TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 26, 2022 - The 31 Days of Oscar - "Casablanca"/Sir David Lean day!

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TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 26, 2022 – The 31 Days of Oscar – “Casablanca”/Sir David Lean day!

(“The 31 Days of Oscar” today features some superb films winning Oscars and one classic – “Casablanca” – that had Oscar snubs that still shake heads to this day. Other films featured today are “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Bridge Over the River Kwai” and “The Last Emperor.”)

Update: You'll find a poll at the bottom where you can vote for your choice for the Best Picture that's airing on this day.

(All times Eastern and Pacific. Others should check their TV Guide or local listings – if your newspaper still has such things.)

1:30 AM Woodstock (1970)

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“Woodstock” film trailer.

3h 4m | Documentary | TV-MA
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties. Filled with superb musical performances.
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Cast: Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Who, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After.
Academy Awards - and the winner is: Best Documentary (Features) to Bob Maurice.

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Wife and husband Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin introduce both the short and long-form documentary nominees.

Other Oscar nominations: Best Sound, Best Film Editing.

Trivia: The two- and three-panel screen presentations seen throughout much of the movie were innovations born of necessity on the part of its creators and a film editor named Martin Scorsese. With so much footage shot, and the studio's unwillingness to expand the length of the released film's running time, it was decided that a way must be found to maximize the amount of footage that could be used. Because of the wide-screen aspect of the release, it was realized that the multi-panel format could be used most effectively to not only include as much film footage as possible, but to also have concert footage and crowd reaction shots together on the same screen.

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Jimi Hendrix performs “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the climax to the three-hour “Woodstock” film.

Trivia: The festival may have been an artistic success, but it was a financial disaster. The film and soundtrack were the only items to make money. They were also the only items that the concert promoters did not invest in. They thought there was no money in it.

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Audio: Abbie Hoffman gets booted off the stage by Pete Townshend.

Trivia: In a moment from the festival that was not included in the film, The Who's performance is interrupted by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, who runs onstage to protest the arrest of radical John Sinclair for marijuana possession. (John Lennon also wrote a song about it.) As Hoffman is shouting about Sinclair, Pete Townshend yells at him, “Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!," then literally bashes him with his guitar, knocking him off the stage. Unfortunately, no film is known to exist, though audio does exist (in the video above).

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5:30 AM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

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Film trailer.

1h 55m | Comedy | TV-G
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft.
Academy Awards - and the winner is: Best Director (Frank Capra).

Other nominations: Best Actor (Gary Cooper, who lost to Paul Muni for “The Story of Louis Pasteur”), Outstanding Production (won by “The Great Ziegfield”), Best Sound Recording, Best Writing.

Trivia: Jean Arthur never saw the film until she and Frank Capra were guests at a 1972 film festival.

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7:45 AM The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Film trailer for “The Best Years of Our Lives.”

2h 52m | Drama | TV-PG
Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews.

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Robert Osborne comments on “The Best Years of Our Lives.”

Academy Awards - and the winner is: The film won eight Oscars – Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Fredric March), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Harold Russell), Best Director (William Wyler), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Writing and also a special honorary award also given to Harold Russell “for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in 'The Best Years of Our Lives'.” Russell became the only actor to win two Academy Awards for the same role. The Academy Board of Governors thought he was a long shot to win, so they gave him the honorary award. Later in that same ceremony he won for Best Supporting Actor.

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Jim Hart and Mary Martin interview double Oscar winner Harold Russell about “The Best Years of Our Lives.”

Trivia: In getting its multi-Oscar wins, “The Best Years of Our Lives” beat out “It's a Wonderful Life” in four of those categories – Best Motion Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (James Stewart) and Best Film Editing. Ironically, though, both “The Best Years of Our Lives” and “It's a Wonderful Life” lost the Best Sound Recording award … and to the only other nominee in the category. That was “The Jolson Story.”

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11:00 AM Casablanca (1942)

Film trailer for 'Casablanca'.

1h 42m | Romance | TV-PG
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Dooley Wilson.

Robert Osborne's comments on “Casablanca” during a past “The 31 Days of Oscar.”

Academy Awards - and the winner is: Outstanding Motion Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz), Best Writing.

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Sam (Dooley Wilson) sings the classic song“As Time Goes By,” which did NOT win for Best Music.

Other Oscar nominations (and the list of losses is astonishing): Best Actor (Humphrey Bogart), losing to Paul Lukas for “Watch On the Rhine”; Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Claude Rains), to Charles Coburn for “The More The Merrier”; Best Cinematography (to “The Song of Bernadette”); Best Film Editing; Best Music (Max Steiner was nominated, but lost to Alfred Newman, uncle of singer-composer Randy Newman, for “The Song of Bernadette”). (Editor's note: What mistakes. What were the Academy voters thinking?)

Trivia: Many of the actors and extras, including those who played Nazis, were in fact German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. During the scene in which the "La Marseillaise" is sung over the German song "Die Wacht am Rhein" ("The Watch on the Rhine&quot , many of the extras had real tears as many of them were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out.

Trivia: The film was originally considered to be set in Lisbon.

Trivia: Humphrey Bogart was two inches shorter than Ingrid Bergman. Director Michael Curtiz had Bogart stand on blocks or sit on cushions to make him seem taller.

Trivia: "As Time Goes By" was included in the original play, but composer Max Steiner didn't like it and wanted it excluded from the film. But Bergman had already shot the scenes with the song and cut her hair for her next role, so they couldn't be re-shot, and the song stayed in.

Trivia: The film was shot almost entirely at Warner Studios in Burbank, CA., except for the airport scene, which was shot in Van Nuys, CA.

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“We'll always have Paris.”

Trivia: Humphrey Bogart's then-wife, actress Mayo Methot, continually accused him of having an affair with Ingrid Bergman, often confronting him in his dressing room before a scene was to be shot, which resulted in Bogart coming onto the set in a rage. Despite their on-screen chemistry, the two hardly spoke. The only time they bonded was when the two had lunch with Geraldine Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald later said, "The whole subject at lunch was how they could get out of that movie. They thought the dialogue was ridiculous and the situations were unbelievable. I knew Bogart very well, and I think he wanted to join forces with Bergman to make sure they both said the same things." The two rarely spoke after that.

Quote: Rick: “Here's looking at you, kid.”
Quote: Rick: “Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.”
Quote: Captain Renault: “What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?”
Rick: “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.”
Captain Renault: “The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.”
Rick: “I was misinformed.”

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1:00 PM Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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“Lawrence of Arabia” film trailer.

3h 46m | Adventure | TV-14

Sweeping epic about the real life adventures of British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence who, due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.
Director: Sir David Lean.
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

Academy Awards - and the winner is: The film won seven Oscars – Best Picture (beating out “The Music Man,” “The Longest Day,” “Mutiny on the Bounty” and “To Kill A Mockingbird”); Best Art Direction; Best Cinematography; Best Directing, Best Film Editing, Best Music and Best Sound.

Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor (Peter O'Toole, who lost to Gregory Peck in “To Kill a Mockingbird”); Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Omar Sharif, who lost to Ed Begley in “Sweet Bird of Youth”); and Best Writing. (Note: On Sept. 26, 1995, The Academy Board of Governors voted to grant then-blacklisted writer Michael Wilson an Academy Award nomination, along with Robert Bolt, for this film, the result of a Writers Guild of America finding that Wilson and Bolt both share the writing credit for the screenplay.]

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Frank Sinatra brings on Olivia DeHavilland to present the 1963 Best Picture Oscar to “Lawrence of Arabia.”

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Joan Crawford presents the Best Directing Award to Sir David Lean for “Lawrence of Arabia.”

Trivia: The movie was initially banned in many Arab countries because they felt Arab historical figures and the Arab peoples were misrepresented. Omar Sharif arranged a viewing of the film for President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Nasser loved the movie and allowed it to be released in Egypt, where it went on to become a huge hit.
Trivia: On his first location scouting trip in Jordan, director Sir David Lean discovered the remains of the Turkish locomotives and railroad tracks T.E. Lawrence had destroyed during the Arab Revolution. After forty years in the sun, they hadn't rusted.

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5:00 PM The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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“The Bridge on the River Kwai” film trailer.

2h 41m | Epic | TV-PG
The Japanese Army forces World War II POWs to build a strategic bridge in Burma, unaware that the Allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean
Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.

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Bob Hope introduces Gary Cooper and they both announce nominees for the 1958 Best Picture Oscar.

Academy Awards - and the winner is: Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Alec Guinness); Best Cinematography; Best Director; Best Film Editing; Best Music.

Other Oscar nominations: Best Actor (Peter O'Toole, went to Gregory Peck for “To Kill a Mockingbird”; Best Supporting Actor (Omar Sharif, went to Ed Begley for “Sweet Bird of Youth”), Best Writing (Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson, went to Horton Foote for “To Kill a Mockingbird.”).

Trivia: Though Pierre Boulle received official screen credit, it was commonly known that blacklisted writer Michael Wilson along with Robert Bolt had written the screenplay based on Mr. Boulle's original French novel. On September 26, 1995, The Academy Board of Governors, after researching the issue, voted to grant the two men an Academy Award nomination.

Trivia: The character Col. Saito was inspired by Major Risaburo Saito, who, unlike the character in the movie, was said by some to be one of the most reasonable and humane of all of the Japanese officers, usually willing to negotiate with the POWs in return for their labor. Such was the respect between Saito and Lt. Col. Toosey (upon whom Col. Nicholson was based), that Toosey spoke on Saito's behalf at the war-crimes tribunal after the war and saved him from the gallows. Ten years after Toosey's 1975 death, Saito made a pilgrimage to England to visit his grave.

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8:00 PM A Passage to India (1984)

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'A Passage to India' trailer.

2h 43m | Epic | TV-PG
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: Sir David Lean
Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft.
Academy Awards - and the winner is: Best Music (Maurice Jarre); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Peggy Ashcroft).

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Jack Lemmon introduces Ryan O'Neal to introduce the nominees for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 1985 Academy Awards.

Other Oscar nominations: Best Picture (lost to “Amadeus”); Best Actress in a Leading Role (Judy Davis, losing to Sally Field for “Places in the Heart”); Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design; Best Cinematography; Best Directing (losing to Milos Forman for “Amadeus”); Best Film Editing; Best Sound; Best Writing.

Trivia: Sir David Lean was shut out of all three categories he was nominated in – Best Directing, Best Editing and Best Writing.
Trivia: The relationship between Sir David Lean and Sir Alec Guinness deteriorated during the making of the film. The final straw came for Guinness when he found out that a large chunk of his scenes had been left on the cutting room floor by Lean. One example was that Guinness spent several weeks learning an intricate Hindu dance for a scene that ended up not being used in the film. Neither man ever met or spoke to the other again. Lean also had frequent on-set clashes with Judy Davis, who accused him of having lost his touch after not having directed a film for fourteen years.

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11:00 PM The Last Emperor (1987)

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“The Last Emperor” film trailer.

2h 43m | Drama | TV-MA
The story of the last imperial ruler of China.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci.
Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole.

Academy Awards - and the winner is: The film won nine Oscars - Best Picture; Best Art Direction; Best Cinematography; Best Costume Design; Best Film Editing; Best Music; Best Sound; Best Writing.

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Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy introduce the nominees for the Best Director and Best Picture awards interlaced with a little comedy at the 1988 Oscars.

Trivia: The multi-nominated film went an astonishing 9-0, winning in every single category it was nominated in.
Trivia: “The Last Emperor” was the first Western film made in and about China to be produced with full Chinese government cooperation since 1949.

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[Staph]

1. This is one seriously difficult poll!

I could easily vote for Bridge on the River Kwai, The Best Years of Our Lives, or Lawrence of Arabia, but I had to go with Casablanca. I quote that film all the time!

[ificandream]

2. Only three people have voted in the poll?

I thought it would attract more than that.