Sammy Davis Jr. in A Man Called Adam on DVD
Wim Wender's Paris, Texas on DVD
14th Annual Kansas Silent Film Festival - Feb. 26 & 27
Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 2 on DVD
Bad Girls of Film Noir, Vol. 1 on DVD
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy on DVD

Schedule Change for Jan. 23rd - Shelley Winters Tribute!

TCM will change the schedule on Monday, 1/23 to honor the career of Shelley Winters. Please note the new lineup:

8:00 AM ET/5:00 AM PT He Ran All the Way
9:30 AM The Treasure of Pancho Villa
11:30 AM Odds Against Tomorrow
1:30 PM The Young Savages
3:30 PM Lolita 6:15 PM Winchester '73
8:00 PM A Patch of Blue (winner, Best Supporting Actress)
10:00 PM A Place in the Sun (nom, Best Actress)
12:15 AM The Night of the Hunter
2:00 AM Executive Suite
4:00 AM Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
6:00 AM The Scalphunters

ROBERT OSBORNE REMEMBERS SHELLEY WINTERS (1920-2006)

Shelley Winters may have had her big Hollywood breakthrough in a film called A Double Life (1947), but "A Multi-Faceted Career" better describes Winters, a lady who's celebrating her 60th year in the movie business. She first made waves as a blonde sexpot in the 1940s (initially billed as Shelley "Winter") and, except for that great part opposite Ronald Colman in the aforementioned A Double Life, she spent most of that decade playing tootsie roles which required peroxide, tight dresses and the swaying of hips much more than any acting prowess. Then, presto, chango! suddenly there was the Shelley who played the mousy, lonely and ultimately clawing girlfriend of Montgomery Clift in George Stevens's brilliant A Place in the Sun (1951). Her highly skilled performance made it abundantly clear why Clift dropped her - unfortunately, for her, in the middle of a lake - so he'd be free to woo an 18-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. There was no doubt that Shelley was a brilliantly promising actress destined to end up winning Academy Awards (and indeed she did - two of them, in fact). On Broadway in that same decade, she was equally riveting, playing the desperate wife of a heroin addict in the original production of A Hatful of Rain. Then, later, in another transformation, emerged "the shrewish Shelley," which she put on display in movies such as 1965's A Patch of Blue (one of her Oscar®-winners, in fact); that's the Shelley persona that also dominated her 1001 appearances on television talk-show circuits. But several things have been consistent. For instance, she has never been predictable. (The first time I ever interviewed Shelley, she never arose from the couch, where she remained prone the entire time, claiming sore feet.) Nor has she ever been a bore. Further, she's livened up every project she's been in, big or small, important or fleeting. Here on TCM on Monday, January 23rd, we'll be bringing you many Shelleys, so you can check out the ones you've seen before and enjoyed, and the ones you've never met, be it sexpot or shrew. We have 12 excellent examples of her life in front of the cameras, including A Place in the Sun ,The Young Savages, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita and A Patch of Blue. But do have a look at the others as well. She'll amuse you, amaze you, touch you, stir your emotions and surprise you. There's always been so much more to Shelley Winters than those often-outrageous talk-show appearances, or even those two Oscars® on her mantle, would indicate.

For more information on Shelley Winters and her career, please visit the TCM Movie Database.