Dim the lights! It’s time to settle in for that almost all welcome annual movie competition you’ve already punched your ticket to — TCM’s Summer season Beneath the Stars.
As its achieved each August since 2003, Turner Basic Motion pictures devotes every day of the month to a unique Hollywood heavyweight. That provides as much as 31 stars and 403 movies — together with a displaying of 2016’s Stay From the TCM Movie Pageant toast of Sophia Loren (6:45/5:45c) on the Italian celebrity’s day, August 30.
The Stars’ slate begins August 1, with a 14-movie salute to Lucille Ball within the queen of TV comedy’s first look on the record since 2016. Perennials embody Debbie Reynolds (August 6), Paul Newman (August 13), Fred Astaire (August 19), and James Stewart (August 21). However one spotlight of the lineup is the roster of first-timers included:
Anticipate the star to be represented by his best-known portrayal, the chilling Norman Bates in 1960’s Psycho (8/7c). However you’ll additionally see his vary throughout different titles, such because the 1957 biopic Worry Strikes Out (10/9c), the place he offers a terrific efficiency as troubled baseball participant Jimmy Piersall.
Stella Stevens in Ladies! Ladies! Ladies! (Credit score: Everett Assortment)
The day performs as a memorial tribute to Stevens, who handed away February 17 at age 84. Among the many dozen Stevens movies featured are, at 8/7c, the 1962 Elvis Presley–led musical comedy Ladies! Ladies! Ladies! (left). Additionally making its debut: 1972’s Slaughter (2am/1c) with Stevens and Jim Brown.
The choice leans closely on Cooper’s stellar profession as a toddler star. At age 9, he turned the one youngster nominated for a Finest Actor Oscar, for 1931’s Skippy (9:45/8:45c). It’s one in all 15 Cooper movies airing right here, together with 1931’s The Champ (8/7c).
The Nicholas Brothers (August 9)
Arguably the truest thrill of a day filled with Harold and Fayard Nicholas is the possibility to see all of 1943’s Stormy Climate (8/7c), which options the duo leaping from step to step in the course of the “Jumpin’ Jive” quantity.
On the one hundredth anniversary of her delivery, the glamorous Forties and ’50s “Queen of Technicolor” is represented by 13 movies; amongst them, 1949 musical comedy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court docket (11:30/10:30c).
The primary Latin American actress nominated for an Oscar will get a long-overdue day, together with her sultry presence an necessary a part of Westerns Damaged Lance (9:45/8:45c), from 1954, and 1952’s Excessive Midday (8/7c).
TCM debuts three of her 11 movies, together with 1973 drama Ana and the Wolves (10/9c).
Benefit from the father of an performing dynasty in classics similar to 1939’s Stagecoach (8/7c) and 1940’s The Grapes of Wrath (9:45/8:45c).
Summer season Beneath the Stars, Begins Tuesday, August 1, 6am/5c, TCM
