TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel

[Charlie Baker]

I think I mentioned before I don't have strong opinions one way or another about George Raft.  He's this month's featured star, but they included a movie in which he has a small part--Taxi!  This is pure early 1930s Warner Brothers with two wonderful stars, lovely Loretta Young and firing-on-all-cylinders James Cagney.  Try it if you haven't seen it.  On Watch TCM for about a month.

[mariah23]

TCM Remembers David Lynch who passed away at age 78.

[mariah23]

TCM Remembers Dame Joan Plowright who passed away yesterday at age 95.

[voiceover]

I loved Plowright’s Mrs Fisher in Enchanted April, and her general astonishment at the young women in her house party (“Husbands were taken seriously, as the only true obstacle to sin!”).  Yes: she was one of those Dames, who joked in the film of that name that her American agent had promised her any role that Judi Dench “hadn’t got her paws on”.

[Fool to cry]

She was Baylene in Dinosaur!

[EtheltoTillie]

On 1/12/2025 at 9:17 PM, mariah23 said:

TCM Remembers Claude Jarman Jr. who was the last surviving member of this iconic photo.

You can catch Jarman in Intruder In the Dust, which was coincidentally shown yesterday as part of MLK Day films.  It’s on Watch TCM.  Bonus casting for EtheltoTillie is I Love Lucy’s neighbor Mrs. Trumble in a major role.