Today is the final day of July, which once again means that August is just about upon us, and the annual tradition of TCM's Summer Under the Stars. As always, rather than a traditional Star of the Month, each day is given over to the movies of a different star, although star is used rather broadly here because of TCM's desire to tick off demographic check boxes that weren't commonly checked during the studio era.
TCM does have a portion of their website dedicated to Summer Under the Stars, which you can find at www.tcm.com/summerunderthestars. Oddly, the front page doesn't show all the data, leaving off the films for the stars of the last week or so of August, but the link to the PDF does have all the movies.
A few quick points. The first star, tomorrow, is Lucille Ball, which is mildly surprising since her birtdhay is August 6 and it would seem more logical to honor her on her birthday. (I distinctly recall her being one of the rare weekend birthday salutes as her centenary back in 2011 fell on a Saturday.) I thought I'd blogged about Valley of the Sun (1:15 PM before), but apparently not. And then, on Thursday, August 3, there's a 24-hour salute to Stella Stevens, who died earlier this year. For better or worse, TCM don't seem to have been able to get the rights to The Poseidon Adventure.
There are also several movies on the schedule that I've watched fairly recently and have been intending to blog about here as I get through the movies I've watched more or less in order. However, with those movies coming up I'm going to be moving them forward in the posting queue and apologize if I'm off by a day on when they're airing. More on those movies when they come up in the TCM schedule.
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