TCM Schedule for Tuesday, November 30th: Virginia Mayo Birthay Tribute

[CBHagman]

Confession: I was going to write "Your Guess Is as Good as Mine" as the theme for tonight, but I noticed the Virginia Mayo trend during the day, so that's my focus.



The evening schedule is a different matter -- dance hall days, campus comedy, Biblical epic. I don't know what the common denominator is there.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

12:00 AM Great Dictator, The (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. Dir: Charles Chaplin. BW-125 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:15 AM They Were Expendable (1945)
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed. Dir: John Ford. BW-135 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



4:30 AM Hollywood Canteen (1944)
A serviceman and a starlet find love at the star-staffed serviceman's center. Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-124 mins, TV-G, CC

6:45 AM Seven Days Ashore (1944)
A sailor enlists his buddies to help with an excess of girlfriends. Cast: Wally Brown, Allan Carney, Marcy McGuire. Dir: John H. Auer. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

8:05 AM Short Film: Weather Wizards (1939)
BW-9 mins,

8:15 AM Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Helen Westcott. Dir: Richard Bare. BW-81 mins, TV-G

9:45 AM Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom. Cast: Milton Berle, Bert Lahr, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:45 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder. Cast: Zachary Scott, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone. Dir: Richard Bare. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:15 PM Girl from Jones Beach, The (1949)
An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken. Dir: Peter Godfrey. BW-78 mins, TV-G

2:45 PM West Point Story, The (1950)
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy. Cast: James Cagney, Doris Day, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:33 PM Short Film: West Point On The Hudson (1942)
C-9 mins,

4:45 PM Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The famed 19th century hero defeats enemy fleets and courts an admiral's widow. Cast: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, James Robertson Justice. Dir: Raoul Walsh. C-117 mins, TV-G, CC

6:45 PM Captain Scarface (1953)
A group of foreign agents plots to blow up the Panama Canal. Cast: Barton MacLane, Leif Erickson, Virginia Grey. Dir: Paul Guilfoyle. BW-70 mins, TV-PG

8:00 PM Good News (1947)
A football hero falls in love with his French tutor. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Joan McCracken. Dir: Charles Walters. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC

9:38 PM Short Film: All Girl Revue (1940)
Women are put in charge of all city positions for a day. June Allyson plays the mayor who must welcome an opera singer at the train station. Musical/comedy revue-style short filled with songs and dances. Cast: June Allyson BW-8 mins,

10:00 PM Samson and Delilah (1949)
Epic re-telling of the story of the Biblical strongman laid low by love. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, Angela Lansbury. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. C-127 mins, TV-PG, CC



12:15 AM Virginia City (1940)
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl. Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-121 mins, TV-G, CC

2:30 AM Honky Tonk (1941)
A young girl falls for a western gambler. Cast: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan. Dir: Jack Conway. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 AM Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1932)
An American missionary falls in love with a Chinese warlord. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC