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Movie Quote of the Day – Dying Young, 1991 (dir. Joel Schumacher)
Victor Geddes: My mother said, “You don’t have to like everything, but you have to try everything.”
Hilary O’Neil: Oh, my mother always said, “Pass the Velveeta.”
Movie Quote of the Day – Racing With The Moon, 1984 (dir. Richard Benjamin)
Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash: In the last few weeks, being around you I think about things.
Caddie Winger: Like what sort of things?
Henry ‘Hopper’ Nash: Coming back.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941 (dir. William Keighley)
Steve Collins: But, you can’t marry this man you’ve known only four days. You’ve known head waiters longer.
Movie Quote of the Day – Baby Face, 1933 (dir. Alfred E. Green)
Courtland Trenholm: You also told us how hard you had to work. When this thing happened, were you working very hard?
Lily Powers: Yeah, but not at the bank.
Courtland Trenholm: Oh, I see.
Movie Quote of the Day – Iris, 2001 (dir. Richard Eyre)
John: You love words, don’t you?
Iris: If one doesn’t have words, how does one think?
Movie Quote of the Day – Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries), 1957 (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Professor Isak Borg: What is the punishment?
Sten Alman: I don’t know. The usual, I suppose.
Professor Isak Borg: The usual?
Sten Alman: That’s right. Loneliness.
Professor Isak Borg: Loneliness?
Sten Alman: Precisely.
Professor Isak Borg: Is there no mercy?
Sten Alman: Don’t ask me. I don’t know.
Movie Quote of the Day – Alligator, 1980 (dir. Lewis Teague)
Marisa: Yeah, well, what do you need me for?
David: What does anybody need anybody for? You’re the country’s leading herpetologist, you have a wonderful mind, a doctor degree, and beautiful tits.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, 1983 (dir. Richard Marquand)
Han Solo: Together again, huh?
Luke: Wouldn’t miss it.
Han Solo: How we doin’?
Luke: Same as always.
Han Solo: That bad, huh?
TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is Back!
I haven’t had TCM for Summer Under the Stars since 2010, but that was a good year. That was basically how I became a classic film addict and someday I will be able to afford television again if only for TCM *insert Scarlet O’Hara voice here). Anyways, there’s some great new names being celebrated this year.
Turner Classic Movies’s ultimate movie star showcase – Summer Under the Stars – returns this August for its 11th year as TCM pays tribute to 31 different stars in 31 days. Sixteen of this year’s stars are being celebrated for the first time during Summer Under the Stars, including Oscar® winners Joan Fontaine (Aug. 6), Mickey Rooney (Aug. 13), Wallace Beery (Aug. 17), Hattie McDaniel (Aug. 20), Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith (Aug. 22), Charles Coburn (Aug. 24), Martin Balsam (Aug. 27), Shirley Jones (Aug. 28) and Rex Harrison (Aug. 31). Also featured for the first time will be silent heartthrob Ramón Novarro (Aug. 8); legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve (Aug. 12), whose day features six films making their TCM debuts; Ann Blyth (Aug. 16), whose marathon will air on her 85th birthday; and Mary Boland (Aug. 4) and Glenda Farrell (Aug. 29), two outstanding character actresses who never received the recognition they deserved. They will join 15 returning favorites, including Humphrey Bogart (Aug. 1), Doris Day (Aug. 2), Charlton Heston (Aug. 5), Steve McQueen (Aug. 9), Bette Davis (Aug. 14), Elizabeth Taylor (Aug. 23) and Clark Gable (Aug. 25).
In all, more than 30 films will be making their first appearances on TCM during the 2013 edition of Summer Under the Stars, including Anatole Litvak’s poignant wartime romance This Above All (1942), starring Joan Fontaine on Aug. 6; Luis Buñuel’s steamy Belle de Jour (1968), starring Catherine Deneuve on Aug. 12; Otto Preminger’s witty The Fan (1949), starring Jeanne Crain on Aug. 26; and Burt Kennedy’s boisterous The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), starring Martin Balsam on Aug. 27.
TCM’s popular franchises The Essentials, co-hosted by TCM’s Robert Osborne and Drew Barrymore, and The Essentials Jr., hosted by Bill Hader, will continue throughout Summer Under the Stars. The Essentials will feature presentations of Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on Aug. 3, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) on Aug. 10, Grand Hotel (1932) on Aug. 17, The Lady Eve (1941) on Aug. 24 and Anna and the King of Siam (1946) on Aug. 31. TCM Essentials Jr. will include the family-friendly movies Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) on Aug. 4, The Grapes of Wrath (1940) on Aug. 11, The Great Race (1965) on Aug. 18 and It Happened One Night (1934) on Aug. 25.
The following is the roster of stars who will be celebrated during TCM’s 2013 edition of Summer Under the Stars. Names in bold indicate newcomers to the month-long programming event.
- Aug. 1 – Humphrey Bogart
- Aug. 2 – Doris Day
- Aug. 3 – Alec Guinness
- Aug 4 – Mary Boland
- Aug. 5 – Charlton Heston
- Aug. 6 – Joan Fontaine
- Aug. 7 – Fred MacMurray
- Aug. 8 – Ramón Novarro
- Aug. 9 – Steve McQueen
- Aug. 10 – Lana Turner
- Aug. 11 – Henry Fonda
- Aug. 12 – Catherine Deneuve
- Aug. 13 – Mickey Rooney
- Aug. 14 – Bette Davis
- Aug. 15 – Gregory Peck
- Aug. 16 – Ann Blyth (85th birthday)
- Aug. 17 – Wallace Beery
- Aug. 18 – Natalie Wood
- Aug. 19 – Randolph Scott
- Aug. 20 – Hattie McDaniel
- Aug. 21 – William Holden
- Aug. 22 – Maggie Smith
- Aug. 23 – Elizabeth Taylor
- Aug. 24 – Charles Coburn
- Aug. 25 – Clark Gable
- Aug. 26 – Jeanne Crain
- Aug. 27 – Martin Balsam
- Aug. 28 – Shirley Jones
- Aug. 29 – Glenda Farrell
- Aug. 30 – Kirk Douglas
- Aug. 31 – Rex Harrison
A complete schedule for Summer Under the Stars is available at http://summer.tcm.com.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Journey, 1959 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Major Surov: Anything goes when people meet for the last time.
Diana Ashmore: What do you mean?
Major Surov: Go to any railway station – that’s what I mean. You’ll see people doing things they’d never do, ordinarily. They kiss, they cry, they wave. That’s the sickness of our time: people waving… Nobody waves back.
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