Thursdays in July, Ronald Colman is TCM’s Star of the Month. He’s a star that may need rediscovery, as some of his most commonly known contributions to popular culture, at this point, are one step removed. He’s the actor, for example, whose voice was channeled by Don Adams when coming up with the clipped confident sound of secret agent Maxwell Smart on Get Smart. And one of Colman’s most famous early characters, a dogged detective featured in a series of movies, was name-checked in a song by the Searchers, which in turn was recorded by the Beatles and sung with great gusto by John Lennon. “Gonna walk right down that street,” goes the lyric, “like Bulldog Drummond.” But I digress. Tonight’s TCM salute begins at 8 p.m. ET with 1923’s The White Sister, a silent film in which Colman finds his destiny intertwined with that of two women – one of whom is played by Lillian Gish (pictured), one of the biggest stars of early cinema.