TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 8 --- SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: BETTE DAVIS

[lavenderdiva]

8 Saturday



6:00 AM Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano (1984)
A documentary depicting the life and career of one of America's premiere actresses. Dir: George Marshall. C-60 mins, TV-G, CC

7:00 AM 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

9:30 AM Return From Witch Mountain (1978)
A mad scientist kidnaps an alien teen with amazing powers. Cast: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards. Dir: John Hough. C-94 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 AM Bette Davis (1971)
Bette Davis appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired November 17, 1971. C-62 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:30 PM Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

2:10 PM Short Film: Warner Bros. Goof Reel - 1935 (1935)
BW-10 mins,

2:30 PM Dark Victory (1939)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

4:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

6:30 PM Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2005)
TCM original documentary that explores the life and career of legendary actress Bette Davis. BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: BETTE DAVIS

8:00 PM The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley. Dir: William Keighley. BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

10:00 PM Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:00 AM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson. Dir: William Wyler. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:39 AM Short Film: One For The Book (1940)
BW-19 mins,

2:00 AM In This Our Life (1942)
A neurotic southerner steals her sister's husband then vies with her for another man. Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent. Dir: John Huston. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:41 AM Short Film: So You Want To Give Up Smoking (1942)
Joe McDoakes tries earnestly to give up smoking, but is constantly tempted by his addiction. After failing repeatedly, he gives up cigarettes in favor of cigars. Cast: George O'Hanlon BW-11 mins,

4:00 AM Watch On The Rhine (1943)
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington. Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson. Dir: Herman Shumlin. BW-112 mins, TV-PG

[CBHagman]

1. Two very different, very enjoyable Bette Davis movies...

I never get tired of Now, Voyager and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Obviously the former is exactly what we think of as a Davis movie and the latter is not, though I understand the off-set drama was interesting.

Anyway, neither is to be missed!

[lavenderdiva]

2. you are right about them

Even though Bette Davis has nary a comedic bone in her body, Monty Woolley, sort of 'dancing' all around her with his dry wit, makes it appear that she does. 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner' is a light-hearted romp and wonderful.

'Now, Voyager' pairs her again with Claude Raines ('Mr. Skeffington' is my favorite Davis movie). It has one of the most striking pictures of her, IMHO, when she disembarks from the cruise liner, and she is transformed into a glamour-puss!

[CBHagman]

3. I love the make-over.

And I love Claude Rains and Mary Wickes in Now, Voyager. And who was it who played her sensible sister-in-law? Ilka Chase, I think.

[lavenderdiva]

4. Mary Wickes played Monty Woolley's nurse in TMWCTD too!

from imdb:

'She served as the live-action reference model for the villainous Cruella De Vil in Disney's animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).'

I didn't realize that her role in TMWCTD was her first big Hollywood role. It opened the doors for her.

[Matilda]

5. I always think "Watch on the Rhine" would have been so much more effective

if Paul Henreid had starred opposite Bette instead of Paul Lukas. I've
always been amazed that he won the Oscar for this film, and I think it
may have been more for the subject than his performance. I don't
especially dislike him, but I don't particularly take to him either.
He just leaves me cold.

[lavenderdiva]

6. your post sent me to imdb

to find out more about Paul Lukas. I'm sorry to say that I didn't recognize his name. Anyway, after reading his film-ography, the only one where I thought I might recognize his performance was 'Dodsworth'. So, I must say that like you Matilda, his performances for me weren't all that memorable! :hi:

[CBHagman]

7. As far as politics, Paul Henreid was the progressive.

He was part of the group that raised civil rights concerns when the communist witch hunts began, and Aljean Harmetz claims Henreid was graylisted -- a term I'd never read before opening The Making of Casablanca.

[Matilda]

8. Yes, he wrote about it in his autobiography.

He was part of the delegation that went to Washington in protest, and (unlike Bogart) he never recanted his views.
He'd earlier resisted signing a loyalty oath to Hitler in Germany, and was banned by UFA studios as a result.

He was gray-listed for about eight years, and was able to do only a few roles in B movies. It killed his acting
career, but he tried directing instead, and opened up a new career. I wasn't aware that he directed until I read
his book, but he did a lot, mainly in television.