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#PreCodeApril Thread.
Feels appropriate to start off with photographer A.L. “Whitey” Schafer’s wonderful Thou Shalt Not image, created in 1941 to satirise the Hays Code restrictions. More background here: ladailymirror.com/2013/11/04/mar…
Feels appropriate to start off with photographer A.L. “Whitey” Schafer’s wonderful Thou Shalt Not image, created in 1941 to satirise the Hays Code restrictions. More background here: ladailymirror.com/2013/11/04/mar…
Here’s my @letterboxd list of over 800 #PreCode films (I’m still adding to it). The top 50 are personal favourites / recommendations / Pre-Code must-sees. Also, everything from around 650 onwards is on the Pre-Code Movies YouTube channel. #PreCodeApril letterboxd.com/filmfan1971/li…
A big thank you again to @CookieNScreen and @filmstoriespod for helping me to spread the word about #PreCodeApril with this interview. filmstories.co.uk/news/old-movie…
Sammy Davis, Jr. [Thread 1/]
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
I saw him in concert 4 times. As a Democrat, at 16 I went to the 1972 GOP convention rally in Miami only to see Sammy perform. I sat in the 1st row, shook Sammy's hand & eventually gave it back. The Sammy & Nixon hug:
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
I saw him in concert 4 times. As a Democrat, at 16 I went to the 1972 GOP convention rally in Miami only to see Sammy perform. I sat in the 1st row, shook Sammy's hand & eventually gave it back. The Sammy & Nixon hug:
Remembering Sammy Davis, Jr. [Thread 2/]
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
February 4, 1990 ~ Full TV special (2:20:07)
This special aired 3 months before Sammy's passing.
#TCMParty
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration
February 4, 1990 ~ Full TV special (2:20:07)
This special aired 3 months before Sammy's passing.
#TCMParty
Remembering Sammy Davis, Jr. [Thread 3/]
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra,, Shirley MacLaine, Bob Hope
That's Entertainment ~ 1975 Oscars finale
#TCMParty
December 8, 1925 ~ May 16, 1990
Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra,, Shirley MacLaine, Bob Hope
That's Entertainment ~ 1975 Oscars finale
#TCMParty
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: I’m going to go through every day of @TCM’s #SummerUnderTheStars and choose my favorite film each day I'm looking forward to and then broadcast it to twitter
#LetsMovie #TCMParty #IKnowNoOneAsked
Absolutely no one:
Me: I’m going to go through every day of @TCM’s #SummerUnderTheStars and choose my favorite film each day I'm looking forward to and then broadcast it to twitter
#LetsMovie #TCMParty #IKnowNoOneAsked
Barbara Stanwyck kicks things off on 8/1. Who doesn’t love her? Tough choice but I am going with #CrimeOfPassion (11AM/ET) also starring Sterling Hayden & Raymond Burr. Stanwyck is at her absolute scheming best in this!
#SummerUnderTheStars #YesShesInThisGif #StayingOnBrand 😂
#SummerUnderTheStars #YesShesInThisGif #StayingOnBrand 😂
8/2: Rock Hudson
#SummerUndertheStars
SO hard to choose (All That Heaven Allows! Magnificent Obsession!) But I’m going with #PillowTalk (8PM/ET). Rock & Doris! Robes! Party lines! That bathtub scene! What more can you ask for? 😂
#LetsMovie
#SummerUndertheStars
SO hard to choose (All That Heaven Allows! Magnificent Obsession!) But I’m going with #PillowTalk (8PM/ET). Rock & Doris! Robes! Party lines! That bathtub scene! What more can you ask for? 😂
#LetsMovie
The fascinating thing to me about Cabaret is how it reveals ambivalence & guilt about sexual freedom and gender norms. That’s why Fosse’s version in early 70s was a big deal then & endures now. The anxieties which spawned the musical had grown exponentially. #TCMParty 1/x
I think Cabaret belongs with things like Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, which portray repression as actually demonic, but “conjured” by another bad thing: weakening of patriarchy, thus “society out of control.” Big topic of pop culture 1960-80. Maybe THE topic. 2/
Which is a neurotic distortion. In addition to increases in female power, there are two distinct things going on in Weimar: postwar sexual openness (good), and TONS of prostitution caused by poverty (bad).
But it’s all rolled into one, as a cautionary tale. 2/x
But it’s all rolled into one, as a cautionary tale. 2/x
I'm about to start live tweeting THE LAS VEGAS STORY on @tcm. Watch along for trivia tidbits, thirst gifs and more! #TCMParty
I've never seen this movie, because when I was writing my book SEDUCTION: SEX, LIES AND STARDOM IN HOWARD HUGHES'S HOLLYWOOD, I couldn't find a copy. But I still wrote had to write around it, because of the role it played in Hughes's response to the Hollywood blacklist...
The screenplay was initially written by Paul Jarrico, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who was also an open member of the Communist party. When Jarrico was subpoenaed by HUAC, Hughes fired him
In honor of tonight's @TCM broadcast of OZ, I'm doing a thread covering its convoluted history on American TV, beginning with 11/3/56 at 9 pm EST debut on CBS as final offering on a monthly series of specials that were all broadcast live. #TCMParty
Was it the first major film broadcast on network TV? No, NBC debuted MEET JOHN DOE back in 1950. MGM's first in-house film to hit the networks? Only if you ignore the three-part serializations of CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS and THE PIRATE on ABC's "MGM Parade'' earlier in 1956. #TCMParty
Was OZ first feature broadcast in color on a network? No, NBC had colorcast THE CONSTANT HUSBAND in 1955 and Olivier's HENRY V in May 1956. OZ might have been the first US feature though, because ABC showed THE PIRATE in black and white, just as they did THE RED SHOES. #TCMParty
#TheOffice — the No. 1 streaming show — will leave @Netflix + be exclusive to @NBCUniversal's new service.
Hoarding beloved movies + shows for the rights holder's branded #streaming services will soon be the law of the land. Prepare yourselves.
hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/offi…
Hoarding beloved movies + shows for the rights holder's branded #streaming services will soon be the law of the land. Prepare yourselves.
hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/offi…
The @WarnerMediaGrp streaming service — which supposedly soft-launches later this year — will reportedly be called "HBO Max"
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Branding Quiz 👨🎓
1. If you owned a vast collection of brands, and were aggregating ALL of them into one pricey, direct-to-consumer offering, would you choose to name that offering after just ONE of the brands?
2. Isn't there enough brand confusion already with HBO Now/HBO Go?
1. If you owned a vast collection of brands, and were aggregating ALL of them into one pricey, direct-to-consumer offering, would you choose to name that offering after just ONE of the brands?
2. Isn't there enough brand confusion already with HBO Now/HBO Go?
