If you listened to last week’s episode of FilmCouch, you’ll know that I have a pretty unhealthy relationship with TCM’s Summer Under the Stars. Every August, I become pretty much a total shut-in. Their strategy of programming 24 hours worth of films for a different star every day of the month forces the network to really dig into the archives sometimes. So day after day, I try to leave my house, but it seems like there’s always a chance that I’m going to miss something that’s not going to air until next August, if even then.
Such is the case with today’s tribute to Kim Novak. I don’t actually care about Novak’s work that much (although it’s always nice to have an excuse to watch Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid, which airs today at 12 om EST), but she played a supporting part in Phffft!, Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon’s follow up to It Should Happen to You, a film I’ve been trying to see for years. From what I know of it, it’s actually kind of a stretch to call it a Kim Novak film at all, but since Holliday didn’t make enough movies to qualify for her own Summer Under the Stars tribute, I’m not going to complain.
See a clip above. Phffft! airs this morning at 10:30 EST.
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