TCM Schedule for Monday April 8 - Amateur Sleuths

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Daytime is all about sham marriages; in prime time it's the first of a week-long batch of amateur crime-solvers.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM BLONDE CRAZY ( 1931)
A con-man bellhop and his chambermaid girlfriend set out to fleece hotel guests. Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney , Joan Blondell , Louis Calhern . BW- 79 mins, CC,

7:30 AM WISE GIRLS ( 1929)
A sheepish plumber gets conned into a marriage scheme. Dir: E. Mason Hopper Cast: Elliott Nugent , Norma Lee , Roland Young . BW- 98 mins,

9:15 AM JOHN LOVES MARY ( 1949)
A World War II veteran's marriage of convenience threatens his real wedding plans. Dir: David Butler Cast: Ronald Reagan , Jack Carson , Wayne Morris . BW- 96 mins, CC,

11:00 AM COME LIVE WITH ME ( 1941)
A Viennese refugee weds a struggling author platonically so she can stay in the U.S. Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: James Stewart , Hedy Lamarr , Ian Hunter . BW- 87 mins, CC,

12:30 PM DREAM WIFE ( 1953)
For state reasons, a diplomat fakes an engagement to a Middle Eastern princess. Dir: Sidney Sheldon Cast: Cary Grant , Deborah Kerr , Walter Pidgeon . BW- 99 mins, CC,

2:15 PM PROFESSIONAL SWEETHEART ( 1933)
A radio star's pure image leads to a fake engagement to a hayseed. Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Ginger Rogers , Norman Foster , ZaSu Pitts . BW- 73 mins, CC,

3:30 PM PUBLIC WEDDING ( 1937)
Out-of-work show folk stage a fake wedding to generate publicity. Dir: Nick Grinde Cast: Jane Wyman , William Hopper , Dick Purcell . BW- 58 mins,

4:30 PM CONSOLATION MARRIAGE ( 1931)
A couple who married after each was jilted faces the return of their former loved ones. Dir: Paul Sloane Cast: Irene Dunne , Pat O'Brien , John Halliday . BW- 81 mins, CC,

6:00 PM SHALL WE DANCE ( 1937)
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love. Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Edward Everett Horton . BW- 109 mins, CC,

8:00 PM MURDER, SHE SAID ( 1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues. Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford , Arthur Kennedy , Muriel Pavlow . BW- 86 mins, CC,

9:45 PM MAD MISS MANTON, THE ( 1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation. Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck , Henry Fonda , Sam Levene . BW- 80 mins, CC,

11:15 PM LADY VANISHES, THE ( 1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood , Michael Redgrave , Paul Lukas . BW- 96 mins, CC,

1:00 AM PENGUIN POOL MURDER, THE ( 1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium. Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver , James Gleason , Robert Armstrong . BW- 65 mins, CC,

2:15 AM NANCY DREW...DETECTIVE ( 1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman's disappearance. Dir: William Clemens Cast: Bonita Granville , John Litel , James Stephenson . BW- 66 mins, CC,

3:30 AM DETECTIVE KITTY O'DAY ( 1944)
An amateur sleuth drives her boyfriend and the police crazy when she butts into a murder investigation. Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Jean Parker , Peter Cookson , Tim Ryan . BW- 61 mins,

4:45 AM SMART BLONDE ( 1936)
An ambitious reporter forces her policeman boyfriend to let her help with a murder case. Dir: Frank McDonald Cast: Glenda Farrell , Barton MacLane , Winifred Shaw . BW- 59 mins, CC,

[Staph]

1. I love The Lady Vanishes!

It's one of the great Agatha Christie stories that Agatha Christie never wrote.

From IMDB:

In an interview with Peter Bogdanovich, Sir Alfred Hitchcock revealed that this movie was inspired by a legend of an Englishwoman who went with her daughter to the Palace Hotel in Paris in the 1880s, at the time of the Great Exposition: "The woman was taken sick and they sent the girl across Paris to get some medicine in a horse-vehicle, so it took about four hours. When she came back she asked, 'How's my mother?' 'What mother?' 'My mother. She's here, she's in her room. Room 22.' They go up there. Different room, different wallpaper, everything. And the payoff of the whole story is, so the legend goes, that the woman had bubonic plague and they dared not let anybody know she died, otherwise all of Paris would have emptied."