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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 07:42 PM
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TCM Schedule for Wednesday, October 24 -- LOUIS MALLE'S 75TH BIRTHDAY
5:30am Festival of Shorts #51 (2007)
Features the Technicolor Warner Bros. comedy short Service With a Smile (1934).
C-19 mins

6:00am Kitty Foyle (1940)
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks endures scandal and heartbreak when she falls for a high-society boy.
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, Gladys Cooper. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-108 mins, TV-G

8:00am One Foot In Heaven (1941)
A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century.
Cast: Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-108 mins, TV-G

10:00am Shipmates Forever (1935)
An admiral's son gives up the Navy for a career as a song-and-dance man.
Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-109 mins, TV-G

12:00pm Four Wives (1939)
Three married women play matchmaker for their widowed sister.
Cast: Claude Rains, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-99 mins, TV-G

1:50pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Hollywood Scout (1945)
BW-8 mins

2:00pm Yellow Cab Man, The (1950)
An inventor's unbreakable glass attracts the attention of businessmen and gangsters.
Cast: Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak. Dir: Jack Donohue. BW-84 mins, TV-G

3:30pm My Love Came Back (1940)
A millionaire helps a pretty lady violinist with her career.
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

5:00pm Green Light (1937)
An idealistic doctor sacrifices his career to protect an elderly surgeon.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-85 mins, TV-G

6:30pm Three Hearts For Julia (1943)
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Ann Sothern, Lee Bowman. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-90 mins, TV-G

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: LOUIS MALLE'S 75TH BIRTHDAY

8:00pm Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
A French boarding school harbors Jewish children during the Nazi occupation.
Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette. Dir: Louis Malle. C-105 mins, TV-14

10:00pm Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
A French teen collaborating with the Nazis falls for a wealthy Jewish girl.
Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement, Holger Lowenadler. Dir: Louis Malle. C-138 mins, TV-MA

12:30am Calcutta (1969)
The city of Calcutta and its 8 million inhabitants come to life.
Cast: Narrated by Louis Malle. Dir: Louis Malle. C-99 mins, TV-PG

2:14am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: India On Parade (1937)
In this "Traveltalk," we learn about the landmarks, people and customs of India.
Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-9 mins

2:30am Place de la Republique (1974)
Man-on-the-street interviews create an impression of Parisian life in 1972.
Dir: Louis Malle. C-95 mins, TV-14

4:15am God's Country (1985)
Minnesota farmers deal with overproduction and foreclosures.
Cast: Narrated by Louis Malle. Dir: Louis Malle. C-95 mins
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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 07:45 PM
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1. Louis Malle
Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 – November 23, 1995) was an Academy Award nominated French film director, working in both French and English.

Early Years in France

Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at the Sorbonne before turning to film studies instead.

He worked as the co-director and cameraman to Jacques Cousteau on the Oscar and Palme d'Or-winning (at the 1956 Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival respectively) documentary The Silent World (1956) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped (French title: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, 1956) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (originally released in the U.S. as Frantic, later as Elevator to the Gallows) in 1957. A taut thriller featuring an original score by Miles Davis, the film made an international film star of Jeanne Moreau, at the time a leading stage actress of the state Comédie-Française. Malle was 24 years old.

Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1958), which like Ascenseur pour l'échafaud starred Moreau, caused major controversy due to its sexual content leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the legal definition of obscenity. In Jacobellis v. Ohio, a theater owner was fined $2500 for obscenity. It was eventually reversed by the higher court that found that the film was not obscene and hence constitutionally protected. However, the court could not agree on the definition of "obscene," which caused Justice Potter Stewart to utter his "I know it when I see it" opinion, perhaps the most famous single line associated with the court.


A Scene from The Lovers (1958)Malle is sometimes incorrectly associated with the nouvelle vague - his work doesn't fit in or correspond to the auteurist theories that apply to the work of Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, and others, and he had nothing whatsoever to do with Cahiers du cinema. Nonetheless, his film Zazie dans le métro ("Zazie in the Metro," 1960, an adaptation of the Raymond Queneau novel) did inspire Truffaut to write an enthusiastic letter to Malle.

Other films also tackled taboo subjects: The Fire Within (1963) centres on a man about to commit suicide, Murmur of the Heart (1971) deals with an incestuous relationship between mother and son and Lacombe Lucien (1974) is about collaboration with the Nazis in Vichy France in World War II. The second film earned Malle his first (of three) Academy Award nominations for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced."


Move to America, Work in English
Malle later moved to the United States and continued to direct there. His later films include Pretty Baby (1978), Atlantic City (1981), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Damage (1992) and Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya) in English; Au revoir, les enfants (1987) and Milou en Mai (May Fools in the U.S., 1990) in French. Ironically, the sole Academy Award nomination Malle would receive for directing would be for the English language Atlantic City while none of his French language efforts would garner nominations for "Best Foreign Language Film" (Au revoir, les enfants and Murmur of the Heart were nominated in writing categories). It is interesting to note that just as his earlier films such as Frantic and The Lovers helped popularize French films in the United States, My Dinner with Andre was at the forefront of the rise of American independent cinema in the 1980s.


Personal Life
Malle was married to Anne-Marie Deschodt from 1965 to 1967. He had a son, Manuel Cuotemoc (born 1971), with former girlfriend and German actress Gila von Weitershausen and a daughter Justine (born 1974) with Canadian-born French actress Alexandra Stewart.

He married actress Candice Bergen in 1981. They had a daughter, Chloë Malle, in 1985. He died at their home in Beverly Hills, California, of lymphoma, aged 63.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Malle
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