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Another #SummerUndertheStars in the books. This year I went for more off the beaten path films than straight classics, there are so many gems in film history. My four favorites of the month are below. #TCM #SUTS
September 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Another #SummerUndertheStars in the books. This year I went for more off the beaten path films than straight classics, there are so many gems in film history. My four favorites of the month are below. #TCM #SUTS
Day 31: Closing out 2025's #SummerUndertheStars with the inimitable Irene Dunne! Ending a month long marathon with a screwball comedy just feels right. #TCM #SUTS
August 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Day 31: Closing out 2025's #SummerUndertheStars with the inimitable Irene Dunne! Ending a month long marathon with a screwball comedy just feels right. #TCM #SUTS
Day 30: I'm reaching the end of #SummerUndertheStars, the final male star of the month is Kirk Douglas. Watching his big Oscar breakthrough! #TCM #SUTS
August 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Day 30: I'm reaching the end of #SummerUndertheStars, the final male star of the month is Kirk Douglas. Watching his big Oscar breakthrough! #TCM #SUTS
Day 29: While looking through the selections for Alexis Smith's #SummerUndertheStars, nothing particularly jumped out to me so I decided to go with what seemed most fun, a historical mystery based on a very early detective novel. #TCM #SUTS
August 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Day 29: While looking through the selections for Alexis Smith's #SummerUndertheStars, nothing particularly jumped out to me so I decided to go with what seemed most fun, a historical mystery based on a very early detective novel. #TCM #SUTS
Day 28: The obvious choice for Donald O'Connor's #SummerUndertheStars was a musical, but upon learning he starred in a franchise alongside a talking mule, I just couldn't resist! #TCM #SUTS
August 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Day 28: The obvious choice for Donald O'Connor's #SummerUndertheStars was a musical, but upon learning he starred in a franchise alongside a talking mule, I just couldn't resist! #TCM #SUTS
Day 27: After six straight days of movies from the Sixties, jumping way back for my earliest #SummerUndertheStars selection, starring Joan Crawford and based on a short story from one of my favorite writers! #TCM #SUTS
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Day 27: After six straight days of movies from the Sixties, jumping way back for my earliest #SummerUndertheStars selection, starring Joan Crawford and based on a short story from one of my favorite writers! #TCM #SUTS
Day 26: Tom Courtenay is an inspired choice for #SummerUndertheStars, what an eclectic career. I've only seen his later career work, so going for an early breakthrough role. #TCM #SUTS
August 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Day 26: Tom Courtenay is an inspired choice for #SummerUndertheStars, what an eclectic career. I've only seen his later career work, so going for an early breakthrough role. #TCM #SUTS
Day 25: Shirley Jones won an Oscar for playing very against type, and in one of the Academy's favorite types of roles. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Day 25: Shirley Jones won an Oscar for playing very against type, and in one of the Academy's favorite types of roles. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 24: Henry Fonda played the President of the United States a few times, but this looks like his most interesting time in the Oval Office. Curious how his screen persona fits with the Cold War setting. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Day 24: Henry Fonda played the President of the United States a few times, but this looks like his most interesting time in the Oval Office. Curious how his screen persona fits with the Cold War setting. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 23: Gina Lollobrigida has one of those names that just sticks in your brain, even when you haven't seen any of her films like I have. Excited to see my first Lollobrigida! #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Day 23: Gina Lollobrigida has one of those names that just sticks in your brain, even when you haven't seen any of her films like I have. Excited to see my first Lollobrigida! #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 22: I decided that for Frank Sinatra's #SummerUndertheStars I'd delve into the Rat Pack era of his career, one I'm not super familiar with. #TCM #SUTS
August 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Day 22: I decided that for Frank Sinatra's #SummerUndertheStars I'd delve into the Rat Pack era of his career, one I'm not super familiar with. #TCM #SUTS
Day 21: Patricia Neal is one of those performers with a wholly unique screen presence, spiky and world-weary. She had an incredibly difficult life, and this film was a big Hollywood comeback. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Day 21: Patricia Neal is one of those performers with a wholly unique screen presence, spiky and world-weary. She had an incredibly difficult life, and this film was a big Hollywood comeback. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 20: Decided to go for a later career highlight for James Cagney's #SummerUndertheStars, pairing him with Doris Day. It combines his two famous genres, the musical and the gangster flick. #TCM #SUTS
August 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Day 20: Decided to go for a later career highlight for James Cagney's #SummerUndertheStars, pairing him with Doris Day. It combines his two famous genres, the musical and the gangster flick. #TCM #SUTS
Day 19: I love a good biblical epic, and DeMille is the genre's connoisseur. Every single poster I've seen of this movie is fantastically sexy, Hedy Lamarr is just stunning and a perfect Delilah.
#SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
#SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Day 19: I love a good biblical epic, and DeMille is the genre's connoisseur. Every single poster I've seen of this movie is fantastically sexy, Hedy Lamarr is just stunning and a perfect Delilah.
#SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
#SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 18: For James Gleason's #SummerUndertheStars tribute I couldn't resist continuing my favorite 1930's film series, where he has downright palpable romantic chemistry with the always delightful Edna May Oliver. #TCM #SUTS
August 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Day 18: For James Gleason's #SummerUndertheStars tribute I couldn't resist continuing my favorite 1930's film series, where he has downright palpable romantic chemistry with the always delightful Edna May Oliver. #TCM #SUTS
Day 17: I realized when this year's #SummerUndertheStars lineup was revealed that I have shamefully seen exactly zero movies starring Jennifer Jones. What that does mean is that my introduction to her will be the same as 1943 audiences, in her Oscar winning breakthrough role. #TCM #SUTS
August 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Day 17: I realized when this year's #SummerUndertheStars lineup was revealed that I have shamefully seen exactly zero movies starring Jennifer Jones. What that does mean is that my introduction to her will be the same as 1943 audiences, in her Oscar winning breakthrough role. #TCM #SUTS
Day 16: Charles Bronson is a wonderful choice for #SummerUndertheStars, surely one of the earliest action stars a decade before the 80s juggernauts of the genre truly bloomed. #TCM #SUTS
August 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Day 16: Charles Bronson is a wonderful choice for #SummerUndertheStars, surely one of the earliest action stars a decade before the 80s juggernauts of the genre truly bloomed. #TCM #SUTS
Day 15: I've only seen Janet Leigh in very, very serious and dark movies, so for her #SummerUndertheStars I decided to go with something light and cute instead! #TCM #SUTS
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Day 15: I've only seen Janet Leigh in very, very serious and dark movies, so for her #SummerUndertheStars I decided to go with something light and cute instead! #TCM #SUTS
Day 14: Sterling Hayden has a fascinating filmography, a lot of interesting B-pictures with a few massive classics sprinkled in. I'm going with his first Kubrick collaboration for #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Day 14: Sterling Hayden has a fascinating filmography, a lot of interesting B-pictures with a few massive classics sprinkled in. I'm going with his first Kubrick collaboration for #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 13: While perusing the selections for Shirley MacLaine's #SummerUndertheStars, I realized that I've mostly seen her work from the 80s onwards, before that only few 50s films and essentially nothing at all from the 60s. Happy to rectify that! #TCM #SUTS
August 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Day 13: While perusing the selections for Shirley MacLaine's #SummerUndertheStars, I realized that I've mostly seen her work from the 80s onwards, before that only few 50s films and essentially nothing at all from the 60s. Happy to rectify that! #TCM #SUTS
Day 12: I shamefully must admit that I haven't seen a single film starring Pedro Armendáriz. Excited to give one of his Mexican films a shot! TCM is showing it dubbed, but I'm watching in the original Spanish. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Day 12: I shamefully must admit that I haven't seen a single film starring Pedro Armendáriz. Excited to give one of his Mexican films a shot! TCM is showing it dubbed, but I'm watching in the original Spanish. #SummerUndertheStars #TCM #SUTS
Day 11: Glenda Farrell is one of those quintessential 1930's broads--you know she's always gonna serve you a quip and a damn good time. I couldn't resist a character name like Torchy Blane for #SummerUndertheStars! #TCM #SUTS
August 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Day 11: Glenda Farrell is one of those quintessential 1930's broads--you know she's always gonna serve you a quip and a damn good time. I couldn't resist a character name like Torchy Blane for #SummerUndertheStars! #TCM #SUTS
Day 10: I always like to try and watch a previously unseen Best Picture winner for #SummerUndertheStars, and this year it's Clark Gable who delivers (helps that he had 3 in the 30's)! #TCM #SUTS
August 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Day 10: I always like to try and watch a previously unseen Best Picture winner for #SummerUndertheStars, and this year it's Clark Gable who delivers (helps that he had 3 in the 30's)! #TCM #SUTS
Day 9: I couldn't resist the curiosity of what such a modern actress like Elizabeth Taylor doing Shakespeare would look like
for her #SummerUndertheStars day. #TCM #SUTS
for her #SummerUndertheStars day. #TCM #SUTS
August 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Day 9: I couldn't resist the curiosity of what such a modern actress like Elizabeth Taylor doing Shakespeare would look like
for her #SummerUndertheStars day. #TCM #SUTS
for her #SummerUndertheStars day. #TCM #SUTS
Day 8: My choices for this year's #SummerUndertheStars didn't include any Westerns, so it felt right to switch last minute for famous TV cowboy James Garner. #TCM #SUTS
August 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Day 8: My choices for this year's #SummerUndertheStars didn't include any Westerns, so it felt right to switch last minute for famous TV cowboy James Garner. #TCM #SUTS