ON TCM Coming Fridays In July. Singing Cowboys! This month in honor of Roy Rogers 100th anniversary year of his birth. I saw Roy Rogers and Trigger perform in person when I was a child. I remember thinking that Trigger was the most beautiful horse that I ever had seen.
Happy Birthday Leslie Caron! ( born 1 July 1931) is a French film actress and dancer, who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Caron is best known for the musical films An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Gigi (1958), and for the non-musical films Fanny (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), and Father Goose (1964). She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She speaks French and English. She is one of the few dancers or actresses who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.
Happy Birthday: Olivia de Havilland.(born July 1, 1916) is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s
ON TCM July 2nd: The Case of the Curious Bride. A woman learns that her first husband, presumed dead, is still alive, which makes things awkward for her since she has remarried. This story is based on the book written by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Happy Birthday: Gina Lollobrigida!(Born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist and sculptress. She was one of the most popular european actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. She wa s an iconic sex symbol of the 1950s.
ON TCM July 5th: Madeleine(1950). Directed by David Lean, based on a true story about Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. The trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day and was labelled "the trial of the century." Lean's adaptation of the story stars his then wife, Ann Todd with Ivan Desny as her French lover. Norman Wooland played the respectable suitor, and Leslie Banks the authoritarian father, who are both unaware of Madeleine's secret life
ON TCM July 6th: The Gambling Lady(1934). A 1934 black-and-white film starring Barbara Stanwyck as a professional gambler and Joel McCrea as her upper-class suitor.
ON TCM July 6th : Spiral Staircase(1945).The Spiral Staircase is a 1946 American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak, based on Ethel Lina White's novel Some Must Watch. The novel was adapted for a radio production starring Helen Hayes before reaching the screen.
Happy Birthday: Janet Leigh! (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis.
ON TCM July 8th: Secrets(1933). Mary Pickford's farewell to the screen was this wonderful film, Secrets.
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