TCM, or Turner Classic Movies if you hate acronyms, will be kicking off their seventh Summer Under the Stars Saturday, August 1st. To help promote it, TCM released some contemporary teaser posters for some of the most respectable movies of all time. Here is just a portion of the 12 new teasers:

And my personal favorite:

If you’ve never had the luck to see any of the Summer Under the Stars, TCM honors specific actors with an entire day dedicated to their careers. It kicks off with Henry Fonda in On Our Merry Way and the schedule continues:

• August 1 – Henry Fonda
• August 2 – James Mason
• August 3 – Marion Davies
• August 4 – James Coburn
• August 5 – Harold Lloyd
• August 6 – Judy Garland
• August 7 – Glenn Ford
• August 8 – Bette Davis
• August 9 – Cary Grant
• August 10 – Dirk Bogarde
• August 11 – Audrey Hepburn
• August 12 – Clark Gable
• August 13 – Gloria Grahame
• August 14 – Sidney Portier
• August 15 – Deborah Kerr
• August 16 – Elvis Presley
• August 17 – Jennifer Jones
• August 18 – John Wayne
• August 19 – Red Skelton
• August 20 – Miriam Hopkins
• August 21 – Gene Hackman
• August 22 – Sterling Hayden
• August 23 – Angela Lansbury
• August 24 – Fredric March
• August 25 – Merle Oberon
• August 26 – Yul Brynner
• August 27 – Ida Lupino
• August 28 – Frank Sinatra
• August 29 – Peter Sellers
• August 30 – Jean Arthur
• August 31 – Claire Bloom

Since there are some 300+ movies being played that month, the complete list detailing the movies was made available by TCM as a PDF. I’m pretty stoked for The Grapes of Wrath on the first, the non-Western John Wayne movies on the 18th,  and pretty much all of the 6th’s, 18th’s, and 28’s schedules. I am, however, a little upset that Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly, and a few others were left out. What movies or which actors are you cats (read: readers) looking forward to?

And for the record, black-and-white movies DO look better in high-def.

Source: CinemaBlend, TCM

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