TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 9 --- FRED MACMURRAY

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9 Saturday (times are EST)



6:00 AM Grand Old Girl (1935)
Gamblers engineer a veteran schoolteacher's firing. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Alan Hale, May Robson. Dir: John S. Robertson. BW-71 mins, TV-G

7:15 AM The Shaggy Dog (1959)
An ancient spell turns a teenager into a large sheep dog. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk. Dir: Charles Barton. BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC

9:00 AM The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
A college professor fights off corrupt businessmen to market his new anti-gravity invention. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

10:45 AM Son of Flubber (1963)
An absent-minded professor gets into legal trouble because of his experiments with a gravity defying substance. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn. Dir: Robert Stevenson. BW-103 mins, TV-G, CC

12:30 PM Too Many Husbands (1940)
When her long lost husband returns after her re-marriage, a woman decides to try life with two mates. Cast: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-81 mins, TV-G

2:00 PM Pardon My Past (1945)
A penniless veteran is mistaken for a millionaire playboy. Cast: Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Akim Tamiroff. Dir: Leslie Fenton. BW-88 mins, TV-G

3:30 PM Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
A real cowboy signs on to impersonate a faded western star for public appearances. Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Fred MacMurray, Howard Keel. Dir: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

5:00 PM Good Day for a Hanging (1958)
A reformed bank robber has to choose between his former gang and doing the right thing. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Margaret Hayes, Robert Vaughn. Dir: Nathan Juran. BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:30 PM Face of a Fugitive (1959)
A man framed for murder tries to build a new life after escaping the law. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Alan Baxter, James Coburn. Dir: Paul Wendkos. C-81 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

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8:00 PM 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, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM The Lady Is Willing (1942)
A Broadway star has to find a husband so she can adopt an abandoned child. Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon. Dir: Mitchell Leisen. BW-91 mins, TV-G

12:00 AM Alice Adams (1935)
A small-town girl with social ambitions falls in love with a local playboy. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Evelyn Venable. Dir: George Stevens. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC

1:45 AM Dive Bomber (1941)
A crusading scientist fights to prevent bomber pilots from blacking out. Cast: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Alexis Smith. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-132 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 AM Never A Dull Moment (1950)
A female music critic marries a rancher and has to adjust to life out West. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest. Dir: George Marshall. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 AM Short Film: Meet The Fleet (1940)
In this patriotic comedy short, three greenhorn Navy recruits, Dan, Potter and Benson, undergo basic training in San Diego. Despite the boys' lackluster behavior and inaptitude for Naval skills, their Cheif Petty Officer manages to finally get them in line. However the Medical Officer realizes that Dan has a condition that might prevent him from his commission. C-20 mins,