🎬 In a former life, when I had TCM, I capped movies with my phone. I made many hundreds of raw shots.

I saw ran across a set last night from "Summer and Smoke" (1961), the film based on the #TennesseeWilliams play.

#GeraldinePage also played sexually-repressed Alma in an off-Brodways revival. #LaurenceHarvey plays young doctor, John Buchanan, Jr. It's set in a small Mississippi town just before World War I.

A brilliant movie starring two of the best actors the US and Britain have produced.

52 years ago:
The Beguiled (US)
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to comp...
1971-03-31
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31906
#TheBeguiled #DonSiegel #ClintEastwood #GeraldinePage #ElizabethHartman #Universal #ClassicMovies

61 years ago:
Sweet Bird of Youth (US)
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or l...
1962-03-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33632
#SweetBirdofYouth #RichardBrooks #PaulNewman #GeraldinePage #ShirleyKnight #MGM #ClassicMovies

🎬 #Tennessee Williams movies back-to-back @ #TCM.

"Night of the Iguana" just ended; up next—Sweet Birth of Youth" (1962) with #PaulNewman and #GeraldinePage up next at 8:15.

#RichardBrooks adopted Tennessee's #broadway #play and #directed the #film. Miss Page won the #GoldenGlobe for #BestActress in 1963 for her performance.

#thesouth #mississippi #gigolo #movies #Hollywood #classic #classicmovies #class #therich #hashish #actor #heavenly #chance #politics #politician