TV Guide: Ann Doran

Listing: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 14 02:00 AM TCM

Listing: Meet John Doe

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 13 12:00 PM TCM

Listing: The Snake Pit

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:15:00 -0500

Wed Dec 10 08:15 AM HBOSGe

Listing: The Jackpot

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:30:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 10:30 AM FMC

Listing: Island in the Sky

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 06:00 AM AMC

Video: First Monday In October

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:27:33 -0500

The election of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court rendered the premise of First Monday in October anachronistic before the picture was even released; ignoring this, however, the film is supremely entertaining (no pun intended). Jill Clayburgh stars as Ruth Loomis, the first lady justice ever appointed to the Court. She's a conservative, while her principal foe on the bench, Dan Snow (Walter Matthau), is an old-line liberal. The film glides along on a predictable Tracy-Hepburn course until Snow comes to Loomis' defense when her late industrialist husband is accused of improprieties which might compromise Loomis' effectiveness. First Monday in October was adapted by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their own Broadway play, which starred Henry Fonda. Actress Martha Scott co-produced the film, while several other Hollywood veterans, including Herb Vigran and Ann Doran, dot the supporting case. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Leave It To Beaver: Complete First Season

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:43:15 -0500

The first season of Leave It to Beaver was originally telecast on CBS and seen in an early-Friday-evening slot. When first we meet that lovable, spankable, unpredictable Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers), he is all of seven years old, and his older brother Wally (Tony Dow) is a mere 12. The boys and their parents, Ward (Hugh Beaumont) and June (Barbara Billingsley), are living in a different house than in later episodes, principally because the show was being filmed at the old Republic movie studios, and wouldn't move to its more familiar Universal stamping grounds until the 1958-1959 season. Wally's weaselly buddy Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), already practicing his two-faced trick of being effusively polite to Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver and abrasive and bullying to Beaver, makes his first appearance in the episode New Neighbors (a later installment, Voodoo Magic, affords viewers the rare privilege of seeing Eddie's parents, played by Karl Swenson and Ann Doran). Another familiar juvenile supporting player, Frank Bank,