Each Tuesday Hunter highlights the best classic films airing in the coming week on TCM.
Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, and Ingrid Bergman. Three of the finest film actresses to ever light up the screen get some love in this week’s lineup.
THIS WEEK’S PICKS
Wednesday, August 26
“Garbo Laughs!” Greta Garbo was one of the few silent film stars to not only survive into the talkies, but even thrive. Ninotchka shows why. Not to take away from Garbo, but it does help when your movie is directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
Thursday, August 27
Back before comic books and YA novels, Hollywood took stories from the stage. The Man Who Came To Dinner is one of the more enjoyable, starring the great Bette Davis, as well as Monty Wooley, who plays the titular man coming to dinner – an acerbic film critic whose hip injury forces him to movie in with a midwestern family.
Friday, August 28
I don’t think I’ve ever despised a film villain as much as Charles Boyer in Gaslight. That’s a testament to his work, certainly, but even more so to Ingrid Bergman, who won an Oscar for her role as a innocent slowly being driven mad by her husband. For all your Murder, She Wrote fans, this is Angela Lansbury’s film debut.
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