TCM is doing their "Summer Under the Stars" this month and they have consistently scheduled really fine movies for the 8pm prime time slot.
Today is Henry Fonda and tonight he's with Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve , from 1941, directed by Preston Sturges. It has a wonderfully lunatic plot with terrific character actors in every scene. It's very, very funny, borderline hysterical at points.
Sullivan's Travels, also by Sturges in 1941, will be shown later this month and I really urge you to make plans to watch them both. The Lady Eve is funnier but Sullivan's Travels, while being funny in its own right, strikes a special chord in me.
