TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 13th: SOUTHERN BELLES

[CBHagman]

From a damn Yankee (or a citizen of the world? I'm never sure) to all the Southern belles, especially the classic movie buffs among them.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008.

12:45 AM We Who Are Young (1940)
A man violates company policy by getting married. Cast: Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. BW-80 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:15 AM Merry Widow, The (1952)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country. Cast: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. C-105 mins, TV-G, CC

4:04 AM Short Film: Great Lady Has An Interview (Lana Turner - 1954) (1954)
BW-8 mins,

4:15 AM Lana Turner: A Daughter's Memoir (2001)
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's most popular leading ladies. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:00 AM Uncertain Glory (1944)
A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II. Cast: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson. Dir: Raoul Walsh. BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:45 AM Enchanted April (1935)
Two women rent an Italian villa to escape from their unfulfilling marriages. Cast: Ann Harding, Frank Morgan, Katherine Alexander. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC

Contrast this with the extraordinary 1992 version starring Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Polly Walker, Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent, and Michael Kitchen.

9:05 AM Short Film: Curious Contests (1950)
BW-8 mins,

9:15 AM Law of the Tropics (1941)
A night-club singer on the lam marries a South American rubber planter to escape the law. Cast: Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-76 mins, TV-PG

10:45 AM Always In My Heart (1942)
A convict returns home to find his family has forgotten him. Cast: Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Gloria Warren. Dir: Jo Graham. BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC

12:30 PM Very Thought Of You, The (1944)
In-law problems threaten a wartime marriage. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-98 mins, TV-G, CC

2:15 PM Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
A small-time crook on the run is reformed by the love of a crippled woman. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-81 mins, TV-PG



3:45 PM Secret Heart, The (1946)
A recent widow tries to help her emotionally disturbed stepdaughter. Cast: Claudette Colbert, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:30 PM And One Was Beautiful (1940)
Two sisters vie for the same dashing young man. Cast: Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Billie Burke. Dir: Robert B. Sinclair. BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC



6:45 PM I'll Wait For You (1941)
A wounded gangster's recuperation on a remote farm leads to love. Cast: Robert Sterling, Marsha Hunt, Virginia Weidler. Dir: Robert B. Sinclair. BW-73 mins, TV-G

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: SOUTHERN BELLES

8:00 PM Steel Magnolias (1989)
Small-town Southern women help each other through the trials of life. Cast: Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton. Dir: Herbert Ross. C-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

Native Georgian Julia Roberts, playing a Louisiana bride, does one of the weirder on-screen accents I've heard, and get a load of that armadillo cake!

10:10 PM Short Film: Operation Raintree (1957)
BW-5 mins,

10:15 PM Raintree County (1957)
In this sumptuous Civil War story, a willful southern belle goes mad out of fear that she may be part black. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint. Dir: Edward Dmytryk. C-173 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



1:30 AM Jezebel (1938)
A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Fay Bainter. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS



3:30 AM Toy Wife, The (1938)
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors. Cast: Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-96 mins, TV-G

5:07 AM Short Film: Mendelssohn'S Wedding March (1939)
C-8 mins,