TCM Schedule for Sunday, August 23 --- SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ANGELA LANSBURY

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23 Sunday



6:00 AM The Harvey Girls (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity. Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury. Dir: George Sidney. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

7:42 AM Short Film: Let'S Sing A Song Of The West (1947)
BW-9 mins,

8:00 AM Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life. Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy. Dir: Roy Rowland. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

9:16 AM Short Film: Angel Of Mercy (1939)
BW-10 mins,

9:30 AM A Lawless Street (1955)
A Marshal's past comes back to haunt him. Cast: Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Warner Anderson. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. C-77 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 AM All Fall Down (1962)
A young drifter's romance with an older woman is threatened by his possessive mother. Cast: Warren Beatty, Eva Marie Saint, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

1:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill by the enemy. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury (2006)
Angela Lansbury discusses her life and career with TCM host Robert Osborne. BW-56 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
British parents try to prepare their Americanized daughter for her social debut. Cast: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Angela Lansbury. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-96 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM Bedknobs And Broomsticks (1971)
An apprentice witch and three war orphans try to prevent the Nazi invasion of England. Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall. Dir: Robert Stevenson. C-117 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: ANGELA LANSBURY

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion. Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Angela Lansbury. Dir: George Cukor. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

10:00 PM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home. Cast: Maurice Evans, Ethel Barrymore, Angela Lansbury. Dir: John Sturges. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:30 PM Death On The Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour. Cast: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis. Dir: John Guillermin. C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin. Cast: Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed. Dir: Albert Lewin. BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 AM Season of Passion (1959)
Two men continue a traditional summer rendezvous only to discover that life has changed for them all. Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills. Dir: Leslie Noman. BW-94 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:35 AM Short Film: Italy'S In Season (1967)
C-7 mins,

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1. Angela Lansbury

from imdb:

Mini Biography

British character actress, long in the United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Two pictures later, she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Now established as a supporting player of quality, she began a long career, often as "the other woman" in major productions and as the leading lady in lesser films. Her features, while not at all old-appearing, gave her an air of maturity that allowed her to pass as much older than she actually was, and she began playing mother roles, often to players of her own age, while yet in her thirties. She concentrated more and more on stage work, achieving notable success in a number of Broadway plays and musicals, winning four Tony Awards in sixteen years. Although active in television since the early 1950s, she obtained her greatest fame in the 1980s by starring in the light mystery program "Murder, She Wrote" (1984). As Jessica Fletcher, she became known and loved by millions for well over a decade. She also became known for the odd fact of almost annual Emmy Award nominations for the role without ever winning for it. An institution in American theatre and television, she is also an inspiration for the graciousness of her personality, which is often exploited and always admired.

Trivia

Daughter of actress Moyna MacGill, who appeared with her in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and Kind Lady (1951).

Wearing just conventional makeup (i.e., not studio made-up to look "old"), she was most chilling and unforgettable (and convincing!) as the manipulating mother of Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), while in real life being scarcely three years Harvey's senior.

She now holds the record for the most Emmy nominations without a single win.

She was offered the role of "Nurse Ratchet" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) but turned it down because she didn't think she could handle the role.

To date, she is the only actress with more than two nominations in Tony Award competition to go undefeated, having won all four for which she was nominated. Her Tony wins, all in the Best Actress (Musical) category, are: in 1966, "Mame"; in 1969, "Dear World"; the musical version of "The Madwoman of Chaillot"; in 1975, a revival of "Gypsy"; and, in 1979, "Sweeney Todd", a performance she recreated in the television production of the same title, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) (TV).

She was considered for the role of Miss Caswell in All About Eve (1950), but Marilyn Monroe was cast in the part instead.