Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 6th: Jean Arthur
Cover the children's eyes and distract the neighborhood wowsers, because it's Pre-Code movie time again at TCM.
But that's just during the day. In the evening the spotlight turns on an essential actress of the classic movie era, Jean Arthur, and several of her very best movies: The Talk of the Town, The More the Merrier, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
12:15 AM Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961)
A factory worker lives for the chance to have fun on the weekends.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Albert Finney , Shirley Field , Rachel Roberts .
BW-89 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Vanessa Redgrave , David Warner , Robert Stephens .
BW-97 mins, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM Victim (1961)
A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Dirk Bogarde , Sylvia Syms , Dennis Price .
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
5:30 AM Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A dowager tries to buy a lobotomy to silence the woman who witnessed her son's murder.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn , Montgomery Clift .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM Laughing Sinners (1931)
A Salvation Army preacher saves a troubled girl from suicide.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Joan Crawford , Neil Hamilton , Clark Gable .
BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:45 AM Side Show (1931)
A carnival dancer fills in for the show's high diver.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Winnie Lightner , Charles Butterworth , Evalyn Knapp .
BW-64 mins, TV-G,
10:00 AM Fireman, Save My Child (1932)
A small-town ball player moves to the big leagues.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Joe E. Brown , Evalyn Knapp , Lilian Bond .
BW-66 mins, TV-G,
11:15 AM Strange Love Of Molly Louvain, The (1932)
A woman's bad taste in men leads to pregnancy out of wedlock.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Ann Dvorak , Lee Tracy , Richard Cromwell .
BW-73 mins, TV-PG,
12:30 PM Girl Missing (1933)
A new bride disappears from her honeymoon hotel the same night a dead body pops up.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Glenda Farrell , Ben Lyon , Mary Brian .
BW-69 mins, TV-G,
1:45 PM Havana Widows (1933)
Chorus girls travel to Cuba in search of rich husbands.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell , Glenda Farrell , Guy Kibbee .
BW-62 mins, TV-G,
3:00 PM Silk Express, The (1933)
A young silk importer fights off threats to his cargo during a perilous train ride.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Neil Hamilton , Sheila Terry , Arthur Byron .
BW-61 mins, TV-G,
4:15 PM Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
A plumber's business success makes him neglect his family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Aline MacMahon , Guy Kibbee , Patricia Ellis .
BW-59 mins, TV-G,
5:30 PM Harold Teen (1934)
A young reporter saves a small-town bank from ruin.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Hal Le Roy , Rochelle Hudson , Patricia Ellis .
BW-66 mins, TV-G,
6:45 PM Merry Wives Of Reno, The (1934) Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Guy Kibbee , Glenda Farrell , Donald Woods .
BW-64 mins, TV-PG,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: JEAN ARTHUR
8:00 PM Talk Of The Town, The (1942)
An escaped political prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Cary Grant , Jean Arthur , Ronald Colman .
BW-117 mins, TV-G, CC,
10:15 PM History Is Made at Night (1937)
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Charles Boyer , Jean Arthur , Leo Carrillo .
BW-97 mins, CC,
12:00 AM Public Menace, The (1935)
A cocky reporter's marriage to a manicurist jeopardizes his career.
Dir: Erle C. Kenton Cast: Jean Arthur , George Murphy , Douglass Dumbrille .
BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC,
1:30 AM More the Merrier, The (1943)
The World War II housing shortage brings three people together for an unlikely romance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Jean Arthur , Joel McCrea , Charles Coburn .
BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC,
3:30 AM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet has to deal with the corruption of city life.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper , Jean Arthur , George Bancroft .
BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC,
5:30 AM Now Playing March (2012) (2012)
BW-20 mins, TV-PG, CC,
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)I really love the premise of that movie, the whole way the plot unfolds and the relationships take shape. Jean Arthur, as always, shines in an ensemble piece.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Great to watch Talk of the Town.
I can't remember ever seeing this before