TCM Schedule for Sunday, December 27 --- TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER HALL

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27 Sunday



6:00 AM Gold Diggers Of 1935 (1935)
A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home. Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady. Dir: Busby Berkeley. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC

7:36 AM Short Film: Calling All Girls (Busby Berkeley Promo) (1942)
BW-19 mins,

8:00 AM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

9:41 AM Short Film: Jimmie Lunceford And His Dance Orchestra (1937)
In this short, Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra perform their upbeat jazz with the help of guest performers. Cast: Jimmie Lunceford, The Three Brown Jacks Dir: Joseph Henabery BW-10 mins,

10:00 AM The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A scarred veteran and a homely woman are transformed by love. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

11:42 AM Short Film: Mgm Celebration 1955 (1955)
C-18 mins,

12:00 PM The Tender Trap (1955)
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, Celeste Holm. Dir: Charles Walters. C-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 PM Phffft! (1954)
A couple divorce but can't stop getting mixed up in each other's lives. Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Kim Novak. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-88 mins, TV-G

4:00 PM The Odd Couple (1968)
A divorced neat freak moves in with his sloppy best friend. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herb Edelman. Dir: Gene Saks. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
An unscrupulous millionaire tries to catch two mysterious children with super powers. Cast: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence. Dir: John Hough. C-97 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

7:49 PM Short Film: Anaesthesia (1938)
BW-10 mins,

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER HALL

8:00 PM Bedtime Story (1942)
A stage star's dreams of retirement conflict with her playwright husband's need for a hit -- with her starring. Cast: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-85 mins, TV-G

9:30 PM Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
A prizefighter who died before his time is reincarnated as a tycoon with a murderous wife. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains. Dir: Alexander Hall. BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC

11:08 PM Short Film: Command Performance - Strictly Gi (1943)
Cast: Bob Hope, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner BW-13 mins,

11:30 PM Short Film: Now Playing January (2010) (2010)
Features highlights of the month's programming on TCM, including festivals and stars. BW-23 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:00 AM Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Sherlock Holmes faces off against Professor Moriarty. Cast: John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster. Dir: Albert Parker. BW-86 mins, TV-G

1:32 AM Short Film: Movie-Mania (1937)
BW-21 mins,

2:00 AM The Bicycle Thief (1948)
A working man's livelihood is threatened when someone steals his bicycle. Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell. Dir: Vittorio De Sica. BW-89 mins, TV-G

3:45 AM The Last Detail (1973)
Two shore patrolmen decide to show a prisoner a good time on his way to the brig. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid. Dir: Hal Ashby. C-104 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

5:30 AM Short Film: Now Playing January (2010)
Features highlights of the month's programming on TCM, including festivals and stars. BW-23 mins, TV-PG, CC

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1. The Enchanted Cottage

from TCM: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2109&category=Articles

snip:
Robert Young told Leonard Maltin in a 1986 interview that he considered The Enchanted Cottage (1945) to be "the best love story that's ever been written. was one of those films I hated to see end. I wanted it to go on and on and on. It was such a joy to do."


snip:
This sensitive and touching story had its genesis in a 1922 play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. Greatly loved in its time, it was written as a morale booster for men who returned from WWI scarred and maimed. After West End and Broadway runs, it was made as a silent picture by First National, with Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy in the lead roles. Remake plans were in the works for years after talkies came around, but it wasn't until the WWII era that RKO contract producer Harriet Parsons (daughter of Louella), was able to get it going. She hired writer DeWitt Bodeen to update the story and John Cromwell to direct it. Cromwell brought in Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane, 1941) to do a rewrite. He also hired cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff, who shot it quite imaginatively. Roy Webb composed the Oscar-nominated score.

McGuire had been bouncing around the east coast as a stage actress for years when she scored a tremendous Broadway hit in the 1941 production of Claudia. David Selznick signed her to a screen contract and lent her to Fox for the 1943 film version of Claudia, in which McGuire made her screen debut. It, too, was a huge success. Robert Young co-starred in Claudia and then joined McGuire again for her second feature, The Enchanted Cottage. (Three years later, they teamed up a third time for the sequel Claudia and David, 1946.)

Rather than play her character with physical disabilities as in the stage and silent versions of the story (e.g., with a crooked nose, buck teeth or a limp), McGuire insisted that her plainness be created through plain, loose-fitting clothing, drab hairstyles, and no makeup. Costume designer Eddie Stevenson created two of everything she wore: one that fit perfectly, for shots in which Young sees her, and one that fit badly, for shots in which others see her.

Young loved this picture so much that years later he named the home he built in California "The Enchanted Cottage."