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FLIX PICKS JARS STARS

An eclectic group of celebrities made some surprising choices – and some revealing ones – when Turner Classic Movies asked them to choose their favorite films.

TCM will feature the celebs – 29 in all – and their choices every evening this November, the channel announced yesterday.

Each of them came up with four movie choices to be shown consecutively, starting Nov. 1 with Whoopi Goldberg.

The new co-host of “The View” chose a movie about TV – “A Face in the Crowd” from 1957 – along with “Beauty and the Beast” (1946), “Funny Girl” (1968) and the wartime melodrama “Enchanted Cottage” (1945).

“A Face in the Crowd” was among a small handful of films picked by more than one celebrity. Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh also picked the made-in-New York drama directed by Elia Kazan and starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal.

The list of films reveals a wide range of interests and tastes among these celebrity movie fans.

Domestic diva Martha Stewart chose three movies involving troubled marriages – “Anna Karenina” (1935), “Enchanted April” (1935) and “Madame Bovary” (1949) plus the classic film about home renovations, “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” (1948).

Two out of four of Kermit the Frog’s picks were classic MGM musicals from the early ’50s – “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) and “The Band Wagon” (1953) – once again fueling speculation that the famous green Muppet is gay.

Among the more surprising picks were the dark 1932 horror classic “Freaks” chosen by fresh-faced “Access Hollywood” cutie Maria Menounos; the hard-boiled Lee Marvin thriller from 1967, “Point Blank,” picked by mild-mannered Food Network personality Alton Brown; and “Andy Hardy Meets Debutante” (1940), which was chosen inexplicably by zany funnyman Jerry Stiller.

Not so surprising were the movies chosen by noir author James Ellroy (“L.A. Confidential,” “The Big Nowhere”) who picked four crime movies from the 1950s – “Stakeout on Dope Street,” “Murder by Contract,” “The Lineup” and “Armored Car Robbery.”

And Jack Klugman was the only celeb to pick a movie in which he himself appeared – “12 Angry Men” from 1957. His other picks were “City for Conquest” (1940), “None But the Lonely Heart” (1944) and “Inherit the Wind” (1960).