TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 12th: TCM Birthday Tribute: Katharine Hepburn

[CBHagman]

Actually, though, the prime-time schedule has a decidedly Latino flavor, and the Hepburn line-up occurs earlier in the day. There's a focus on the media, too, early in the schedule.



Tuesday, May 12th, 2009.


12:00 AM It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
World War II buddies get mixed up with gangsters and an egotistical TV star when they hold a 10-year reunion. Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse. Dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. C-102 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star. Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Network (1976)
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into 'the mad prophet of the airwaves.' Cast: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-121 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


4:34 AM Short Film: Little Jack Little & His Orchestra (1936)
BW-11 mins,

6:30 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas. Dir: George Cukor. BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



8:30 AM Katharine Hepburn (Two) (1973)
Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired October 2, 1973. C-70 mins, TV-14, CC

9:45 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



11:30 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A madcap heiress upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced scientist. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



1:15 PM Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Tabloid reporters crash a society marriage. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart. Dir: George Cukor. BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



3:15 PM Rainmaker, The (1956)
A fake rainmaker melts the heart of a Kansas spinster while trying to save the town's crops. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey. Dir: Joseph Anthony. C-121 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 PM Lion In Winter, The (1968)
England's Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins. Dir: Anthony Harvey. C-134 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format



7:50 PM Short Film: Around The World In California (1947)
C-9 mins,

8:00 PM Tortilla Flat (1942)
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of life. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC



9:51 PM Short Film: Old New Mexico (1940)
C-8 mins,

10:00 PM ...And Now Miguel (1953)
Documentary following a boy in rural New Mexico who works to become a shepherd in the family business. Dir: Joseph Krumgold. BW-63 mins,

11:09 PM Short Film: Give Us The Earth (1947)
BW-21 mins,

11:45 PM Milagro Beanfield War, The (1988)
Impoverished farmers in New Mexico fight off land-grabbing developers. Cast: Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga. Dir: Robert Redford. C-117 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format




1:45 AM Salt Of The Earth (1954)
The wives of striking mineworkers fight to keep the union going. Cast: Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer. Dir: Herbert Biberman.
C-92 mins, TV-PG

3:30 AM Garment Jungle, The (1957)
A dress manufacturer brings in the mob to fight unionization. Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala. Dir: Vincent Sherman. BW-88 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM F.I.S.T. (1978)
A small-time union member trades his integrity for power within the organization. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle. Dir: Norman Jewison. C-145 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format