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Star of the Month: John Garfield
TCM, beginning at 7 p.m.
Famed actor John Garfield, born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, is remembered each Tuesday this month on Turner Classic Movies with an evening of his films. Garfield did not have as long a career as he should have — in 1951, he was among those in Hollywood who were blacklisted during the “red scare,” and he died the following year at age 39.
But the actor left a memorable body of work and is especially remembered for his frequent performances as brooding, working-class characters in often dark films. Tonight’s lineup features a number of those appearances in crime dramas and film noirs, beginning with one of Garfield’s most famous roles, costarring as a drifter alongside Lana Turner’s femme fatale in the iconic noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (pictured) (1946). Also tonight: Force of Evil (1948),
He Ran All the Way (1951, Garfield’s final film), Nobody Lives Forever (1946), East of the River (1940), Out of the Fog (1941) and Blackwell’s Island (1939).