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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Dorothy Malone Knows

By Sheila O'Malley
July 31, 2018
Voice of experience: the Hollywood actress brought a sense of hard-won wisdom and forthrightness to The Big Sleep, Tarnished Angels, and more

TCM Diary: High Society

By Sheila O'Malley
June 29, 2018
The right sort: Rhode Island airs are front and center in the 1956 musical adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, but how does the cast measure up?

TCM Diary: Man in the Wilderness

By Justin Stewart
June 4, 2018
On his own again, naturally: the first cinematic retelling of Hugh Glass’s harrowing frontier saga of survival also indulged in embellishment

TCM Diary: …One Third of a Nation…

By Justin Stewart
May 21, 2018
A living newspaper: Dudley Murphy’s 1939 adaptation of a WPA play is too utopian to be a blueprint for social change, but has demands that should be common sense by now

TCM Diary: Alvarez Kelly and the Confederates

By Justin Stewart
April 3, 2018
Theft on the range: Edward Dmytryk’s Pathécolor rendering of the Beefsteak Raid is powered by its performances, joining a curious lineage of Confederate cinema

TCM Diary: Secret Ceremony (1968) + The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

By Justin Stewart
March 9, 2018
No love for the game: Joseph Losey and Robert Aldrich’s respective late-’60s efforts attempted to reckon with different feminine institutions

TCM Diary: Love Me or Leave Me

By Sheila O'Malley
February 19, 2018
It felt like a kiss: on Doris Day and James Cagney’s under-seen film about abusive showbiz romance

TCM Diary: Phil Karlson Represents

By Nick Pinkerton
January 8, 2018
Ripped from the headlines: The Phenix City Story crafts a still-shocking view into the Jim Crow South

TCM Diary: Léonide Moguy

By Nick Pinkerton
December 7, 2017
No known address: the peripatetic director contributed to the allied war efforts with sui generis pictures like Action in Arabia

TCM Diary: The Mosjoukine Effect

By Imogen Sara Smith
December 1, 2017
We had faces then: on the Russian actor who elucidated the power of cinematic empathy and projection