TCM Schedule for Sunday, December 4 --- CAGNEY AS COHAN

[lavenderdiva]

4 Sunday



6:00 AM Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Glenn Ford , Evelyn Keyes , John Ireland .
BW-93 mins, TV-G,

8:00 AM Fitzwilly (1967)
When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Dick Van Dyke , Barbara Feldon , Edith Evans .
C-103 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

10:00 AM The Bishop's Wife (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Cary Grant , Loretta Young , David Niven .
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC,

12:00 PM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Edward Everett Horton .
BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC,

2:00 PM Libeled Lady (1936)
When an heiress sues a newspaper, the editor hires a reporter to compromise her.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Jean Harlow , William Powell , Myrna Loy .
BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC,

3:50 PM One Reel Wonder: Playlands Of Michigan (1949)
C-9 mins,

4:00 PM The Tender Trap (1955)
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Frank Sinatra , Debbie Reynolds , David Wayne .
C-111 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
A writer recalls his turbulent marriage to an expatriate heiress.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Van Johnson , Walter Pidgeon .
C-116 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CAGNEY AS COHAN

8:00 PM The Seven Little Foys (1955)
The famed vaudevillian puts his children in the act to keep the family together when his wife dies.
Dir: Melville Shavelson Cast: Bob Hope , Milly Vitale , George Tobias .
C-93 mins, TV-G,

9:45 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney , Joan Leslie , Walter Huston .
BW-126 mins, TV-G, CC,

12:00 AM Fragments (2011)
A collection of fragments and trailers from lost films, hosted by film archvists Mike Mashon and Mike Pogorzelski.
C-109 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:00 AM The Leopard (1963)
A Sicilian aristocrat tries to protect his family from social upheavals.
Dir: Luchino Visconti Cast: Burt Lancaster , Alain Delon , Claudia Cardinale .
C-186 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:11 AM One Reel Wonder: Rowan And Martin At The Movies (1969)
C-11 mins,

5:30 AM The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
The masked hero plots to rescue his wife when his enemies kidnap her.
Dir: Hans Schwartz Cast: Barry Barnes , Sophie Stewart , Margaretta Scott .
BW-80 mins, TV-PG,

[CBHagman]

1. Cagney as Cohan.

One 4th of July many years ago, as my father and I sat watching Yankee Doodle Dandy on TCM, my he mentioned that his long-deceased mother had found James Cagney's performance as Cohan on the mark. I mention that because my grandmother, herself an actress, would have seen Cohan perform back in the day (In fact, she was in the touring company of play performed in D.C. the same week Cohan was there, if I'm not mistaken).

I've no doubt told that story every year I've been on DU, but today it got me thinking about contemporary reviews of Cagney's performance, the degree of authenticity in the production, etc., and I found Googlebooks had some very interesting resources in that regard.

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History:

http://books.google.com/books?id=l2PvzfasGpkC&pg=PT170&dq=cagney+as+george+m+cohan&hl=en&ei=7CnaTt_lMqfn0QGg8PjMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cagney%20as%20george%20m%20cohan&f=false

Life from June 15, 1942:

http://books.google.com/books?id=PFAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=cagney+as+george+m+cohan&hl=en&ei=7CnaTt_lMqfn0QGg8PjMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=cagney%20as%20george%20m%20cohan&f=false

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