TCM Schedule for Saturday, November 1 --- THE FAME GAME

[lavenderdiva]

4:15am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Third Dimensional Murder (1941)
BW-7 mins

4:30am 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

5:00am Dead Reckoning (1947)
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy's murder.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-100 mins, TV-PG

6:42am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: So You Want To Be A Detective (1948)
BW-11 mins

7:00am Nancy Drew--Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman's disappearance.
Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson. Dir: William Clemens. BW-66 mins, TV-G

8:15am Nancy Drew--Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas. Dir: William Clemens. BW-68 mins, TV-G

9:30am Pirates of Tripoli (1955)
A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne.
Cast: Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Paul Newlan. Dir: Felix Feist. C-71 mins, TV-G

10:51am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Races To Remember (1956)
An RKO horse racing short showing highlights of some of the previous ten years' best thoroughbred horse races.
BW-8 mins

11:00am Speedway (1968)
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Cast: Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby. Dir: Norman Taurog. C-94 mins, TV-PG

12:38pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Challenge Of Champions (1966)
A featurette giving a behind the cameras look at the filming of "Grand Prix" (1966) at the actual Grand Prix in Monaco.
C-13 mins

1:00pm 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
Cast: Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood. Dir: Stanley Kubrick. C-149 mins, TV-G

3:30pm From The Earth To The Moon (1958)
Lifelong rivals collaborate on a 19th-century moon rocket.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Henry Daniell. Dir: Byron Haskin. C-100 mins, TV-G

5:15pm Forbidden Planet (1956)
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-99 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: THE ESSENTIALS: THE FAME GAME

7:00pm Face In The Crowd, A (1957)
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. Dir: Elia Kazan. BW-126 mins, TV-PG

9:15pm Star Is Born, A (1954)
A falling star marries the newcomer he's helping reach the top.
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson. Dir: George Cukor. C-175 mins, TV-PG

12:15am All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star's career and love life.
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-138 mins, TV-PG

2:45am Prelude to Fame (1950)
An unscrupulous woman sponsors a musical prodigy and cuts him off from his family.
Cast: Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron, Jeremy Spenser. Dir: Fergus McDonell. BW-88 mins

4:15am Festival of Shorts #29 (2000)
TCM promotes three shorts showcasing the youthful talents of Judy Garland; "Bubbles" (1930), "Every Sunday" (1936) and "If I Forget You" (1940) C-23 mins, TV-G

[CBHagman]

1. Get ready for British actors with memorable voices.

George Sanders eviscerates everyone as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve. He played cynical so beautifully.

And then there's James Mason in A Star Is Born. Yes, Judy Garland is amazing (I practically need a cigarette after her performance of "The Man that Got Away," and I don't even smoke).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzyPMRo8ZUQ

But get that signature Mason voice, one of the best in movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6L7vxYjzjY&feature=related

[Matilda]

2. And today we have Himself ...

You know who I mean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw6Swr-ME40

[CBHagman]

3. Duly added to the Favorites and Inspiration playlists.

I actually wrote a paper on that sonnet for AP English when I was 16 years old. I liked the poem well enough then, but oh, if we had had Alan Rickman to read it, the teacher and all the girls in the class would have melted right on the floor.

[Matilda]

4. I like the music the poster chose for that too.

It creates a perfect backdrop.

Personally, I think he should record all the Sonnets. If youtube is
anything to go by, the CDs would fly out the door.