Happy 94th birthday to the incomparable Elaine May, shown here in her (uncredited) breakout role as “Elaine‘s Roommate Who Delivers Letter to Benjamin during Katharine Ross Voiceover” in her pal Mike Nichols’ The Graduate.
Sophia Loren would win the Academy Awsrd for a movie (Two Women) filmed literally the same year. This was not an inside joke; her award hadn’t happened yet. #TCMParty #ItHappenedInNaples
Trying to figure out the guitar chord fingering to this song, but this annoying Loren person keeps blocking my view. #TCMParty #ItHappenedInNaples
Director cameo! (and, I believe, his final screen appearance) #TCMParty #ACountessFromHongKong
I’m not sure which is more disturbing, the headline here, or that Paul Bartel’s pajamas match his headboard #Piranha #TCMParty
Piranha hits a sweet spot in my movie-going. Joe Dante’s first (sort of) major film is much fun on a low budget. I love that they spent time /money shooting this brief stop motion creature that has not much to do with the plot. Joe will be at this year’s #TCMFF #TCMParty
Heather Menzies playing the Jaws video game in #Piranha is a great acknowledgment of what the movie is doing. Yes that Heather Menzies. #TCMParty
One of the things I love about “Targets” is that I’m sure there were people seeing this (probably at a drive-in which makes the film’s climax even more meta) who had previously seen “The Terror” and who immediately erroneously thought they were being ripped off. #TCMParty
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.”
Happy National Librarians Day!
Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
Suzanne Pleshette (The Birds)
Alec McCowen (Frenzy)
Claude Rains (Notorious)
Brenda de Banzie (The Man Who Knew Too Much '56)
Mildred Natwick (The Trouble with Harry)
Henry Fonda (The Wrong Man)
Eva Marie Saint, James Mason (North by Northwest)
I saw a she-wolf drinking a Bloody Mary at Trader Vic’s, and her hair was perfect! #SheWolfOfLondon #TCMParty
“But I’m telling you my name isn’t Lassie, it’s Roger Thornhill!”
I linked this a couple weeks ago, but since TCM is saluting the wonderful June Lockhart tonight with Son of Lassie, here she is in a pretty fun cameo (near the end) of a Lassie parody episode (“Laffie”) of It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. #TCMParty youtu.be/fJ3mJQyjnmE?...
Jane Asher in ‘63/64 and in a 2023 production of The Circle. As recently as this yea she’s been doing voice work for Doctor Who #TCMParty #TheMasqueOfRedDeath
There’s something a little sad about me not watching a movie with a title like No Country for Old Men on @TCM tonight simply because the broadcast is going to run a little past my bedtime.#TCMParty
John Sayles is an amazing talent. He can write entertaining stuff like Piranha, The Howling, and Alligator for fun and money, so he can then write and direct more serious films like Matewan or Lone Star. #TCMParty
Was going crazy trying to figure out where I knew the mayor in Lone Star from then realized it was Clifton James, who played the comic relief sheriff in two Roger Moore James Bond movies #TCMParty
Saw Hangover Square on the big screen at #NoirCity today and was reminded how much it has going for it 1)Great (and tragically final) performance by Laird Cregar 2) Linda Darnell being loathsomely opportunistic, 3) Great Bernard Herrmann score, 4) Spectacular fiery and surely dangerous finale
I can’t tell you how relieved I am that the current plan, at least for now, is for this war to be shorter than World War I.
Still can’t get over the fact that nearly 60 years later we still have a day celebrating this movie that most people haven’t even seen.
Tomorrow is both Toshiro Mifune's birthday and April Fool's Day. You can honor both by sending your coworkers an official looking email from the boss tonight telling them that tomorrow is "Pants-Optional Day."
I’m watching the excellent Arrow 4K UHD of Excalibur, and reminded how much Nigel Terry’s initial performance as an awkward young Arthur is like his performance 13 years earlier as the youngest son John in The Lion in Winter.
Happy 92nd birthday to my favorite film musical female vocalist, Shirley Jones. Discovered by and put under contract to Rodgers and Hammerstein, she made her screen debut in the 1955 film adaptation of their Broadway smash Oklahoma!
Terrific Q and A with Barbara Hershey and Bruce Davison moderated by Larry Karaszewski at today’s @am_cinematheque premiere of the wonderful theatrical cut restoration of Last Summer.
Looking forward to this afternoon’s Last Summer restoration premiere!
