Last night, Turner Classic Movies showed Billy Wilder’s hard-hitting 1945 classic about alcoholism, The Lost Weekend. Tonight, it’s showing the next film he directed, The Emperor Waltz, from 1948. It’s a Bing Crosby costume musical comedy that I’ve never seen, with classy and lovely Joan Fontaine. Billy Wilder is known for his darkly humorous noir films in black and white, but The Emperor Waltz is light-hearted fun (until there’s talk of drowning puppies) and in fabulously vibrant color. What a beautiful print. Once again TCM makes cable TV worth keeping.