KIM NOVAK ON TCM: JEANNE EAGELS, PICNIC, PAL JOEY – ALT FILM GUIDE
Posted by maureen on September 2nd, 2010 filed in Hot News
“Summer Under a Stars” is over, yet Kim Novak is a “star of tonight” upon Turner Classic Movies.
Five Novak vehicles expelled during a tallness of her stardom will be presented this evening: Joshua Logan‘s Oscar-nominated Picnic (1955), starring William Holden; Delbert Mann‘s fool around Middle of a Night (1958), with Fredric March; Richard Quine‘s The Notorious Landlady (1962), with Fred Astaire as well as Jack Lemmon; as well as dual destined by George Sidney: a fictionalized biopic Jeanne Eagels (1957), with Jeff Chandler, as well as a low-pitched Pal Joey (1957), with Frank Sinatra as well as Rita Hayworth.
Based on William Inge‘s play, Picnic is value examination again (and again). we don’t cruise it’s a good movie — Joshua Logan’s citation creates a little of a action/acting as well stylized — yet a underlying psychology, a amicable commentary, James Wong Howe‘s camera work, as well as Rosalind Russell have been all fascinating.
Some cruise Middle of a Night a single of a many appropriate Delbert Mann efforts, whilst Pal Joey is a single of Sinatra’s many renouned musicals.
Now, nonetheless we similar to a little of George Sidney’s cinema (Annie Get Your Gun, Show Boat, Scaramouche), we cruise which only about everybody concerned in Pal Joey strives most as well tough to have it “effortless.” The a single difference is Rita Hayworth, who single-handedly brings abyss (in further to class, wit, as well as sensuality) to Pal Joey‘s tasteless artificiality.
Schedule as well as synopses from a TCM website:
5:00pm [Drama] Picnic (1955)
A large drifter ignites passions during a parochial Labor Day picnic.
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg Dir: Joshua Logan C-113 mins.7:00pm [Drama] Jeanne Eagels (1957)
The famous thespian fights drug obsession to set up a career as well as find love.
Cast: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Drake Dir: George Sidney BW-109 mins.9:00pm [Musical] Pal Joey (1957)
An opportunistic thespian woos a rich widow to progress his career.
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols Dir: George Sidney C-109 mins.11:00pm [Drama] Middle of a Night (1959)
A widowed office worker courts a younger lady who functions for him.
Cast: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, January Norris, Lee Grant Dir: Delbert Mann BW-117 mins.1:15am Notorious Landlady, The (1962)
A youth shrewd person in London falls in adore with his landlady even yet she’s a attempted murder suspect.
Cast: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries Dir: Richard Quine BW-123 mins.
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