TCM?s tribute to Dickie Moore starts this morning at 6:15 a.m. Dickie Moore?was one of those very rare people you can watch grow up onscreen, starting when he was 11 months old. That?s when he made his screen debut, playing John Barrymore as a baby in?Beloved...
Summer Under the Stars presents Nicholas Ray’s The Lusty Men, part of TCM’s 24-hour tribute to Robert Mitchum “There never was a bull that couldn’t be rode, there never was a cowboy who couldn’t be throwed. You eat a little dirt if you have to. —Jeff McCloud Hayward...
The opening: The Mondrian carpet, the computer, clattering typewriter? the sprightly, lighthearted music tell us that it?s a comedy. Here is how I first saw?Desk Set: At about 2:30am after working a double shift, one at?Forbes?and another at?Newsweek, I got home,...
The Girl Can?t Help It?(1956),?Jailhouse Rock?(1957),?Les Girls?(1957) Two classic but revolutionary rock?n?roll movies and one golden-age Hollywood musical, made in the twilight of the genre and the studio system. If you know?The Girl Can?t Help It?it?s probably for...
There?s Always Tomorrow?starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Joan Bennett. Generally I?m down with Jeanine Basinger?s definition of a woman?s picture as one that centers on a woman and her experience, and this excellent film asks the question, Is it still a...
The Clock?(Vincente Minnelli), starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, with scenes in the Central Park Zoo, Penn Station, The Astor Hotel, and atop a double-decker bus, a slightly surreal but benign after-hours interval in which Garland and Walker finish injured...
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