TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 4th.

[CBHagman]

Politics, prostitution, and how to achieve sainthood.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007.

12:15am Butterfield 8 (1960)
A party girl ruins her life when she falls for a married man.
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher. Dir: Daniel Mann. C-109 mins, TV-PG

2:15am Waterloo Bridge (1940)
A ballerina turns to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War I.
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-109 mins, TV-PG

4:15am Marty (1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti. Dir: Delbert Mann. BW-94 mins, TV-PG



6:00am Three Smart Girls (1937)
The daughters of a divorced couple try to keep their father from remarrying.
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Alice Brady, Ray Milland. Dir: Henry Koster. BW-84 mins, TV-G



7:30am It's A Date (1940)
Mother-and-daughter singers vie for the same man and the same stage part.
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Francis. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-104 mins, TV-G

9:15am Hide-Out (1934)
Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-81 mins, TV-G

10:45am 20,000 Years In Sing Sing (1932)
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Lyle Talbot. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-78 mins, TV-PG

12:15pm Birdman Of Alcatraz (1962)
True story of Robert Stroud, the prison lifer who became an expert on birds.
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Thelma Ritter. Dir: John Frankenheimer. BW-149 mins, TV-PG

3:00pm San Quentin (1937)
A convict's sister falls for the captain of the prison guards.
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-70 mins, TV-PG

4:15pm Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she's sent to prison.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot, Preston Foster. Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. BW-69 mins, TV-G

5:30pm I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran faces inhuman conditions when he's sentenced to hard labor.
Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-93 mins, TV-PG

7:04pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: 20,000 Cheers For The Chain Gang (1933)
BW-20 mins

7:30pm Festival of Shorts #54 (2007)
Features the MGM Musical Revue short: Snow Gets In Your Eyes (1938).
BW-22 mins, TV-G





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8:00pm Elephant Man, The (1980)
A 19th-century doctor questions his motives for rescuing a sideshow freak.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft. Dir: David Lynch. BW-123 mins, TV-PG

10:15pm Becket (1964)
England's King Henry II appoints his best friend Archbishop of Canterbury then turns on him.
Cast: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud. Dir: Peter Glenville. C-148 mins, TV-PG




12:49am Short Film: From The Vaults: Capriccio Italien (1953)
BW-10 mins

1:00am Julius Caesar (1953)
An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath.
Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-121 mins, TV-PG

3:15am Prime Minister, The (1941)
England's Benjamin Disraeli proves he's a match for Europe's mightiest leaders when it comes to diplomacy.
Cast: John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Fay Compton. Dir: Thorold Dickinson. BW-94 mins, TV-G



5:00am Father's Son (1941)
A banker's son gets into a variety of comic scrapes in an effort to catch his father's attention.
Cast: Billy Dawson, John Litel, Frieda Inescort. Dir: D. Ross Lederman. BW-57 mins, TV-G

[Matilda]

1. You have the first Advent candle lit. It's very pretty.

I always liked Deanna Durbin, but I've only seen two or three of her films - they don't appear very
often here. Neither of the two on your list is familiar. She's still alive, in her eighties, and
living in France, I believe.

I remember crying buckets over Waterloo Bridge when I first saw it, back in the late sixties. Now
I class it with "Brief Encounter" - dated, but endearing and rather special because of it.