Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Remembers 2017
I can't say enough about how horrible a year it's been, but the TCM tributes are, as usual, beautiful.
question everything
(47,487 posts)I know that many were mentioned here, but don't remember all of them. Robert Osborne?
Staph
(6,251 posts)From IMDB:
ETA: And welcome to the Classic Films Group!
Skittles
(153,169 posts)yes indeed
Staph
(6,251 posts)From the TCM website (the films in bold will be shown):
June Foray (date of death July 26) was one of the most noted and prolific voice performers for animated-cartoon characters, including Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Jokey Smurf and Lucifer in Disney's Cinderella (1950). Foray provides voices for three different characters in the live action/animated movie The Phantom Tollbooth (1970). Among her colleagues she was affectionately known as the "First Lady of Animated Voicing."
Barbara Hale (date of death January 26) is fondly remembered for her Emmy-winning role as Della Street, secretary to Raymond Burr's Perry Mason in the long-running series and many TV movies. The beautiful brunette also appeared in many feature films - perhaps most famously The Window (1949), in which she is very convincing as the anxious mother of a boy (Bobby Driscoll) who witnesses a murder.
Mary Tyler Moore (date of death January 25) burst onto the big screen in the 1920s musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) after establishing herself as one of TV comedy's most beloved leading ladies. In Millie, Moore gets to strut her stuff alongside Julie Andrews and Carol Channing and was praised by Vanity Fair for her performance as "the ultimate ingenue."
Roger Moore (date of death May 23) is best remembered as the longest-running James Bond in seven 007 movies of the 1970s and '80s. However, he racked up almost 90 other credits in television and films including a costarring role in the Clint Walker Western Gold of the Seven Saints (1961). Moore's obituary in The Guardian lauded him for "his inimitable humour and panache."
Jeanne Moreau (date of death July 31), stars in Jules and Jim (1962), François Truffaut's romantic drama about a tragic love triangle that also involves Oskar Werner and Henri Serre. This was one of the films that brought Moreau to prominence as an outstanding French New Wave actress of the 1960s, celebrated for her "cerebral sexuality."
Bill Paxton (date of death February 25) plays pilot Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), Ron Howard's docudrama about the aborted lunar mission of 1970. Rolling Stone critic Noel Murray wrote that, in this performance, Paxton becomes "the human face of a mission gone awry...his own kind of hero, at once a handy guy and an ornery cuss."
Don Rickles (date of death April 6) was everybody's favorite "insult comic," winning the facetious title of "Mr. Warmth." In addition to his extensive stage and TV work, Rickles appeared in a number of movies. In the action comedy Kelly's Heroes (1970), set during World War II, Rickles lends amusing support to star Clint Eastwood.
George A. Romero (date of death July 16) won fame as the writer-director of gruesome, funny and undeniably scary horror movies including Night of the Living Dead (1968), a low-budget classic in which he imagined a zombie apocalypse and established the zombie craze in modern culture. Critics of the day were stunned and repulsed by the movie, but it has since been acknowledged and praised by contemporary viewers.
By Roger Fristoe Enjoy!
tech3149
(4,452 posts)When I watch TV TCM is a channel I can rely on to provide satisfying entertainment. I hadn't seen the tribute but I'd say most of the actors are formative in my enjoyment of movies. I guess it shows my age that most of them were presented in black and white.
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)The people that are honor here will go down as turning points in the film and television industry. I lost count of how many I saw through the years and to know they are gone brings a sense of loss to my heart.
I would just like to ask if I may what was the music piece playing during the video?
Staph
(6,251 posts)Debby Reynolds is, and is shown in a brief holding baby Carrie.
I even checked the 2016 TCM Remembers, but she's not there either.
You can't put the Princess/General in the corner!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)I assumed I missed her since I was wondering if Michael Parks would be mentioned so I watched it two more times but still no Carrie Fisher.
longship
(40,416 posts)CBHagman
(16,986 posts)There are multiple versions of TCM Remembers 2016 floating around. This might be the complete one.
longship
(40,416 posts)I was a huge fan. The only character in JJ Abrams horrible Star Trek reboot that was worth liking. His death was tragic, so young.
Thanks for posting that.
longship
(40,416 posts)Who achieved fame in Steig Larsson's Millenium Trilogy.
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* The Girl Who Played with Fire
* The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Those who follow Swedish drama know him well as a very competent actor.
I was very sad about his passing.
CBHagman
(16,986 posts)And I too was saddened to hear about his death.
https://vimeo.com/99903076