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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/2 4:15pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	All this month, TCM will be celebrating what's often called "Hollywood's greatest year", showing 39 movies from 1939. It all starts tonight, with The Wizard of Oz at 5pm Pacific, and continues every Thursday this month.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/2 5:39pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	5:00pm [Musical] Wizard Of Oz, The (1939) A Kansas farm girl dreams herself into a magical land where she must fight a wicked witch to escape. Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr Dir: King Vidor C-102 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me] 7:00pm [Documentary] 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009) This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special. BW-68 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me] 8:15pm [Comedy] Women, The (1939) A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland Dir: George Cukor BW-133 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me] 10:30pm [Comedy] Ninotchka (1939) A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-111 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me] 12:30am [Musical] Babes in Arms (1939) A group of second-generation entertainers puts on a show to launch their careers. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee Dir: Busby Berkeley BW-96 mins, TV-G "The Women" was directed by George Cukor, and "Ninotchka" was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and written by Billy Wilder.
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 Registered: Aug '08	Date Posted: 7/2 6:13pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	"The Women" was MGM's consolation prize for all the contenders for the role of Scarlett O'Hara. And of course Cukor was (one of) the original director(s) of Gone with the Wind. -----signature----- "Chance makes playthings of us all." -- Seneca Shameless non-Manager Emeritus sock of Vortigern99. Fan of George RR Martin, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien.
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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/2 6:45pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Actually, the fun lasts until well into Friday morning, with 4 more movies from 1939: 2:15am Story Of Vernon And Irene Castle, The (1939) True story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan Dir: H. C. Potter BW-94 mins, TV-G 4:00am Idiot's Delight (1939) A hoofer and a fake Russian countess are caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of World War II. Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn Dir: Clarence Brown BW-110 mins, TV-G 6:00am Bachelor Mother (1939) A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson Dir: Garson Kanin BW-82 mins, TV-G 7:30am Little Princess, The (1939) When her father is reported dead in war, his daughter fights harsh conditions at her boarding school. Cast: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter Dir: Walter Lang C-93 mins, TV-G
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/2 7:32pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	I can recommend "Bachelor Mother"; it's a very, very funny comedy.
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Drac39 Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 7/2 10:18pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Of Mice and Men deserves some recognition -----signature----- "That's all there is to life, just a little laugh... a little tear"- Lon Chaney
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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/2 11:39pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Zaz posted: I can recommend "Bachelor Mother"; it's a very, very funny comedy. It's also a lot better than the 1956 remake, Bundle of Joy, starring Carrie Fisher's parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/3 7:55pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Oh, GOD, yes. I once tried to watch that one. Eddy Fisher is a hole in the screen.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 7/3 8:04pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	The documentaries they ran the last few nights on TCM, one on gangster films and one on the 1939 motherlode of great films, were both great. Put things in context. I think they timed the gangster documentary to coincide with the release of Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/3 8:05pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Probably...
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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/4 1:59pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	JohnWesleyDowney posted: I think they timed the gangster documentary to coincide with the release of Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Uh, yes and no. Everything on last Wednesday's schedule was part of a "Public Enemies" theme, that did in fact appear to be synchronized with the release of Mann's movie. TCM has also been running short promos about it (technically not ads). But the documentary had been shown once or twice before on TCM, it was shown for the first time last year and is also a bonus feature in the latest DVD boxset of WHV Gangster Movies.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/4 2:11pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Can't wait for next Thursday...
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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/9 5:10pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Zaz posted: Can't wait for next Thursday... Well, it's here. Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific just started - it's not every day that TCM can show a Paramount movie. Dodge City, Stagecoach and The Oklahoma Kid will be on later tonight.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 7/10 8:03am Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	"Stagecoach" was the best of the bunch...
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 7/10 2:14pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Isn't Oklahoma Kid the one with Cagney and Bogart? I always wanted to see it just for that. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Boba Jr Registered: Dec '98	Date Posted: 7/10 2:57pm Subject: Turner Classic Movies celebrates the movies of 1939
	Yes, they were these BIG hats.
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