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Summer Under The Stars - Lucille Ball:The Fuller Brush GirlPlaying this month on TCMLucy's last big-screen slapstick farce before her sitcom career hit its stride finds her as a door-to-door saleslady who finds herself accused of murder, and has to stay steps ahead of both the cops and the real killers until she can clear her name. TCM's come knocking with the details on how this favorite farce took shape, and you can listen to their pitch if you click here. Only $19.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Charles Laughton:The Canterville GhostPlaying this month on TCMThis enduringly enchanting take on the Oscar Wilde tale offered Laughton as the cowardly, castle-bound spectre hoping for some display of family bravery to end his centuries-long curse, and finds his chance in descendants Margaret O'Brien and Robert Young. TCM's scared up some production trivia on this oft-filmed family favorite, and you'll find their ghost writing if you click here. Only $17.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Lucille Ball:Miss Grant Takes RichmondPlaying this month on TCMThis rollicking, Runyonesque comedy offers William Holden as a sly bookie who sets up a faux real estate office as a front for his operations, and Lucy as his naive secretarial hire who causes complications as she takes the business legit. TCM's laying odds that you haven't heard the backstory on this charmer from Columbia, and you can check out the spread if you click here. Only $19.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Charles Laughton:Hobson's ChoicePlaying this month on TCMDavid Lean's crisp, memorable rendering of the Harold Brighouse play featured Laughton as the blustering bootsmith who mistakenly thinks he can keep unmarried daughter Brenda De Banzie under his thumb forever--until she hires star cobbler John Mills away to start a rival shop. TCM's laced up all the on-set intrigues with the notoriously troublesome star, and you can try them on for size if you click here. Only $35.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Claudette Colbert:Three Came HomePlaying this month on TCMColbert took on an uncharacteristically gritty project with this harrowing adaptation of the memoir of Agnes Newton Keith, the American author whose family was caught up in the Japanese invasion of Borneo during WWII, and whose hope for reunion sustained her through through years in a POW camp. The grueling production had its impact on the actress in several respects, and TCM will bring the facts to light if you click here. Only $8.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Conrad Veidt:The Cabinet Of Dr. CaligariPlaying this month on TCMThe silent-era touchstone of the German Expressionist movement remains as riveting as ever, due in no small measure to Veidt's perturbing work as the somnambulist slave set upon a terrified townsfolk by carnival charlatan Werner Krauss. TCM will awaken your interest with its appreciation for this impactful chiller, and you can catch all the angles if you click here. Only $19.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Claudette Colbert:It's A Wonderful WorldPlaying this month on TCMThis often-overlooked latter-day screwballer teams James Stewart as a young private eye on the run trying to exonerate himself and his rich client from a murder rap, and Claudette as the famous poet that he kidnaps in the course of his travails. Colbert had her issues with director W.S. Van Dyke, and TCM will keep the meter running on the skinny if you click here. Only $17.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Conrad Veidt:The Thief Of BagdadPlaying this month on TCMA genuine landmark in the history of fantasy cinema, producer Alexander Korda's spectacularly mounted Arabian fable of a canny young thief (Sabu) and deposed prince (John Justin) battling the designs of a treacherous vizier (Veidt) still thrills and delights its viewers. TCM has conjured up a 1001 nights' worth of backstory about this fanciful tale's creation, and it will magically appear if you click here. Only $35.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Joan Blondell:Cry 'Havoc'Playing this month on TCMJoan held her own amongst an all-woman ensemble (including Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Fay Bainter and Marsha Hunt) in this flag-waving foray concerning Army nurses holed up in a Bataan bomb shelter with Japanese incoming imminent. TCM has its take on the publicists' efforts to gin up a rivalry between brassy blondes Blondell and Sothern, and it'll be on the radar if you click here. Only $17.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Howard Keel:Show BoatPlaying this month on TCMKeel's robust take on gambler-turned-performer Gaylord Ravenal was one of the many virtues of MGM's lavish redo of the Hammerstein/Kern stage musical favorite. From the building and final fate of the Cotton Blossom to the machinations behind Ava Gardner's vocal performance, TCM's got all the ballyhoo, and you can ring up the curtain if you click here. Only $16.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Joan Blondell:ColleenPlaying this month on TCMAnother co-starring effort for Joan and husband-to-be Dick Powell casts her as a gold digger set up in a dress business by wacky sugar daddy Hugh Herbert, and Powell as the nephew whose determination to close the shop down founders on his feelings for store bookeeper Ruby Keeler. TCM's fitted out a tribute to this WB musical confection, and you can slip it on if you click here. Only $17.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |
Summer Under The Stars - Howard Keel:Lovely To Look AtPlaying this month on TCMThe compositions of Jerome Kern buoy this lively remake of Roberta featuring Keel, Red Skleton and Gower Champion as wannabe Broadway producers seeking to leverage Red's inheritance of a Paris dress salon into their big break. TCM's measured out the factoids, including when Vincente Minnelli had to step in the director's chair for Mervyn LeRoy, and they'll be lovely to look at if you click here. Only $17.99 Add to basket FIND OUT MORE AT TCM |