{"id":4296,"date":"2014-01-08T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2014-01-08T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:36:08","slug":"this-modern-age-on-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/this-modern-age-on-tcm\/","title":{"rendered":"“This Modern Age” on TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Modern Age\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>is going to air on Turner Classic Movies on Thursday, January 9th at 12:00am PST (which is technically Friday).<\/p>\n

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TCM continues its tribute to Joan Crawford tomorrow without another round of early titles, including\u00c2\u00a0This Modern Age<\/strong><\/a>. By 1931, when this film was made, the musical revues that Ann Dvorak had been appearing in as chorus girl had fallen out of vogue. Since MGM didn’t seem to want to elevate Ann’s status on the lot, she was instead relegated to “extra” parts, showing up in the background.\u00c2\u00a0This Modern Age\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is actually one of her more prominent extra parts and she gets a bit of screen time as a party crasher. It’s been years since I watched this one, but I recall liking it well enough.<\/p>\n

Rain\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>is also in the line-up at 7:00pm which is a favorite Joan Crawford performance of mine. It’s also worth noting that the role of Sadie Thompson was one Howard Hughes tried hard to get for Ann<\/a>, but to no avail. While I love Joan, my heart aches thinking about Ann playing a part of that caliber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Modern Age\u00c2\u00a0is going to air on Turner Classic Movies on Thursday, January 9th at 12:00am PST (which is technically Friday). TCM continues its tribute to Joan Crawford tomorrow without another round of early titles, including\u00c2\u00a0This Modern Age. By 1931, when this film was made, the musical revues that Ann Dvorak had been appearing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-where-to-see-ann-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t