TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 18th: Star of the Month Ronald Reagan (Yes, the Gipper!)

[CBHagman]

THAT MOVIE is on tonight, so you can't say I didn't give you a heads-up. Bring tissue boxes, etc.

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009.

12:15 AM Shake Hands With the Devil (1959)
An Irish rebel leader becomes addicted to violence. Cast: James Cagney, Glynis Johns, Don Murray. Dir: Michael Anderson. BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:15 AM My Left Foot (1989)
A man with cerebral palsy learns to paint with his foot. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Roy McAnally. Dir: Jim Sheridan. C-103 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format



4:00 AM Three Cheers for the Irish (1940)
A Scottish lad and Irish lass risk their families' wrath by marrying. Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC

5:40 AM Short Film: Roaming Through Northern Ireland (1949)
In this "Traveltalk," we learn about the history, culture, and people of Northern Ireland. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-8 mins,




6:00 AM Lost Horizon (1937)
Four fugitives from a Chinese revolution discover a lost world of peace and harmony. Cast: Ronald Colman, H.B. Warner, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-133 mins, TV-G, CC



8:15 AM Holiday (1938)
An unhappy heiress falls in love with her stodgy sister's freethinking fiance. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: George Cukor. BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC



10:00 AM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



11:45 AM Down to Earth (1947)
The goddess of the dance comes to Earth to take over a musical lampooning the gods. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason. Dir: Alexander Hall. C-101 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
An ad man fights off his wife's attempts to help him market an embalming fluid that doubles as a hair remover. Cast: Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 PM Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) An inept secretary goes to work for a bogus real estate firm thinking it's for real. Cast: Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Holden. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC

4:30 PM Fuller Brush Girl, The (1950)
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation. Cast: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-84 mins, TV-G

6:00 PM Fuller Brush Man, The (1948)
A bumbling salesman gets mixed up in murder. Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-92 mins, TV-PG

7:43 PM Short Film: Football Headliners (1955)
BW-16 mins,

What's On Tonight: STAR OF THE MONTH: RONALD REAGAN

8:00 PM Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Biography of the famed Notre Dame coach and his fight to "win one for the Gipper." Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. C-98 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



9:46 PM Short Film: How To Watch Football (1938)
Robert Benchley tries to watch a football game at the stadium but soon realizes he should have stayed at home. Cast: Robert Benchley BW-9 mins,

10:00 PM Kings Row (1942)
Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



12:15 AM Girl From Jones Beach, The (1949)
An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken. Dir: Peter Godfrey. BW-78 mins, TV-G

1:37 AM Short Film: Mister Gardenia Jones (1942)
BW-11 mins,

2:00 AM John Loves Mary (1949)
A World War II veteran's marriage of convenience threatens his real wedding plans. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson. Dir: David Butler. BW-96 mins, TV-G

3:40 AM Short Film: So You Want To Be In Pictures (1947)
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) learns what a bumpy road it can be to become an Hollywood star. Cast: George O'Hanlon, Jack Carson, George Chandler Dir: Richard L. Bare BW-11 mins,

4:00 AM One For The Book (1947)
A lovelorn actress shares her apartment with a lonely soldier. Cast: Eleanor Parker, Ronald Reagan, Eve Arden. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-103 mins, TV-G, CC

5:44 AM Short Film: Sword Fishing (1939)

[lavenderdiva]

1. if I have to name a Ronald Reagan film that I think is good

it would be 'King's Row', even though the story is maddening and oh-so sad. That doctor was a sick f---.