Turner Classic Movies is a 24-hour movie channel in the United States. Launched in 1994, it is the only 24-hour cable channel devoted to classic films (with some rare exceptions). The network is owned by Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting System division and operates as a sister channel to TNT and TruTV, along with Warner Bros.’ Cartoon Network. In this article, you will discover the 10 Best movies in June to watch on TCM Network.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is one of the largest movie networks in the world. TCM offers movie enthusiasts the opportunity to explore and discover a vast library of iconic movies from the 1920s to the 2000s that celebrates both Hollywood heritage as well as contemporary film-making, along with an exceptional lineup of popular movies. Curated by TCM’s expert programming team, its expansive lineup of popular movies includes such gems as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, Hitchcock Masterpieces, Defiant Ones, and Rebel Without a Cause, as well as Gone Girl, Pulp Fiction, and Christopher Nolan’s Dark.
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In June, We have 10 recommendations of Turner Classic Movies for entertaining and uplifting programming.
The Music Box is a beautifully designed, animated short film from the 1930s featuring Laurel and Hardy. The hapless duo tries to deliver a piano to an incredibly tall building with steep stairs. Stan and Ollie’s slapstick comedy remains as hilarious today as it was then, and this short will make a great gift for kids of all ages who can appreciate it.
At its height, Laurel and Hardy’s sound short films were among the most popular entertainment around, and The Music Box is perhaps their most beloved of all. Stan and Ollie are tasked with delivering a piano up a steep flight of stairs to a young boy who can’t wait to get his hands on the thing. The result is classic Laurel and Hardy, as well as an opportunity to introduce children to two of comedy’s best characters. In this classic 1930 short, two of the greatest comic actors of all time engage in some harebrained hijinks involving a piano and a stretch of very, very steep stairs.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 8/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Tomatometer, 91% Average Audience Score
Google Users: 95% liked this film
The classic true story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom for her medical work in Australia. When Sister Kenny immigrated to America, she found that her radical new treatment for polio had been all but ignored by American doctors. Yet this tough-minded nurse was determined to establish her procedure as standard therapy around the world. Starring Rosalind Russell and Dean Jagger. Written by Margaret Ferguson, Paul Jarrico. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Rosalind Russell), Best Sound Recording (Thomas T. Moulton), and Best Music.
The Oscar-winning Rosalind Russell stars in this riveting true story of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who discovered a medical treatment that saved countless lives from the ravages of polio. This compelling drama from director Mervyn LeRoy is pure Hollywood magic, with Russell giving one of the most heroic screen performances of her career.
The screen debut of Rosalind Russell, Sister Kenny was nominated for five Oscars—including one for Russell herself. She plays the title character, a spunky nurse who developed an effective treatment for polio that was later dismissed by the medical establishment.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 69% Average Audience Score
Metacritic: Meta Score 74, User Score 8.2
Google Users: 94% liked this film
From the creative mind of Vincente Minnelli, acclaimed director of An American in Paris and The Band Wagon, comes the romantic musical Brigadoon. When two New Yorkers on a hunting trip stumble across the legendary village of Brigadoon―seemingly untouched since medieval times―they’re enchanted by its timeless beauty and decide to spend a night there. But it soon becomes clear that Brigadoon is about to vanish forever unless a way can be found to break the 100-year spell.
The timeless tale of love found and lost is a classic. Gene Kelly and Van Johnson star as two New Yorkers who find the magical Scottish village Brigadoon. Cyd Charisse also stars as Fiona MacLaren, and Oscar-winning cinematographer George J. Folsey brings together traditional Scottish and American musical styles.
Now one of the most beloved Hollywood musicals of all time, this magical film tells the story of a couple who arrives in the village of Brigadoon for their honeymoon. Viewers will delight in this Technicolor masterpiece featuring Gene Kelly and Van Johnson as well as Cyd Charisse. Kelly won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as evil magician Harry Beaton.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% Average Audience Score
The speedy, off-center Married Before Breakfast features Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, and Ann Rutherford in a comedy that plays like an affectionate parody of the film noir movies popular at the time. The razor company is eager to get their hands on the formula for Young’s cream, but Young has other plans.
Young, of “Marcus Welby” TV show fame, portrays a mad scientist who has developed an improved shaving cream that hardens the whiskers in any of five seconds. Wayne Morris is a killer who has inherited his father’s razor company and doesn’t want Young’s invention to ruin a business, so he tries to chloroform Young and steals his formula. And future Oscar winner Kay Francis plays Young’s devoted wife. This screwball comedy was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who directed many films such as The Great Ziegfeld (1936).
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 6.2/10
Amazon: 5/5
Open your door to the world of Classical Music with Interrupted Melody starring Eleanor Parker. This biopic traces the life and career of Australian-born opera singer Marjorie Lawrence and her battle with polio and later comeback. Glenn Ford and Roger Moore costar.
Set in Australia during the 1930s, Interrupted Melody tells the true-life story of opera singer Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker). A polio victim at age 10, Lawrence goes on to become an acclaimed professional soprano. But her career is constantly threatened by her handicap. With the support of her husband and friends, she moves to the United States and finally achieves success on Broadway.
In this elegantly crafted film, an oscar-nominated Eleanor Parker shines as talented Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence. Lauded for her soprano voice at the height of her career, Lawrence suddenly lost the use of her legs as a teenager due to polio. Refusing surgery that would have made her able to walk again but likely taken away her singing voice forever, it would take Marjorie 16 years before she was able to perform again. This riveting drama costars Laurence Harvey and Roger Moore in his screen debut.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 68% Average Audience Score
Google Users: 87% liked this film
The original Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is an American romantic comedy-drama film, released in 1936, directed by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Lionel Stander, and Douglass Dumbrille. The movie detailing the fictional life of Long Island newspaperman, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), whose idyllic life is turned upside down when he inherits $20 million from his late uncle.
Classic and beloved for its simple, warmhearted depiction of a man who gains wealth and wisdom by the end of the film. Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and Actor (Cooper), Frank Capra’s comedy-drama features one of Gary Cooper’s most memorable performances as an “aw shucks” small-town idealist transformed into a cynical ladies’ man when he’s suddenly rich.
Capra won the award for his signature film style that took a serious subject, the American Dream, and treated it as if it were a tall tale. Nominated for several other major awards and starring Jean Arthur and Douglass Dumbrille in unforgettable roles.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% Average Audience Score
Commonsense: 4/5
Google Users: 88% liked this film
In 1966, the film adaptation of the beloved television show “To Sir with Love” became one of the year’s most popular films and spawned a hit soundtrack featuring Lulu’s signature song. The movie starred legendary actor Sidney Poitier in the role of Mark Thackeray, who had been brought from London to teach at a tough inner-city school in London. Focusing on a few of Thackeray’s memorable students (some of whom were veterans of the original series), this “back-to-basics” film was a huge hit that won both popular and critical acclaim, including four Oscar nominations.
Based on the novel of the same name, this 1967 film written by R.F. Delderfield is a stirring account of an idealistic young teacher’s struggles in an East London school and his unfaltering determination to reach out to children from troubled homes. Featuring one of Sidney Poitier’s finest performances, To Sir With Love also co-stars Judy Geeson and Christian Roberts, and showcases Lulu’s memorable rendition of the title song.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Average Audience Score
Metacritic: 55%
Google Users: 89% liked this film
“A Family Affair” is the first of MGM’s series of nine Andy Hardy films. Based on a popular character created by author Samuel Hopkins Adams, each of the films was set in the small-town U.S.A., and each starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Andy’s indulgent but loving father, Donna Reed as his loving mother, and Fay (Ginger) Rogers as girlfriend Polly Benedict. Lionel Barrymore also played Judge Hardy in the 1938 “Andy Hardy Meets Debutante” (seen late last year on Turner Classic Movies), the ninth film in the series. Although set in a small Midwestern.
The original Andy Hardy movie, A Family Affair, is a now-classic 1939 offering, starring Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Ann Rutherford as his daughter Margaret, Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy, and Fay Holden as Aunt Polly. You can watch this masterpiece on TCM.
Andy Hardy (Meredith) is a 17-year-old boy whose biggest problem is keeping his dad from asking his girlfriend Mildred to marry him. One day, Mildred shows up at the house, and Carolyn meets her. Andy doesn’t like the idea of his mom knowing about his girlfriend, but when they meet, it turns out that Carolyn’s father was once engaged to Mildred’s aunt. When Judge Hardy visits her, he falls for her as quickly as his son has, and decides that it will be best if he marries her.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 36% Average Audience Score
Google Users: 92% liked this film
Buck Privates will leave you with more laughs than you can count, thanks to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s comic genius. The comedy duo enlists in the army to avoid trouble with the law, only to learn their drill instructor is the cop that was hot on their trail. Watch as they power through countless hard-hitting army drills and embarrassing situations, earning a chance to fight for Uncle Sam. In addition to being funny, Buck Privates is also a huge hit with music fans, as it features the melodic stylings of the Andrews Sisters.
If your children haven’t yet enjoyed Abbott and Costello’s antics, this classic comedy will introduce them to some of the best laughs Hollywood has ever produced. Featuring not only Abbott and Costello, but the Andrews Sisters as well (singing such classics as Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy), this movie will have your whole family in stitches.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 77% Average Audience Score
Rate Your Music: 3.4/5
Google Users: 92% liked this film
Movie fanatics agree that The Awful Truth is a delightfully witty screwball comedy. In it, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant play a married couple who each suspect (falsely, natch) the other of not being true to their vows. But when they go through with a divorce and end up spending 90 days waiting for the divorce to go through, they realize (through a string of comic situations) that they’re actually not so eager to separate after all. Ralph Bellamy co-stars.
From the Academy Award-winning director and writers of TO BE OR NOT TO BE and THE BACHELOR AND THE BECKS comes this screwball comedy classic starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant with Ralph Bellamy. When Mrs. Hastings (Dunne) and Mr. Emory (Grant) find their marriage on the rocks after an extended separation, they decide to divorce. Unknown to each other, however, they each plan to get even before the court legally separates them. Through a series of mishaps, they discover that convenience, not love, was what brought them together in the first place.
Popular Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Average Audience Score
Metacritic: Meta Score 87%
Google Users: 87% liked this film
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Published On : June 20, 2022 by: Sakshi Sharma/Category(s) : Movies
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