TCM Saturday May 4 - Bogie and Bacall, Steve Martin, Barbra Streisand, Portnoy's Complaint

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-- THE DAY AT A GLANCE --

STEVE MARTIN
Father of the Bride (1991)
Pennies from Heaven (1981)

TCM LATE NIGHT: THE RAT PACK
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

TCM DAYTIME - WEEKEND FEATURES
Maya (1966) (6:15 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: Grin and Share It (1957)
Believe It or Not #10 (1932) (short)
Glimpses of Peru (1937) (short)
Walking Dead, The (1936)
Directors Playhouse: The Brush Roper (1955)
Popeye: Never Kick a Woman (1933)
Falcon Takes Over, The (1942)
Buzzin' Around (1933) (short)
Tonight and Every Night (1945) (Musical Matinee)
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Liquidator, The (1966)
Billy Budd (1962)

TCM PRIMETIME: TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - SPIKE LEE
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
Ace in the Hole (1951)

NOIR ALLEY
Dark Passage (1947)

TCM LATE NIGHT: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE
Yentl (1983)
Portnoy's Complaint (1972)

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-- COMPLETE DAY SCHEDULE --

12:00 AM Father of the Bride (1991)

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A father's mixed feelings about his daughter's marriage makes the wedding a torturous occasion for him.
Dir: Charles Shyer Cast: Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Diane Keaton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: George's middle name, Stanley, is named after Spencer Tracy's character in the original Father of the Bride (1950).

2:00 AM Pennies from Heaven (1981)

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Arthur sells sheet music and fantasizes about a world that should behave according to the lyrics of the songs he sells. Eileen fantasizes about love. In their minds, these two share a romance, singing and dancing to the popular music of the 1930s.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
COSTUME DESIGN -- Bob Mackie
SOUND -- Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler, Al Overton
WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Dennis Potter

Trivia: Christopher Walken's bar-top dance scene took two months of rehearsal and two days of shooting. He claims he got compliments later from fans Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

4:00 AM Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

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A Chicago gangster stumbles into philanthropic work during a gang war.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Nelson Riddle
MUSIC (Song) -- "My Kind Of Town," Music by James Van Heusen; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Trivia: The same day as the funeral scene was filmed was also the day that President John F. Kennedy (a personal friend of Frank Sinatra's) was assassinated. After the assassination, Sinatra regretted for the rest of his life leaving in the line "You come over like George Washington I'll send you back like Abe Lincoln."

Trivia: A scene depicting a kidnapping was filmed, but cut when star Frank Sinatra's son was kidnapped.

6:15 AM Maya (1966)

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An American boy runs away in the Indian jungle after a fight with his father.
Dir: John Berry Cast: Clint Walker, Jay North, I. S. Johar
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Veteran voice actor Paul Frees overdubbed virtually all of the adult male Indian actors, presumably for release in the United States. Frees' credits in animated films and television include Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Walt Disney's The Haunted Mansion and many of the Christmas productions from Rankin-Bass.

8:00 AM Cartoon: Grin and Share It (1957)
Spike tries to do away with Droopy after they finally strike gold in their shared mine.
Dir: Michael Lah Cast: Bill Thompson
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:07 AM Short: Believe It or Not #10 (1932)
This short entry in the "Believe It or Not" series, features various sights and oddities, such as a golf course made from Civil War trenches and a Native American who can paint upside down. Vitaphone Release 1364.
Dir: null Cast: Leo Donnelly, Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:15 AM Short: Glimpses of Peru (1937)
A short film on the land, people and customs of Peru.
Dir: James A. Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick (narrator)
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:24 AM The Walking Dead (1936)

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A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The "glass heart" machine used to revive John Ellman in the film was said to be "nearly a prefect replica" of an actual perfusion pump - a device designed to keep organs alive outside an organism's body - which had been built by Charles Lindbergh when the legendary pilot and engineer was working with a Nobel-winning scientist at New York's Rockefeller Institute research labs in the mid-1930s.

9:30 AM Short: The Brush Roper (1955, from the Screen Directors Playhouse TV series)
An aging Western storyteller sets out to catch a raging bull on his own, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Walter Brennan, Lee Aaker, Edgar Buchanan
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Never Kick a Woman (1933)
Popeye's sweetheart Olive Oyl goes in for boxing lessons and when she catches her teacher flirting with Popeye she steps out and gives the teacher an excellent demonstration of boxing.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:07 AM The Falcon Takes Over (1942)




A society sleuth and a lady reporter try to track down a murderous thug's lost girlfriend.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: This is the first of three film versions of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely", with Gay Lawrence standing in for Philip Marlowe.

11:30 AM Short: Buzzin' Around (1933)
In his rush to demonstrate his invention of "wonder liquid," a country boy unknowingly grabs a jar of moonshine instead in this short film. Vitaphone Release 1509-1510.
Dir: Alfred J. Goulding Cast: Roscoe "fatty" Arbuckle, Fritz Hubert, Al Ochs
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:00 PM Tonight and Every Night (1945)

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An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall. Rita Hayworth's performance in the song "You Excite Me" is often cited as one of her best.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Marlin Skiles, Morris Stoloff
MUSIC (Song) -- "Anywhere," Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Trivia: Rita Hayworth was pregnant during production. As a result, the musical numbers were filmed first, before the pregnancy began to show. As filming progressed, great care was taken to hide her growing belly with muffs, furniture and purses.

1:45 PM Angels in the Outfield (1951)

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The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Favorite film of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Trivia: Bing Crosby appeared in the film because, at the time, he was a partial owner (approximately 15%) of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Trivia: The uncredited hat check girl was played by Barbara Billingsley, future TV mother as June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957) and the jive-talking passenger and interpreter in Airplane! (1980).

3:45 PM The Liquidator (1966)

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A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The title song was sung by Shirley Bassey who had recently sung the title song for the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).

5:45 PM Billy Budd (1962)

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Adaptation of Herman Melville's classic tale of a ship's captain caught between an innocent young sailor and an evil officer.
Dir: Peter Ustinov Cast: Terence Stamp, Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Terence Stamp {"Billy Budd"}

Trivia: Herman Melville had been writing poetry for thirty years when he returned to fiction with "Billy Budd" in late 1888. Still unfinished when he died in 1891, it was forgotten. Melville's biographer accidentally stumbled upon it when going through a trunk of Melville's papers in his granddaughter's New Jersey house in 1919. Melville's widow worked to help complete it, and it was finally published in 1924. Over the years, other unsatisfactory versions were published, but it wasn't until Melville's original notes were found that the definitive version was ultimately published in 1962. Coincidentally, Sir Peter Ustinov's movie version was released the same year.

8:00 PM A Face in the Crowd (1957)

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A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Film debut of Andy Griffith.

Trivia: This was Patricia Neal's return to the screen after a four-year absence from Hollywood, an absence that was precipitated by a much-publicized affair with Gary Cooper (who was married at the time) and a subsequent nervous breakdown.

10:15 PM Ace in the Hole (aka, The Big Carnival, 1951)

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A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Story and Screenplay) -- Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman

Trivia: After the film was released, it got bad reviews and lost money. The studio, without Billy Wilder's permission, changed the title to "The Big Carnival" to increase the box office take of the film. It didn't work. On top of that, Wilder's next picture, "Stalag 17 (1953)," was a hit and he expected a share of the picture's profits. Paramount's accountants told him that since this picture lost money, the money it lost would be subtracted from the profits of "Stalag 17".


12:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)

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A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The third of four films made by husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The other three are To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Key Largo (1948).

Trivia: The actual 1937 Art Deco apartment building used in the film (located at 1360 Montgomery St. in San Francisco) is still standing as of 2023. The apartment (No. 10) is marked by a cardboard cut-out of Humphrey Bogart, which can be seen from the street. The site is visited frequently by fans of vintage film noir. The unit has one bath, one bedroom and 861 square feet, and was last sold in 2016 for $1.5M.

2:15 AM Yentl (1983)

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A young Eastern European woman, circa 1904, disguises herself as a boy in order to pursue her passion for studying holy scripture.
Dir: Barbra Streisand Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Amy Irving {"Hadaas"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins; Set Decoration: Tessa Davies
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score) -- Song Score by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Papa, Can You Hear Me?," Music by Michel Legrand; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
MUSIC (Original Song) -- "The Way He Makes Me Feel," Music by Michel Legrand; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

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Trivia: Amy Irving became the first actress to be nominated for an Academy Award and a Razzie for the same performance. She won neither.

4:30 AM Portnoy's Complaint (1972)

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wwwDuring a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him and it's a long list. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
Dir: Ernest Lehman Cast: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: A news article noted that Mike Nichols urged producer/director Ernest Lehman to cast Richard Benjamin, who had acted in Nichols' Catch-22 (1970). Benjamin had three years previously shot to fame in Goodbye, Columbus (1969), another Philip Roth novel adapted to the screen.