TCM schedule Saturday, 2/17: 31 Days of Oscar Day 9 - Supporting Actor - Raging Bull, Sayonara, The Asphalt Jungle

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TCM schedule Saturday, February 17: 31 Days of Oscar Day 9 - Supporting Actor

The day at a glance
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 8 - FILM EDITING
Pride of the Yankees, The (1942)
Raging Bull (1980)
Naked City, The (1948)
Eskimo (1933)
- TCM DAYTIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 9 - SUPPORTING ACTOR
Four Daughters (1938) (6:30 am ET)
Sayonara (1957)
Crossfire (1947)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
Big Country, The (1958)
- TCM PRIMETIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 9 - SUPPORTING ACTOR
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
More the Merrier, The (1943)
Fortune Cookie, The (1966)
Being There (1979)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Full day schedule (and a little extra)
All times Eastern/Pacific

10:15 PM The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

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Baseball legend Lou Gehrig faces a crippling disease at the height of his success.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Gary Cooper {"Lou Gehrig"}
ACTRESS -- Teresa Wright {"Eleanor Gehrig"}
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Perry Ferguson; Interior Decoration: Howard Bristol
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Rudolph Maté
FILM EDITING -- Daniel Mandell (*WINNER*)
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Leigh Harline
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Samuel Goldwyn Productions
SOUND RECORDING -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Photographic Effects by Jack Cosgrove, Ray Binger; Sound Effects by Thomas T. Moulton
WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- Paul Gallico
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz

Trivia: In reality, Gary Cooper was decidedly not a fan of baseball and required extensive coaching in order to look even passable on a baseball diamond. In fact, he had never played the game before, even as a youth, and had never even seen a baseball game in person until he was hired for this film.

Trivia: Babe Ruth missed several days of shooting and filming during the production because of illness.

12:30 AM Raging Bull (1980)

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The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion--particularly towards his wife and manager/brother--which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robert De Niro {"Jake LaMotta"} (*WINNER*)
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Joe Pesci {"Joey LaMotta"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Cathy Moriarty {"Vicki LaMotta"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Michael Chapman
DIRECTING -- Martin Scorsese
FILM EDITING -- Thelma Schoonmaker (*WINNER*)
BEST PICTURE -- Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz

Trivia: When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie, he said it made him break down in tears and realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. He asked the real Vicki LaMotta "Was I really like that?". Vicki replied "You were worse."

2:45 AM The Naked City (1948)

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A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations: CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- William Daniels
(*WINNER*)
FILM EDITING -- Paul Weatherwax (*WINNER*)
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Malvin Wald

Trivia: Most of the street scenes were shot on location in New York without the public's knowledge. Photographer William H. Daniels and his uncredited assistant Roy Tripp filmed people on the streets using a hidden camera from the back of an old moving van. Occasionally, a fake newsstand with a hidden camera inside was also set up on the sidewalk to secretly film the actors. Director Jules Dassin hired a juggler to distract the crowds and also hired a man to occasionally climb up on a light post and give a patriotic speech, while waving an American flag to get the crowd's attention.


4:30 AM Eskimo (1933)
An Eskimo family fights to survive harsh conditions in the frozen North.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Mala, Lotus, Joseph Sauers
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
FILM EDITING -- Conrad Nervig (*WINNER*)

Trivia: First film to ever win an Academy Award for Editing (1934 was the first year when an Oscar for Editing was introduced). Also, the first feature film to be shot in a Native American language (Inupiat).

6:30 AM Four Daughters (1938)
A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious musician.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- John Garfield {"Mickey Borden"}
DIRECTING -- Michael Curtiz
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.-First National
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Julius J. Epstein, Lenore Coffee

Trivia: This was John Garfield's first film and earned him his first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. He would receive one other Oscar nomination, for Best Actor in "Body and Soul" (1947).

8:15 AM Sayonara (1957)

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American soldiers in post-war Japan defy convention when they fall in love with local women.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons
Runtime: 147 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- Marlon Brando {"Major Lloyd Gruver"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Red Buttons {"Joe Kelly"} (*WINNER*)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Miyoshi Umeki {"Katsumi"} (*WINNER*)
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Ted Haworth; Set Decoration: Robert Priestley (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Ellsworth Fredricks
DIRECTING -- Joshua Logan
FILM EDITING -- Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- William Goetz, Producer
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George Groves, Sound Director (*WINNER*)
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- Paul Osborn

Trivia: Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of a Japanese bride opposite Marlon Brando but turned it down. She explained that she "couldn't possibly play an Oriental. No one would believe me; they'd laugh. It's a lovely script, however I know what I can and can't do. And if you did persuade me, you would regret it, because I would be terrible."

Trivia: According to Turner Classic Movies, Marlon Brando insisted on playing Ace Gruver with a Southern accent, against the will of the director and producers. Brando adopted a nondescript Southern accent for Gruver, despite the objections of director Joshua Logan, who didn't think that a general's son who was West Point-educated would speak that way.



11:00 AM Crossfire (1947)



A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Robert Ryan {"Montgomery"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Gloria Grahame {"Ginny Tremaine"}
DIRECTING -- Edward Dmytryk
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- RKO Radio
WRITING (Screenplay) -- John Paxton

Trivia: Based on Richard Brooks' first novel, "The Brick Foxhole" (1945), written while he was still a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. One of the many subplots of the novel dealt with homophobia, but that was changed to anti-Semitism and became the focus of the story for the film. The decision was made by producer Adrian Scott, who had purchased the rights to the novel, knowing any depiction of homosexuality would not get past the Production Code Administration.


12:30 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team's safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Sam Jaffe {"Dr. Erwin Riedenschneider"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Harold Rosson
DIRECTING -- John Huston
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Ben Maddow, John Huston

Trivia: The poster showing Marilyn Monroe in a purple dress was created much later, after she became a household name. Monroe was basically unknown when the film was made in 1950 and only has a very small role. She certainly wouldn't have been given top billing at the time. In fact, she wasn't named on the original posters at all.


2:30 PM The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

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A Spanish dancer becomes an international star but still longs to get her feet in the dirt.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Edmond O'Brien {"Oscar Muldoon"} (*WINNER*)
WRITING (Story and Screenplay) -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Trivia: While Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner had good chemistry on screen, off screen Bogart wasn't particularly impressed with her as an actress. He commented that Gardner gave him nothing to work with when they were performing together. Some believe Bogart's unfavorable feelings towards Gardner was due to the divorce between Gardner and his close friend Frank Sinatra.


5:00 PM The Big Country (1958)



Feuding families vie for water rights in the old West.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker
Runtime: 166 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Burl Ives {"Rufus Hannassey"} (*WINNER*)
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Jerome Moross

Trivia: Jean Simmons was so traumatized by the experience making the film that she refused to talk about it for years until an interview in the late 1980s when she revealed, "We'd have our lines learned, then receive a rewrite, stay up all night learning the new version, then receive yet another rewrite the following morning. It made the acting damned near impossible."


8:00 PM How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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The mining area of South Wales and its hard-working miners and their families are seen through the eyes of Huw, the youngest of six children in a family headed by a stern father and loving mother.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Donald Crisp {"Mr. Morgan"} (*WINNER*)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Sara Allgood {"Mrs. Morgan"}
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Arthur Miller (*WINNER*)
DIRECTING -- John Ford (*WINNER*)
FILM EDITING -- James B. Clark
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic Picture) -- Alfred Newman
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- 20th Century-Fox (*WINNER*)
SOUND RECORDING -- 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Philip Dunne

Trivia: When the miners greet their women by putting their earnings in baskets, Maureen O'Hara stopped the scene's filming once she noticed that her basket was a modern Kraft basket and not a basket of the movie's period. John Ford was so upset by being corrected in front of the cast and crew that he closed down the set and told O'Hara to wait on a nearby hill until he called for her. Fuming, O'Hara waited an hour before an assistant came to retrieve her, but was satisfied to see that the basket had been changed upon her return.

Trivia: Historians have called the way the wind plays with O'Hara's veil when she leaves the church after her wedding a stroke of luck for John Ford. Far from it, he had instructed the crew to set up wind machines to fan the veil into a perfect circle behind her head then blow it straight up into the air.


10:15 PM The More the Merrier (1943)

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The World War II housing shortage brings three people together for an unlikely romance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel Mccrea, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Charles Coburn {"Benjamin Dingle"} (*WINNER*)
ACTRESS -- Jean Arthur {"Connie Milligan"}
DIRECTING -- George Stevens
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Columbia
WRITING (Original Motion Picture Story) -- Robert Russell, Frank Ross
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster

Trivia: Jean Arthur's only Oscar-nominated performance.

Trivia: Benjamin Dingle and Joe Carter read the Sunday funnies about Dick Tracy and the Leopard Lady. She is not an actual Dick Tracy villain but was made up for the movie.


12:15 AM The Fortune Cookie (1966)

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A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Walter Matthau {"Willie Gingrich"} (*WINNER*)
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Robert Luthardt; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Joseph LaShelle
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond

Trivia: Production was halted for weeks after Walter Matthau had a heart attack. He had slimmed from 190 to 160 pounds by the time filming was completed and wore a heavy black coat to conceal the weight loss. This was director Billy Wilder's second film in a row in which one of his lead actors suffered a heart attack. In his preceding film, Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), Peter Sellers' health problem forced Wilder to replace him with Ray Walston.


2:30 AM Being There (1979)

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Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley Maclaine, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations: )
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Peter Sellers {"John Chance, the gardener (aka Chauncey Gardiner)"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Melvyn Douglas {"Benjamin Rand"} (*WINNER*)

Trivia: It took Peter Sellers nearly nine years to get this movie made by a studio, mainly because by the 1970s Sellers' career had hit rock bottom and no studio in Hollywood would work with him. After the revival (and success) of the Pink Panther movies, Lorimar Pictures finally greenlit the project.

Trivia: Peter Sellers patterned the voice for Chance the gardener after his idol, Stan Laurel.

4:45 AM Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

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Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a young man dreaming of stardom who meets up with a has-been movie star and travels with her to his small hometown to find the girl he left behind (and pregnant), only to be awaited by her father.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Ed Begley {"Tom 'Boss' Finley"} (*WINNER*)
ACTRESS -- Geraldine Page {"Alexandra Del Lago"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Shirley Knight {"Heavenly Finley"}

Trivia: Because of its then-shocking subject matter, this film was given a pre-MPAA-rating advisory by the MPAA, which prohibited anyone under the age of 18 from attending. This was the equivalent of an X (later NC-17) rating. By today's standards, the film is tame enough that, when shown on Turner Classic Movies, it's rated TV-PG.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Looks like I need to buy more Kleenex

I always cry watching The Pride of the Yankees. Being There makes my cry too for some reason. I like the credits at the end of the film. They show out-takes of Peter Sellers cracking up so much that they had to shoot it over and over. I need that to help dry up the tears.