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Lost and found tapes of a book that will never be written.

Here’s 5 to watch this week during TCM’s Summer Under the Stars lineup

1. One Way Passage (1932) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Monday, Aug. 9: Old Hollywood’s premier romantic weepie stars William Powell and SUTS honoree Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers who have a doomed shipboard romance.

2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) at 5:45 pm ET/2:45 pm PT Tuesday, Aug. 10: If you’re idea of an afternoon’s entertainment is watching a dysfunctional, alcoholic couple (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor) verbally destroy each other during a Scotch-fueled battle of the wills then tune in to this Oscar-winning drama that is part of George Segal’s SUTS day. He plays a young man who becomes entangled in Burton and Taylor’s life when he and his wife (Sandy Dennis) are invited over for drinks.

3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) at 8 pm ET/5 pm ET Thursday, Aug. 12: This ancient epic about a young Jewish prince (SUTS honoree Ramon Novarro) is the last word in silent-movie spectacle.

4. Twelve O'Clock High (1949) at 5:30 pm ET/2:30 pm PT Saturday, Aug. 14: There’s lots of great stuff during Gregory Peck’s SUTS day, such as this underrated WWII drama about an Army Air Corps officer who struggles with what we would call today PTSD. Twelve O'Clock High is an effective rebuttal to many of the he-man heroics in other war films, and Peck gives an exceptional performance.

5. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) at 2:30 pm ET/11:30 am PT Sunday, Aug. 15: There’s lots of great musicals airing during Judy Garland’s SUTS day, but this nostalgic film is a treasured favorite in our house.

Here’s the full Summer Under the Stars schedule: https://summer.tcm.com/

1888 The Eiffel Tower under construction in Paris, France. No. 4 in a series of 11. Théophile Féau captured the construction of the tower by taking photographs from the tower of the Trocadero at 15 day intervals.

1912 The Titanic leaves Southampton bound for New York. The Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage but on the night of 14th April 1912 struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic and the ‘unsinkable’ ship went down with 1522 passengers and crew less than 3 hours later.

1934 Tramcar Collision. The wreckage after two tramcars collided on London’s Embankment, injuring six people.

1939: Crowds march through the streets of Dublin to commerate the Easter Rising, the armed uprising of Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.

1941: Members of the Nazi Afrika Korps on desert patrol, leading the Axis offensive in Libya.

1943 Tank making. Russian tanks in their winter white camouflage being assembled at a Ukrainian plant.

1944 Bombs Away. An American B25 Mitchell bomber blasts a Japanese warship just off the north west coast of New Zealand. The ship was eventually sunk off New Hanover. The bomb dropping is circled.

1945 Princess Elizabeth Drives an Ambulance. Now Queen, Elizabeth drove an ambulance during her wartime service in the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) as she began to undertake public duties.

1947 The Lie-Detector. A crowd studies the interpretation of the brainwaves of Mr W G Carradine (in the chair), an Assistant Regional Officer of the Minstry of Supply during a demonstration at Imperial College, London of the Edissen Divert Recording Electro-Encephalograph, which has come to be known as the lie-detector.

1947 Glass-Blower. A worker at Glass Developments Ltd in Didcot making glass animals shaped out of hot, pliable glass.

1951: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), originally Frances Gumm, in London.

1954 Meccano Set. Two men examining a fairground ferris wheel made out of Meccano at the Toy Manufacturer’s Fair in Brighton.

1954 Toy Heaven. Shiny new toys on display at the Toy Manufacturers’ Fair at Brighton.

1957 Demonstrating an underwater camera. Two women in a glass tank at the British Photo Fair, National Hall, Olympia, London, taking photographs of people watching them with underwater cameras in order to demonstrate the equipment.

1961 US Missile. A US Air Force TM-76 B Mace tactical range ballistic missile blasts out of a prototype hard site at the US Air Force Missile Test Centre at Cape Canaveral.

1967 Academy Awards. Exterior of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, where a line of valets stands with their backs to the camera during the 39th Annual Academy Awards, Santa Monica, California. Crowds sit in bleachers awaiting the arrival of celebrities.

1972 General Idi Amin, Ugandan Dictator, born 1925 pictured playing with the Uganda Air Force band. Idi Amin seized power in 1971 and was responsible for the murder of thousands of Ugandans and the expulsion of thousands of Asians during his tyranny. He was forced into exile in 1979 after an invasion of Tanzanian forces.

1975 Patchwork A La Mode. Model Ellen Liu wears a woollen two-piece patchwork knit outfit with a matching hat and scarf. The outfit was designed and made in Hong Kong and is part of fashion show held at Hong Kong House in London.

1984 A-ha In London. Norwegian pop group A-ha posed in London on 10th April 1984. From left to right: Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket and Pal Waaktaar.

1992 New PM. The new British Prime Minister John Major poses with Conservative Party Chairman Chris Patten outside Number 10 Downing Street, one day after his victory in the general election.

Judy Garland’s 17th Birthday Party - 1939

In an interview before his cancer diagnosis George Perez talked about all the celebrities he based the Teen Titans on when he was drawing the series. Among them was Mickey Rooney (back when he was making the Andy Hardy movies) as Garfield Logan. As Judy Garland was the model for Mary Marvel and did a number of Teen comedies in the 40s with Mickey Rooney I was inspired to make this fan art