TCM Schedule for Saturday, May 26, 2012 -- The Essentials: Billie Burke

6:00 AM
THE YOUNG GUNS (1956)

A disaffected youth falls in with the wrong crowd back in 1897.
Dir: Albert Band Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Gloria Talbott, Perry Lopez.
BW-84 mins, TV-PG


7:30 AM
BELLE STARR (1941)

A Southern belle turns outlaw when her family loses their land.
Dir: Irving Cummings Cast: Randolph Scott, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews.
C-87 mins, TV-PG


9:00 AM
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE (1953)

A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel.
C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:45 AM
THE PHANTOM THIEF (1946)

A reformed thief tries to stop a murderous blackmailer.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Chester Morris, Jeff Donnell, Richard Lane.
BW-65 mins, TV-PG

12:00 PM
DICK TRACY: THE SPIDER STRIKES, THE BRIDGE OF TERROR, and THE FUR PIRATES (1937)

In the first three chapters of Dick Tracy, the famed detective takes on the diabolical head of a criminal ring, is trapped beneath a collapsing bridge, and his plane crashes into a railroad bridge.
BW-29 mins, 19 mins, and 20 mins, TV-G


1:30 PM
ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947)

When a Quaker girl nurses a notorious gunman back to health, he tries to adopt her peaceful ways.
Dir: James Edward Grant Cast: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey.
BW-100 mins, TV-G


3:30 PM
OPERATION PACIFIC (1951)

A dedicated submarine commander sacrifices everything to defeat the enemy.
Dir: George Waggner Cast: John Wayne, Patricia O'Neal, Ward Bond.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC


5:30 PM
RED RIVER (1948)

A young cowhand rebels against his rancher stepfather during a perilous cattle drive.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru.
BW-133 mins, TV-PG, CC


THE ESSENTIALS: BILLIE BURKE
8:00 PM
DINNER AT EIGHT (1933)

A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
TOPPER (1937)

A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young.
BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 AM
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950)

A doting father faces mountains of bills and endless trials when his daughter marries.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC


2:00 AM
MERRILY WE LIVE (1938)

A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray.
BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC


4:00 AM
THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949)

A married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant.
C-109 mins, TV-G, CC