TCM Schedule for Monday Nov 25 - SYBIL JASON'S 80TH BIRTHDAY

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It's a birthday salute to the former 30's child star; plus some early Hitchcock in late night.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM He Was Her Man (1934)
A safecracker goes straight to get back at some fellow crooks. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Victor Jory. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC
7:15 AM Madame Du Barry (1934)
True story of the legendary courtesan who was mistress to France's King Louis XV. Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC
8:45 AM First Lady (1937)
A U.S. president's granddaughter fights a femme fatale to groom her husband for the White House. Cast: Kay Francis, Victor Jory, Anita Louise. Dir: Stanley Logan. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC
10:15 AM Blackwell's Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster. Cast: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell. Dir: William McGann. BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC
11:30 AM Women In The Wind (1939)
Personal conflicts flare between competitors in a women's air race. Cast: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory. Dir: John Farrow. BW-63 mins, TV-G, CC
12:45 PM Lady With Red Hair (1940)
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC
2:15 PM River's End (1940)
In the Canadian wilderness, an accused murderer takes the place of a dead Mountie. Cast: Dennis Morgan, George Tobias, Victor Jory. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC
3:30 PM Bad Men Of Missouri (1941)
The Younger Brothers become outlaws to fight off carpetbaggers. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyman. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC
4:45 PM Woman's Secret, A (1949)
A retired singer takes on a protegee only to be betrayed by her. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Gloria Grahame, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Nicholas Ray. BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC
6:15 PM Valley Of The Kings (1954)
Archaeologists clash with graverobbers during the search for a priceless Egyptian treasure. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Kurt Kasznar. Dir: Robert Pirosh. C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:42 PM Short Film: Ancient Egypt (1938) C-9 mins,

8:00 PM Little Big Shot (1935)
Small-time hoods turn nursemaid when a gangster's daughter is orphaned. Cast: Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-72 mins, TV-G

9:17 PM Short Film: Little Maestro (1937) BW-11 mins,

9:30 PM I Found Stella Parish (1935)
An actress stops at nothing to protect her daughter from her shady past. Cast: Kay Francis, Paul Lukas, Ian Hunter. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC

11:00 PM Captain's Kid, The (1936)
A sea captain has to live up to his tall tales when he's attacked by gangsters. Cast: Guy Kibbee, May Robson, Sybil Jason. Dir: Nick Grinde. BW-72 mins, TV-G

12:15 AM Great O'Malley, The (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who's only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-71 mins, TV-G

1:30 AM Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-75 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:00 AM Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper's daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Cyril Ritchard. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-82 mins, TV-PG

4:30 AM Jamaica Inn (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers. Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC

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1. Wikipedia biography of Sybil Jason

Sybil Jason (b. Sybil Jacobson in Cape Town, South Africa, 23 November 1929) is a former motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple.
Jason began playing the piano at age two and, a year later, began making public appearances doing impersonations of Maurice Chevalier. She was introduced to the theatre-going public of London by way of her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a then-popular London orchestra leader and also pianist to Gracie Fields. The apex of her career came with a concert performance with Frances Day at London's Palace Theatre. Jason's theatre work led to appearances on radio and phonograph records, and a supporting role in the film Barnacle Bill (1935).

Irving Asher, the head of Warner Bros.' London studio, saw Jason's performance in Barnacle Bill and subsequently arranged for her to make a screen test for the studio. The test was a success, resulting in Warner Bros. signing her to a contract. Her American film debut came as the lead in Little Big Shot (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, and Edward Everett Horton. Jason followed this with supporting roles opposite some of Warner Bros. most popular stars, including Kay Francis in I Found Stella Parish (1935), Al Jolson in The Singing Kid (1936), Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart in The Great O'Malley (1937), and again with Kay Francis in Comet Over Broadway (1938). Warners also starred her in The Captain's Kid (1937), and four Vitaphone two-reelers filmed in Technicolor: Changing of the Guard, A Day at Santa Anita, Little Pioneer, and The Littlest Diplomat.

Jason, however, never became the major rival to Shirley Temple that Warner Bros. had hoped for and, her film career ended after playing two supporting roles at 20th-Century Fox. Ironically, these films — The Little Princess (1939) and The Blue Bird (1940) — were in support of Shirley Temple, who became her life-long friend.

On 31 December 1947 Jason married Anthony Drake. Their daughter, Toni, is married to Phillip W. Rossi, producer of The New Price is Right game show. Jason currently and is an active member in the International Al Jolson Society and also makes frequent appearances at celebrity shows throughout the United States. Her autobiography, My Fifteen Minutes: Autobiography of a Child Star in the Golden Era of Hollywood, was published in 2005. Jason is also the author of a stage musical entitled Garage Sale. In 1983 a Sybil Jason Fan Club was established in Lincoln, Nebraska.