TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 23rd: 31 Days of Oscar

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

1:45 AM Egg And I, The (1947)
Newlywed city slickers decide to give country life a try as chicken farmers. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main. Dir: Chester Erskine. BW-108 mins, TV-G, CC



3:45 AM Naughty Marietta (1935)
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with an Indian scout. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC



5:30 AM Going Places (1938)
A sporting-goods salesman poses as a jockey to stimulate sales. Cast: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-84 mins, TV-G

7:00 AM Merry Widow, The (1934)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Una Merkel. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC



8:45 AM 42nd Street (1933)
The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who goes on for the injured star. Cast: Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

10:15 AM Carefree (1938)
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

11:45 AM Topper Takes a Trip (1939)
A glamorous ghost helps a henpecked husband save his wife from gold-digging friends. Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

1:15 PM My Favorite Wife (1940)
A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's re-marriage. Cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott. Dir: Garson Kanin. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC

2:45 PM Awful Truth, The (1937)
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives. Cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 PM Artists & Models (1937)
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign. Cast: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-97 mins,

6:15 PM Topper (1937)
A fun-loving couple returns from the dead to help a henpecked husband. Cast: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 PM Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
A Western rancher wins a British valet in a poker game. Cast: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-91 mins, TV-G

9:45 PM One Hour With You (1932)
Both members of a married couple fight the temptation to stray. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-78 mins,



11:15 PM Gigi (1958)
A Parisian girl is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage. Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-116 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox
Format, DVS



1:15 AM American in Paris, An (1951)
An American artist finds love in Paris but almost loses it to conflicting loyalties. Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



3:15 AM Barkleys Of Broadway, The (1949)
A married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant. Dir: Charles Walters. C-109 mins, TV-G, CC

5:15 AM Good News (1947)
A football hero falls in love with his French tutor. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Joan McCracken. Dir: Charles Walters. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC

I was never an avid Chevalier fan, but her pictures with him had plenty of charm.

I do like "The Merry Widow" for its lovely music and also the support of stalwarts like Edward Everett Horton and
Herman Bing. I thought the messing around with the ending was unnecessary, and instead of sophisticated humour, it
descended into banality. And I so wish they'd screen "One Hour With You" here on TCM - I saw it once, when I was
about twelve or thirteen, when my mother took me to an evening screening, but although I've kept an eye out for it
on TV here, I swear it's never been shown. I know I enjoyed it, but I've forgotten so much about it.

And thanks for the lovely photo, CB, but it's not "Naughty Marietta", it's "New Moon" (when they sang "Wanting You").
Here's "Marietta" for you:

:blush: I should have known I was going to paste in the wrong photo. Grr. Oh, well, at least N.E. wasn't in his Mountie uniform, or buckskin. Thanks for the correction.

I did catch One Hour with You when it played at the AFI here, but it was an afternoon screening and I was drowsy :blush: and didn't quite get into it.

Like you, I'm not much into Maurice Chevalier, but I thoroughly enjoyed Love Me Tonight, which my cousin and I caught at a Library of Congress theater way out in Virginia. As I recall it was a restored print, a real rarity, and played to an appreciative (and packed) house. There was even a short before the feature! Great fun.

and I wish ...

Foxtel is so slack with its choices ... the films are out there, but they're just not willing to buy them.

You sometimes see them advertised on ebay, but old videos are something I'm not willing to risk my money on.

And just for fun - something extra from "Naughty Marietta".



Sigh ... ;-)