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In his song “Jack and Diane,” young Jack does “his best James Dean” to impress Diane with how cool he is. Again, Mellencamp used the name of one of the actors he most admires in his lyrics. Dean, who specialized in playing alienated young loners, was also a master of attitude. James Dean (1931-55) made his cinematic debut starring in East of Eden (1955) and appeared in only two more films before his life was cut short by a car accident. It was his appearance as a trouble-prone biker in this film that inspired Mellencamp’s lyric in his song “You’ve Got to Stand for Somethin’”: “I saw Marlon Brando/On a motorcycle/He was actin’ out rebellion.” Brando, who established his reputation as the most exciting actor of his generation in Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), also attracted attention in the 1953 film The Wild One. He also stars in The Fugitive Kind (1960) as drifter Val Xavier, a character created by Tennessee Williams. Marlon Brando (1924-2004) won a Best Actor Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954) for playing Terry Malloy, a dockworker embroiled with the mob. But a decade earlier Clift had been the ultimate sensitive young leading man in such films as A Place in the Sun (1951) and From Here to Eternity (1953). Montgomery Clift (1920-1966) has a relatively minor role in The Misfits (1961), playing a battered rodeo rider in support of stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable.

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Mellencamp once said of Tortilla Flat, “It’s a movie about possessions and how useless they are.” Garfield, an alumnus of the famous Group Theatre, introduced a new kind of naturalism with his acting in this and other films including The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and He Ran All the Way (1951). John Garfield (1913-1952) stars with Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr in Tortilla Flat (1942), based on John Steinbeck’s 1935 novel about life in a poor Mexican community near Monterey, California. Below are the actors and films showcased by Mellencamp during his TCM appearance. His artwork has been the subject of several exhibitions. He is also an accomplished visual artist, specializing in portraits with an influence of German Expressionism. His most recent album, Sad Clowns and Hillbillies, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim.

He has won a Grammy Award and been nominated for a dozen others. Mellencamp has sold more than 30 million albums in the U.S.

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His first album was released in 1976 and, beginning in 1982, he amassed a series of 22 Top 40 hits. He was known for a time as Johnny Cougar and later as John Cougar Mellencamp. Mellencamp, born in the small town of Seymour, Indiana, in 1951, was fronting a soul band by the time he was 14. Mellencamp’s film choices offer a lineup of the “new breed” of earthy, Method-trained actors who changed the tone of film performances beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the 1950s and ‘60s: John Garfield, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean and Paul Newman. All rights reserved.Singer/songwriter/artist John Mellencamp joins TCM as a special guest for two nights of hosted conversations about some of his favorite classic movies and performers.

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Here’s the full track list for The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 companion album:Ĭopyright © 2021, ABC Audio. The soundtrack album, which is available for pre-order now, features 12 performances, including renditions the Mellencamp hits “Small Town” and “Pink Houses,” some deeper cuts from his catalog and covers of such tunes as Bob Dylan‘s “All Alng the Watchtower,” Donovan‘s “Hey Gyp” and The Rolling Stones‘ “Street Fighting Man.” Following the movie’s debut, Mellencamp will appear as a guest programmer on the Turner Classic Movies network in September.

You can check out a trailer for The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 at John’s official YouTube channel. The movie also includes special contributions from Nora Guthrie, daughter of late folk legend Woody Guthrie. Mellencamp co-produced the film, which was directed by Shan Dan Horan. The doc is narrated by Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey.

John played acoustic guitar at the shows, backed by only a viola player and an accordion player. John Mellencamp‘s recently announced documentary The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 will premiere August 27 on Turner Classic Movies’ YouTube channel, and a companion live album will be released the same day.Īs previously reported, the film focuses on Mellencamp’s 2000 trek of the same name, which featured a series of free, unannounced concerts held at parks, on street corners and in other public spaces in select major cities in the Midwest and on the East Coast.

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