TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 3rd: TCM Spotlight: The History of Hollywood

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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

2:00 AM Elmer The Great (1933)
A country hick bats his way to baseball stardom. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

3:15 AM Alibi Ike (1935)
A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC



4:30 AM Babe Ruth Story, The (1948)
A childlike oaf becomes the greatest star in baseball. Cast: William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-106 mins, TV-G

4:48 AM 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,

6:30 AM 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

8:15 AM Perils Of Pauline, The (1947)
The world's worst actress rises to stardom as serial queen Pearl White. Cast: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe. Dir: George Marshall. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC

10:00 AM Red, Hot And Blue (1949)
An actress's rising career is threatened when she finds a dead gangster in her apartment. Cast: Betty Hutton, Victor Mature, William Demarest. Dir: John Farrow. C-84 mins, TV-G

11:30 AM Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Fanciful musical biography of wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Edward Arnold. Dir: George Sidney. C-107 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM Blue Skies (1946)
Vaudeville partners spend years vying for the same beautiful woman. Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield. Dir: Stuart Heisler. C-103 mins, TV-G

3:15 PM This Is the Army (1943)
A song-and-dance man's son stages a big show starring World War II soldiers. Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-126 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 PM Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gary
Cooper, Flora Robson. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC



What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD

8:00 PM Magic Box, The (1951)
A successful photographer becomes obsessed with inventing a motion picture projector. Cast: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnson, Maria Schell. Dir: John Boulting. C-108 mins, TV-G, CC

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10:00 PM Peepshow Pioneers (2010)
C-58 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM Nickelodeon (1976)
A bashful lawyer gets mixed up in the movies' turbulent early years. Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal. Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



1:15 AM When Comedy Was King (1959)
A compilation of funny moments from the top comedians of the silent era. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

2:45 AM Hearts Of The West (1975)
An aspiring western novelist in thirties Hollywood becomes a low-budget cowboy star. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Alan Arkin. Dir: Howard Zieff. C-102 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM Show People (1928)
In this silent film, a small-town girl tries to make it in Hollywood. Cast: Marion Davies, William Haines, Polly Moran. Dir: King Vidor. BW-79 mins, TV-G