Today is July 31, which of course means that tomorrow is August 1. That means that once again it's time for TCM's annual Summer Under the Stars. As always, each day in August means 24 hours of the films of a different star. The first thing this means is that tonight's Noir Alley selection, Hollow Triumph overnight at 12:30 AM (or late this evening in more westerly time zones) is the only one; there's no repeat of Noir Alley at 10:00 AM Sunday. In fact, Noir Alley takes a break for the entire month, as far as I can tell. The movie in next Sunday morning's slot is Neptune's Daughter for that day's star Esther Williams. I'd like to see Eddie Muller fit that one into the noir cycle.
By the same token, of course, there's no Silent Sunday Nights, TCM Imports, or the Saturday matinee block. In some ways that's a shame, especially since silents and foreign films don't show up all that often on TCM as is, but of course Summer Under the Stars is one of TCM's programming ideas designed to advertise to less casual movie fans, much like the often maligned 31 Days of Oscar.
That having been said, the website renovation at tcm.com that occured last September currently doesn't seem to have anything up on Summer Under the Stars, and when I did a search on it, there were no results yielded, which makes no sense. It's may, however, just be a problem with the tcm.com search function. I remembered that the website for Summer Under the Stars was https://www.tcm.com/summer">tcm.com/summer, although at it turns out that actually resolves into summer.tcm.com instead, giving you this year's schedule.
I had only looked at the first week's schedule, usually planning out my movie viewing about a week in advance, noticing that the month starts off tomorrow with Bette Davis, with a mix of her well-known movies like the Oscar-winning performance in Jezebel at 8:00 PM, and lesser-remembered movies such as Marked Woman kicking the day off at 6:00 AM.
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