Another one for TCM Remembers: Patty Duke has died. I didn't even know she was sick!
The reason they cast Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse in 1958's Party Girl is because they were the two remaining stars under contract to TCM.
Robert Osborne had the flu and there also was a scheduling conflict so The Essentials should start in April and the movies in March will have an intro and outro when they repeat later in the year.