TCM Schedule for Tuesday, August 25th: Summer Under the Stars: Merle Oberon

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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

12:30 AM 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

3:00 AM Private Life Of Henry VIII, The (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages. Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Alexander Korda. BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:45 AM Beloved Enemy (1936)
During an Irish uprising, a rebel leader and a British noblewoman fall in love. Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, David Niven. Dir: H.C. Potter. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC



6:19 AM Short Film: Dark Magic (1939)
BW-10 mins,

6:30 AM Dark Angel, The (1935)
Three childhood friends are torn apart by love and World War I. Cast: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall. Dir: Sidney Franklin. BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:30 AM 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
A dying woman shares a shipboard romance with a criminal on his way to the gallows. Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Frank McHugh. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:15 AM That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband. Cast: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-84 mins, TV-G



11:45 AM Affectionately Yours (1941)
A foreign correspondent hurries home to stop his wife from getting a divorce. Cast: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC

1:14 PM Short Film: Moments In Music (1949)
BW-10 mins,

1:30 PM Song to Remember, A (1945)
The famed composer Chopin sacrifices everything, even love, for his native Poland. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-112 mins, TV-G, CC

3:30 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Paul Lukas. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM Lodger, The (1944)
The inhabitants of a boarding house fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper. Cast: Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, George Sanders. Dir: John Brahm. BW-84 mins, TV-14



6:30 PM Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution. Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey. Dir: Harold Young. BW-98 mins, TV-G

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: MERLE OBERON

8:30 PM Divorce Of Lady X, The (1938)
In need of a hotel room, a woman poses as a scandalous divorcee. Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes. Dir: Tim Whelan. C-91 mins, TV-G



10:00 PM Lion Has Wings, The (1939)
Britishers of every class band together to repel the German Blitz. Cast: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez. Dir: Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond Hurst, Michael Powell. BW-76 mins,

11:30 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC



1:18 AM Short Film: Glimpses Of New Scotland (1947)
C-9 mins,

1:30 AM First Comes Courage (1943)
A Norwegian resistance fighter seduces a Nazi officer to learn enemy secrets during World War II. Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond. Dir: Dorothy Arzner. BW-86 mins, TV-PG