NOVEMBER 2009
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Turner Classic Movies presents the TCM Book Corner.
Every month we will provide the classic movie fan with a link to an excited film related book.
And every month, we will also be giving away several copies of that book in a monthly contest.
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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
Author: Robert Kimball, Barry Day, Miles Kreuger, Eric Davis
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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer (Knopf), the seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series and published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). For a chance to try and win a free copy of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, just follow the sweepstakes link on this page.
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Grace Kelly: 80th Birthday Tribute - Thursdays in November
The beauty from Philadelphia who became the Princess of Monaco and had a huge film career in between is the subject of our film festival that includes Dial M for Murder, High Society and surprises like her live television drama The Rockingham Tea Set (1950).
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Johnny Mercer's 100th Birthday - Wednesdays in November
TCM pays tribute to the songwriter extraordinaire from Savannah, Georgia with a 25-film retrospective highlighting his songs in movies such as Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Autumn Leaves.
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TCM Classic Film Festival - Coming in April 2010
Turner Classic Movies, the authority in classic film, will stage the network’s first film festival April 22-25, 2010, in the heart of Hollywood. The TCM Classic Film Festival will be a landmark celebration of the history of Hollywood and its movies. GET THE DETAILS.
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