TCM Schedule for Saturday, June 20 --- MERVYN LEROY

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6:00 AM Elmer The Great (1933)
A country hick bats his way to baseball stardom. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

7:15 AM I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there? Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glenda Farrell. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:30 AM Madame Curie (1943)
The famed female scientist fights to keep her marriage together while conducting early experiments with radioactivity. Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-124 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

12:35 PM Short Film: Romance Of Radium (1937)
BW-10 mins,

1:00 PM Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
True story of Annette Kellerman, the world's first great swimming star. Cast: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-110 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 PM Anthony Adverse (1936)
An orphan runs off to a life of adventure, then returns to France in search of the girl he left behind. Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-141 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 PM The Devil At Four O'Clock (1961)
A drunken missionary and three escaped convicts try to save a group of children from a South Seas volcano. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-126 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

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8:00 PM Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia. Cast: Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-127 mins, TV-G, CC

10:15 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer. Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:30 AM Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
General Jimmy Doolittle trains American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

3:00 AM Quo Vadis (1951)
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion. Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-169 mins, TV-PG, CC