TCM Schedule for Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 - Broadway Musicals / Birthday Tribute to Donald Sutherland

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Donald Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination. Considered one of the best actors never nominated for an Academy Award, he was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2017. Sutherland was a prominent anti-war activist during the Vietnam War era.

He graduated from Victoria University in 1958 with a dual degree in engineering and drama. But having at one point been a member of the "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto, Sutherland changed his mind about engineering and left Canada for Britain in 1957, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. British theater led to small roles in British film and television.

His big break came in 1967 when, with the help of Roger Moore (who Sutherland had met during an episode of The Saint), Sutherland landed a role in the film The Dirty Dozen. The film, which starred Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and several other popular actors, was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing film of the year. In 1968 Sutherland left London for Hollywood.

Sutherland then appeared in two more war films, playing the lead role as Hawkeye Pierce in the Robert Altman–directed comedy M*A*S*H in 1970 and, again in 1970, as hippie tank commander "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes alongside Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and Don Rickles. The films, airing tonight, catapulted Sutherland to stardom.

Full bio at the link below. Sutherland died under hospice care in Miami on 20 June 2024, aged 88, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sutherland



Donald Sutherland, left, and Elliot Gould, in M*A*S*H (1970)


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6:15 AM | Easter Parade (1948)
Broadway dancer tries to forget his ex-partner while rising to stardom.
Dir: Charles Walters | Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford

8:00 AM | Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth | Cast: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor

10:00 AM | The Band Wagon (1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant

12:00 PM | Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Off-stage antics of ex-lovers and gangsters parallel a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

2:00 PM | Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home.
Dir: Busby Berkeley | Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart

3:45 PM | 42nd Street (1933)
After breaking an ankle, a leading lady of a Broadway musical is replaced by a young unknown actress.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon | Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent

5:15 PM | Gypsy (1962)
The life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

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8:00 PM | M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor to keep their sanity during wartime.
Dir: Robert Altman | Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duval

10:15 PM | Ordinary People (1980)
The death of an older son strains the relationships among a bitter mother, her husband, and a guilt-ridden younger son.
Dir: Robert Redford | Cast: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch

12:30 AM | Klute (1971)
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula | Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi

2:30 AM | Kelly's Heroes (1970)
An American platoon tries to recover buried treasure behind enemy lines.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton | Cast: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles

5:00 AM | Report from the Aleutians (1943)
World War II documentary reveals the tough conditions under which American men had to fight.
Dir: Capt. John Huston | Cast: Capt. John Huston, Walter Huston, Lt. Jules Buck

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1. BTW, if you like incredible dancing, catch Kiss Me Kate at noon.

Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van (and Company) will blow you away.