TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 8

[lavenderdiva]

Don't forget to set your clocks FORWARD one hour tonight!!!

5:00am Festival of Shorts #7 (1998)
Two shorts from the beloved Dogville Comedies titled Hot Dog(1930) and College Hounds(1930).
BW-33 mins, TV-G

5:41am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Alibi Racket (1935)
BW-18 mins

6:00am Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country.
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth. Dir: Howard Hawks. BW-121 mins, TV-PG

8:02am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: What Price Safety (1938)
BW-21 mins

8:30am Nightfall (1956)
A man on a hunting trip gets mixed up with murderous bank robbers.
Cast: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-79 mins, TV-PG

10:00am Blazing the Western Trail (1945)
The Durango Kid tries to save a beautiful young woman's stagecoach line from an unscrupulous rival.
Cast: Charles Starrett, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews. Dir: Vernon Keays. BW-57 mins, TV-G

11:15am Both Barrels Blazing (1945)
The Durango Kid tries to track down stolen money after the bandits are killed.
Cast: Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor. Dir: Derwin Abrahams. BW-58 mins, TV-G

12:30pm Major Dundee (1965)
Cavalry misfits cross the Mexican border to destroy an Indian outpost.
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn. Dir: Sam Peckinpah. C-136 mins, TV-PG

3:00pm Khartoum (1966)
Epic story of the British general who fell to the Arabs in 1885.
Cast: Charlton Heston, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson. Dir: Basil Dearden. C-136 mins, TV-G

5:30pm Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he's been hired to tail.
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG

7:51pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Calypso Cat (1961)
C-8 mins

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: HOW TO CLIMB THE CORPORATE LADDER

8:00pm The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-125 mins, TV-PG

10:15pm How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967)
With the help of his handy guidebook, a window washer talks his way into the executive suite.
Cast: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee. Dir: David Swift. C-121 mins, TV-PG

12:30am Baby Face (1933)
A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

2:00am Patterns (1956)
A replacement in a large corporation encounters loyalty and power struggles.
Cast: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley. Dir: Fielder Cook. BW-84 mins, TV-G

[Longhorn]

1. I hate the change to and from daylight savings time!

It takes my body a couple of weeks to adjust either way! At least this one falls on our spring break so I have a week off from work to adjust.

I've always liked The Apartment. Jack Lemmon and Fred MacMurray are both favorites and are excellent in this movie. I didn't appreciate the young Shirley MacClaine until I was wowed by the older Shirley MacClaine. She's such a talented actress!

[lavenderdiva]

2. I love 'The Apartment' too-

I'm going to DVR it today, OR if I can twist Mr. ld's arm, actually watch it this evening. Its such a lovely story, and I haven't seen it in ages. Both Jack Lemmon and Shirley McClaine give wonderful performances.

Right now I'm watching 'All About Eve' that I taped a long while ago, and am thoroughly enjoying it- so many great roles. I didn't realize that Bette Davis nor Anne Baxter weren't the first picks for Margo Channing or Eve Harrington. Claudette Colbert was supposed to have the Margo Channing role, but she severely injured her back after filming began, and had to withdraw. Jeanne Crain had the Eve Harrington role, but became pregnant after filming began and also withdrew. I have a book, written by Sam Staggs (the same guy who did the behind the scenes book about 'Sunset Boulevard) titled 'All about All About Eve', which shares all sorts of behind the scenes stuff going on while filming this movie. I haven't read it yet, but after seeing the movie, am much more motivated to pull it out.

I'm so glad you have some time off for Spring Break. I'm like you: it takes me a good long while to adjust to the loss of that hour tonight! Funny, I don't have the same problem in the fall, when we gain an hour!! :hug:

[Longhorn]

3. I just watched All About Eve again yesterday,

also prerecorded. I can see Jeanne Crain as Eve but not Claudette Colbert, who I dearly love, as Margo. As I was watching it yesterday, I tried to remember if I bought Eve's act the first time I saw it. Did I think Margo was mean and unreasonable and poor, innocent Eve just wanted a break? I honestly can't remember. But I think I would have had a hard time finding Claudette Colbert anything but kind and generous. Did she ever play a part against that type?

Bette Davis could do it all, and did! I know it's often hard to see anyone else in a roll -- for example, who else could have played Rhett Butler than Clark Gable? But I think it's especially true with Bette Davis and Margo Channing.

Fall is easier but then I stay up a little too late so I still feel a little off for a week or so. Then there's the dogs -- they get fed when my husband gets up (usually around 6:30) and at 6 p.m. They never mind eating early but they really start bugging us after the time change in the fall, when they think it's time but they have another hour, especially when they decide to wake us up earlier in the morning!

[CBHagman]

4. I saw the story bass-ackwards.

That is, when I was a teenager my parents took me to see a touring company's performance of Applause, which is the musical adaptation of All About Eve. Lauren Bacall played the lead on Broadway, but I saw Alexis Smith in this particular production.

So when I was a university student I finally saw the classic film itself. I enjoyed it both times but don't recall how fast I was on to Eve's act.