Lets talk about movie marathons

I get great enjoyment out of watching on youtube people doing movie marathons. Terry talks movies used to do a 24 hour marathon that was great to watch. Theres another younger guy who did a hitchcock marathon, but seems no one longer does these marathons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ24MIGySqc

When I was younger and had much more free time and better health and was eager to learn about classic films I used to watch 4, even 5 movies in a day

2 questions:

1. do you think you could do a 24 hour marathon of classic movies?

2. whats your record of classic movies watched in one day?

It’s always been one of my favorites of the genre. Only the 1946 version. It’s been remade a few times but none of them compare. Does anyone else enjoy it as much as I do?

, Bette

TCM has a separate Reddit sub but just wanted give TCM viewers a heads up.

Carol introduces and discusses the iconic film, Gone With The Wind, on Dec. 1.

It occurred to me that Joe and Jerry almost certainly got poor Nellie Weinmeyer killed.

When they show up at the garage immediately before the mob hit, they mention her by name and that they’re there to pick up her car.

Spats had to send somebody to “have a talk” with her, right?

In 1954, a news item reported that Descher was "the only long-term contract child in Hollywood," having been signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

That same year, she appeared in her favorite film, The Last Time I Saw Paris. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Babylon Revisited, she played Vicky, the daughter of Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor. After her mother dies, Vicky is adopted by her mother's sister, played by Donna Reed. The movie called on her to speak French and to dance ballet. In 1954, she also played a crippled child in a Martin and Lewis film. In 1954 she also played the little girl in the opening scene of Them!, the movie about giant ants starring Edmund Gwenn, James Arness and James Whitmore. In 1955, she was in The Prodigal with Lana Turner. Then she played Gregory Peck's 10-year-old daughter in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Descher also played the little girl, Susan Walker, daughter of Doris Walker, played by Teresa Wright in the 1955 holiday special version of Miracle on 34th Street. It also starred Macdonald Carey as Fred Gaily, the attorney who represented Kris Kringle, played by Thomas Mitchell.

In 1956, she played June Allyson's daughter Debbie in The Opposite Sex, a musical remake of The Women (1939). She appeared in another movie with Van Johnson that year, The Bottom of the Bottle (1956). She also guest-starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the title character of the 1965 TV episode titled "Kris' Girlfriend", where she played Sally. Around this time, she guest-starred with Ann Doran in the Western series My Friend Flicka, and on the Cold War drama series, Crusader. She guest-starred as the daughter of a sea captain in an episode of Wagon Train.

Her last movie, at the age of 12, was the cult favorite The Space Children (1958). In 1959, she appeared in the episode "Dark Morning" of CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. She guest-starred on The Real McCoys. In 1961, she appeared in the first season of My Three Sons, as Elizabeth Martin, a love interest for Robbie Douglas (Don Grady) in episode 32, "The Musician", and in 1964 again as Robbie's love interest in season five as Marjorie in episode 13 "You're in My Power".

Hi all,

I'm thinking about starting a classic film club in my town. Has anyone done this? I'm mostly curious about the legal part, since I'd like to host in person showings and my house isn't big enough. Ideally it would be free, but if anyone has information about how to go about getting permission/licenses, I'd appreciate that as well.

TIA