TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 15th: TCM Birthday Tribute: Robert Benchley

[CBHagman]

Things I found out on the way to looking other things up: There's a Robert Benchley Society! Feast your eyes.

http://www.robertbenchley.org/sob/index.htm

His IMDB page:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0070361/

Happy birthday, big guy.




Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

12:45 AM Funny Girl (1968)
Comedienne Fanny Brice fights to prove that she can be the greatest star and find romance even though she isn't pretty. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford. Dir: William Wyler. C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:30 AM Owl and the Pussycat, The (1970)
When a bookworm gets a prostitute evicted, she moves into his apartment. Cast: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-97 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 AM Honeymoon Machine, The (1961)
Two sailors discover a way to beat the roulette tables in a Venice casino. Cast: Steve McQueen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:45 AM Live, Love And Learn (1937)
A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC



8:05 AM Short Film: Royal Rodeo, The (1939)
C-15 mins,

8:30 AM Janie (1944)
A small-town girl defies her father by falling for a soldier. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Ann Harding. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC

10:30 AM See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
A green recruit has a series of madcap adventures in the Army. Cast: Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC

12:21 PM Short Film: America, Prefered (1941)
A patriotic U.S. Treasury promotional short uring citizens to purchase U.S. Defense Bonds and Stamps in order to build up the nation's military and infrastructure in the year before U.S. entry into WWII. BW-8 mins,

12:30 PM Pan-Americana (1945)
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls. Cast: Audrey Long, Phillip Terry, Robert Benchley. Dir: John H. Auer. BW-84 mins, TV-G

2:00 PM Stork Club, The (1945)
A hat-check girl gets rich quick when she saves a millionaire's life. Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore. Dir: Hal Walker. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC

3:39 PM Short Film: Vincent Lopez And His Orchestra With Betty Hutton (1939)
Musical short showcasing the talent of Vincent Lopez, his orchestra and Betty Hutton. Instead of playing their usual theme, the band insists on playing new material. Cast: Vincent Lopez, Betty Hutton, Fred Laury Dir: Joseph Henabery BW-10 mins,

4:00 PM Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
In this remake of Grand Hotel, guests at a New York hotel fight to survive personal tragedy. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Lana Turner. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC

6:15 PM Janie Gets Married (1946)
A war bride helps her husband adjust to civilian life. Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold. Dir: Vincent Sherman. BW-89 mins, TV-G

7:50 PM Short Film: Striper Time (1956)
BW-8 mins,

8:00 PM Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death. Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



9:43 PM Short Film: Speed Week (1957)
BW-8 mins,

10:00 PM Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-120 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 AM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he's been hired to tail. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, The (1958)
Sinbad hunts for a roc's egg to save his love from an evil sorcerer. Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher. Dir: Nathan Juran. C-88 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Mysterious Island (1961)
Escaped Civil War POWs end up on an island populated by giant animals. Cast: Michael Craig, Michael Callan, Joan Greenwood. Dir: Cy Endfield. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format