TCM Schedule for Friday, July 20 -- What's On Tonight: Stanwyck Pre-Codes

During the day, we are celebrating the life of Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, and died November 29, 1981 -- too, too young. Had she lived, she would have become a first-time grandmother on 30 May 2012 when her eldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, gave birth to a girl named Clover Clementyne Watson.

In the evening, TCM is featuring a series of Barbara Stanwyck films, made in the anything-goes days before the creation of the Hayes Code. Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- Never a Dull Moment (1950)
89 min, TV-G
A female music critic marries a rancher and has to adjust to life out West.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest.

7:45 AM -- The Searchers (1956)
C-119 min, TV-PG
An Indian-hating Civil War veteran tracks down the tribe that slaughtered his family and kidnapped his niece.
Dir: John Ford Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles.

10:00 AM -- The Burning Hills (1956)
C-92 min, TV-PG
A young cowboy and a Mexican girl run from a ruthless criminal.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier.

11:45 AM -- A Cry in the Night (1956)
75 min, TV-14
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Dir: Frank Tuttle Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood.

1:15 PM -- The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
103 min, TV-G
A college dropout has no choice but to go into the Army.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jesse Royce Landis.

3:15 PM -- Gypsy (1962)
C-143 min, TV-PG
A domineering mother pushes her two daughters to burlesque stardom.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden.

6:00 PM -- Sex And The Single Girl (1964)
C-114 min, TV-PG
A journalist sets out to expose a female sex expert but falls for her instead.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda.


TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STANWYCK PRE-CODES


8:00 PM -- Shopworn (1932)
66 min, TV-G
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Dir: Nicholas Grinde Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts.

9:15 PM -- Ten Cents A Dance (1931)
77 min, TV-G
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Dir: Lionel Barrymore Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley.

10:45 PM -- Illicit (1931)
79 min, TV-G
Young free-thinkers turn conventionally jealous when they marry.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Charles Butterworth.

12:15 AM -- Forbidden (1932)
85 min, TV-G
On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man.
Dir: Frank R. Capra Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy.

2:00 AM -- Near Dark (1987)
C-94 min, TV-MA
A young man reluctantly joins a travelling family of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen.

3:45 AM -- The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
C-108 min, TV-14
A bumbling professor tracks vampires in the wilds of Eastern Europe.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass.

5:45 AM -- Destination Earth (1956)
C-14 min, TV-G
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity.
Dir: Carl Urbano