Kay Francis and George Brent in The Keyhole (Mar. 17, 11:00 PM)
We've finally gotten past 31 Days of Oscar, which means that we start getting back to regular features on TCM, such as the Star of the Month. There are still three Tuesdays to go in March, which means there's enough time to have a star for whom a fair amount of movies are available. This time, the star in question is George Brent, and his movies will be on TCM for the next three Tuesdays in prime time, as well as a good portion of the mornings on Wednesdays, including April 1.
As far as I can tell, there's not any particular guiding theme for each of the three nights of Brent's turn as Star of the Month. The first night includes at least one movie I haven't blogged about in The Keyhole, at 11:00 PM tonight. The synopsis sounds familiar, but it might be a different movie I'd seen since "private detective following a woman only to fall in love with here" isn't exactly unique.
George Brent and Bette Davis in Dark Victory (Mar. 31, 8:00 PM)
A search of the blog before today didn't yield much in the way of photos of Brent, which I suppose isn't surprising considering that Brent was disproprtionately in support of one of Warner Bros.' strong female leads, such as Bette Davis in films like Dark Victory, which kicks off the third and final night of Brent's films at 8:00 PM on March 31.
I had hoped that when I searched for pictures, I'd get one from each Tuesday night of movies airing as part of this tribute. That didn't quite work out, but as it turns out the two Brent movies sitting on my DVR that I hadn't blogged about before will both be airing on the second night of the salute. So you'll be getting one Brent post next week, while the other movie (In Person with Ginger Rogers) will have to wait for another time.
Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent in The Gay Sisters (Apr. 1, 6:45 AM)
One other movie worth mentioning is You Can't Escape Forever, which will be on TCM at 3:45 AM on April 1. I don't think I've seen this one specifically, but it's the third time Warner Bros. used this particular property about a reporter getting demoted and using a new position to go after a gangster: the original movie was Hi, Nellie starring Paul Muni, and the second time was Ronald Reagan's debut film, Love Is on the Air. The story would be used a fourth time at the end of the 1940s, in a movie called The House Across the Street.
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