This article was originally written about programming for the TCM Now Playing newsletter in December 2016.
With this night of programming TCM remembers some of the greats from the film world that we lost this year and were unable to honor with full programming tributes. George Kennedy is represented by his Oscar®-winning role as the sadistic prisoner of Cool Hand Luke (1967). Musical-comedy star Gloria DeHaven sparkles in Two Girls and a Sailor (1944), playing the sister of June Allyson, and performing some swinging 1940s songs. The great Alan Rickman gives a representative performance as the lovelorn Col. Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Patty Duke won her Oscar® for playing Helen Keller--brilliantly--in The Miracle Worker (1962). Marni Nixon convincingly provided the singing voice for many an actress including Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). And Nancy Reagan (billed as Nancy Davis during her years as an actress) was the sympathetic leading lady of several films of the 1950s including Night Into Morning (1951).
