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Old 06-22-03, 03:53 PM
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1939 marathon in july saturday's on tcm!

By many film nuts (I can't spell that other word) this is consitered the best year of all time for movies and tcm is gonna show 17 movies during the month
Here's the schedule
July 5
8:00 PM The Wizard Of Oz (1939) A Kansas farm girl dreams herself into a magical land where she must fight a wicked witch to escape. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr. D: Victor Fleming. BW & C 102m. CC DVS

10:00 PM Gunga Din (1939) Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen. D: George Stevens. BW 117m. CC DVS

12:00 AM Only Angels Have Wings (1939) A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. D: Howard Hawks. BW 121m. CC

2:15 AM Ninotchka (1939) A cold-hearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love. Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire. D: Ernst Lubitsch. BW 111m. CC DVS

4:15 AM Bachelor Mother (1939) A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling. Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn. D: Garson Kanin. BW 83m. CC

6:00 AM Babes in Arms (1939) A group of second-generation entertainers put on a show to launch their careers. Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger. D: Busby Berkeley. BW 96m. CC DVS

July 12

8:00 PM Stagecoach (1939) A group of disparate passengers battle personal demons and each other while racing through Indian country. John Wayne, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft. D: John Ford. BW 96m.

10:00 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption. James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains. D: Frank Capra. BW 130m.

12:15 AM The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939) A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder. Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke. D: William Dieterle. BW 117m. CC DVS

2:15 AM The Roaring Twenties (1939) Three Army buddies during World War I get mixed up with the mob in peacetime. James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart. D: Raoul Walsh. BW 107m. CC

4:15 AM Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (1939) An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. Edward G. Robinson, Paul Lukas, George Sanders. D: Anatole Litvak. BW 104m. CC

July 19

8:00 PM Gone With the Wind (1939) Classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara's battle to save her beloved Tara and find love during the Civil War. Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland. D: Victor Fleming. 222m. CC

12:00 AM The Old Maid (1939) An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin. Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Jane Bryan. D: Edmund Goulding. BW 95m. CC

2:00 AM Dark Victory (1939) A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. D: Edmund Goulding. BW 104m. CC DVS

4:00 AM Love Affair (1939) Near-tragic misunderstandings threaten a shipboard romance. Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Maria Ouspenskaya. D: Leo McCarey. BW 88m.

6:00 AM In Name Only (1939) A wealthy man falls for a widow but can't get his wife to divorce him. Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis. D: John Cromwell. BW 95m. CC

July 27

8:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939) A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy. Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. D: William Wyler. BW 104m. CC

10:00 PM The Women (1939) A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell. D: George Cukor. BW & C 133m. CC DVS

12:30 AM Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman. Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid. D: Sam Wood. BW 114m. CC DVS

2:30 AM Babes in Arms (1939) A group of second-generation entertainers put on a show to launch their careers. Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger. D: Busby Berkeley. BW 96m. CC DVS

4:15 AM Golden Boy (1939) A crooked promoter lures a young violinist to give up music for boxing. Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden. D: Rouben Mamoulian. BW 99m.


Also, if possible, could this be a sticky
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for those that have "dark side of the moon" don't forget
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..absolutely unreal how many great movies came out in 1939...
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...and years from now, when they look back at 2003, they'll say "...wow ....From Justin to Kelly, Real Cancun, 2Fast2Furious, Dumb and Dumberer -what a year!"

Thank you, TCM, for constantly reminding us of what movies CAN be.

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