A nice variety of musicals on TCM this month, including a few famous flops alongside some beloved classics. Click away for MacDonald and Eddy, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Irene Dunne, Mario Lanza, and more! Monday May 4 8:00am / Happy Go Lovely (1951) Chorus girl Vera-Ellen turns musical star when she’s romantically linked with a millionaire (David Niven)… …
Running a bit late, so I’m jotting these down quickly! You’re spared from my commentary this month… Sunday April 2 (Buddy Ebsen day!) 6:45am / Broadway Melody Of 1936 (1936) [review] 8:30am / Broadway Melody Of 1938 (1937) 10:30am / The Girl Of The Golden West (1938) 6:15pm / Sing Your Worries Away (1942) Monday April …
Lots of great, rare stuff on TCM this month, thanks to Sunday night spotlight on roadshow musicals, and a salute to the musicals of Star-of-the-Month Ann Sothern. Friday March 6 6:00am / Flying High (1931) Oddball inventor Bert Lahr comes up with a new aerocopter flying machine… now he just has to figure out how to …
Short and sweet this month, though not for any lack of musicals—within a span of about a week alone, you can catch An American in Paris, Funny Girl, or Fame on TCM! The flip side is that the “rarities” are a little scarcer for my purposes here, due to the annual Oscar history celebration. Happily, that means most of …
GetTV kicked off the holiday season earlier this month with “Happy Holidays from Bing and Frank,” the 1957 Christmas episode from the “Frank Sinatra Show”—airing again tonight in celebration of Sinatra’s 99th birthday. It’s a charming, if slightly bizarre, holiday special… as I think many classic holiday specials are. The boys certainly encourage—and partake in—some holiday libations throughout the show, …
Welcome to December, y’all! It’s been quiet here for the past couple months, but I think things have settled down a bit for me, so I should be around more starting now… with hopefully some fun stuff coming on the horizon. I can never miss one of my rare musical posts though, and TCM has some fun stuff …