We're almost up to Summer Under the Stars!

I mentioned briefly in my morning post that tomorrow is the start of Summer Under the Stars, which is why tonight's prime time lineup has to have a pretty hard ending at 6:00 AM. As you'll recall, Summer Under the Stars means 24 hours of movies from a different star each day in the month.

This first day of August will have the movies of Henry Fonda, which is actually somewhat relevant since I mentioned he had an early career at Fox that probably should have been recognized in the TCM spotlight on Fox. And wouldn't you know it, The Grapes of Wrath is among the movies TCM is running for Henry Fonda day. It will be on overnight at 2:00 AM.

A couple of other movies are worth mentioning. First is The Mad Miss Manton, which I blogged about all the way back in November 2013. It's a fun little comedy with Barbara Stanwyck as Manton, a socialite who turns detective when she finds a dead body and then it goes missing. Fonda plays the newspaper editor who winds up becoming her boyfriend.

The Long Night is on at 12:15 PM. This one is a remake of the early French Noir Daybreak (aka Le jour se lève), starring Fonda as a man who starts off the movie holed up in an apartment under siege from the police. He begins to ponder how it came to all this. Apparently the movie got a DVD release from Kino Video many years ago, but it's now out of print.

One that seems to be in print, or at least Amazon says it'll be in stock in a week's time, is Yours, Mine, and Ours, which TCM will be running at midnight. This one, at least, is also available on Amazon's streaming service.