TCM Schedule for Sunday, May 10 --- MISSING PERSONS

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10 Sunday



6:00 AM Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn. Dir: Garson Kanin. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

7:30 AM Lady By Choice (1934)
To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother. Cast: Carole Lombard, May Robson, Walter Connolly. Dir: David Burton. BW-76 mins, TV-G

8:57 AM Short Film: Will Rogers Memorial Hosp. (Cary Grant) (1940)
Cary Grant asking moviegoers to donate to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, a hospital and recovery center for tuberculosis patients. Cast: Cary Grant BW-2 mins,

9:00 AM None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
A young ne'er-do-well tries to get his life on track to help his ailing mother. Cast: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald. Dir: Clifford Odets. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 AM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman turns herself into a business tycoon to win her selfish daughter a place in society. Cast: Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

1:00 PM Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange. Dir: Frank Capra. C-137 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

Text3:30 PM I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka. Dir: George Stevens. BW-134 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

6:00 PM Freaky Friday (1976)
A mother and daughter switch bodies for one strange day. Cast: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin. Dir: Gary Nelson. C-98 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:42 PM Short Film: Meeting The Challenge: International Velvet (1978)
C-9 mins,

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8:00 PM Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question. Cast: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier. Dir: Otto Preminger. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM The Sign of the Ram (1948)
An invalid matriarch manipulates her entire family. Cast: Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter. Dir: John Sturges. BW-84 mins, TV-G

11:28 PM Short Film: Know Your Money (1940)
An episode in MGM's moral series "Crime Does Not Pay." This epidsode tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring, with the aim to educate citizens about how to pick out counterfeit money. BW-22 mins,

12:00 AM The Cheat (1915)
In this silent film, a society woman makes a costly bargian to pay off her debts. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, Jack Dean. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-59 mins, TV-PG

1:00 AM The Dragon Painter (1919)
In this silent film, an artist obsesses over a beautiful woman he believes has been turned into a dragon. Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil, Sr. Dir: William Worthington. BW-53 mins, TV-PG

2:00 AM Fanny (1932)
After her boyfriend leaves for the sea, a young girl discovers she's pregnant. Cast: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis. Dir: Marc Allegret. BW-121 mins, TV-PG

4:05 AM Short Film: The Happy Hottentots (1930)
BW-11 mins,

4:22 AM Short Film: Hong Kong " The Hub Of The Orient" (1937)
In this "Traveltalk," we learn about the history, people and customs of Hong Kong. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-8 mins,

4:30 AM Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)
A Eurasian doctor in Hong Kong falls in love with a war orrespondent. Cast: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher. Dir: Henry King. C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

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1. The Cheat

I love the silents! Didn't know anything about Sessue Hayakawa, so found this doing a little searching:

... (Sessue Hayakawa's)appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's sexploitation picture The Cheat (1915) made Hayakawa a silent screen superstar. Playing an ivory merchant who has an affair with the Caucasian Fannie Ward, audiences were titillated when he branded her as a symbol of her submission to their passion. The movie was a blockbuster for Famous Players-Lasky (Paramount), turning Hayakawa into a romantic idol for millions of American women regardless of their race.

Both garden-variety racists and those opposed to miscegenation between the races were outraged. Also outraged was the Japanese-American community, which was dismayed by DeMille's unsympathetic portrayal of a member of their race. The Japanese-American community protested the film and attempted to have it banned when it was re-released in 1918.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370564/bio

From http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Hayakawas/hayakawas.html