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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 13:46:12 GMT
Had this list ready to go several days ago, but you can't walk away from this website for a while and expect to still be logged in! So, I'm recreating. Thankfully, the list was pretty short.
Daytime May 8 '50s Comedies
Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday, William Holden) (Columbia, 1950)
Father's Little Dividend (Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett) (MGM, 1951)
Angels in the Outfield (Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh) (MGM, 1951)
Pat and Mike (Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn) (MGM, 1952)
The Long, Long Trailer (Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez) (MGM, 1954)
The Mating Game (Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall) (MGM, 1959)
Pillow Talk (Doris Day, Tony Randall) (Universal, 1959)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 14:15:13 GMT
Primetime May 8 and Daytime May 9 (a 24-hour run) Night Two of the Spotlight on James Wong Howe. Looks like he moved during these years to yet another stodio with future TCM-controlled content, RKO, continuing (unknown at the time, of course) to cement his position for future TCM airings.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon) (RKO, 1940)
Shining Victory (James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Out of the Fog (Ida Lupino, John Garfield) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Navy Blues (Ann Sheridan, Herbert Anderson) (Warner Bros., 1941)
Kings Row (Robert Cummings, Betty Field) (Warner Bros., 1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Joan Leslie) (Warner Bros., 1942)
Air Force (John Garfield, Gig Young) (Warner Bros., 1943)
The North Star (Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews) (Goldwyn/RKO, 1943)
Hangmen Also Die! (Brian Donlevy, Anna Lee) (United Artists, 1943)
Passage to Marseilles (Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains) (Warnere Bros., 1944)
Confidential Agent (Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1945)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Cary Grant, Myrna Loy) (RKO/Selznick, 1948)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 14:22:54 GMT
Primetime May 9 Preston Sturges. To counteract this Paramount-heavy lineup, there's a documentary about MGM at the end of the night
The Great McGinty (Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus) (Paramount, 1940)
The Lady Eve (Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda) (Paramount, 1941)
Sullivan's Travels (Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake) (Paramount, 1942)
The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea) (Paramount, 1942)
Hail, the Conquering Hero (Eddie Bracken, Ella Rainies) (Paramount, 1944)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 14:33:24 GMT
Daytime May 10 Fred Astaire's 124th Birthday
Dancing Lady (Joan Crawford, Clark Gable) (MGM, 1933)
Roberta (Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott) (RKO, 1935)
Top Hat (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (RKO, 1935)
A Damsel in Distress (Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine) (RKO, 1937)
Carefree (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (RKO, 1938)
The Barkleys of Broadway (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers) (MGM, 1949)
The Belle of New York (Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen) (MGM, 1952)
Silk Stockings (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse) (MGM, 1957)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 14:42:51 GMT
Primetime May 10, running into mid-day May 11 (18 hours) Night Two of SOTM William Powell. It's not New Year's Eve, but it's the entire Thin Man series (maybe one is missing? I thought there were seven. I'm too lazy to look it up), plus a couple of pre-Thin Man detective movies at WB
The Kennel Murder Case (William Powell, Mary Astor) (Warner Bros., 1933)
Private Detective 62 (William Powell, Margaret Lindsay) (Warner Bros., 1933)
The Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1934)
After the Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1936)
Another Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1939)
Shadow of the Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1945)
Song of the Thin Man (William Powell, Myrna Loy) (MGM, 1947)
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 15, 2023 14:44:54 GMT
Primetime May 8 and Daytime May 9 (a 24-hour run) Night Two of the Spotlight on James Wong Howe. Looks like he moved during these years to yet another stodio with future TCM-controlled content, RKO, continuing (unknown at the time, of course) to cement his position for future TCM airings. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon) (RKO, 1940) Shining Victory (James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald) (Warner Bros., 1941) Out of the Fog (Ida Lupino, John Garfield) (Warner Bros., 1941) Navy Blues (Ann Sheridan, Herbert Anderson) (Warner Bros., 1941) Kings Row (Robert Cummings, Betty Field) (Warner Bros., 1942) Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Joan Leslie) (Warner Bros., 1942) Air Force (John Garfield, Gig Young) (Warner Bros., 1943) The North Star (Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews) (Goldwyn/RKO, 1943) Hangmen Also Die! (Brian Donlevy, Anna Lee) (United Artists, 1943) Passage to Marseilles (Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains) (Warnere Bros., 1944) Confidential Agent (Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall) (Warner Bros., 1945) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Cary Grant, Myrna Loy) (RKO/Selznick, 1948) |
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 14:58:01 GMT
Afternoon May 11 Science Fiction/Horror
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon) (Distributors Corp. of America, 1959)
Village of the Damned (George Sanders, Barbara Shelley) (Dist. in the US by MGM, 1960)
Snow Devils (Giacomo Stuart, Ombretta Colli) (Dist. in the US by MGM, presumably 1965, although IMDB doesn't say)
It! (Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth) (Dist. in the US by Warner Bros., 1967)
Quartermass and the Pit (James Donald, Barbara Shelley) (Dist. in the US by 20th Century Fox, 1968)
Invasion of the Astro-Monster (Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno) (Dist. in the US by Maron Films, 1970)
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Post by topbilled on Apr 15, 2023 15:03:04 GMT
All my attempts to quote a previous post on this new website end in failure. You apparently can't just click "Quote" anymore; that doesn't work for me. It's obviously something more complicated than that which I"m not sophisticated enough to figure out. So, I can't quote the post, but I would like to say the two Powell-Francis collaborations are the only two I've seen from that list as well, so I'm not much help there. Thanks Topbilled for insights on another movie to recommend from that list.
Yes, by all means, make sure to watch DOUBLE HARNESS. You won't be disappointed. |
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 15:06:55 GMT
When I was about nine years old, I spent a summer afternoon with my dad's parents, who lived about 10 miles south of us. I had seen in the local paper that Citizen Kane was scheduled to air as the Saturday afternoon movie on one of the local networks (both towns had the same TV stations back then. Cable wouldn't reach us for another year or so). I was much intrigued by this movie, it having been referenced recently in two of my biggest pop culture staples of the day, the TV show Eight is Enough and the comic strip Peanuts. All I knew from both sources was that the big twist ending was that (Spoiler alert!) Rosebud was the sled. My parents dropped me off at my grandparents' house about five minutes past the hour, so I missed the start of the movie, but I turned their TV on, and there was this long, idyllic sequence of children playing together. But it didn't look like winter, and there was no sled. I started thinking to myself, "What the hell is this?" My grandpa finally said, "I don't think this is Citizen Kane". In disgust, I turned off the TV. 30 years later, I watched Kings Row on TCM and immediately recognized the opening sequence of Kings Row. Somehow that was the movie that aired instead of Citizen Kane on that long-ago day. Can't imagine what effect it would have had on my brain back then if I'd watched the whole thing, or if I'd even have understood it.
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Post by Fading Fast on Apr 15, 2023 15:27:30 GMT
When I was about nine years old, I spent a summer afternoon with my dad's parents, who lived about 10 miles south of us. I had seen in the local paper that Citizen Kane was scheduled to air as the Saturday afternoon movie on one of the local networks (both towns had the same TV stations back then. Cable wouldn't reach us for another year or so). I was much intrigued by this movie, it having been referenced recently in two of my biggest pop culture staples of the day, the TV show Eight is Enough and the comic strip Peanuts. All I knew from both sources was that the big twist ending was that ( Spoiler alert!) Rosebud was the sled. My parents dropped me off at my grandparents' house about five minutes past the hour, so I missed the start of the movie, but I turned their TV on, and there was this long, idyllic sequence of children playing together. But it didn't look like winter, and there was no sled. I started thinking to myself, "What the hell is this?" My grandpa finally said, "I don't think this is Citizen Kane". In disgust, I turned off the TV. 30 years later, I watched Kings Row on TCM and immediately recognized the opening sequence of Kings Row. Somehow that was the movie that aired instead of Citizen Kane on that long-ago day. Can't imagine what effect it would have had on my brain back then if I'd watched the whole thing, or if I'd even have understood it. |
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Post by sepiatone on Apr 15, 2023 15:59:57 GMT
Yep, FADING FAST. And as I grew up(and that's not everyone's opinion  ) late '50's on, would pour over the newspaper's TV section and their center page grid to see what's coming on and commit what you wanted to watch to memory for the day. The game changed and improved once newspapers started publishing their own local television guide booklets that came every Sunday with the other supplements. You could look ahead to see what was coming up in the week ahead. And like Sewhite I'd heard and seen many references over the years to CITIZEN KANE but never seen it scheduled in either the newspaper grid or the weekly booklets until the local PBS station broadcast it on a Friday night in the late '70's. That's when I first saw it. And until then I had never before heard anything about Rosebud being(well, you know ) or anything else about it. By then I was in my late 20's and it impressed me profoundly. And until then the only movies I saw ORSON WELLES in was MOBY DICK and CATCH-22. And knew (and often heard) his WAR OF THE WORLDS radio presentation and the big "flap" surrounding it. And his narration in KING OF KINGS('61). And too, also growing up pre cable( it didn't reach my area until I was in my early 30's) was so accustomed to commercial interruptions that I've no problem with the to this day. Sure, I like commercial free, but I won't break into a hissy if it's not available in some cases. Sepiatone |
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 15, 2023 16:57:31 GMT
Primetime May 11 Night Two of the Month-Long Weather Theme. Even movies like Network, which aren't about weather per se, have big-time rain sequences.
The Rains Came (Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power) (20th Century Fox, 1939)
Foreign Correspondent (Joel McCrea, Larraine Day) (United Artists, 1940)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds) (MGM, 1952)
Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune, Keiko Tsushima) (Dist. in the US by Kingsley-International Pictures, 1956)
Network (William Holden, Faye Dunnaway) (MGM, 1976)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 16, 2023 1:19:59 GMT
Daytime May 12 Nuns
The Lady Vanishes (Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lukas) (Dist. in the US by Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America, 1938)
Vigil in the Night (Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne) (RKO, 1940)
Madonna of the Seven Moons (Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger) (Dist. in the US by Universal, 1946)
Black Narcissus (Deborah Kerr, David Farrar) (Dist. in the US by Universal, 1947)
The Nun's Story (Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch) (Warner Bros., 1959)
The Singing Nun (Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban) (MGM, 1966)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 16, 2023 7:46:27 GMT
Morning May 13 Saturday Matinee a travelogue, a Popeye cartoon, a Batman serial chapter, more cartoons and shorts. Here are the features. I see now they're running the Nancy Drew movies on Saturday mornings. I guess they were technically features, though each one is about 65 minutes long, as I recall from watching three of them in January, so I'm listing them.
Midnight Alibi (Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak) (Warner Bros., 1934)
Nancy Drew, Reporter (Bonita Granville, John Litel) (Warner Bros., 1939)
Summer of '42 (Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes) (Warner Bros., 1971)
Musical Matinee
It's Love Again (Jessie Matthews, Robert Young) (Dist. in the US by Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America, 1936)
Afternoon Random Programming. I'm leaving off Wichita, which already aired during the daytime theme of Kansas on May 5. It's the second non-Noir Alley movie to get two airings this month (Manhattan Melodrama was the first).
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland) (Warner Bros., 1938)
The Thing from Another World (Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan) (RKO, 1951)
Matinee (John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty) (Universal, 1993)
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Post by sewhite2000 on Apr 16, 2023 8:06:55 GMT
Primetime May 13 Edward James Olmos! What the heck?
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Edward James Olmos, James Gammon) (Embassy, 1982)
Stand and Deliver (Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips) (Warner Bros., 1988)
Noir Alley
Flamingo Road (Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott) (Warner Bros., 1949)
Late Night, Possibly TCM Underground? Is that still a thing? Unsure of the connection. Maybe they're both films about mental instability in young people circa 1989=90?
Heathers (Winona Ryder, Christian Slater) (New World, 1989)
Sweetie (Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston) (Dist. in the US by Avenue Pictures Productions, 1990)
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) late '50's on, would pour over the newspaper's TV section and their center page grid to see what's coming on and commit what you wanted to watch to memory for the day. The game changed and improved once newspapers started publishing their own local television guide booklets that came every Sunday with the other supplements.