TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 29th: TCM Birthday Tribute: Greer Garson

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After today's birthday celebration for Oscar winner Greer Garson, it's on to films about sharecroppers, migrant workers, and sheepherders.



Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

12:00 AM Caesar And Cleopatra (1945)
Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government. Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger. Dir: Gabriel Pascal. C-128 mins, TV-G

2:15 AM Ship of Fools (1965)
Passengers on a steam ship in the '30s struggle with their tangled relations and the rise of Nazism. Cast: Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, Vivien Leigh. Dir: Stanley Kramer. BW-150 mins, TV-14, CC

5:00 AM Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond (1990)
Interviews and rare film clips trace the troubled career of one of the screen's most beautiful actresses. Hosted by Jessica Lange. Dir: Gene Feldman. C-46 mins, TV-G

6:00 AM Now Playing October (2010)
C-25 mins, TV-14, CC

6:30 AM Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
True-life story of Edna Gladney, who fought for orphans' rights in Texas. Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Marsha Hunt. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

8:15 AM Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia. Cast: Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-127 mins, TV-G, CC

10:30 AM Youngest Profession, The (1943)
Teenage autograph seekers cause trouble at MGM. Cast: Virginia Weidler, Jean Porter, Edward Arnold. Dir: Edward Buzzell. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM Adventure (1945)
A rough-living sailor has trouble adjusting to domestic life when he marries a librarian. Cast: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-126 mins, TV-G, CC

2:15 PM Desire Me (1947)
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death. Cast: Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart. Dir: George Cukor. BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 PM That Forsyte Woman (1949)
An unhappily married woman falls in love with her niece's fiance. Cast: Greer Garson, Errol Flynn, Robert Young. Dir: Compton Bennett. C-113 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 PM Singing Nun, The (1966)
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson. Dir: Henry Koster. C-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

7:38 PM Short Film: Singing Nun, The (1966)
C-3 mins,

7:48 PM Short Film: On Location With "Fame" (1980)
C-12 mins,

8:00 PM Days Of Heaven (1978)
Young lovers pose as brother and sister to survive on the American frontier during the early 20th century. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard. Dir: Terrence Malick. C-94 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

9:38 PM Short Film: Making Of Cannery Row, The (1982)
C-8 mins,

10:00 PM Sundowners, The (1960)
An Australian sheepherder and his wife clash over their nomadic existence and their son's future. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. C-133 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

12:30 AM Southerner, The (1945)
A sharecropper fights the elements to start his own farm. Cast: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Jean Renoir. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

2:15 AM Of Mice and Men (1939)
A drifter and his slow-witted pal try to make their way in the West. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-106 mins, TV-14, CC

4:15 AM Juke Girl (1942)
A migrant laborer becomes a champion of farm workers' rights. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-90 mins, TV-G

5:46 AM Short Film: Streamlined Swing (1938)
BW-9 mins,