So her consolation prize was to sing a song for pennies... #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

Singing "The Best Things In Life Are Free" while killing herself for the promise of $1500. #TCMParty #CreepyCinema #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

William Friedkin and Jack Smight were candidates to direct before the producers settled on Sydney Pollack. Poe's script was subsequently re-written by Robert Thompson. #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

James Poe wrote the initial screenplay treatment and intended to direct the film, but was fired after an unsuccessful screen test with Jane Fonda and Bonnie Bedelia. #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

The project was suspended indefinitely, and when McCoy died in 1955, his heirs refused to renew the deal with Lloyd.
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J. Edgar Hoover ordered the INS to revoke his re-entry permit due to his alleged Communist ties (he would not return to the U.S. until he was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1972).
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However, while the initial paperwork was being sorted out, Chaplin travelled to Europe for the London premiere of Limelight, and in his absence, #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

Lloyd purchased the rights to the film, and planned to cast Chaplin's son Sydney and then-newcomer Marilyn Monroe as Robert and Gloria. #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

According to TV Tropes: Horace McCoy's novel was first discussed for a film adaptation in 1952, with Norman Lloyd as director and Charlie Chaplin as producer. #CreepyCinema #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

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omg I just realized he's talking from prison...

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this is a great film because it does something that very few movies accomplish: it makes you feel the desperation of its characters rather than simply asking you to understand it.
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"Let's throw the starving pregnant waif up there and have her sing something -- the crowd will eat it up!" #tcmparty #theyshoothorsesdontthey

Rocky took Alice’s dress for “the ultimate good of the show!?!?”

This and other things really gives the title of the Ultimate S***stirrer!!! #TCMParty #TheyShootHorsesDontThey

I didn't realize they let them take breaks. First I thought "oh that's humane, that makes more sense." Now it seems more like a cruel way of extending the suffering and the air time 🤷‍♀️

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Jane Fonda going from Barbarella to #TheyShootHorsesDontthey feels like the greatest leap ever #tcmparty

The desperation and self-loathing is just heart-breaking.
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"They just want to see a little misery, so they can feel better about themselves"

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Spotted Allyn Ann McLerie among the contestants--she'll always be Mr. Carlson's wife to me.
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"I woulda thought you'd put her on display, charge a little extra"

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