TCM Schedule for Saturday 3/19/22 - 31 Days of Oscar - Back to the '80s (in prime time)

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TCM Schedule for Saturday 3/19/22 – 31 Days of Oscar – Back to the '80s (in prime time)
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On This Date in film history: March 19, 1964: Sean Connery begins first day of shooting on the James Bond film "Goldfinger."

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'Dog Day Afternoon' trailer.

2:15 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2h 10m | Crime | TV-MA. Things go awry when a man tries to rob a bank to pay for his lover's sex change operation.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane.

Academy Awards: Best Writing.

Gore Vidal presents Best Writing (Original Screenplay) award to “Dog Day Afternoon,” the movie's only Oscar win.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Picture (lost to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”), Best Actor (Al Pacino, lost to Jack Nicolson for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”), Original Screenplay (Frank Pierson), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Chris Sarandon, who played Leon – but not John Cazale!!. It was awarded to George Burns for “The Sunshine Boys”), Best Director (Sidney Lumet. Awarded to Milos Forman for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”), Best Film Editing.

Trivia: Although he had initially agreed to play the part of Sonny, Al Pacino told Sidney Lumet near the start of production that he couldn't play it. Pacino had just completed production on “The Godfather: Part II” (1974) and was physically exhausted and depressed after the shoot. With his reliance on the Method, Pacino didn't relish the thought of working himself up to a state of near hysteria every day. Lumet unhappily accepted the actor's decision and dispatched the script to Dustin Hoffman. Pacino changed his mind when he heard that his rival was being considered.

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The trailer for "Shaft" (1971).

4:30 AM Shaft(1971)
1h 38m | Crime | TV-MA
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Director Gordon Parks
Cast Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi.

Academy Awards: Best Original Music, Original Song: Isaac Hayes for “Theme From Shaft.”

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Isaac Hayes performs the Oscar-winning “Theme From Shaft” live at the 1972 Academy Awards ceremony.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (Isaac Hayes). (Hayes also won the Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.)

Trivia: Isaac Hayes auditioned for the title role. Although the producers gave the role to Richard Roundtree, they were so impressed with Hayes that they asked him to write the now legendary score to the film. Hayes became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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6:15 AM The Story of Louis Pasteur(1936)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-G
The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise.

Academy Awards: Best Actor (Paul Muni), Best Original Story and Best Screenplay.

Other Academy Award nominations: Outstanding Production.

Trivia: An electrician for Warner Bros. came up to Paul Muni after an advanced screening of the film and told him that his nine-year-old son asked him to buy him a microscope because of Muni's performance. Even though he went on to win the Oscar for it, Muni said that this was the greatest compliment he had ever received and that all other accolades meant nothing compared to that one.

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Captains Courageous trailer.

7:45 AM Captains Courageous (1937)
1h 56m | Drama | TV-G
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel
Barrymore.

Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Spencer Tracy).

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Writing, Screenplay (Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every), Best Film Editing (Elmo Veron), Outstanding Production.

Trivia: When production finally wrapped in late February 1937, Spencer Tracy was relieved. "Well, I got away with it," he said later. "Want to know why? Because of Freddie, because of that kid's performance, because he sold it 98 per cent. The kid had to believe in Manuel, or Manuel wasn't worth a quarter. The way he would look at me, believe every word I said, made me believe in it myself. I've never said this before, and I'll never say it again. Freddie Bartholomew's acting is so fine and so simple and so true that it's way over people's heads. It'll only be by thinking back two or three years from now that they'll realize how great it was."

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The trailer for “Watch On the Rhine”

10:00 AM Watch on the Rhine (1943)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-PG
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.
Director: Herman Shumlin
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald.

Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Lukas).
Other Academy Award nominations: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lucile Watson), Best Writing, Screenplay (Dashiell Hammett), Outstanding Motion Picture (given to “Casablanca.” Other nominees included “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” “The Song of Bernadette” and “Heaven Can Wait”.

Trivia: Head of the Production Code Joseph I. Breen objected to the scene where the family are given a tour of the house, including the bathroom which initially had a clear shot of a toilet.
Trivia: Bette Davis didn't get on with her co-star Lucile Watson who played her mother in the film. In real life, Watson was a staunch Republican and held many opposite views to Davis.
Trivia: This adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play was written by her longtime companion, Dashiell Hammett, who also wrote “The Thin Man.”. Hellman was unable to write the adaptation herself as she was contracted to work on the screenplay for “The North Star” (1943). She recommended that Hammett be given the assignment. (Hammett also needed the money.)

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12:00 PM Lilies of the Field (1963)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-PG
A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann

Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sidney Poitier).

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Jack Lemmon introduces Anne Bancroft to hand out the Best Actor Oscar to Sidney Poitier in 1964.

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Sidney Poitier leads the sisters in “Amen.”

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Picture (Lost to Tom Jones), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala, lost to Margaret Rutherford for “The V.I.P.'s”), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Best Cinematography.

Trivia: Since the story's action was tied to the chapel's construction, a crew had to work through the night to keep up with its "progress" in the film. The actual building was real and could have stood for decades, but because it was built on rented property, it had to be demolished immediately after the filming was completed.
Trivia: Sidney Poitier gave up his usual salary and agreed to do the film for a smaller amount and a percentage of the profits.

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2:00 PM Sergeant York (1941)
2h 14m | War | TV-G
A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie.

Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing (William Holmes).

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Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine win Oscars at 1942 Academy Awards.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Walter Brennan), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Margaret Wycherly), Best Art Direction,
Best Cinematography, Best Directing (Howard Hanks. Went to John Ford for "How Green Is My Valley&quot , Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Picture (lost to “How Green Was My Valley.” Other losers in that category: “Citizen Kane” and “The Maltese Falcon”), Best Sound Recording and Best Writing.

Trivia: Alvin York had been approached by producer Jesse L. Lasky several times, beginning in 1919, to allow a movie to be made of his life. He had refused, stating that "this uniform ain't for sale." Lasky finally convinced York that, with war threatening in Europe, it was his patriotic duty to allow the film to proceed. York finally agreed, but on three conditions. First, York's share of the profits would be contributed to a Bible school York wanted to be built. Second, no cigarette-smoking actress could be chosen to play his wife. Third, only Gary Cooper could recreate his life on screen. Cooper at first turned down the role, but when York himself contacted the star with a personal plea, Cooper agreed to do the picture.York himself was on the set for a few days during filming. When one of the crew members tactlessly asked him how many "Jerries" he had killed, York started sobbing so vehemently he threw up. The crew member was nearly fired, but the next day, York demanded that he keep his job.

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“Gandhi” trailer.

4:30 PM Gandhi(1982)
3h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
Biographical epic on the life of Mohandas K Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Sir Richard Attenborough
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud.

Academy Awards: Won eight Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Ben Kingsley), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Directing (Sir Richard Attenborough), Best Film Editing, Best Writing.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Makeup, Best Music (Original Score) and Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly For the Screen).

From Roger Ebert's review: “This is the sort of rare epic film that spans the decades, that uses the proverbial cast of thousands, and yet follows a human thread from beginning to end: “Gandhi” is no more overwhelmed by the scope of its production than was Gandhi overwhelmed by all the glory of the British Empire. The movie earns comparison with two films by David Lean - “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago” - in its ability to paint a strong human story on a very large canvas.”

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The funeral scene from “Gandhi.”

Trivia: Over 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence for "Gandhi." About 200,000 were volunteers, and 94,560 were paid a small fee. The sequence was filmed on Jan. 31, 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's funeral. Eleven crews shot over 20,000 feet of film, which was pared down to two minutes and five seconds in the final release.

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8:00 PM Out Of Africa (1985)
2h 42m | Romance | TV-14
True life story of Karen Blixen, a Danish baroness/plantation owner who has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter in 20th-century colonial Kenya.
Director: Sydney Pollack.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria
Brandauer.

Academy Awards: Won seven Oscars: Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, Best Music, Best Sound, Best Writing.

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Jane Fonda, Alan Alda and Robin Williams introduce John Huston, Billy Wilder and Akira Kurosawa to present the Best Picture award at the 1986 Oscars.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Actress In a Leading Role (Meryl Streep. The award was given to Geraldine Page for “The Trip To Bountiful”), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Klaus Maria Brandauer).

Trivia: Karen Blixen travels across dangerous terrain to bring supply wagons to her husband's regiment. During the night, a lion attacks one of the oxen and Blixen tries to fight it off with a whip. Meryl Streep was assured that the lion would be tethered by one of its back legs so it couldn't get too close. When the scene was shot, the lion had no restraint, and it got closer than Streep anticipated. The fear on her face in the film is real.
Trivia: Early in the film, Baroness Karen Blixen is introduced to her servants. The first take was filmed as one long shot that required Meryl Streep to exchange dialogue with several other characters. As soon as director Sydney Pollack yelled "Cut", Streep, wearing a high-collared shirt and snug jacket, yelled "get this thing off of me!" and ripped open her jacket. A large beetle had crawled down the front of the jacket moments after the camera rolled, yet she continued filming the scene. Much of it remains in the final film.

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11:00 PM On Golden Pond (1981)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-14 A curmudgeon, who has an estranged relationship with his daughter, and his wife agree to care for Billy, the son of the daughter's new boyfriend. A most unexpected relationship blooms.
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda.

Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Henry Fonda), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Katharine Hepturn), Best Writing.

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Sissy Spacek announces the Best Actor award, which was awarded to Henry Fonda for "On Golden Pond" at the 1982 Oscars. Daughter Jane Fonda accepted the award.

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Jon Voight presents Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar to Katharine Hepburn.

Other Academy Award nominations: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Jane Fonda, given to Maureen Stapleton for “Reds”), Best Cinemaography, Best Directing (Mark Rydell. Awarded to Warren Beatty for "Reds&quot , Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score), Best Picture (given to “Chariots of Fire.” Also losing: “Raiders of the Lost Ark and “Atlantic City”) and Best Sound.

Trivia: The brown Fedora worn by Henry Fonda belonged to Spencer Tracy and was given to Fonda by Katharine Hepburn on the first day on the set. Fonda, overwhelmed with the gesture, painted a still life watercolor of the three hats he wore in the film and gave the original to Hepburn as a gift. He had 200 lithographs made of the painting and sent one to every person who worked on the film. Each copy was numbered and personally signed by Fonda thanking each person by name. In her autobiography, Hepburn wrote that she gave the painting to screenwriter Ernest Thompson. After Fonda's death, she found the painting to be a sad reminder of him and Tracy. Apparently, Fonda and Hepburn had not only never worked together, but had never even met prior to working on this picture, despite having mutual friends and acquaintances.
Trivia: James Stewart had wanted to star in the movie, but Jane Fonda bought the rights to the play before he could.