TCM Summer Under the Stars: From Fonda to Douglas
TCM’s Summer Under the
Stars festival begins Thursday,
Aug. 1, and each day of August will be devoted to a different performer.
Henry Fonda is up first, and Kirk Douglas concludes the event Aug. 31.
Along the way, there are legends, Oscar winners, trailblazers, supporting performers and unsung figures. You’ll learn about Leila Hyams, who had a short career but starred in the offbeat “Freaks” and “Island of Lost Souls.”
Each day at 6 a.m., TCM starts 24 hours of films devoted to one actor. The evening selections usually are landmarks in the actor’s career.
Here’s a look at the performers and the nighttime movies:
■ Aug. 1: Henry Fonda, “The Lady Eve” and “12 Angry Men.”
■ Aug. 2: Ruth Hussey, “The Philadelphia Story” and “The Uninvited.”
■ Aug. 3: Marlon Brando, “On the Waterfront” and “The Wild One.”
■ Aug. 4: Shirley Temple, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “Wee Willie Winkie” and “Susannah of the Mounties.”
■ Aug. 5: Melvyn Douglas, “Ninotchka,” “I Met Him in Paris” and “Third Finger, Left Hand.”
■ Aug. 6: Lena Horne, “Stormy Weather,” “The Duke Is Tops” and “Cabin in the Sky.”
■ Aug. 7: James Stewart, “Harvey” and “Anatomy of a Murder.”
■ Aug. 8: Ava Gardner, the documentary “Ava Gardner, the Gipsy of Hollywood,” “The Killers” and “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.”
■ Aug. 9: Red Skelton, “Whistling in the Dark,” “Whistling in Dixie” and “Whistling in Brooklyn.”
■ Aug. 10: Rita Moreno, “Popi” and “West Side Story.”
■ Aug. 11: Humphrey Bogart, “The African Queen” and “The Caine Mutiny.”
■ Aug. 12: Ann Sothern, “A Letter to Three Wives,” “Cry ‘Havoc’” and “The Whales of August.”
■ Aug. 13: Brian Donlevy, “The Great McGinty,” “Beau Geste” and “The Glass Key.”
■ Aug. 14: Liv Ullmann, the documentary “Liv & Ingmar,” “Autumn Sonata” and “Hour of the Wolf.”
■ Aug. 15: Rod Steiger, “In the Heat of the Night” and “A Fistful of Dynamite.”
■ Aug. 16: Irene Dunne, “The Awful Truth” and “I Remember Mama.”
■ Aug. 17: Errol Flynn, “Captain Blood” and “Gentleman Jim.”
■ Aug. 18: Audrey Hepburn, “Sabrina,” “Funny Face” and “Charade.”
■ Aug. 19: Buster Keaton, the documentary “The Great Buster: A Celebration,” “The General” and “Sherlock Jr.”
■ Aug. 20: Dorothy McGuire, “A Summer Place” and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”
■ Aug. 21: Joel McCrea, “Sullivan’s Travels,” “The More the Merrier” and “Union Pacific.”
■ Aug. 22: Leila Hyams, “Freaks,” “The Thirteenth Chair” and “Way Out West.”
■ Aug. 23: Fred Astaire, “Top Hat,” “Swing Time” and “The Gay Divorcee.”
■ Aug. 24: Shirley MacLaine, “Terms of Endearment” and “Steel Magnolias.”
■ Aug. 25: Dustin Hoffman, “The Graduate,” “Marathon Man” and “Midnight Cowboy.”
■ Aug. 26: Mary Astor, “The Maltese Falcon,” “Dodsworth” and “The Great Lie.”
■ Aug. 27: Walter Brennan, “The Westerner,” “Home in Indiana” and “To Have and Have Not.”
■ Aug. 28: June Allyson, “Good News” and “Two Sisters From Boston.”
■ Aug. 29: Paul Lukas, “Watch on the Rhine” and “The Lady Vanishes.”
■ Aug. 30: Susan Hayward, “I’ll Cry Tomorrow,” “House of Strangers” and “With a Song in My Heart.”
■ Aug. 31: Kirk Douglas, “Spartacus” and “The Vikings.”