rock Hudson
- Mrs. Brown (1997) - Judi Dench, Billy Connolly
- Allied (2016) - Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris
- Moana (2016) - Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson
Favorite Movie of the Month: Niagara was all kinds of amazing. Valley of the Kings was pretty exciting too, even with the clichés.
Oh, good! I'm not the only person who likes Niagara fairly well.
ReplyDeleteIt was so good!! I really want it on Blu-ray. I took so many screenshots! It was also cool because I've been to the American side of the falls :)
DeleteI was pleased to see Eleanor Parker in the line up also since I've fallen in love with her this year. But I agree with you about Many Rivers to Cross. Taylor and Parker just don't fit their roles. Looks like you watched quite a few fun films. The Mad Miss Manton is one of my favorites!
ReplyDeleteI've liked her for a couple years now and with her SUTS day I'm infatuated with her again. I'm trying to watch as many of her films as possible. I really want to get her one biography. I wish there was more books about her!
DeleteThe Mad Miss Manton was so funny!!!
A movie with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn! How cool! I need to see it!
ReplyDeleteAugust wasn't a very good movie watching month, too much work. I only saw 3 and a half new to me movies! I always miss Summer Under the Stars, hopefully next year I will get it. But, I am really hoping to watch a ton of new movies this month!
What did you think of Moana? I didn't really like it...
Talk to ya' later!
Flynn and Davis are also in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex together. Flynn looks delicious in both of them ;)
DeleteI hope you get to see SUTS next year! It really is the best month on TCM. I'm so thankful I have a dvr because so many of the movies I watched aired during the night or very early in the morning. A lot of the afternoon ones were ones they've shown more often and I've already seen.
I thought Moana was actually pretty good compared to some of Disney's other movies. I really prefer the classic Disney films though :)
Two of my all-time faves caught your eye this month, The Late George Apley and Lilies of the Field.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen it in years, but I recall getting a kick out of Many Rivers to Cross. It had, what I call, an agreeable goofiness.
My family LOVES Lilies of the Field. Wasn't it you who wrote a post on Apley? If you did though that's why I watched it.
DeleteMany Rivers did have an agreeable goofiness to it. It was mainly the accents that bothered me but the rest of the movie, especially the parts with Victor McLaglen and James Arness, was great.
You remembered my piece on The Late George Apley?! I'm very pleased. I hope the movie fell on the favourite side of the ledger.
DeleteI really enjoyed it. The family gatherings were fun, especially with Mildred Natwick. And when Apley starts talking about birds and everyone looks bored (we've all had to deal with those kind on conversations). My whole family has always been interested in birds :)
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