An interesting assortment of rare musicals on TCM this month, featuring some Pre-Codes as well as quite a bit of Gordon MacRae. In Behind-the-Scenes news, I think I’m getting closer to having to revise my criteria for deeming a musical “rare”—currently I judge it by whether it’s available to rent on Netflix (disc or streaming). …
TCM shakes up the schedule a bit this month with some new musical selections, including one by Dorothy Arzner as part of their fantastic Trailblazing Women series! Lots of great ladies in front of the camera as well this month, too, including Maureen O’Hara, Jeanette MacDonald, Lucille Ball, June Allyson, Kathryn Grayson, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller, Cyd …
A wild assortment of rare musicals this month on TCM, and even though we’ve moved on from the Summer of Stars, we still get some big ones: Bing Crosby, Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse, and Dolores Del Rio, among many others. Keep an eye out for the Powell and Pressburger opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, for something …
As is tradition, TCM celebrates the Summer of Stars this month, highlighting one of Hollywood’s biggest legends each day this month. Luckily we get a few musical stars in there, like Fred Astaire and Debbie Reynolds, to round out the party. Monday August 3 – Adolphe Menjou 4:15pm / Broadway Gondolier (1935) American taxi driver Dick Powell takes …
Oops, this is super late! Luckily TCM overloaded the second half of the month with musicals to help me out though… Saturday, July 4 1:00am / Rosalie (1937) Eleanor Powell wows, as always, as a European princess who attracts the attention of a West Point cadet, played by Nelson Eddy. Monday, July 6 4:15pm / …
During Agent Carter‘s first-season run, my friend Katie (kawaiibetic) did a great service over on Tumblr by compiling period-accurate resources and research that related to the world explored in the now recently renewed TV show. Agent Carter is set in New York City in 1946, and follows Peggy Carter, an agent with the top secret Strategic Scientific Reserve—the people responsible for the …