TCM Schedule for Sunday, July 13 -- ESSENTIALS, JR. : MEET US AT THE WORLD'S FAIR

[Longhorn]

4:15am Letter For Evie, A (1945)
A timid soldier sends his buddy's picture to a romantic pen pal.
Cast: Marsha Hunt, John Carroll, Hume Cronyn. Dir: Jules Dassin. BW-89 mins, TV-PG

5:45am Short Film: From The Vaults: Letter From A Soldier, A (1951)
BW-9 mins

6:00am You Belong to Me (1941)
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. C-95 mins, TV-G

7:37am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Seventh Column (1943)
The war effort is being harmed by carelessness and safety hazards and Mr. Pratt (Dave O'Brien), a walking disaster, isn't helping.
Cast: Dave O'Brien, Pete Smith Dir: Will Jason BW-9 mins

7:52am Short Film: From The Vaults: Man Who Makes The Difference, The (1968)
A behind the cameras featurette showcasing the action film "Ice Station Zebra" (1968) and the talents of John Stevens, renowned second unit/stunt photographer, who filmed the racing sequences in "Grand Prix" (1966).
C-7 mins

8:00am Thousand Clowns, A (1965)
A free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew.
Cast: Jason Robards Jr., Martin Balsam, Barry Gordon. Dir: Fred Coe. BW-118 mins, TV-PG

10:00am Blackboard Jungle (1955)
An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier. Dir: Richard Brooks. BW-101 mins, TV-14

11:42am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Teenagers On Trial (1955)
BW-8 mins

12:00pm Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG

1:52pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Courtship Of Newt, The (1938)
BW-8 mins

2:00pm To Be or Not to Be (1942)
A troupe of squabbling actors joins the Polish underground to dupe the Nazis.
Cast: Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. BW-99 mins, TV-PG

4:00pm Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-121 mins, TV-PG

6:15pm Where Angels Go...Trouble Follows! (1968)
A young progressive nun creates headaches for the Mother Superior.
Cast: Stella Stevens, Rosalind Russell, Milton Berle. Dir: James Neilson. C-94 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: ESSENTIALS, JR. : MEET US AT THE WORLD'S FAIR

8:00pm Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-113 mins, TV-G

10:00pm It Happened At The World's Fair (1963)
A pilot's efforts to help a lost girl at the Seattle World's Fair lead to love.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Norman Taurog. C-105 mins, TV-G

12:00am Racket, The (1928)
In this silent film, a renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
Cast: Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim. Dir: Lewis Milestone. BW-84 mins, TV-G

1:28am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Servant Of The People (1937)
BW-21 mins

2:00am Wild Strawberries (1957)
On his way to an awards ceremony, a distinguished professor thinks back on his loveless life.
Cast: Victor Sjostrom, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. BW-91 mins, TV-PG

3:45am Interiors (1978)
Three sisters fight to adjust to their parents' divorce and their father's re-marriage.
Cast: Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton. Dir: Woody Allen. C-92 mins, TV-MA

[Longhorn]

1. You Belong to Me (1941)

You Belong to Me (1941) marked the third and final screen pairing of Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, following The Mad Miss Manton (1938) and The Lady Eve (1941). In fact, it was the huge success of The Lady Eve that prompted Columbia Pictures to team them again so quickly - a scant three months after The Lady Eve opened in theaters, You Belong to Me started production. (In between the two films, Stanwyck made Meet John Doe <1941>, a Frank Capra classic, and Fonda made Wild Geese Calling <1941>, now an obscurity.) You Belong to Me didn't fare as well with the public or critics, but then few movies are as good as The Lady Eve. Nonetheless, the picture was more or less saved by the two stars' undeniable chemistry and appealing screen personas.

In a story written by Dalton Trumbo and adapted into a screenplay by Claude Binyon, Fonda is a rich playboy who falls for and marries Stanwyck, a doctor. She continues with her medicine practice, leading Fonda to develop jealousy of her many house calls to male patients. Critics stressed the performances. "Fonda proves again that he is endowed with a high flair for comedy," said Variety. "He is equally surefire in the romantic scenes." The New York Times declared, "The best thing about it is its principals. They are a right team for this sort of dalliance."

Producing and directing was the veteran Wesley Ruggles. Ruggles had directed scores of movies since 1917, including the first movie version of The Age of Innocence (1924), Cimarron (1931), for which he was Oscar®-nominated, No Man of Her Own (1932), I'm No Angel (1933) and The Gilded Lily (1935). He retired in 1946 and lived for another 25 years.

You Belong to Me was remade in 1950 as Emergency Wedding, starring Larry Parks and Barbara Hale.

Barbara Stanwyck later said of Henry Fonda, "He was delicious to work with. I was sorry when each of the three pictures we did was over. I wish we had done more movies together. I loved Hank."

Producer: Wesley Ruggles
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Screenplay: Claude Binyon, Dalton Trumbo
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Film Editing: Viola Lawrence
Art Direction: Lionel Banks
Music: Frederick Hollander
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Dr. Helen Hunt), Henry Fonda (Peter Kirk), Edgar Buchanan (Billings), Roger Clark (Frederick Vandemer), Ruth Donnelly (Emma), Melville Cooper (Moody).
BW-94m.

by Jeremy Arnold

[lavenderdiva]

2. I haven't seen 'You Belong To Me' yet--

but I'm looking forward to enjoying more of the chemistry between Stanwyck and Fonda-- I really enjoyed 'The Lady Eve'.

I'm also looking forward to enjoying (yet again!) 'Some Like It Hot' and 'Meet Me In St. Louis'! Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are divine together, and make me laugh out loud every time I see them! Surely, Vincent Minnelli's direction of 'Meet Me In St. Louis' is one of the all-time best films out there, IMHO. His direction and lighting of each season is perfection. I think Judy Garland never looked so lovely as in this film. Its beautifully crafted and acted too.

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