TCM Schedule for Wednesday, May 15: Writer Dalton Trumbo/TCM Spotlight: First Name Basis
The daytime schedule is devoted to blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Here's a link to his American Masters profile from PBS:
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dalton-trumbo-about-dalton-trumbo/1166/
Ooh, and on the daytime schedule, there's also a Robert Montgomery sighting!
And tonight, it's back to the wonderful series of classic films called First Name Basis.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
1:30 AM Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:30 AM Querelle (1982)
Querelle is a handsome sailor whose commanding officer, Seblon, worships and desires him from afar. After murdering his drug-smuggling partner, Querelle visits a notorious brothel run by the rapacious Lysiane who leads Querelle into his first homosexual encounter. Subsequently, he falls in love with a fellow murderer, Gil. ...
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
5:30 AM The Boy Friend (1971)
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.
Dir: Ken Russell Cast: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:45 AM Design for Scandal (1941)
A reporter is assigned to dig up dirt on a lady judge.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:15 AM Live, Love and Learn (1937)
A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage.
Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:45 AM The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
A fight manager decides his client needs a family for publicity purposes.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Joan Blondell
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:30 PM Tender Comrade (1943)
Lady welders pool their resources to share a house during World War II.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:15 PM A Guy Named Joe (1943)
When adventurous World War II bomber pilot Pete Sandidge dies in an aerial attack after ordering the crew to safety, he meets "the General," a legendary dead pilot who assigns Pete to return to earth as a guardian angel for a new pilot named Ted Randall.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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4:30 PM We Who Are Young (1940)
A man violates company policy by getting married.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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8:00 PM Gigi (1958)
The story of an illegitimate waif in late 1800s Paris who is pushed upon by her grandmother to become a courtesan and mistress of a young, handsome and wealthy heir.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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10:15 PM Lili (1953)
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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12:00 AM Oliver! (1968)
Musical version of the Dickens classic about an orphan taken in by a band of boy thieves.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed
Runtime: 153 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:45 AM Roberta (1935)
John Kent, visiting Paris with his bandleader friend, Huck Haines, suddenly inherits his aunt's fashionable dress shop in the city. Although clueless about the fashion world, John and Huck get help from designer Stephanie and the fiery Countess Scharwenka, whom Huck recognizes as his small-town sweetheart, Lizzie. But when John's snooty ex, Sophie, shows up, he must reconsider his new feelings for Stephanie.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:45 AM Mame (1974)
A wealthy eccentric takes in her orphaned nephew.
Dir: Gene Saks Cast: Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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