Movies I Watched in August

Well August was certainly a busy month for me movie wise! There were so many great movies airing for TCM's Summer Under the Stars. I was most excited for the days devoted to Eleanor Parker and Dennis Morgan. I also was able to get even more acquainted with Greer Garson and watch my first real Esther Williams swimming movie (I'd only seen The Hoodlum Saint and Easy to Wed) on Ricardo Montalban day. What days were you the most excited for/watched the most movies on? Did one of the features stars become a new favorite?

Not listed below as I didn't watch the entire movie but I also watched the first 30 or so minutes of the (definitely!) French film La Ronde (1950) for the segment with Simone Simon.

1. Today We Live (1933) - Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
2. The Unguarded Hour (1936) - Franchot Tone & Loretta Young, Roland Young, Lewis Stone
3. The Sisters (1938) - Bette Davis & Errol Flynn
4. The Mad Miss Manton (1938) - Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda
5. Remember? (1939) - Robert Taylor & Greer Garson, Lew Ayres, Billie Burke
6. Wings for the Eagle (1942) - Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Jack Carson
7. What a Woman! (1943) - Rosalind Russell & Brian Aherne
8. The Desert Song (1943) - Dennis Morgan
9. *The Very Thought of You (1944) - Dennis Morgan & Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark & Faye Emerson
10. Shine on Harvest Moon (1944) - Dennis Morgan & Ann Sheridan, Jack Carson
11. Cover Girl (1944) - Rita Hayworth & Gene Kelly, Eve Arden
12. The Locket (1946) - Larraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
13. The Late George Apley (1947) - Ronald Colman
14. On an Island with You (1948) - Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante
15. Three Husbands (1950) - Eve Arden
16. The Law and the Lady (1951) - Greer Garson, Fernando Lamas, Marjorie Main
17. Niagara (1953) - Marilyn Monroe & Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
18. Jeopardy (1953) - Barbara Stanwyck & Ralph Meeker
19. Her Twelve Men (1954) - Greer Garson & Robert Ryan, Tim Considine
20. Valley of the Kings (1954) - Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker
21. Many Rivers to Cross (1955) - Robert Taylor & Eleanor Parker
22. *Lilies of the Field (1963) - Sidney Poitier
23. Shenandoah (1965) - James Stewart, Doug McClure, Patrick Wayne, Katharine Ross, Glenn Corbett
24. Do Not Disturb (1965) - Doris Day & Rod Taylor
25. The Liquidator (1966) - Rod Taylor & Jill St. John
26. The Undefeated (1969) - John Wayne, Rock Hudson
27. Mrs. Brown (1997) - Judi Dench, Billy Connolly
28. Allied (2016) - Brad Pitt & Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris
29. Moana (2016) - Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson

Least Favorite: Today We Live should have been called "Today We Die." Also, what was up with Joan holding a roach?!? Gross!!! Many Rivers to Cross was somewhat painful to watch because Taylor and Parker are putting on backwoods accents... (I loved the Victor McLaglen and James Arness storylines though so worth a watch). Three Husbands wasn't very good either, despite a story and screenplay by Vera Caspery, you know, the one who wrote the novel Laura?

Favorite Movie of the Month: Niagara was all kinds of amazing. Valley of the Kings was pretty exciting too, even with the clichés.