The 2015 Summer Under the Stars Blogathon
Below the cut you’ll find all the blogs currently scheduled to participate and the given days they’ll be posting. If you’re interested in participating, and want to win some great prizes, feel free to leave a comment below, email or Tweet me, or just write something and send me a link when it’s published. Also, if you don’t currently have a blog, I am willing to host posts emailed to me. In order to give as many stars love as possible, if you currently see a star has people writing on them, please consider writing about someone else. (That’s not a mandatory rule. If you’re planning to write on multiple days, feel free to mix and match between uncovered topics and covered ones.) I will be updating this list all the way daily throughout the month, posting links as they come in. So if you want to know what everyone’s doing, be sure to check back here. I’ll be making this post sticky throughout the month so it’ll always be at the top. Here’s to a great blogathon!
August 1st – Gene Tierney
A wonderful profile on Tierney over at The Ellie Badge
A Gene Tierney Top 10 over at Meredy.com
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies talks about Laura (1944)
August 2nd – Olivia De Havilland
Valerie Frederick lists her five favorite things about Olivia de Havilland
Meredy.com presents a great review of In This Our Life (1942), airing today at 6pm ET
Phyllis Loves Movies discusses her favorite De Havilland films.
A review of De Havilland in A Light in the Piazza (1962) at Backlots
Wolffian Classics Movie Digest reviews The Proud Rebel (1958)
August 3rd – Adolphe Menjou
Meredy.com presents a great profile of Menjou’s life and career
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies reviews Menjou in The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)
August 4th – Teresa Wright
Silver Screenings talks Teresa Wright: Film Noir Superhero
Another Old Movie Blog looks at Teresa Wright’s work on televsion
August 5th – Fred Astaire
Gina Dalfonzo tells us the ingredients used to make a perfect Fred and Ginger movie
Classic Reel Girl looks at Fred Astaire’s best dance sequences
Love Letters to Old Hollywood lists their top 10 favorite Astaire dance partners
August 6th – Michael Caine
Old Hollywood Films reviews The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
August 7th – Katharine Hepburn
Gina Dalfonzo shows the many faces of Katharine Hepburn
August 8th – Raymond Massey
Meredy.com contributes a profile on Massey
August 9th – Robert Walker
The Lady Eve’s Reel Life tells us why Robert Walker isn’t just the boy next door
Rick’s Cafe Texan reviews The Clock, airing tonight at 6:15 ET
August 10th – Joan Crawford
Smitten Kitten Vintage gives a brief overview of Joan Crawford’s life and career
Silver Screen Modes looks at Crawford’s relationship with fashion designer Adrian
August 11th – Rex Ingram
Meredy.com presents a profile on Ingram and his career
August 12th – Robert Mitchum
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies explores her history with Mitchum and his films
Second Sight Cinema reviews The Lusty Men (1952)
Christy Putnam honors Mitchum and his Western/noir work
August 13th – Ann-Margret
A Classic Movie Blog reviews Ann-Margret’s autobiography
Movie Mom gives a great overview of Ann-Margret’s career on both TV and film
August 14th – Groucho Marx
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies explores Groucho Marx impersonations and an episode of MASH
Smitten Kitten Vintage profiles Groucho
August 15th – Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Read a profile and over of Fairbanks, Jr.’s career at Meredy.com
August 16th – Patricia Neal
Meredy.com gives an overview of Neal’s life and career
Rick’s Cafe Texan reviews The Fountainhead (1949)
August 17th – Lee J. Cobb
Meredy.com gives an overview of Cobb’s life and career
The Wonderful World of Cinema looks at Lee J. Cobb’s paternal roles
August 18th – Vivien Leigh
Kendra Bean gives us her top five recommended Vivien films to watch today
Wolffian Classics Movie Digest reviews Storm in a Teacup (1937)
August 19th – John Wayne
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies reviews Rio Bravo (1959)
Cracked Rear Viewer reviews McQ (1974)
Wide Screen World examines Wayne’s contribution to the comic book, Preacher
August 20th – Mae Clarke
Vitaphone Dreamer examines Clarke’s life and career
August 21st – Alan Arkin
Classic Movie Blog reviews The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Kellee Pratt reviews Catch-22 (1970)
August 22nd – Marlene Dietrich
Smitten Kitten Vintage looks at Dietrich’s life and work in films
More Reel Life touches on Dietrich’s life and career, as well as the Dietrich films worth seeking out
Rick’s Cafe Texan reviews the documentary, Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Once Upon a Screen reviews Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
August 23rd – Debbie Reynolds
Java’s Journey reviews I Love Melvin (1953)
Love Letters to Old Hollywood reviews Two Weeks With Love (1950)
Rick’s Cafe Texan reviews The Catered Affair (1956)
August 24th – Warren Oates
Twenty Four Frames reviews The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
August 25th – Virginia Bruce
Meredy.com gives an overview of Bruce’s life and career
Cracked Rear Viewer looks at The Invisible Woman (1940) and its screwball elements
Blog of the Darned reviews The Invisible Woman
August 26th – Greta Garbo
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies reviews Ninochtka (1939)
In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood profiles Greta Garbo
August 27th – Monty Woolley
Old Hollywood Films reviews Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
The Stop Button also gives their perspective on The Man Who Came to Dinner
August 28th – Ingrid Bergman
Meredy.com gives an overview of Bergman’s life and career
The Ellie Badge reminisces on Bergman and her films
Phyllis Loves Classic Movies honors Bergman on her 100th birthday
Classic Movie Blog examines the less than serious films Ingrid Bergman starred in
Rick’s Cafe Texan reviews Bergman’s performance in A Woman Called Golda (1982)
August 29th – George C. Scott
Classic Movie Blog reviews Petulia (1968)
August 30th – Gary Cooper
Christy Putnam discusses her personal connections to Cooper’s film Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Love Letters to Old Hollywood reviews Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Meredy.com profiles Cooper and his career
August 31st – Shelley Winters
Meredy.com profiles Winters and her career
Rosalind Russell: Dazzling Star gives her thoughts on Winters and her work
OTHER PARTICIPATING BLOGS (Waiting to declare topics or miscellaneous)
Now Voyaging gives us a Guide to Summer Under the Stars
Hi Kristen. I hope I’m not too late to participate. I hesitated a long time since I’m quite busy these day! Well, if it’s still possible, I’d like to write about Lee J. Cobb on August 17 since nobody is doing so.
Awesome Virginie! Just be sure to give the rules post a read (https://journeysinclassicfilm.com/2015/07/30/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-summer-under-the-stars-blogathon-rules/) and I’ll put you down for Cobb! Thanks for participating!
Oh thanks! 🙂
I emailed you my link to my first post last night, but I’ll put the link here as well:
http://loveletterstooldhollywood.blogspot.com/2015/08/top-ten-fred-astaires-partners.html?m=1
Not sure if you got my newest email or not — I’ve posted my second entry, here’s the link:
http://loveletterstooldhollywood.blogspot.com/2015/08/jane-powell-and-ricardo-montalban-spend.html
Thanks!
Hey Kristen!
The blogathon roster is fantastic, and it looks just beautiful, thanks for all the hard work!
I’m going to send you the link to my post at secondsightcinema.com (on Mitchum, for tomorrow 8/12) tonight. Very possibly extremely late tonight. Shd I also send it to you on Twitter or elsewhere?
One last question: Are we to use the banners on the roster on our posts? Or are there banners for the blogathon itself on another post? I want to advertise it and drive some traffic this-a-way…
Thanks for your help, and congratulations on pulling this very ambitious bloghaton off in such style.
Hi Lesley, I didn’t have time to make up new banners, so feel free to post the ones I’m using for the day you’re doing!
Thanks for participating!
Hey Kristen,wondering if possable i review born to dance for August 25th – Virginia Bruce day. If so i would love to review it that day.
You’re all set! Just drop me the link when it’s up!
Hi Kristen, I’d like to jump in too. Oddly, enough, want to do Virginia Bruce, as well, The Invisible Woman. It’s a great little film, kind of a mashup between a Universal Monster movie and a screwball comedy. Please let me know if there is anything else.
Chris
I’m so happy someone’s reviewing Invisible Woman! I watched it on Svengoolie last year and enjoyed it. Just send me the link when it’s live and you’re good!
Here’s my post on Ninotchka – http://phyllislovesclassicmovies.blogspot.com/2015/08/summer-under-stars-day-26-ninotchka-1939.html
Here’s my post on Greta Garbo’s life.
https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/tcm-summer-under-the-stars-blogathon-day-26-featuring-greta-garbo/
Here’s my post on Ingrid Bergman and my last for this Blogathon – http://phyllislovesclassicmovies.blogspot.com/2015/08/happy-100th-birthday-ingrid-bergman.html
Thanks so much for hosting this!!! I know you put a lot of work into this month 🙂
Hi Kristen,
Just letting you know that my entry on Gary Cooper will be late, and won’t be in until tomorrow. Have been extremely busy. Let me know if it’s alright sending it in late?
I’m actually not taking late submissions due to the contest prizes involved. Sorry for the inconvenience.