TCM Schedule for Saturday, February 16 -- 31 Days of Oscar - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

[Bolo Boffin]

7:00 AM
Lassie Come Home (1943)

A faithful collie undertakes an arduous journey to return to her lost family.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty.
C-89 mins, TV-G, CC


8:30 AM
Cabin In The Sky (1943)

God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne.
BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC


10:15 AM
On the Town (1949)

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Dir: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett.
C-98 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 PM
An American in Paris (1951)

An American artist finds love in Paris but almost loses it to conflicting loyalties.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC


2:00 PM
Singin' In The Rain (1952)

A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Dir: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds.
C-103 mins, TV-G, CC


4:00 PM
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

When their older brother marries, six lumberjacks decide it's time to go courting for themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen
Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn.
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


6:00 PM
Gigi (1958)

A Parisian girl is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan.
C-115 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


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8:00 PM
Ben-Hur (1959)

While seeking revenge, a rebellious Israelite prince crosses paths with Jesus Christ.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
C-222 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


12:00 AM
North By Northwest (1959)

An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C-136 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


2:30 AM
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)

A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero's family.
Dir: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:00 AM
The Sheepman (1958)

A tough sheep farmer battles the local cattle baron for land and a beautiful woman.
Dir: George Marshall
Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen.
C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


5:30 AM
The Naked Spur (1953)

A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Dir: Anthony Mann
Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan.
C-92 mins, TV-PG, CC

[CBHagman]

1. Dogs! Devils! Dancing!

And of course courtesans and chariots.

That's some schedule TCM has there.


Cabin in the Sky


An American in Paris


Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

[graham4anything]

5. Seven Brides is one of my favorites. Am a big Howard Keel fan.

from all the musicals to Day of the Triffods, to Clayton on Dallas and everything in between.
Also like his records he made of standards.

what a voice. (and met him once super nice person).
(BTW on Dallas Larry Hagman(who was the son of Musical star Mary Martin), brought alot of her old friends to the show, and Keel alluded to his musical past several times during the run.

edit to add- how can i leave out my personal favorite musical- Show Boat.

[narnian60]

2. Cary Grant is simply divine in North by Northwest.

One of my top ten movies of all time.

[graham4anything]

6. Agreed. (my second favorite Hitch movie).

Personally think Cary would have been better than Jimmy in Vertigo and especially Rear Window.
Cary and Grace were perfect in To Catch a thief.
I always thought it didn't seem like Grace would be with Jimmy in Rear Window.

[narnian60]

3. Just finished watching An American in Paris (again)

and decided to go to the IMDb discussion board to see some recent comments. Couldn't believe how some posters ripped the ballet sequence apart and railed on Leslie Caron's looks. Some people have no friggin' class.

[CBHagman]

4. IMDB is a mixed bag, isn't it?

I shouldn't be surprised at the extremes, but I still am. There are some intelligent discussions (I dropped by the Danny Kaye board one time and was impressed) and then there are the obsessive types, the context-free, and people who are deluded enough to believe they could come up with a better script than Billy Wilder's.

[graham4anything]

7. I think IMDB's boards are great...

for those stars and films that are not the very most popular ones.

Once you get into the films like American in Paris, someone always will tear it down.

But with someone like Danny Kaye, I think only fans of his would comment on him.
Never understand on the IMDB (or for that matter Youtube), why people who don't like a certain film or movie waste their time commenting when there are 1000s of others they can be watching, talking about.

And I only have good things to say about Danny, being that he was in White Christmas,
and while it was written for Fred Astaire, I think Danny, being more comical, played it perfectly, especially with the phony ankle scene to get the general away from the tv.