SUTS Day 1: Barbara Stanwyck

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Previous SUTS Entrant!

When was she featured? 2014, 2017

Hello and welcome! If this is your first time here, I'm Mandy, this is my 8th year covering TCM's annual film festival Summer Under the Stars, and Barbara Stanwyck is one of my all-time biggest crushes so I'm very excited for today. lol Here's how my coverage of the festival goes: TCM switches to their next entrant at 6am EST everyday, so I post the day's lineup at 2am EST (which is midnight MST for me). Within that day's selection of films, I will choose one to feature. I'll include a little blurb about the film and when it airs, I sometimes live-tweet my way through it so follow me there if you aren't already (@avintagegroupie). The film I select for a Daily Cinema will be in bolded red print, as are previous selections from other festivals, alongside when we first watched them. There are bolded blue films as well, which are previous films I selected for an old series we used to do here called TNT, or Thursday Night Theatre. Some days, like today, are full of previous alerts, while others are empty. There is so much variety in both the films and stars selected that it should keep you entertained throughout the month. I hope you enjoy!

If you've been here before, welcome back! I wasn't sure I was going to cover SUTS this year; I debated for a few months before ultimately deciding to go ahead with it. I guess I harbored some guilt for wanting to partake in this festival because it's a primarily-White festival and I'm Black. I thought the optics of it wouldn't be good. A lot of the time, especially these days, I feel Black first and everything else (woman, American, anything else really) second. It's hard to detach from that, especially during a festival where I will more than likely see few faces who look like mine who aren't used as the help. Despite that though, I love classic film. I love the dramatics, the writing, the styling, I love the technical parts of it. And for just this month, I want to try to just be a classic film fan again. Not a Black fan, not a female fan, just a fan. I don't even know if that's possible, but I'm going to try and I'd love for you to join me. And with that out of the way, let's get to our first day of films!


Daily Lineup (all times in EST): 

6:00 AM Gambling Lady (1934)


7:15 AM Annie Oakley (1935)


9:00 AM B.F.'s Daughter (1948)


*Daily Cinema: 11:00 AM Crime Of Passion (1957)*

A film noir about a newspaper columnist who gives up her career after falling in love and marrying a low-level police detective, but grows dissatisfied with her life and her husband's lack of ambition. She turns to deception and even murder to further her husband's career, without his knowledge.  





12:30 PM The Moonlighter (1953)


2:00 PM East Side, West Side (1949)


*Previous Daily Cinema Alert: 4:00 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)*
When was it featured? SUTS Day 20: Humphrey Bogart (2016)


*Previous Daily Cinema Alert: 6:00 PM Clash by Night (1952)*
When was it featured? SUTS Day 1: Marilyn Monroe (2017)


*Previous Daily Cinema Alert: 8:00 PM Ball of Fire (1941)*
When was it featured? SUTS Day 5: Barbara Stanwyck (2014)


*Previous TNT Alert: 10:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)*
When was it featured? Tuesday, February 19, 2013


*Previous Daily Cinema Alert: 12:00 AM Meet John Doe (1941)*
When was it featured? SUTS Day 30: Gary Cooper (2015)


*Previous Daily Cinema Alert: 2:15 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)*
When was it featured? SUTS Day 20: Hattie McDaniel (2013)


4:00 AM Lady of Burlesque (1943)