A Face in the Crowd

Introduction and comments following A Face In The Crowd, 1957, from Dennis Miller and friend Jay Leno.

Introduction and comments following A Face In The Crowd, 1957, from TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and special co-host Bruce Springsteen.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

Lust in the heart of Andy Griffith, as now nationally famous media freak Lonesome Rhodes, back in Arkansas to judge a baton-twirling contest, won hands-down by Betty Lou (Lee Remick, in her first movie), in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

Small-time Arkansas radio hostess Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) is doing her man-on-the-street show from the jail, where she meets prickly inmate Rhodes (Andy Griffith), and invents his name, early in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

First show at the big Memphis TV station, Marcia (Patricia Neal) introduces writer Mel (Walter Matthau) to the new star she discovered the unscrupulous "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith), who doesn't want a script, in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

Marcia (Patricia Neal), discoverer of radio phenom Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith), introduces a Memphis agent (Henry Sharp), then follows him through a broadcast, a gag on her station-manager father, and an on-air negotiation, in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

His new self-appointed manager Tony Franciosa helping with the pitch, crazed TV personality Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) performs and outlandish commercial, as imagined by screenwriter Budd Schulberg and director Elia Kazan, a famous scene from A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

Original promo for our December, 2011 Guest Programmer, Academy Award nominee and friend of TCM, Winona Ryder, appearing with Robert Osborne on Wednesday the 20th, starting at 8pm ET.

TCM's original promo for the January, 2010 programming event "Method Acting In Hollywood," every Monday night starting at 8pm ET.

Television turns a folk-singing drifter (Andy Griffith) into a media celebrity in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).