TiVo Alert - the Great Films of 1939

Film historians agree that 1939 was the greatest single year for classic movies in all of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Turner Classic Movies celebrates that amazing year this month, running classics from 1939 every Thursday night in July. They kick it off with the children's classic, The Wizard Of Oz, on July 2, and a rerun of a 1990 documentary on the film.

In addition to Wizard, each of the ten films nominated for Best Picture that year will be featured:
Gone With the Wind (the winning film, on July 30)
Dark Victory (July 23)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (July 23)
Love Affair (July 30)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (July 23)
Ninotchka (July 2)
Of Mice and Men (July 23)
Stagecoach (July 9)
Wuthering Heights (July 30).

Also on July 2, TCM will premiere a new documentary, 1939, an all-new documentary narrated by actor/filmmaker Kenneth Branagh. Sounds fascinating - new interviews with film scholars/critics Leonard Maltin, Daniel Selznick and Molly Haskell, plus archival interviews with Claire Trevor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Francis Lederer, Maureen O'Hara, Ann Rutherford, George Cukor and Howard Hawks.