TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 20th: Star of the Month: Robert Taylor

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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

12:15 AM Place in the Sun, A (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters. Dir: George Stevens. BW-122 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:30 AM Vigil In The Night (1940)
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake. Cast: Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne. Dir: George Stevens. BW-96 mins, TV-PG

4:15 AM Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn't legal. Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC



6:00 AM Kid Brother, The (1927)
In this silent film, the weakling in a family of he-men tries to prove his mettle. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James. Dir: Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe. BW-82 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Speedy (1928)
In this silent film, a young man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Babe Ruth. Dir: Ted Wilde. BW-86 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Welcome Danger (1929)
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young Dir: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair. BW-115 mins, TV-G

11:00 AM Feet First (1930)
A shoe salesman's involvement with a band of crooks leaves him dangling from the side of a tall building. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Barbara Kent. Dir: Clyde Bruckman. BW-91 mins, TV-G

12:32 PM Short Film: Harold Lloyd Biography (1962)
BW-3 mins,



12:45 PM Movie Crazy (1932)
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives somebody else's invitation to test in Hollywood. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson. Dir: Clyde Bruckman. BW-96 mins, TV-G

2:30 PM Cat's Paw, The (1934)
A missionary's son gets mixed up in a Chinese clan war. Cast: Harold Lloyd, George Barbier, Una Merkel. Dir: Sam Taylor. BW-102 mins, TV-G

4:15 PM Milky Way, The (1936)
A mild-mannered milkman stumbles onto a career in the boxing ring. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-88 mins, TV-G

5:47 PM Short Film: Lest We Forget (1937)
A short honoring the late Will Rogers with clips from his films and stars paying tribute. Cast: Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor, Allan Jones Dir: Frank Whitbeck, Richard Thorpe, Henry Hathaway BW-10 mins,

What's On Tonight: STAR OF THE MONTH: ROBERT TAYLOR

6:00 PM Personal Property (1937)
The bailiff charged with disposing of a financially strapped widow's estate pretends to be her butler. Cast: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-84 mins, TV-G

8:00 PM Quo Vadis (1951)
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion. Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-175 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 PM Ivanhoe (1952)
Sir Walter Scott's classic tale of the noble knight torn between his fair lady and a beautiful Jew. Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-107 mins, TV-G, CC



1:00 AM Knights Of The Round Table (1953)
Queen Guinevere is torn between love for her husband and Sir Lancelot. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-116 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

3:00 AM All The Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals. Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:45 AM Quentin Durward (1955)
A gallant Scots knight falls in love with his uncle's future wife. Cast: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format