TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 28, 2020 -- What's On Tonight: A Mankiewicz Family Weekend

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2. *1:45 AM -- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971)

In Russia before the revolution, a Jewish milkman tries to marry off his daughters who have plans of their own.
Dir: Norman Jewison
Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
C-181 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

Winner of Oscars for Best Cinematography -- Oswald Morris, Best Sound -- Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard, and Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score -- John Williams

Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Topol, Best Actor in a Supporting Role -- Leonard Frey, Best Director -- Norman Jewison, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration -- Robert F. Boyle, Michael Stringer and Peter Lamont, and Best Picture

Lillian Michelson, an uncredited movie researcher, who on previous projects could track down pictures of historical items needed for recreation in movies, met a challenge because there were no photos of Jewish girls' underwear from the 1890s. She went to a Jewish restaurant and asked some older women from the time if anybody remembered what they looked like, one woman told her to stay right there, she was going to go to her apartment, "And cut you out a pattern, because we had to sew our underwear back then".