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TCM May 2024 At a Glance - Star of the Month; Theodore Bikel, Betty Garrett tributes; showcases for Gable, Sinatra
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TCM MAY 2024 AT A GLANCE - Star of the Month, Birthday tributes to Theodore Bikel, Betty Garrett; Showcases for Steve Martin, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable
STAR OF THE MONTH - Sessue Hayakawa (Mondays)
Kintarō Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū
, was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome"[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.[3][4][5]
After withdrawing from the Japanese naval academy and attempting suicide at 18, Hayakawa attended the University of Chicago, where he studied political economics in accordance with his wealthy parents' wish that he become a banker. Upon graduating, he traveled to Los Angeles in order to board a scheduled ship back to Japan, but decided to try out acting in Little Tokyo. There, Hayakawa impressed Hollywood figures and was signed on to star in The Typhoon (1914). He made his breakthrough in The Cheat (1915), and thereafter became famous for his roles as a forbidden lover. Hayakawa was one of the highest paid stars of his time, earning $5,000 per week in 1915, and $2 million per year through his own production company from 1918 to 1921.[6][7][8] Because of rising anti-Japanese sentiment and business difficulties,[9] Hayakawa left Hollywood in 1922 and performed on Broadway and in Japan and Europe for many years before making his Hollywood comeback in Daughter of the Dragon (1931).[10]
Of his talkies, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Kuala, the pirate captain in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) and Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[11] Hayakawa starred in over 80 feature films, and three of his films (The Cheat, The Dragon Painter, and The Bridge on the River Kwai) stand in the United States National Film Registry.
, was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome"[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.[3][4][5]
After withdrawing from the Japanese naval academy and attempting suicide at 18, Hayakawa attended the University of Chicago, where he studied political economics in accordance with his wealthy parents' wish that he become a banker. Upon graduating, he traveled to Los Angeles in order to board a scheduled ship back to Japan, but decided to try out acting in Little Tokyo. There, Hayakawa impressed Hollywood figures and was signed on to star in The Typhoon (1914). He made his breakthrough in The Cheat (1915), and thereafter became famous for his roles as a forbidden lover. Hayakawa was one of the highest paid stars of his time, earning $5,000 per week in 1915, and $2 million per year through his own production company from 1918 to 1921.[6][7][8] Because of rising anti-Japanese sentiment and business difficulties,[9] Hayakawa left Hollywood in 1922 and performed on Broadway and in Japan and Europe for many years before making his Hollywood comeback in Daughter of the Dragon (1931).[10]
Of his talkies, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Kuala, the pirate captain in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) and Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[11] Hayakawa starred in over 80 feature films, and three of his films (The Cheat, The Dragon Painter, and The Bridge on the River Kwai) stand in the United States National Film Registry.
Spotlight - First Name Basis (Wednesdays)
Special Theme - The Art of Artifice (Tuesdays)
Special Theme - Director Frank Borzage (2, 9, 16)
Guest Programmer - (31)
Memorial Day Weekend Marathon (24 - 27)
WEEKLY SHOWCASES --
MUSICAL MATINEE Sat. Noon (ET)
4 - Tonight and Every Night (1945)
11 - Sweet Charity (1969)
18 - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
25 - Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
NOIR ALLEY Sat. Midnight, Sun. 10 am (ET)
4, 5 - Dark Passage (1947)
11, 12 - Follow Me Quietly (1949)
18, 19 - (P) Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
25, 26 - TBA
SILENT SUNDAY NIGHTS Sun. Midnight (ET)
5 - The First Auto (1927)
12 - The Merry Widow (1925)
19 - The Kiss (1929)
Love (1927)
26 - The Flying Fleet (1929)
TCM IMPORTS Sun. evening 2 am (ET)
5 - A River Called Titas (1973)
12 - Unknown Pleasures (2002)
The World (2004)
19 - No End (1985)
Blind Chance (1981)
26 - The Burmese Harp (1956)
SELECTED DAILY SHOWCASES
May 1 - Sci-fi
May 2 - Birthday tribute Theodore Bikel
May 3 - Steve Martin
May 6 - Wives, Ex-Wives and Lovers
May 7 - Flowers
May 8 - Westerns
May 9 - Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood",[2] he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.[3]
Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for his comedic roles in Teacher's Pet (1958), and But Not for Me (1959). He also starred in Call of the Wild (1935), Key to the City (1950), and Mogambo (1953). His final on-screen role was as an aging cowboy in The Misfits (1961).
Gable was one of the most consistent box-office performers in the history of Hollywood, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll sixteen times. He appeared opposite many of the most popular actresses of their time. He frequently acted alongside Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner. Gable died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59.
Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night (1934). He was further Oscar-nominated for his roles as Fletcher Christian in the drama Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), and Rhett Butler in the historical romance drama Gone with the Wind (1939). He received Golden Globe Award nominations for his comedic roles in Teacher's Pet (1958), and But Not for Me (1959). He also starred in Call of the Wild (1935), Key to the City (1950), and Mogambo (1953). His final on-screen role was as an aging cowboy in The Misfits (1961).
Gable was one of the most consistent box-office performers in the history of Hollywood, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll sixteen times. He appeared opposite many of the most popular actresses of their time. He frequently acted alongside Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner. Gable died of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 59.
May 10 - Birthday tribute David O. Selznick
May 12 - Mother's Day
May 13 - Director Clarence Brown
May 14 - The Gulf States
May 15 - Writer Dalton Trumbo
May 16 - Film Noir
May 17 - Spies
May 19 - Director Frank Oz
May 20 - Mediterranean History
May 21 - Call Me Mister
May 23 - Frank Sinatra; Birthday tribute: Betty Garrett
Frank Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity (1953), he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Sinatra also appeared in musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), which won him a Golden Globe Award. Toward the end of his career, he frequently played detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on CBS in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
May 24 - Comedies
May 28 - Cursed
May 30 - International Incident
May 31 - Bank Robbers
MAY PREMIERES
May 1 - Moon Zero Two (1969)
May 3 - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
May 6 - The Tong-Man (1919)
May 11 - Synecdoche, New York (2008)
May 17 - The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
May 18 - Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
May 26 - The Cold Blue (2018)
May 31 - The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and
Motor Kings (1976)
May 31 - Scott Joplin (1977)