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It's basically a remake of "The Quiet Man"...

 

Well, it's similar. But much of the appeal of The Quiet Man is that it's set in Ireland. Even though McLintock! doesn't have that, I still find it enjoyable.

Oddly enough, I know quite a few folks who don't like it, even though they like other Wayne movies.

 

Pitched about five notches higher though, or am I misremembering The Quiet Man.

 

You're right, it's very broad.

 

Today it's Red Skelton.

3:00am [Comedy] Having Wonderful Time (1938)
A New York girl finds love at a summer resort.
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Peggy Conklin, Lucille Ball Dir: Alfred Santell BW-70 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

4:15am [Musical] Ship Ahoy (1942)
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
Cast: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien Dir: Edward Buzzell BW-95 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:00am [Comedy] I Dood It (1943)
A tailor nurses an unrequited crush on a stage star.
Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane Dir: Vincente Minnelli BW-103 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:45am [Musical] Du Barry Was A Lady (1943)
A night club employee dreams he's Louis XV, and the star he idolizes is his lady love.
Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien Dir: Roy Del Ruth C-101 mins,
TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:30am [Comedy] Show-Off, The (1946)
A man's loud-mouthed bumbling almost ruins his new wife's family.
Cast: Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main, Virginia O'Brien Dir: Harry Beaumont BW-83 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Comedy] Southern Yankee, A (1948)
A bellboy masquerades as a spy and lands behind enemy lines during the Civil War.
Cast: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris Dir: Edward Sedgwick BW-90 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:45pm [Comedy] Watch The Birdie (1950)
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.
Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames Dir: Jack Donohue BW-71 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

2:00pm [Comedy] Yellow Cab Man, The (1950)
An inventor's unbreakable glass attracts the attention of businessmen and gangsters.
Cast: Red Skelton, Gloria De Haven, Walter Slezak, Edward Arnold Dir: Jack Donohue BW-84 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

3:30pm [Comedy] Excuse My Dust (1951)
An inventor's new automobile could put his girlfriend's livery stable out of business.
Cast: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, MacDonald Carey, William Demarest Dir: Roy Rowland BW-83 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: RED SKELTON

5:00pm [Comedy] Whistling In The Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-78 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30pm [Comedy] Whistling In Dixie (1942)
A radio detective's southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft, Guy Kibbee Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-74 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:00pm [Comedy] Fuller Brush Man, The (1948)
A bumbling salesman gets mixed up in murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-92 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

9:45pm [Musical] Bathing Beauty (1944)
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin Dir: George Sidney C-101 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [Comedy] Whistling In Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers, "Rags" Ragland Dir: S. Sylvan Simon BW-87 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Drama] Clown, The (1953)
In this remake of The Champ, a drunken clown tries to make a comeback so he can keep his son.
Cast: Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Tim Considine, Loring Smith Dir: Robert Z. Leonard BW-91 mins, TV-G

A record: I haven't seen *any* of these.

 

Du Barry Was a Lady and Whistling in the Dark are supposed to be his best, from what I hear. Haven't seen either of them.

 

"I Dood It" was Vincente Minnelli's first film...

 

3:00am [Drama] Chase, The (1966)
A convict's escape ignites passions in his hometown.
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E. G. Marshall Dir: Arthur Penn C-133 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:15am [Romance] Richest Girl in the World, The (1934)
To put off fortune-hunters, an heiress trades places with her secretary.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Henry Stephenson Dir: William A. Seiter BW-76 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:45am [Comedy] Wise Girl (1937)
A rich girl plays poor to win over a Greenwich Village artist.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson Dir: Leigh Jason BW-70 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:00am [Comedy] Woman Chases Man (1937)
A millionaire hires a lady architect to con the money for a housing project out of his wealthy son.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Charles Winninger, Erik Rhodes Dir: John Blystone BW-69 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

9:15am [Drama] Old Maid, The (1939)
An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.
Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Jane Bryan Dir: Edmund Goulding BW-95 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Drama] Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder Dir: Vincent Sherman BW-110 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [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]

3:00pm [Drama] Heiress, The (1949)
A plain young woman's money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins Dir: William Wyler BW-115 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: MIRIAM HOPKINS

5:00pm [Comedy] Smiling Lieutenant, The (1931)
A misfired flirtation lands a young lieutenant married to a princess instead of the one he loves.
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charlie Ruggles Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-89 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

6:45pm [Comedy] Trouble In Paradise (1932)
A love triangle ignites trouble between two jewel theives and their intended victim.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-82 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:15pm [Comedy] Design For Living (1933)
An independent woman can't chose between the two men she loves.
Cast: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-91 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

10:00pm [Adventure] Barbary Coast (1935)
A vice king's girlfriend falls for a young miner.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan Dir: Howard Hawks BW-90 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

11:45pm [Drama] These Three (1936)
Scandal destroys the lives of two small-town schoolteachers.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet Dir: William Wyler BW-93 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [Drama] Lady With Red Hair (1940)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crews Dir: Kurt Bernhardt BW-78 mins, TV-G


An actress who appeared for numerous good directors. There are three Lubitschs, a Hawks, a Wyler, a Goulding and a Penn here.

Highly recommend "The Heiress" and I hear "Trouble in Paradise" is brilliant, but I have never, ever seen it, early Paramounts being hard to see.

 

Her name rang zero bells when I saw it in the title; but I've heard about several of those movies. Haven't seen any of them (not even The Heiress!)

 

"Trouble in Paradise" was sublime.

6:30am [Western] Bite The Bullet (1975)
Cowboys compete in a grueling horse-riding marathon.
Cast: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson Dir: Richard Brooks C-131 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

9:00am [Horror/Science-Fiction] Marooned (1969)
Three U.S. astronauts face a slow death when their rockets fail during a space voyage.
Cast: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus Dir: John Sturges C-129 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

11:30am [Drama] I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
When his mother dies, a grieving son is torn between his demanding father and his need to live his own life.
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons Dir: Gilbert Cates C-92 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:30pm [Drama] Another Woman (1988)
While dealing with her own tortured past, an aging writer becomes obsessed with a psychiatric patient.
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner Dir: Woody Allen C-81 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [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]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: GENE HACKMAN

5:00pm [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]

7:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Conversation, The (1974)
A surveillance expert uncovers a murder plot within a corrupt corporation.
Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest Dir: Francis Ford Coppola C-114 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Drama] Mississippi Burning (1988)
FBI agents investigate the murders of civil rights workers in the South.
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif Dir: Alan Parker C-127 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [War] Bridge Too Far, A (1977)
Epic re-staging of the Allies' heroic airdrop behind Nazi lines in Holland.
Cast: Sean Connery, Robert Redford, Laurence Olivier, Dirk Bogarde Dir: Richard Attenborough C-176 mins, TV-MA

 

Well, they're missing Hoosiers and The French Connection. And it would have been epically funny to broadcast Enemy of the State right behind The Conversation since Hackman plays the same kind of character. Mississippi Burning ain't bad, but it ain't great either.

A Bridge Too Far is a great film, but Hackman, assuming a clunky Polish accent, is one of the worst things in it (the only things worse? Ryan O'Neal's performance and Robert Redford's cameo).

 

Today it's Sterling Hayden:

3:00am [War] Battle Taxi (1955)
A hotshot jet pilot joins a helicopter rescue team during the Korean War.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson, Leo Needham Dir: Herbert L. Strock BW-80 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

4:30am [Western] Terror In A Texas Town (1958)
A whaler inherits his father's farm but has to fight off a corrupt town boss.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Martin Dir: Joseph H. Lewis

6:15am [Adventure] Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
A charter pilot in Mexico is forced to help a criminal gang when his son is kidnapped.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor, Rodolfo Hoyos, Carlos Múzquiz Dir: George Sherman BW-76 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

8:00am [Suspense/Mystery] Five Steps To Danger (1957)
Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines Dir: Henry S. Kesler BW-80 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

9:30am [Comedy] Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia.
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn Dir: Stanley Kubrick BW-95 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30am [Suspense/Mystery] Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch Dir: Hall Bartlett BW-81 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Western] Johnny Guitar (1954)
A lady saloon owner battles a female rancher out to frame her for murder.
Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady Dir: Nicholas Ray C-110 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Western] Last Command, The (1955)
Texas hero Jim Bowie defends against Mexican general Santa Ana.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt Dir: Frank Lloyd BW-110 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: STERLING HAYDEN

5:00pm [Crime] Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore Dir: John Huston BW-112 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Crime] Manhandled (1949)
A phony psychiatrist's secretary gets caught up in a murder case.
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Dan Duryea, Irene Hervey Dir: Lewis R. Foster BW-96 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Crime Of Passion (1957)
An executive's wife barters sex for her husband's business success.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray Dir: Gerd Oswald BW-86 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

10:30pm [Adventure] Golden Hawk, The (1952)
Male and female pirates join forces against a corrupt Caribbean governor.
Cast: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton Dir: Sidney Salkow C-82 mins [Email Remind Me]

12:00am [Western] Iron Sheriff, The (1957)
A sheriff tries to clear his son of the murder of a stagecoach driver.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor Dir: Sidney Salkow BW-73 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [Drama] Loving (1970)
A conflicted artist tries to find a sense of purpose in life.
Cast: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn Dir: Irvin Kershner C-89 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]


The Kubrick and Houston movies are the most famous, I suppose; but I'm looking forward to seeing "Johnny Guitar"

 

You will absolutely love it, I think. I definitely think it's a great flick. Mercedes McCambridge is brilliant in it.

It's a shame they're not showing Suddenly, where Hayden is the sheriff in a small town that the President's train will pass through. Sinatra gives a golden performance in it as a sociopathic killer, hired to kill the president. It's a very good little thriller.

 

I know that one's hard to see, and I would like to see it.

If you can get the DVD on Netflix, get "Trouble in Paradise" (1932). I'll review it in the 'last-movie-you-saw' thread, but it lived up to its rep.

 

Today it's Angela Lansbury

3:00am [Musical] Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury Dir: George Sidney C-101 mins,

5:00am [Drama] Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy, Phyllis Thaxter Dir: Roy Rowland BW-74 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Western] Lawless Street, A (1955)
A Marshal's past comes back to haunt him.
Cast: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson, Jean Parker Dir: Joseph H. Lewis C-77 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:00am [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]

10:00am [Drama] Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury Dir: John Frankenheimer BW-127 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:15pm [Documentary] Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury (2006)
Angela Lansbury discusses her life and career with TCM host Robert Osborne.
Cast: Robert Osborne, Angela Lansbury BW-56 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:15pm [Musical] Reluctant Debutante, The (1958)
British parents try to prepare their Americanized daughter for her social debut.
Cast: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-96 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Adventure] Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971)
An apprentice witch and three war orphans try to prevent the Nazi invasion of England.
Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe Dir: Robert Stevenson

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ANGELA LANSBURY

5:00pm [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]

7:00pm [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]

8:30pm [Suspense/Mystery] Death On The Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour.
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury Dir: John Guillermin C-140 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Drama] Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury Dir: Albert Lewin BW-110 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [Drama] Season of Passion (1959)
Two men continue a traditional summer rendezvous only to discover that life has changed for them all.
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills, Angela Lansbury Dir: Leslie Norman BW-94 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]


Only 19 when she made "Gaslight", Lansbury landed at the wrong studio--MGM, where she was generally cast in unsympathetic supporting roles. She's the best thing about "Dorian Gray" and very good as the impudent maid in "Gaslight". Her role in "The Reluctant Debutante" is small, but the movie is entertaining. The best role of all? The obsessed mother of Laurence Harvey in the original "The Manchurian Candidate". Scary--all the rage comes pouring out.

But like Lucille Ball, an actress who got more play on TV.

 

I actually don't remember her in Reluctant Debutante, but you're right, that's a very funn movie. Rex Harrison is brilliant. But I agree with your assessment of her; Gaslight, Dorian Gray and Manchurian Candidate are all great work by her, Candidate the best. She was also pretty funny in National Velvet, which I'm sure I will blow all my street cred by admitting I like.

 

It's amazing to look at her in The Manchurian Candidate where she's so icy and psychologically brutal and then see her in Bedknobs and Broomsticks where she's so charmingly naive. Which btw I actually prefer Bedknobs and Broomsticks to Mary Poppins.

 

They pointed out on TCM that she played far older than she was...she was the mother of a teenaged debutante in "The Reluctant Debutante" (she was 33) and she was the mother of the 33 year old Laurence Harvey in "The Manchurian Candidate" (she was 36).

 

Today it's Fredric March

3:00am [Drama] We Live Again (1934)
A Russian nobleman discovers the peasant girl he once seduced has turned to crime.
Cast: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith Dir: Rouben Mamoulian BW-82 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

4:30am [Romance] Star Is Born, A (1937)
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom.
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson Dir: William A. Wellman C-111 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Comedy] There Goes My Heart (1938)
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Cast: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray Dir: Norman Z. McLeod BW-83 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:00am [Romance] Mary of Scotland (1936)
Biography of the flighty Scottish queen who was brought down by love.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton Dir: John Ford BW-124 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:30am [Drama] One Foot In Heaven (1941)
A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century.
Cast: Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart Dir: Irving Rapper BW-108 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:30pm [Epic] Christopher Columbus (1949)
The legendary explorer discovers the new world while searching for a route to Asia.
Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Linden Travers Dir: David MacDonald C-99 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

2:15pm [Comedy] Bedtime Story (1942)
A stage star's dreams of retirement conflict with her playwright husband's need for a hit -- with her starring.
Cast: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn Dir: Alexander Hall BW-85 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

3:45pm [Comedy] Nothing Sacred (1937)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly Dir: William A. Wellman C-74 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: FREDRIC MARCH

5:00pm [Drama] Les Miserables (1935)
An obsessed policeman relentlessly pursues an escaped convict.
Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John Beal Dir: Richard Boleslawski BW-109 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Horror/Science-Fiction] Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert Dir: Rouben Mamoulian BW-96 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:45pm [Romance] Anna Karenina (1935)
Adaptation of Tolstoy's classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love.
Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan Dir: Clarence Brown BW-93 mins, TV-14 [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:30pm [Drama] Middle of the Night (1959)
A widowed businessman courts a younger woman who works for him.
Cast: Kim Novak, Glenda Farrell, Jan Norris, Lee Grant Dir: Delbert Mann BW-117 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

12:30am [Epic] Anthony Adverse (1936)
An orphan runs off to a life of adventure, then returns to France in search of the girl he left behind.
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise Dir: Mervyn LeRoy BW-141 mins, TV-G

March specialized in the sort of heavy drama that was popular back in the day, and a lot of his movies have aged badly. In this list, I can recommend only "A Star is Born" and "Nothing Sacred".

 

Today it's Merle Oberon

3:00am [Drama] Private Life Of Henry VIII, The (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester Dir: Alexander Korda BW-94 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

4:45am [Romance] Beloved Enemy (1936)
During an Irish uprising, a rebel leader and a British noblewoman fall in love.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson Dir: H. C. Potter BW-86 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Romance] Dark Angel, The (1935)
Three childhood friends are torn apart by love and World War I.
Cast: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher Dir: Sidney Franklin BW-106 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:30am [Romance] 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
A dying woman shares a shipboard romance with a criminal on his way to the gallows.
Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald Dir: Edmund Goulding BW-100 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:15am [Drama] That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray Dir: Ernst Lubitsch BW-84 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

11:45am [Comedy] Affectionately Yours (1941)
A foreign correspondent hurries home to stop his wife from getting a divorce.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy Dir: Lloyd Bacon BW-88 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30pm [Musical] Song to Remember, A (1945)
The famed composer Chopin sacrifices everything, even love, for his native Poland.
Cast: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Nina Foch Dir: Charles Vidor C-112 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:30pm [Suspense/Mystery] Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas Dir: Jacques Tourneur BW-87 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: MERLE OBERON

5:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Lodger, The (1944)
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Cast: Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke Dir: John Brahm BW-84 mins, TV-14 [Email Remind Me]

6:30pm [Adventure] Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce Dir: Harold Young BW-98 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

8:30pm [Comedy] Divorce Of Lady X, The (1938)
In need of a hotel room, a woman poses as a scandalous divorcee.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson Dir: Tim Whelan C-91 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

10:00pm [War] Lion Has Wings, The (1939)
Britishers of every class band together to repel the German Blitz.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson Dir: Adrian Brunel BW-76 mins [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [Romance] Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson Dir: William Wyler BW-104 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [War] First Comes Courage (1943)
A Norwegian resistance fighter seduces a Nazi officer to learn enemy secrets during World War II.
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom Dir: Charles Vidor BW-86 mins, TV-PG


"These Three" and "Monte Carlo" aren't here, so there's not much I can recommend. "Wuthering Heights" is pretty turgid.

 

Today it's Yul Brynner

3:00am [Epic] Solomon And Sheba (1959)
Epic tale of the Biblical king's seduction by a pagan queen.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan Dir: King Vidor C-141 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:30am [Drama] Journey, The (1959)
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards Jr., Robert Morley Dir: Anatole Litvak C-126 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:00am [Drama] Taras Bulba (1962)
A cossack leader clashes with his rebellious son.
Cast: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker Dir: J. Lee Thompson C-124 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

10:30am [Drama] Kings Of The Sun (1963)
A Mayan tribe emigrates northward but has to fight off Native Americans.
Cast: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Field, Richard Basehart Dir: J. Lee Thompson C-108 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

12:30pm [Drama] Triple Cross (1967)
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe Dir: Terence Young C-126 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Western] Adios, Sabata (1971)
A gunslinger searching for a hidden treasure gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionaries.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Gerard Herter, Pedro Sanchez Dir: Frank Kramer. C-105 mins, TV-14 [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: YUL BRYNNER

5:00pm [Musical] King and I, The (1956)
The king of Siam clashes with the British governess hired to teach his children.
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson Dir: Walter Lang C-133 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:30pm [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]

9:45pm [Horror/Science-Fiction] Westworld (1973)
A future fantasy park turns deadly when robot workers go on a killing spree.
Cast: Richard Benjamin, Yul Brynner, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer Dir: Michael Crichton C-89 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:15pm [Horror/Science-Fiction] Futureworld (1976)
Reporters uncover deadly secrets behind a theme park where guests live their dreams.
Cast: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner Dir: Richard Heffron C-107 mins [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:15am [Adventure] Flight From Ashiya (1964)
A rescue service goes after a sinking cargo ship off the Japanese coast.
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker Dir: Michael Anderson C-102 mins, TV-G [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]
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Stick with "The Magnificent Seven" and "The King and I". "Anatasia" is not too bad, but not on the list.

 

Yul Brenner was one great actor. I know some people are against "The Ten Commandments" (and it's not on the list) but I think Brenner's great in it and had a great presence all around whatever movie he was in.

That doesn't mean he was exactly a virtuoso actor. But what he did, he did well.

 

He was fine, and so was Heston; it was Anne Baxter who was awful.

 

Today it's Ida Lupino:

3:00am [Musical] Gay Desperado, The (1936)
A Mexican bandit kidnaps a singing cowboy star to learn American ways.
Cast: Nino Martini, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Harold Huber Dir: Rouben Mamoulian BW-87 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

4:30am [Crime] Lady And The Mob, The (1939)
A woman sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
Cast: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta Dir: Ben Stoloff BW-66 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

5:45am [Suspense/Mystery] Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, The (1939)
A spy forces a reformed jewel thief to crack the safe where plans for an anti-aircraft gun are stored.
Cast: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth, Virginia Weidler Dir: Peter Godfrey BW-71 mins, TV-G [Email Remind Me]

7:00am [Drama] Bigamist, The (1953)
A woman discovers her husband has another family in another city.
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien Dir: Ida Lupino BW-79 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

8:30am [Crime] Out Of The Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.
Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert Dir: Anatole Litvak BW-85 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

10:00am [Suspense/Mystery] On Dangerous Ground (1951)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry's blind sister.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper Dir: Nicholas Ray BW-82 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30am [Drama] Women's Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter Dir: Lewis Seiler BW-80 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Drama] Big Knife, The (1955)
An unscrupulous movie producer blackmails an unhappy star into signing a new contract.
Cast: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen Dir: Robert Aldrich BW-114 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

3:00pm [Crime] While The City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff Dir: Fritz Lang BW-100

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: IDA LUPINO

5:00pm [Drama] They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart Dir: Raoul Walsh BW-95 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:00pm [Drama] Hard Way, The (1942)
An ambitious woman doesn't care who she hurts in her drive to make her sister a star.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson Dir: Vincent Sherman BW-109 mins,
TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:00pm [Suspense/Mystery] Ladies in Retirement (1941)
A housekeeper tries to manage her actress employer and her own emotionally disturbed sisters.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester Dir: Charles Vidor BW-92 mins, TV-PG [Email Remind Me]

11:00pm [Crime] High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy Dir: Raoul Walsh BW-100 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00am [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]


Warner's second-string Bette Davis had some good movies, including a Fritz Lang, a Peckinpah, a Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, and several Raoul Walshs. She also became a pretty fair director.

 

Today it's Frank Sinatra:

3:00am [Musical] Higher And Higher (1944)
Servants pass off one of their own as an heiress in hopes of winning her a wealthy husband.
Cast: Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol Dir: Tim Whelan BW-90 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

5:00am [Musical] Step Lively (1944)
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolph Menjou, Gloria De Haven Dir: Tim Whelan BW-88 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

6:30am [Musical] Kissing Bandit, The (1948)
A timid young man is forced to follow in his father's footsteps as a notorious masked bandit.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick Dir: Laslo Benedek C-100 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

8:30am [Musical] Anchors Aweigh (1945)
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi Dir: George Sidney C-139 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:00am [Musical] On the Town (1949)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller Dir: Gene Kelly C-98 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:00pm [Musical] Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
A beautiful woman takes over a turn-of-the-century baseball team.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett Dir: Busby Berkeley C-93 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

2:45pm [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]

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: FRANK SINATRA

5:00pm [Drama] Some Came Running (1958)
A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer Dir: Vincente Minnelli C-136 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

7:30pm [Musical] High Society (1956)
In this musical version of The Philadelphia Story, tabloid reporters invade a society wedding.
Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm Dir: Charles Walters C-107 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

9:30pm [Comedy] Tender Trap, The (1955)
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm Dir: Charles Walters C-111 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

11:30pm [Western] Sergeants 3 (1962)
Three adventurous Cavalry officers and their bugler take on a renegade chief.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford Dir: John Sturges C-113 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned] [Email Remind Me]

1:30am [Suspense/Mystery] Suddenly (1954)
Gunmen take over a suburban home to plot a presidential assassination.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates Dir: Lewis Allen BW-76 mins, TV-PG