TCM Schedule for Sunday, October 26 -- THE TUDORS

[Longhorn]

5:20am Short Film: From The Vaults: Alfred The Great (1969)
C-5 mins

5:30am Festival of Shorts #28 (2000)
TCM promotes two musical shorts, "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra" (1938) and "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra in Symphony of Swing" (1938).
C-22 mins, TV-G

6:00am Gay Divorcee, The (1934)
An unhappily married woman mistakes a suitor for the gigolo hired to end her marriage.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-105 mins, TV-G

8:00am Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1935)
A British aristocrat's effete facade masks a swashbuckling hero rescuing victims of the French revolution.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey. Dir: Harold Young. BW-98 mins, TV-G

9:39am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Chases Of Pimple Street (1934)
Newlywed bliss is interupted when Charley's sister-in-law refuses to move out, so he attempts to set her up on a date.
Cast: Charley Chase, Betty Mack Dir: Charles Parrott BW-20 mins

10:00am Indiscreet (1958)
A tycoon pretends to be married while courting a beautiful actress.
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker. Dir: Stanley Donen. C-100 mins, TV-PG

11:41am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Touring Northern England (1950)
In this "Traveltalk," we learn about the history, culture, and people of Northern England.
Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick C-9 mins

12:00pm Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)
A crooked press agent stoops to new depths to help an egotistical columnist break up his sister's romance.
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Martin Milner. Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. BW-96 mins, TV-PG

1:49pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Around The World In California (1947)
C-9 mins

2:00pm Birds, The (1963)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-119 mins, TV-14

4:15pm Spinout (1966)
A singing race-car driver has to choose among three amorous females.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain. Dir: Norman Taurog. C-93 mins, TV-PG

5:51pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Sandpiper - The Big Sur (1965)
C-9 mins

6:00pm Le Mans (1971)
During a deadly endurance race, a driver faces the trauma of a past accident.
Cast: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen. Dir: Lee H. Katzin. C-109 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: THE TUDORS

8:00pm Private Life Of Henry VIII, The (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Alexander Korda. BW-97 mins, TV-PG

9:41pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Glimpses Of Old England (1949)
C-9 mins

9:57pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Present With A Future: Bette Davis Christmas War Bonds Trailer (1943)
BW-2 mins

10:00pm Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-106 mins, TV-G

12:00am Blackbird, The (1926)
A benevolent bishop helps the needy during the day, but runs a crime syndicate at night.
Cast: Lon Chaney, Renee Adoree, Owen Moore. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-70 mins, TV-G

1:30am Unknown, The (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow's armless wonder.
Cast: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-50 mins, TV-PG

2:30am Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932)
Classic tale of a young traveler finding himself in a sinister castle.
Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel. Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer. BW-72 mins, TV-PG

3:45am Black Room, The (1935)
An evil twin brother disposes of his enemies in a secret death chamber on his estate.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Katherine Demille. Dir: Roy William Nell. BW-68 mins, TV-G

5:00am Before I Hang (1940)
A mad scientist experiments with a serum tainted with a psychopath's blood.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Evevlyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett. Dir: Nick Grinde. BW-62 mins, TV-PG

[Matilda]

1. If they really wanted to devote an evening to the Tudors,

there's a whole grab-bag of films they could have chosen.

"A Man For All Seasons", "The Prince and the Pauper", "Young Bess", "Anne
of the Thousand Days" "The Sword and the Rose" (this last seems to be
lost in the mists of time - all I remember is Glynis Johns and an array
of beautiful gowns). The Tudors were an amazing family and lent their
names to a whole range of stories - intrigue; murder; imprisonment
(lawful or otherwise); execution; treason; and of course, love affairs,
at which they were generally dismal failures.

Can anyone think of any other titles to add to the list?