Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones in their Oscar-winning performances in Elmer Gantry (Nov. 17, 10:45 PM)
We're into the first full week of a new month, and that means that once again it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This time, that star is Burt Lancaster, since his birthday is in November; indeed, he was already Star of the Month back in November 2013 for his centenary. Lancaster's movies will be on TCM every Tuesday in November, starting in the afternoons and continuing through the prime time lineup. One good thing about this is that it gives me the chance to take a couple of the photos that I had posted back in the days when I was using Photobucket to host my pictures, and re-upload them to Blogger. Not that I care about Google having my classic Hollywood publicity stills and movie photos, since they're not really mine to begin with.
Burt Lancaster in The Killers (Nov. 3, 8:00 PM)
As far as I can tell, the tribute is roughly chronological, in the sense that the movies aren't strictly in chronological order, but each week is a later period in Lancaster's career than the preceding week. So today's first day is the 1940s and some 1950s; Nov. 10 is mostly 1950s; the 17th focuses on the 1960s; and the last week is the 1970s and the couple of 1980s films Lancaster made at the end of his career. This, as opposed to some tributes that group movies together by genre.
Burt Lancaster romping on the beach with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity (Nov. 10, 8:00 PM)
As an example, From Here to Eternity of course won Oscar's Best Picture for 1953, and it kicks off the prime time portion of the lineup at 8:00 PM on November 10. Immediately preceding that is Sweet Smell of Success, at 6:00 PM, although that movie was released a couple of years later.
Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success (Nov. 10, 6:00 PM)
Finally, I'd like to mention that I'm always thrilled to see another showing of Seven Days in May (Nov. 17, 2:00 PM), since the idea of the permanent bureaucracy and politicized officer corps of the military trying to do an end-around against a democractically elected president is something that's still relevant today.
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