Smile Darn Ya Smile

TV tip: Turner Classic Movies is showing the 1975 comedy Smile this Tuesday at 2:15 a.m. EST. Very funny movie about a beauty pageant in sun-baked California (I even made a mix CD inspired by it). The cast is outstanding. Some of the people who played the teenaged contestants: Annette O'Toole (future Oscar nominee for A Mighty Wind), Joan Prather (would play the oldest son's girlfriend/fiancee/wife on Eight Is Enough), Colleen Camp (Valley Girl and a gajillion other movies), Melanie Griffith (celebrity/plastic surgery victim), Denise Nickerson (Violet from Willy Wonka), and a buch of other girls who were not professional actors but properly exuded that "generic '70s California girl" vibe. I've also heard this movie will get a DVD release in August.

Another reason to love TCM - the Looney Tunes in Hollywood film festival. On June 18, ten Warner Bros. cartoons will be paired with the films they parodied - such as Roughly Speaking (which Joyce Compton appears very briefly in) and its animated counterpart, Roughly Squeaking. Should be fun.
Posted by mhinrichs at June 6, 2004 05:05 PM