Red Skelton and Lucille Ball in Du Barry Was a Lady (midnight between April 14/15)
As we're in a new month, it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This time around, that star is Red Skelton, who's known for his physical comedy. His movies are going to be showing up every Monday in prime time.
I didn't quite realize it when I was scheduling posts ahead of time -- and I'm getting to the point where I'm close to a month ahead -- but I've actually got two posts on movies that are going to be showing as part of TCM's Skelton salute. Given a choice, I try not to have multiple movies starring the same person show up in fairly close proximity, in part because I also prefer to watch a variety of movies rather than a block of one star or one genre like westerns. This post is a day early because for some reason I thought the first of the Skelton posts was going to appear tomorrow; in fact, it actually shows up in the second week of the salute.
By the same token, I've actually got two movies on my DVR that are part of the final night of the salute, but am only going to be doing a post on one of them, which is actually already scheduled. Also of interest is Du Barry Was a Lady, featured in the photo above, although I blogged about that ages ago, and it's a bit more of a vehicle for Lucille Ball, I think. Indeed, I had to go out and search for a good color photo of Skelton in the movie. There are a lot of black-and-white publicity stills out there.
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