TCM's daytime schedule honors birthday boy John Garfield. Be sure to check out the featured documentary,
The John Garfield Story, which first aired five years back. The New York Times review is still available here:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E2DE1E39F933A05752C0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=allAfter the Garfield retrospective, it's on to an evening on the couch, in one sense or another, as psychiatrists dominate the schedule.
Sometimes a movie is just a movie...
1:15am Female (1933)
A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive.
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-60 mins, TV-G
2:30am Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history.
BW-68 mins, TV-MA
3:45am Free Soul, A (1931)
A hard-drinking lawyer's daughter falls for one of his underworld clients.
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-94 mins, TV-G
5:30am Festival of Shorts #19 (1999)
TCM features two sports shorts from the vaults of Warner Bros. Kings of the Turf (1941)and Facing Your Danger (1946)
BW-22 mins, TV-G
6:00am Tortilla Flat (1942)
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of life.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-99 mins, TV-PG
7:50am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Marines In The Making (1942)
BW-9 mins
8:00am Pride Of The Marines (1945)
A blinded Marine tries to adjust to civilian life.
Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-120 mins, TV-G
10:00am We Were Strangers (1949)
A Cuban American returns to his homeland during the Revolution and becomes involved in an assassination attempt.
Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendariz. Dir: John Huston. BW-106 mins, TV-PG
12:00pm Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan. Dir: Jean Negulesco. BW-100 mins, TV-G
1:41pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Spills For Thrills (1940)
A short paying tribute to Hollywood's stunt men and women with clips of difficult stunts on land and in the air.
Cast: Harry Parvey, Allen Pomeroy, Mary Wiggins Dir: DeLeon Anthony BW-19 mins
2:00pm John Garfield Story, The (2003)
A TCM original documentary that traces John Garfield's life and career from his humble childhood.
Dir: David Heeley. BW-58 mins, TV-PG
3:00pm Body And Soul (1947)
A young boxer slugs his way out of the slums only to fall prey to organized crime.
Cast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Anne Revere. Dir: Robert Rossen. BW-106 mins, TV-PG
5:00pm He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
Cast: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford. Dir: John Berry. BW-78 mins, TV-PG
6:30pm Force of Evil (1948)
A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
Cast: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez. Dir: Abraham Polonsky. BW-79 mins, TV-14
What's On Tonight: TCM SPOTLIGHT: PSYCH 101
8:00pm Spellbound (1945)
A psychiatrist tries to help the man she loves solve a murder buried in his subconscious.
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-118 mins, TV-PG
10:00pm President's Analyst, The (1967)
A psychiatrist treating the president becomes a pawn in international espionage.
Cast: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden. Dir: Theodore J. Flicker. C-102 mins, TV-14
11:46pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Singing Nun, The (1966)
C-3 mins
12:00am Pressure Point (1962)
A black psychiatrist tries to help a racist convict deal with his mental demons.
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darrin, Peter Falk. Dir: Hubert Cornfield. BW-89 mins, TV-PG
1:45am Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. Dir: Irving Rapper. BW-118 mins, TV-G
3:45am My Six Convicts (1952)
A prison psychologist tries to rehabilitate six hardcore criminals.
Cast: Millard Mitchell, Gilbert Roland, John Beal. Dir: Hugo Fregonese. BW-104 mins, TV-PG