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But he made so few movies; and while she was with him, she did, too.

 

August 3rd: What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: STEVE McQUEEN

3:00am [Adventure] Le Mans (1971)
During a deadly endurance race, a driver faces the trauma of a past accident.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt Dir: Lee H. Katzin C-109 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

5:00am [War] Never So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen Dir: John Sturges C-125 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Saw this on Saturday. Everybody had a bad day, included the scriptwriter and the director. The only good thing? Sturges greatly liked McQueen and Bronson, who had supporting roles, and cast them in "The Magnificent Seven". McQueen is good in this and Bronson not bad.


7:15am [Comedy] Honeymoon Machine, The (1961)
Two sailors discover a way to beat the roulette tables in a Venice casino.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss Dir: Richard Thorpe C-87 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:45am [Horror/Science-Fiction] Blob, The (1958)
A misunderstood teen fights to save his town from a gelatinous monster from outer space.
Cast: Steven McQueen, Aneta Corseaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howlin Dir: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. C-82 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:15am [Documentary] Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2004)
Documentary that explores the life and career of Hollywood anti-hero Steve McQueen.
BW-87 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:45am [War] Great Escape, The (1963)
Thrown together by the Germans, a group of captive Allied troublemakers plot a daring escape.
Cast: Robert Graf, Nigel Stock, Angus Lennie, John Leyton Dir: John Sturges C-172 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Great score, great cast, and Werner never gets his pass back.

2:45pm [Western] Nevada Smith (1966)
A part-Indian cowboy avenges his parents' murder.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy Dir: Henry Hathaway C-131 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Western] Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
Seven American gunmen hire themselves out to protect a Mexican village from bandits.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson Dir: John Sturges C-128 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Another great cast, and McQueen is just a hoot, stealing scenes from Brynner left and right.

7:15pm [Crime] Bullitt (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon Dir: Peter Yates C-114 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Good, enjoyable thriller.

9:15pm [Western] Junior Bonner (1972)
An aging rodeo rider tries to deal with his dysfunctional family.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson Dir: Sam Peckinpah C-100 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

I would like to see this.

11:00pm [Drama] Reivers, The (1969)
A young man comes of age when he stows away in his grandfather's stolen car.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Michael Constantine Dir: Mark Rydell C-111 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Quite a bit of fun without being particularly good.

1:00am [Drama] Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
Card sharps try to deal with personal problems during a big game in New Orleans.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden Dir: Norman Jewison C-103 mins, TV-14

 

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ETHEL BARRYMORE

5:00pm [Drama] None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
A young ne'er-do-well tries to get his life on track to help his ailing mother.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Miss Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald Dir: Clifford Odets BW-113 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Drama] Pinky (1949)
A light-skinned black woman returns home after passing for white in nursing school.
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan Dir: Elia Kazan BW-102 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Drama] Rasputin And The Empress (1932)
True story of the mad monk who plotted to rule Russia.
Cast: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan Dir: Charles Brabin BW-121 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [Suspense/Mystery] Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn Dir: John Sturges BW-78 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Romance] Johnny Trouble (1957)
When her apartment house becomes a college dorm, an elderly woman stays on to become the boys' surrogate mother.
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Miss Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Carolyn Jones Dir: John H. Auer BW-80 mins, TV-PG

I have only seen "None But the Lonely Heart" in which she and Cary Grant are a surprisingly convincing mother and son.

 

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: INGRID BERGMAN

3:00am [Romance] Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin Dir: Sam Wood BW-135 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:15am [Drama] Stromboli (1950)
A refugee marries a Sicilian fisherman but can't cope with the harshness of her new life.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo Dir: Roberto Rossellini BW-107 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00am [Romance] Yellow Rolls-Royce, The (1964)
A classic car changes the lives of three sets of owners.
Cast: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Michael Hordern Dir: Anthony Asquith C-123 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:15am [Romance] Walk in the Spring Rain, A (1970)
When her husband moves them to a small farming town, a woman falls in love with a married neighbor.
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford Dir: Guy Green C-98 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Horror/Science-Fiction] Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp Dir: Victor Fleming BW-113 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll Dir: Alfred Hitchcock BW-111 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Drama] Europa '51 (1952)
When a well-off woman loses her son, her recovery confronts her with the problems of the less fortunate.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina Dir: Roberto Rossellini BW-110 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Romance] Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A married violinist deserts his family when he falls for his accompanist.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday Dir: Gregory Ratoff BW-70 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30pm [Romance] Casablanca (1942)
An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-103 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:30pm [Drama] Notorious (1946)
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern Dir: Alfred Hitchcock BW-101 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:30pm [Drama] Autumn Sonata (1978)
A concert pianist faces the daughters she's neglected for years.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Bjork Dir: Ingmar Bergman C-93 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]

12:30am [Suspense/Mystery] Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty Dir: George Cukor BW-114 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

 

The Victor Fleming biography I'm currently reading goes into considerable detail about the torrid affair Fleming had with Ingrid Bergman. He did his last film with her, Joan of Arc, which ended his career on a sour and disastrous note. They were quite a couple, behind the scenes.

She's one of my favorite actresses from that era.

In the Hitchcock book I'm reading he says that after playing Joan of Arc, no role was big enough for her as far as she was concerned.

 

She had torrid affairs with most of her co-stars.

 

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: ERROL FLYNN


3:00am [Western] Virginia City (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-121 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:15am [Western] San Antonio (1945)
A reformed rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, Victor Francen Dir: David Butler C-109 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:15am [War] Uncertain Glory (1944)
A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucille Watson, Faye Emerson Dir: Raoul Walsh BW-102 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00am [War] Objective, Burma! (1945)
An American platoon parachutes into Burma to take out a strategic Japanese outpost.
Cast: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias Dir: Raoul Walsh BW-142 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30am [Drama] Prince And The Pauper, The (1937)
Rousing adaptation of the Mark Twain tale of a 16th-century prince who trades places with a lookalike peasant.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane Dir: William Keighley BW-118 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:45pm [Documentary] Adventures of Errol Flynn, The (2005)
Documentary that chronicles the life and career of swashbuckler Errol Flynn.
BW-87 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:15pm [Adventure] Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains Dir: Michael Curtiz C-102 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]


5:00pm [Adventure] Sea Hawk, The (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-128 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:15pm [Adventure] Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale Dir: Vincent Sherman C-111 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:15pm [Comedy] Gentleman Jim (1942)
Fanciful biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale Dir: Raoul Walsh BW-104 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:15pm [War] Edge Of Darkness (1943)
Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman Dir: Lewis Milestone BW-119 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [Drama] Green Light (1937)
An idealistic doctor sacrifices his career to protect an elderly surgeon.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Sir Cedric Hardwicke Dir: Frank Borzage BW-85 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]
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3:00am [Comedy] Bachelor In Paradise (1961)
A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples.
Cast: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton Dir: Jack Arnold C-109 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00am [Comedy] Global Affair, A (1964)
A U.N. official tries to locate the mother of an abandoned baby.
Cast: Bob Hope, Lilo Pulver, Michele Mercier, Elga Andersen Dir: Jack Arnold BW-84 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Comedy] I'll Take Sweden (1965)
A widower takes a job in Stockholm to get his daughter away from her boyfriend.
Cast: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill Dir: Frederick De Cordova C-97 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:30am [Comedy] Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
A real estate agent tries to keep a runaway movie star hidden from the press--and his wife.
Cast: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova Dir: George Marshall C-99 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

10:15am [Musical] Road to Singapore (1940)
A runaway tycoon and his sailor buddy try to con their way through the South Seas.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn Dir: Victor Schertzinger BW-85 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:45am [Musical] Road to Zanzibar (1941)
A lady con artist scams two out-of-work entertainers into financing a safari.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel Dir: Victor Schertzinger BW-91 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30pm [Musical] Road to Utopia (1946)
Two song-and-dance men on the run masquerade as killers during the Alaskan gold rush.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke Dir: Hal Walker BW-90 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:15pm [Musical] Road to Bali (1952)
Two song-and-dance men on the run dive for treasure while competing for a beautiful princess.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye Dir: Hal Walker C-91 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: ESSENTIALS, JR. : BOB HOPE

5:00pm [Musical] Road to Morocco (1942)
Two castaways get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they're caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn Dir: David Butler BW-82 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30pm [Comedy] Nothing But the Truth (1941)
A businessman bets he can tell the truth for 24 hours.
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Leif Erickson Dir: Elliott Nugent BW-90 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:15pm [Comedy] Where There's Life (1947)
The American heir to a European throne tries to elude assassins.
Cast: Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris Dir: Sidney Lanfield BW-74 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

9:45pm [Comedy] Alias Jesse James (1959)
An insurance agent lands in hot water when people mistake him for the infamous western outlaw.
Cast: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbot Dir: Norman Z. McLeod C-92 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [Comedy] Critic's Choice (1963)
A Broadway critic must write a negative review about his wife's play.
Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn Dir: Don Weis C-100 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:15am [Comedy] Call Me Bwana (1963)
A wisecracking fraud fights off enemy agents to retrieve a space capsule that crashed in Africa.
Cast: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries Dir: Gordon Douglas C-102 mins, TV-G


Of all the 30's and 40's comedians, Bob Hope has dated the most, and translates the least. I can sit through his films and not crack a smile. That said, they've left out several films: "The Seven Little Foys", "The Paleface" and "Son of Paleface" which are better than what they included.

 

Saw this years ago when I was a kid, and thought it was great. Same for The Adventures of Robin Hood (obviously).

Curious that they haven't included Captain Blood in the list though.

 

I watched "The Sea Hawk" and enjoyed it...lots of fun.


What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: WARREN BEATTY\

3:00am [Drama] Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone, The (1961)
A fading stage star gets caught up in the decadent life of modern Rome when she hires a male companion.
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Coral Browne Dir: José Quintero BW-104 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

5:00am [Drama] All Fall Down (1962)
A young drifter's romance with an older woman is threatened by his possessive mother.
Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury Dir: John Frankenheimer BW-110 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00am [Drama] Lilith (1964)
A young psychiatrist finds himself drawn to a beautiful young mental patient.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter Dir: Robert Rossen BW-114 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00am [Comedy] Kaleidoscope (1966)
A pretty girl lures a luckless gambler into a dangerous poker game.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill, Eric Porter Dir: Jack Smight C-103 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Comedy] Fortune, The (1975)
A married man tries to figure out how to share in his rich girlfriend's fortune.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Florence Stanley Dir: Mike Nichols C-88 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Crime] Mickey One (1965)
A comic tries to escape his mob connections.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone Dir: Arthur Penn BW-93 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Crime] Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman Dir: Arthur Penn C-111 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Drama] Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Sexual repression drives a small-town Kansas girl mad during the roaring twenties.
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie Dir: Elia Kazan C-124 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:30pm [Romance] Reds (1981)
American activist John Reed travels to Russia to witness the revolution and its aftermath.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski Dir: Warren Beatty C-198 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Parallax View, The (1974)
A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.
Cast: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss Dir: Alan J. Pakula C-102 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]
12:47am [Short Film] Short Film: One Reel Wonders: On Location With "Fame" (1980)
C-12 mins [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Comedy] Ishtar (1987)
Two bad singers booked by a Moroccan hotel get mixed up in international politics.
Cast: Nadim Sawalha, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani Dir: Michael D. Moore C-108 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]
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"Bonnie & Clyde" is the best of this bunch.

 

Also, Splendor in the Grass.

 

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: KATHRYN GRAYSON

3:00pm [Musical] Desert Song, The (1953)
A French professor secretly leads a band of desert freedom fighters.
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey Dir: Bruce Humberstone C-111 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Musical] Show Boat (1951)
Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown Dir: George Sidney C-108 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Musical] So This Is Love (1953)
Opera singer Grace Moore turns to popular music when her dreams of a classical career fail to materialize.
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon, Walter Abel Dir: Gordon Douglas C-101 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Musical] That Midnight Kiss (1949)
A singing truck driver battles snobbery to become a star.
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, José Iturbi, Ethel Barrymore, Mario Lanza Dir: Norman Taurog C-98 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Musical] Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Feuding co-stars reunite for a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn Dir: George Sidney C-110 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Musical] Lovely To Look At (1952)
All-star remake of Roberta, with three Broadway producers inheriting a Parisian fashion house.
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion Dir: Mervyn LeRoy C-102 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]


I bet the lot of you wouldn't know Kathryn Grayson if she bit you in the leg. I have to say I rather she bit me (in the leg! dammit and get your minds out of the gutter) than I had to listen to her sing again: she's got one of those trilling, semi-operatic voices a la Julie Andrews.

That said "Kiss Me, Kate" is lots of fun, and you can fast-forward through her sections of it, because she's the worst thing about it. But Keel, Miller, and Fosse are splendid.

 

3:00am [Western] Indian Fighter, The (1955)
A trail guide has to bring two crooked traders to justice to save his wagon train from Indian attack.
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas Dir: Andre DeToth C-88 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

4:45am [Comedy] Onionhead (1958)
An irresponsible student enlists in the Navy expecting to sit out World War II.
Cast: Andy Griffith, Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien Dir: Norman Taurog BW-111 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

6:45am [Drama] Fail Safe (1964)
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton Dir: Sidney Lumet BW-112 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

8:45am [Comedy] Ensign Pulver (1964)
A young officer on a World War II supply ship battles his captain to keep the men happy.
Cast: Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Tommy Sands Dir: Joshua Logan C-104 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

10:45am [Comedy] Sunshine Boys, The (1975)
A feuding comedy team reunites for a television comeback.
Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Carol Arthur Dir: Herbert Ross C-111 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:45pm [Comedy] Fortune Cookie, The (1966)
A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond Dir: Billy Wilder BW-126 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Comedy] Casey's Shadow (1978)
A young boy from a racing family tries to turn his pet horse into a champion.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber, Murray Hamilton Dir: Martin Ritt C-117 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Comedy] Bad News Bears, The (1976)
The coach of a losing little league team brings in a female pitcher.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten Dir: Michael Ritchie C-102 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Comedy] Odd Couple, The (1968)
A divorced neat freak moves in with his sloppy best friend.
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herbert Edelman Dir: Gene Saks C-105 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Comedy] Plaza Suite (1971)
A New York hotel room is the setting for three stories of romantic squabbles.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Maureen Stapleton Dir: Arthur Hiller C-114 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Comedy] California Suite (1978)
Four sets of guests at a posh hotel face personal crises.
Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda Dir: Herbert Ross C-102 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Comedy] Movers and Shakers (1985)
A Hollywood studio head promises a dying friend to turn a notorious sex manual into a movie.
Cast: Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Tyne Daly Dir: William Asher C-80 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]


At the start of his career, Matthau was frequently cast as a heavy (though they omit his best film as such, "Charade"), until he scored as "Whiplash Willie", the unscrupulous lawyer in "The Fortune Cookie" and got a best supporting actor Oscar. Billy Wilder then dominated his films, unfortunate because he was then past his best.

That said, "The Fortune Cookie" is funny (as long as it stays with Matthau and away from Lemmon), as is "The Odd Couple" and "The Bad News Bears"

 

I remember seeing Matthau in The Kentuckian - his debut movie role - a couple of years ago (Burt Lancaster played the title role). I barely recognised him as the villain.

 

3:00pm [Romance] Idiot's Delight (1939)
A hoofer and a fake Russian countess are caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of World War II.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn Dir: Clarence Brown BW-110 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: NORMA SHEARER

5:00pm [Silent] Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, The (1927)
In this silent film, a young prince attending college falls for a barmaid below his station.
Cast: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-106 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Comedy] Private Lives (1931)
A divorced couple rekindles the spark after landing in adjoining honeymoon suites with new mates.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Una Merkel Dir: Sidney Franklin BW-84 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:30pm [Romance] Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Shakespeare's classic tale of young lovers from feuding families.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver Dir: George Cukor BW-125 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:45pm [Epic] Marie Antoinette (1938)
Lavish biography of the French queen who "let them eat cake."
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II BW-157 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [Romance] Strangers May Kiss (1931)
A sophisticated woman risks her marriage for love of a ruthless schemer.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau Dir: George Fitzmaurice BW-81 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]


In her day, Shearer was a Great Big Star. Whatever made her that is no longer (IMO) immediately obvious, and only a very few of her movies are watchable today. Part of the problem is that she was an MGM property, and it was a producer's studio and not a director's one. Another problem is that her leading men frequently have faded, too; Chester Morris and Robert Montgomery for two.

I haven't seen the Lubitsch film; she was also directed by Seastrom in her silent career (which was pretty extensive), so she had better luck then.

She's not bad as the older "Marie Antoinette" and in Cukor's "The Women" which unfortunately isn't on the list, and is the only movie of hers with much play today.

 

Marrying the boss helps.

(that's probably unfair)

 

Not necessarily. Certainly her career faded after Thalberg died.

Joan Crawford used to lament: "How can I compete with Norma? She sleeps with the boss!"

 

8:00am [War] Men In War (1957)
Two enemies join forces to save their men during a retreat from the North Koreans.
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine Dir: Anthony Mann BW-98 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

10:00am [Suspense/Mystery] Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame Dir: Edward Dmytryk BW-86 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30am [Suspense/Mystery] Act Of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor Dir: Fred Zinnemann BW-82 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Drama] God's Little Acre (1958)
A dirt-farmer lets his family fall apart while he hunts for his grandfather's buried gold.
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord Dir: Anthony Mann BW-118 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Horror/Science-Fiction] Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1969)
The infamous submarine captain rescues six shipwreck survivors.
Cast: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, John Turner Dir: James Hill C-106 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ROBERT RYAN

5:00pm [Drama] Boy With Green Hair, The (1948)
An orphaned boy mystically acquires green hair and a mission to end war.
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell Dir: Joseph Losey C-82 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30pm [Drama] Set-Up, The (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.
Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter Dir: Robert Wise BW-73 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:00pm [Drama] Billy Budd (1962)
Adaptation of Herman Melville's classic tale of a ship's captain caught between an innocent young sailor and an evil officer.
Cast: Terence Stamp, Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas Dir: Peter Ustinov BW-123 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

10:15pm [Western] Wild Bunch, The (1969)
A group of aging cowboys look for one last score in a corrupt border town.
Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien Dir: Sam Peckinpah C-144 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Crime] Outfit, The (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother's death.
Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan Dir: John Flynn C-103 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]


A talented, professional and gifted actor who never became a star but turns up in all kinds of good movies. Unfortunately, only a few of them here: "The Wild Bunch" especially. He's a terrific Claggart in "Billy Budd"; a wonderful posse head in "The Wild Bunch" and a great heavy in "The Naked Spur"

 

He is a terrifying villain in Crossfire. All smarmy placation one minute and then just towering menace the next. There's a scene of him having a conversation while shaving in a bathroom that is just . . . man.

 

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: GENE TIERNEY

8:15am [Crime] Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed Dir: Otto Preminger BW-95 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:00am [Crime] Shanghai Gesture, The (1941)
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Cast: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson Dir: Josef von Sternberg BW-98 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

11:45am [War] Sundown (1941)
An exotic woman helps the Allies fight the Germans in North Africa.
Cast: Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Harry Carey Dir: Henry Hathaway BW-91 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

1:30pm [Drama] China Girl (1942)
A mysterious beauty helps a newsreel photographer escape the Japanese during World War II.
Cast: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen Dir: Henry Hathaway BW-96 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]

3:15pm [Comedy] Mating Season, The (1950)
A woman pretends to be a cleaning lady to get to know her son's high-society in-laws.
Cast: Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter Dir: Mitchell Leisen BW-101 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Drama] Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband's love.
Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price Dir: John M. Stahl C-110 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Camp doesn't cover it.

7:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Dragonwyck (1946)
A farm girl signs on as governess in a gloomy mansion.
Cast: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz BW-103 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

Not very typical of Mankiewicz; one of those heavy novels where a naive girl marries a rich nasty and learns the true meaning of life. Or something.

9:00pm [Comedy] That Wonderful Urge (1948)
An heiress gets back at the reporter who pretended to romance her to get a story.
Cast: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Reginald Gardiner, Arleen Whelan Dir: Robert B. Sinclair BW-82 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:45pm [Drama] Close to My Heart (1951)
A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
Cast: Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter, Howard St. John Dir: William Keighley BW-90 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

12:30am [Drama] Advise & Consent (1962)
A controversial presidential nomination threatens the careers of several prominent politicians.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon Dir: Otto Preminger BW-138 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

Her role here is a cameo.


Tierney is a very pretty girl without any noticeable acting talent. "Leave Her to Heaven" is a candidate for midnight sing-along shows, though it's not a musical.

 

Where's Laura?

 

What's On Tonight: ESSENTIALS, JR. : MARGARET O'BRIEN

9:30am [Drama] Journey For Margaret (1942)
An American correspondent tries to adopt two children orphaned during the London blitz.
Cast: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce Dir: Herbert Kline BW-81 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Horror/Science-Fiction] Canterville Ghost, The (1944)
A ghost who died a coward tries to inspire U.S. GIs to become heroes.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan Dir: Norman Z. McLeod BW-96 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:45pm [Musical] Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-113 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

2:45pm [Drama] Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor Dir: Mervyn LeRoy C-122 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Drama] Secret Garden, The (1949)
An orphaned girl changes the lives of those she encounters at a remote estate.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper Dir: Fred M. Wilcox BW-92 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Drama] Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford Dir: Roy Rowland BW-106 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Western] Bad Bascomb (1946)
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-110 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Western] Heller In Pink Tights (1960)
Touring actors in the wild West brave Indians and outlaws.
Cast: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Margaret O'Brien, Steve Forrest Dir: George Cukor C-101 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]
12:50am [Short Film] Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Modern Guatemala City (1945)
C-8 mins [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Crime] Big City (1948)
Three bachelors adopt an orphan, then fight over custody when each falls in love.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas, George Murphy Dir: Norman Taurog BW-103 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]


Margaret O'Brien was a child star just after Shirley Temple, and she was somewhat of an opposite, brunette, scrawny, though equally precocious.

"Meet Me in St. Louis" is her best-known film. "Heller in Pink Tights" I've seen, and she's an adult there, and not bad, but she didn't go on with her career. Possibly because that movie also stars an astonishingly radiant Sophia Loren.

 

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ROBERT STACK

3:00am [Musical] Date With Judy, A (1948)
A teenager thinks her grandfather is involved with a fiery Latin singer.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda Dir: Richard Thorpe C-113 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00am [Adventure] Fighter Squadron (1948)
A dedicated flyer pushes himself and those around him during a perilous World War II campaign.
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Tom D'Andrea Dir: Raoul Walsh C-95 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:45am [Western] My Outlaw Brother (1951)
A ranger tries to pry his brother from the Mexican bandit gang he's joined.
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack Dir: Elliot Nugent BW-82 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:15am [Adventure] Bwana Devil (1952)
A British railway engineer in Kenya tries to capture the lions attacking his workers.
Cast: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill Dir: Arch Oboler C-79 mins [Email Remind Me]

9:45am [Adventure] Iron Glove, The (1954)
A Scottish adventurer infiltrates the court of George I to prepare for a revolution.
Cast: Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess, Richard Shapley, Charles Irwin Dir: William Castle C-77 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

11:15am [Western] Great Day In The Morning (1956)
The Civil War triggers unrest in Colorado.
Cast: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol Dir: Jacques Tourneur C-92 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Adventure] John Paul Jones (1959)
The hero of the Revolutionary War clashes with Congress.
Cast: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Erin O'Brien Dir: John Farrow C-126 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

3:15pm [Drama] Caretakers, The (1963)
A progressive psychiatrist clashes with the conservative head nurse at a state institution.
Cast: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Joan Crawford, Janis Paige Dir: Hall Bartlett BW-98 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Drama] Mortal Storm, The (1940)
The Third Reich's rise tears apart a German family.
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan Dir: Frank Borzage BW-100 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:45pm [Drama] Tarnished Angels, The (1957)
A newsman falls for the wife of a barnstorming pilot whose work he's covering.
Cast: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson Dir: Douglas Sirk BW-91 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

8:30pm [Epic] Last Voyage, The (1960)
Passengers and crew fight to escape a sinking ocean liner.
Cast: Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien Dir: Andrew L. Stone C-91 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:15pm [Comedy] Airplane! (1980)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Cast: Robert Hays, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Julie Hagerty Dir: Jerry Zucker C-88 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:00am [Comedy] Big Trouble (1986)
An unhappy wife tries to get her insurance agent to help her kill her husband.
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning Dir: John Cassavetes C-93 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]
1:45am [Western] Conquest of Cochise (1953)

A cavalry major tries to prevent an Indian war.
Cast: John Hodiak, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Rico Alaniz Dir: William Castle C-71 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]


Given that he was never a Great Big Star, there are quite a few interesting films in his career. "Written on the Wind", "House of Bamboo", "The High and the Mighty", "The Bullfighter and the Lady" and "To Be or Not to Be" are unfortunately missing; "The Mortal Storm" is very good, though, and I have heard "The Tarnished Angels" is, too. And I know "Airplane!" is popular.

 

3:00am [Musical] Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
A ballet dancer and a burlesque queen compete for a wealthy suitor.
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field Dir: Dorothy Arzner BW-90 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

4:45am [Suspense/Mystery] Fallen Sparrow, The (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison Dir: Richard Wallace BW-94 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Drama] Long Gray Line, The (1955)
An Irish immigrant becomes one of West Point's most beloved officers.
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis, Donald Crisp Dir: John Ford C-137 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

9:00am [Horror/Science-Fiction] Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Maureen O'Hara Dir: William Dieterle BW-117 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Adventure] Spanish Main, The (1945)
Dutch rebels in the Caribbean turn pirate and kidnap the corrupt Spanish governor's bride-to-be.
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes Dir: Frank Borzage C-101 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:45pm [Adventure] Sinbad The Sailor (1947)
The Arabian Nights hero sets off to find the lost treasure of Alexander the Great.
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Anthony Quinn Dir: Richard Wallace C-117 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

2:45pm [Comedy] Parent Trap, The (1961)
Twins separated by divorce plot to bring their parents back together.
Cast: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charlie Ruggles Dir: David Swift C-129 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: MAUREEN O'HARA

5:00pm [Comedy] Quiet Man, The (1952)
An Irish ex-boxer retires to Ireland and searches for the proper wife.
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond Dir: John Ford C-129 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:15pm [Western] Rio Grande (1950)
A cavalry unit located on the Mexican border must control Indian uprisings.
Cast: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr. Dir: John Ford BW-105 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:04pm [Short Film] Short Film: One Reel Wonders: John Wayne Bio (1962)
BW-4 mins [Email Remind Me]

9:15pm [Adventure] Black Swan, The (1942)
When he's named governor of Jamaica, a former pirate sets out to clean up the Caribbean.
Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell Dir: Henry King C-85 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:45pm [Suspense/Mystery] Our Man in Havana (1960)
A salesman in Cuba takes up spying to support his spendthrift daughter.
Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs Dir: Carol Reed BW-107 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Western] Big Jake (1971)
A rancher leads the posse out to recover his kidnapped grandson.
Cast: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum Dir: George Sherman C-110 mins, TV-14


Never considered much of an actress (a canard), she was a favorite actress of John Ford, and made several other good films.

The three Fords are all good films: "How Green Was My Valley" and some others are missing.

"The Spanish Main" looks interesting and the Carol Reed film is good, too.

 

3:00am [Musical] Naughty But Nice (1939)
A college professor turns songwriter and falls for his lyricist.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page, Helen Broderick Dir: Ray Enright BW-89 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

4:30am [Drama] Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor's life.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda Dir: Vincent Sherman BW-112 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Comedy] It All Came True (1940)
A gangster hides out in a boardinghouse full of eccentrics.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Jeffrey Lynn, Humphrey Bogart, ZaSu Pitts Dir: Lewis Seiler BW-97 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:30am [War] Wings For The Eagle (1942)
Dedicated aircraft workers compete for the same girl.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, George Tobias Dir: Lloyd Bacon BW-84 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

10:00am [Romance] One More Tomorrow (1946)
A playboy and a lady photographer allow social differences to come between them.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith Dir: Irving Rapper BW-88 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

11:45am [Suspense/Mystery] Juke Girl (1942)
A migrant laborer becomes a champion of farm workers' rights.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias Dir: Curtis Bernhardt BW-90 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

1:30pm [Drama] City For Conquest (1940)
A truck driver risks his eyesight when he boxes to pay for his brother's education.
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Arthur Kennedy Dir: Anatole Litvak BW-104 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

3:15pm [Comedy] George Washington Slept Here (1942)
A pair of New Yorkers face culture shock when they buy a dilapidated country house.
Cast: Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Charles Coburn, Percy Kilbride Dir: William Keighley BW-91 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00pm [Adventure] Torrid Zone (1940)
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine Dir: William Keighley BW-88 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:45pm [Drama] Kings Row (1942)
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field Dir: Sam Wood BW-127 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Comedy] Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis Dir: William Keighley BW-113 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Drama] Unfaithful, The (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden Dir: Vincent Sherman BW-109 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Musical] Opposite Sex, The (1956)
In this musical remake of The Women, a happily married singer lets her catty friends convince her to file for divorce.
Cast: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan Dir: David Miller C-117 mins, TV-PG

A sort of cut-rate Joan Crawford, with more talent and more warmth, Warners unfortunately didn't give her many chances.

"It All Came True" is pretty funny, as is "The Man Who Came to Dinner"; "King's Row" is well-known.