This month TCM is highlighting stars; stars usually become stars when they work with good directors with whom they feel comfortable, so I will mention a film or two for each "star."
August 1 Barbara Stanwyck: Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald, 1957), Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, 1952)
August 2 Rock Hudson: two by Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows 1955, Written on the Wind 1957)
Aug. 3 Rita Hayworth: Raoul Walsh's Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Aug. 7 Sylvia Sidney: King Vidor's Street Scene (1931), Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937)
Aug. 8 Charlie Chaplin, all his films are wonderful: City Lights (1931)
Aug. 13 John Barrymore (Clarence Brown's Night Flight, 1933)
Aug. 15 Nina Foch (Joseph H. Lewis's My Name is Julia Ross, 1945)
Aug. 16 Cary Grant: Leo McCarey's Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Aug. 17 Maureen O'Hara: John Ford's The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Aug. 18 Warren Beatty: Robert Rossen's Lilith (1962)
Aug. 19 Dolores del Rio: King Vidor's Bird of Paradise (1932)
Aug.21 Diana Dors: Terence Fisher's Man Bait (1952)
Aug. 22 Natalie Wood: Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955), John Ford's The Searchers (1956)
Aug.25 Anne Shirley: King Vidor's Stella Dallas (1937)
Aug.27 Claudette Colbert: Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story (1942), John Ford's Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Aug.28 Paul Henreid: Hollow Triumph (Steve Sekely, 1948)
Aug. 29 Eva Marie Saint: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959)
Aug. 30 Charlton Heston: Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Aug. 31 Alain Delon: Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967)
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