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TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Robert Mitchum x 2

By Steven Mears
February 24, 2017
Let us now praise heavy-lidded men: on the actor's conventionally unconventional turns in The Sundowners and The Story of G.I. Joe

TCM Diary: Ava Gardner x 2

By Steven Mears
February 13, 2017
Something wild: in The Barefoot Contessa and Mogambo, the actress lends some animal intensity to otherwise fanciful plots

TCM Diary: Blues in the Night

By Justin Stewart
February 1, 2017
Storm before the storm: Anatole Litvak's jazz noir oddity dabbles in multiple genres and concerns

TCM Diary: Stars Behind Bars

By Steven Mears
January 23, 2017
Jailbirds: on the felonious pleasures of Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies They Talk About and Eleanor Parker in Caged

TCM Diary: Faulkner’s Tomorrow

By Sheila O'Malley
January 5, 2017
Salt of the earth: Robert Duvall gives his favorite performance in a plainspoken 1972 adaptation by Horton Foote

TCM Diary: One Potato, Two Potato + A Patch of Blue

By Steven Mears
December 30, 2016
The right to love: how two 1960s dramas portrayed interracial couples

TCM Diary: The Night Digger & Alice, Sweet Alice

By Sheila O'Malley
December 16, 2016
At a tender age: two very different 1970s films show females on the verge of a nervous breakdown

TCM Diary: Vitaphone Varieties

By Imogen Sara Smith
December 5, 2016
Traveling entertainers: orphaned Vaudeville acts live on, decades later, in an early sound film technology

TCM Diary: Myrna Loy’s Not Just Perfect

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Good girl gone bad: in her pre-Code romps, Loy's winsome supporting roles were never thinly drawn

TCM Diary: Two from Kirk Douglas’s Century

By Steven Mears
December 1, 2016
Restless youth: on his 100th birthday, a look back at the actor's turns as rogues and other tortured souls