My selections for the annual TCM (Turner Classic Movies) Summer Under the Stars film festival that features 24 hours of films from one star each day in August.
This year, the performers selected are great, but some of the films choices for those performers are not among my favorites (many good films left out). I'm most looking forward to: Kim Novak, Eve Arden, Judy Garland, and Katharine Hepburn days because of the selections.
My criteria for selections: Must be a film on the schedule. Must be a film I've seen either in full or partially over several viewings. In a few cases the selections I've made are not films I like necessarily, but are iconic to the performer or are critically recognized films but not my particular taste. I've marked those instances with a *. Performers with films I'm not familiar with are left blank. Gregory Peck is a notable blank - only because I've not seen any of the scheduled films.
My annual labor of love:
1. Bette Davis - Jezebel (1938)
2. Richard Burton - The Night of the Iguana (1964)*
3. Kim Novak - Picnic (1955)
4. Louis Armstrong - High Society (1956)*
5. Margaret Rutherford
6. Robert Mitchum - Out of the Past (1947)*
7. Abbott and Costello
8. Esther Williams - Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
9. Kay Francis - One Way Passage (1932)
10. George Segal - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (1966)*
11. Kathryn Grayson - Show Boat (1951)*
12. Ramon Navarro - The Red Lily (1924)
13. Jane Fonda - Period of Adjustment (1962)
14. Gregory Peck
15. Judy Garland - In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
16. Robert Young - The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
17. Gloria Grahame - In a Lonely Place (1950)
18. Robert Redford - The Natural (1984)
19. Setsuko Hara
20. Van Heflin - Johnny Eager (1942)*
21. Katharine Hepburn - Alice Adams (1935)
22. Tyrone Power - The Razor's Edge (1946)
23. Eve Arden - Our Miss Brooks (1956)
24. Maurice Chevalier - Love in the Afternoon (1957)*
25. Jane Wyman - Miracle in the Rain (1956)
27. Tony Randall - Pillow Talk (1959)
28. Merle Oberon - Wuthering Heights (1939)
29. Lee Marvin - The Dirty Dozen (1967)*
30. Ingrid Bergman - Casablanca (1942)
31. James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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