TCM Schedule Sat 6/10 - A Hard Day's Night, Viva Las Vegas, Adam's Rib, Gilda Live, Lenny

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Saturday, June 10 At a Glance
- MONDO MELODRAMAS
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
Queen Bee (1955)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) (6 am ET)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
MGM Cartoons: Innertube Antics (1944) (8 am ET)
New Roadways (1939) (doc.)
St. Helena and its "Man of Destiny" (1936) (doc.)
Adventures of Jane Arden, The (1939)
Batman Ch. 15: The Doom of the Rising Sun (1943)
(P) Popeye: Popeye for President (1956)
Dragon Murder Case, The (1934)
Know Your Money (1940) (short)
Merry Widow, The (1934) (Musical Matinee)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Kings Row (1942)
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
- TCM PRIMETIME
STAND UP SPOTLIGHT
Gilda Live (1980)
(P) Valerie (2019)
(P) Lenny (1974)
- NOIR ALLEY
Verdict, The (1946)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: ROCK STARS
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Viva Las Vegas (1964)

12:00 AM Love Has Many Faces (1965)



An aging heiress struggles to hold on to the kept man she loves.
Dir: Alexander Singer Cast: Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Lana Turner's wardrobe cost $1 million.


2:00 AM Queen Bee (1955)

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A manipulative Southern socialite sets out to destroy the lives of all those around her.
Dir: Ranald Macdougall Cast: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Charles Lang
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Jean Louis

Trivia: Joan Crawford personally bought the film rights to Edna L. Lee's novel "The Queen Bee" for $15,000, then sold them to Columbia under the following conditions: she would star, Jerry Wald would produce, Ranald MacDougall would write the screenplay and direct the film, Charles Lang would be the film's cinematographer and she would have contractual approval on her costume, make-up and hair designers. Each of these conditions was fulfilled.

3:45 AM The Bad Seed (1956)

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An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTRESS -- Nancy Kelly {"Christine Penmark"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Eileen Heckart {"Mrs. Daigle"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Patty McCormack {"Rhoda Penmark"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Hal Rosson

Trivia: Alfred Hitchcock turned down the chance to direct.

Trivia: Bette Davis had expressed interest in playing Christine Penmark, but director Mervyn LeRoy insisted on casting Nancy Kelly, who had originated the role on stage. It turned out to be Kelly's last film. She did TV projects thereafter.

6:00 AM Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

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A recovering alcoholic film director tries for a comeback in Rome.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: According to studio records, this film was a disaster at the box office for MGM, losing almost $3M ($24M in 2016 dollars).


8:00 AM Short: Innertube Antics (1944)
Embarrassed by his small rubber donation to the war effort a homeowner looks for more and finds an inner tube in his backyard that is half-buried but proves more difficult to excavate than he first thought.
Dir: George Gordon Cast: null
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:09 AM Short: New Roadways (1939)
This short film focuses on various projects carried out by research laboratories in the United States.
Dir: Basil Wrangell Cast: Richard Cramer, John Nesbitt, Howard Mitchell
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:20 AM Short: St. Helena and its Man of Destiny (1936)
This explores the history of St. Helena, including Napoleon's final address.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Winton Hoch
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:29 AM The Adventures of Jane Arden (1939)
A reporter poses as a jewel smuggler to unmask a criminal gang.
Dir: Terry Morse Cast: Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The only film based on the long-running comic strip "Jane Arden", the original "spunky girl reporter", that was published from November 26, 1928 to January 20, 1968. The character served as a prototype for others such as Superman's Lois Lane, and another comic strip "Brenda Starr, Reporter", that ran from 1940 to 2011. There was also a "Jane Arden" radio program - a 15 minute weekday show on the NBC Blue Network from 1938 to 1939.


9:30 AM Serial: Batman - Episode 15: The Doom of the Rising Sun (1943) (Conclusion)
Final episode of this serial.
Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Cast: null
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Popeye for President (1956) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye and Bluto are tied in their race for the Presidency and learn that Olive Oyl holds the deciding vote. To win her over, they both offer to help with her farm chores with some hysterical results.
Dir: null Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:08 AM The Dragon Murder Case (1934)

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Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious "dragon pool."
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Know Your Money (1940)
This short tells the story of a bill counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Joe Newman Cast: Noel Madison, John Dilson, Charles Hamilton
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM The Merry Widow (1934)

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A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette Macdonald, Edward Everett Horton
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar win: ART DIRECTION -- Cedric Gibbons, Fredric Hope. [NOTE: won by two votes]

Trivia: Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier reportedly did not get along on this film. He called her a "prude" and she called him "a bottom pincher". Their relationship had been deteriorating for some time, and this was the last film they appeared in together.


1:45 PM Adam's Rib (1949)

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A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: WRITING (Story and Screenplay) -- Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin

Trivia: To help build up Judy Holliday's image, particularly in the eyes of Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn, Katharine Hepburn deliberately leaked stories to the gossip columns suggesting that her performance in this film was so good that it had stolen the spotlight from Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. This got Cohn's attention and Holliday won the part in Born Yesterday (1950).


3:45 PM Kings Row (1942)

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Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- James Wong Howe
DIRECTING -- Sam Wood
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.

Trivia: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score was played during Ronald Reagan's presidential inauguration.

Trivia: The fanfare theme Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote for the movie was a direct inspiration for John Williams to write the main theme for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). This was a request by George Lucas, along with the 20th Century Fox fanfare opening credit, to have a score that would remind audiences of Errol Flynn-like '30s and '40s swashbucklers, to set the context of his saga in a chivalrous universe.

6:00 PM The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

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A professional poker player, with a "can't lose" reputation, is challenged to a game by another infamous rival.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Edward G. Robinson wrote in his autobiography, "In the film I played Lancey Howard, the reigning champ of the stud poker tables...I could hardly say I identified with Lancey; I was Lancey. That man on the screen, more than in any other picture I ever made, was Edward G. Robinson with great patches of Emanuel Goldenberg [his real name] showing through. He was all cold and discerning and unflappable on the exterior; he was ageing and full of self-doubt on the inside....Even the final session of the poker game was real...I played that game as if it were for blood. It was one of the best performances I ever gave on stage or screen or radio or TV, and the reason for it is that is wasn't a performance at all; it was symbolically the playing out of my whole gamble with life."


8:00 PM Gilda Live (1980)

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Gilda Radner is recorded during a live comedy concert. Radner's classic characters are seen in sketches that are sometimes more risque than when they appeared on television. During her breaks, the character Father Guido Sarducci takes the stage.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Nils Nichols, Bob Christianson, Maria Vidal
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The prop storybook that Emily Litella reads called "Tiny Kingdom" is a modified Big Golden Book of Walt Disney's Peter Pan.


9:45 PM Short: Valerie (2019) (TCM Premiere)
An exploration of actress Valerie Perrine's amazing career and personal life, offering an intimate look behind the curtain.
Dir: Stacey Souther Cast: Yvette Bordelon, Loni Anderson, David Arquette
Runtime: 0 mins Genre: null Rating: null CC: N


10:30 PM Lenny (1974) (TCM Premiere)

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Biography of controversial and legendary stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce: His beginnings in the Catskills, his legal battles from challenging obscenity laws with his act and his ultimate self-destruction.
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: N

Trivia: Al Pacino was offered the role of Lenny Bruce but turned it down. He said on The Larry King Show many years later that this was his only career regret after seeing the movie.

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Dustin Hoffman {"Lenny Bruce"}
ACTRESS -- Valerie Perrine {"Honey Bruce"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Bruce Surtees
DIRECTING -- Bob Fosse
BEST PICTURE -- Marvin Worth, Producer
WRITING (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) -- Julian Barry


NOIR ALLEY: 12:30 AM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:30 AM A Hard Day's Night (1964)

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Original 1964 trailer.

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Two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles as the boys try to keep Paul's mischevious grandfather ("he's a clean old man&quot in check. The soundtrack, of course, features many Beatles songs, including "She Loves You," "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You," "I Should Have Known Better," "And I Love Her" and the title tune.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Sir George Martin
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Alun Owen

Trivia: During the opening sequence of the group running, George stumbles and falls, with Ringo falling over him in turn. This wasn't intended and George ripped the suit he was wearing, but he quickly recovered, laughed, and continued running, it was decided to retain the shot in the movie.

Trivia: Pattie Boyd, who met George Harrison during filming and later married him, appears in several scenes in the first act, all on the train. 1) She is one of the two "schoolgirls on the train" they first encounter 2) Paul McCartney chats her up with her friend. 3) She sits next to Paul and smiles and sings on "I Should Have Known Better." Her only word of dialog is, "Prisoners?" She landed her bit-part due to an earlier appearance in a commercial for Richard Lester, director of this film.

Trivia: John Lennon's written answer to the female reporter asking him if he has any hobbies is the word "tits."

Trivia: The constant mention of Paul McCartney's grandfather being "very clean" are references to actor Wilfrid Brambell, who had the role of the grandfather, playing a rag-and-bone man in "Steptoe and Son (1962)," featuring the catchphrase "You dirty old man." "Steptoe and Son" was remade in the U.S. as "Sanford and Son (1972)."

4:15 AM Viva Las Vegas (1964)

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A race car driver preparing for the Grand Prix whiles his time away in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine. Soon, he strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Elvis Presley, Cesare Danova, William Demarest
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: This was the biggest grossing of all Elvis Presley's movies, eclipsing his previous all-time top hit, Blue Hawaii (1961), by about $450,000.

Trivia: According to Variety, "Viva Las Vegas" earned more in distributors rentals than The Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) despite both films being released in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania. "Viva Las Vegas" grossed $9,442,967 compared to $6,165,000 for The Beatles' debut feature.

Trivia: Of all the Strip establishments seen in the opening credits, only the Flamingo and the Sahara are still in operation. Fremont Street downtown is now under a colorfully lighted canopy called The Fremont Street Experience. The Golden Nugget and Binions are in operation.

[ZonkerHarris]

1. great line up