TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 7th: Star of the Month: Stewart Granger

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009.

12:00 AM Sophie's Choice (1982)
A concentration camp survivor resettles in New York City but can't escape her past. Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol. Dir: Alan J. Pakula. C-151 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format



2:45 AM French Lieutenant's Woman, The (1981)
Co-stars have an affair while filming the story of a doomed love. Cast: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern. Dir: Karel Reisz. C-124 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format



5:00 AM Seventh Sin, The (1957)
An adulteress tries to redeem herself by helping her doctor husband fight an epidemic in China. Cast: Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sanders. Dir: Ronald Neame. BW-93 mins, TV-PG

6:45 AM Our Betters (1933)
An American heiress marries into the British nobility. Cast: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Anita Louise. Dir: George Cukor. BW-83 mins, TV-PG

8:15 AM Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
A female con artist masquerades as a boy to escape the police. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn. Dir: George Cukor. BW-
95 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 AM Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
A flirt tries to make her fiance jealous by hiring a gigolo. Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders. Dir: George Cukor. BW-93 mins, TV-PG

11:45 AM Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death. Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart. Dir: George Cukor. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:26 PM Short Film: Spencer Tracy Bio (1962)
BW-4 mins,

1:30 PM Edward, My Son (1949)
A possessive father destroys anyone who threatens his plans for his son. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter. Dir: George Cukor. BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

3:24 PM Short Film: Red Cross Promo ( Spencer Tracy) (1951)
A patriotic wartime advertisement with Spencer Tracy urging movie goers to donate to the Red Cross. Cast: Spencer Tracy BW-2 mins,

3:30 PM Life Of Her Own, A (1950)
An innocent small-town girl climbs to the top of the modeling business man by man. Cast: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell. Dir: George Cukor. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:30 PM Men Who Made the Movies, The: George Cukor (1973)
Film clips and an exclusive interview capture the career of Hollywood's most sophisticated director. Cast: George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn. Dir: Richard Schickel. BW-55 mins, TV-PG, CC

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6:30 PM Actress, The (1953)
True story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Anthony Perkins. Dir: George Cukor. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

What's On Tonight: STAR OF THE MONTH: STEWART GRANGER

8:00 PM Scaramouche (1952)
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder. Cast: Stewart Granger, Mel Ferrer, Eleanor Parker. Dir: George Sidney. C-115 mins, TV-PG, CC



10:00 PM King Solomon's Mines (1950)
A spirited widow hires a daredevil jungle scout to find a lost treasure in diamonds. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson. Dir: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton. C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC



11:47 PM Short Film: Jungle Safari (1950)
A short, promotional documentary about the challenges of on-location filming in the African wilderness for the adventure film "King Solomon's Mines" (1950). C-10 mins,

12:00 AM Moonfleet (1955)
A British buccaneer is torn between three seductive women. Cast: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Viveca Lindfors. Dir: Fritz Lang. C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM Beau Brummell (1954)
An English Don Juan courts the Prince of Wales' favor while romancing his way through society. Cast: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. C-112 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:30 AM Soldiers Three (1951)
Three British officers look for adventure in 19th-century India. Cast: Stewart Granger, David Niven, Robert Newton. Dir: Tay Garnett. BW-92 mins, TV-PG

5:15 AM Grass (1925)
In this silent film, nomadic tribes make a perilous journey each year in search of fresh grasslands. Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack. BW-71 mins, TV-PG

[Matilda]

1. Stewart Granger - an interesting "almost was".

I never dislike Stewart Granger in anything - he was a handsome man, lovely voice, well-trained in the British
style - but he always just missed out for me. Never quite a good enough actor, never sexy enough, never enough
personality. He was well-connected in Hollywood, liked well enough by all who knew him, but was never regarded
highly enough to be given the really meaty roles, so we'll never know whether he could have handled them.

The best roles I've ever seen him in were "Sarabande for Dead Lovers", "Young Bess", and "Footsteps in the Fog".
In the first two he was well cast as the swashbuckling lover (but never had quite enough swash), and the last
is an interesting little melodrama which he made with Jean Simmons which has a very good twist at the end, and
he carried it off well.