TCM Schedule for Saturday 4-13-24 - The Music Man, Singin' in the Rain, The Breaking Point, Auntie Mame

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At A Glance

- TCM PRIMETIME
Music Man, The (1962)
Kings Row (1942)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Saturday, April 13
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Romance on the High Seas (1948) (6:15 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: Billy Boy (1954)
Believe It or Not #7 (1932) (short)
Calling on Costa Rica (1947) (short)
Hired Gun, The (1957)
Directors Playhouse: Want Ad Wedding (1955)
Popeye: What -- No Spinach? (1936)
Bad Little Angel (1939)
No Contest! (1934) (short)
- 100th BIRTHDAY: STANLEY DONEN
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Musical Matinee)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Indiscreet (1958)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - OLIVIA WILDE
Auntie Mame (1958)
Grey Gardens (1976)
- NOIR ALLEY (WITH ROBERT OSBORNE)
Breaking Point, The (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: TCM 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Guardsman, The (1931)
Pirate, The (1948)

Full day's schedule

11:45 PM The Music Man (1962)

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A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Dorothy Jeakins
FILM EDITING -- William Ziegler
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Ray Heindorf
BEST PICTURE -- Morton Da Costa, Producer
SOUND -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director

Trivia: The two songs "76 Trombones" and "Good Night My Someone" are the same tune, played in different tempos. Meredith Willson used this technique to present a masculine and feminine slant on the on the events surrounding Harold Hill's arrival in River City and his budding relationship with Marian.

2:30 AM Kings Row (1942)

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Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- James Wong Howe
DIRECTING -- Sam Wood
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.

Trivia: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score was played during the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President.

4:45 AM It's a Great Feeling (1949)
When nobody at Warner Bros. will work with him, movie star Jack Carson decides to turn an unknown into his co-star.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:15 AM Romance on the High Seas (1948)

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A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don Defore
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Ray Heindorf
MUSIC (Song) -- "It's Magic," Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Trivia: This was Doris Day's first acting role, and she was extremely naive about how movies were made. She wrote in her autobiography that the first scenes to be filmed would be aboard the cruise ship, and on the first day, she walked onto the sound stage and asked when they would be leaving for the boat. The crew broke up laughing.

8:00 AM Short: Billy Boy (1954)
A baby goat is left at the doorstep of a wolf farmer. The goat eats anything and everything so the farmer tries to get rid of it.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Daws Butler
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:07 AM Short: Believe It or Not #7 (1932)
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley presents a series of rare sights and oddities, such as a leaning lighthouse and the definition of the word "fathom." Vitaphone Release 1361.
Dir: null Cast: Robert L Ripley, Alfred J. Goulding
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:15 AM Short: Calling on Costa Rica (1947)
This documentary short film presents the life, geography, and historical aspects of Costa Rica.
Dir: James A. FitzPatrick. Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Finston, James A. Fitzpatrick, Joseph Nussbaum
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:25 AM The Hired Gun (1957)

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Gunman-for-hire Gil McCord gets an assignment to bring in a murderer to face trial. Surprisingly, the killer turns out to be lovely Ellen Beldon. Regardless, McCord is a professional and so captures her, prepared to hand her over. Accused of murdering her husband, Ellen vehemently insists that she is not the killer.

Dir: Ray Nazarro Cast: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Short: Want Ad Wedding (1955)
With no friends in town, a sailor advertises to find wedding guests, in this episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse television series.
Dir: William A. Sieter Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Forrest, Leon Ames
Runtime: 30 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: What -- No Spinach? (1936)
Wimpy's passion for hamburgers causes Popeye and Bluto to have their biggest battle.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Lou Fleischer, Jack Mercer, Gus Wicke
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Bad Little Angel (1939)

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An orphan on the run tries to find a new home.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: Virginia Weidler, Gene Reynolds, Guy Kibbee
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: "Rex", the dog in this movie, was the same dog (Terry) who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz (1939).


11:30 AM Short: No Contest! (1934)
This short film revolves around a musical contest starring Ruth Etting. Vitaphone Release 1712-171
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Bert Matthews, Ruth Etting, Elmer H. Brown
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Singin' in the Rain (1952)

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

Oscar nominations: ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jean Hagen {"Lina Lamont"}
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Lennie Hayton

Trivia: Gene Kelly was a taskmaster with Debbie Reynolds, who had never danced to this degree before rehearsals started. Fred Astaire, who was in an adjacent dance studio, found her crying under a piano and reassured her that all of her hard work was worth the effort.

Trivia: For the "Make 'em Laugh" number, Gene Kelly asked Donald O'Connor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer: running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that O'Connor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, ended up in a hospital bed for a week after its completion. He suffered from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest O'Connor agreed to do the difficult number all over again.

2:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

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The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- George Folsey
FILM EDITING -- Ralph E. Winters
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Adolph Deutsch, Saul Chaplin
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Jack Cummings, Producer
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley

Trivia: MGM considered this a "B" picture -- in fact, the studio diverted some of this film's original budget to Brigadoon (1954), since it was expected to be the more successful movie. This forced Stanley Donen to use painted backdrops instead of filming on location.

Trivia: Julie Newmar (Dorcas) (here credited as Julie Newmeyer) was an accomplished dancer, but she never got a chance to show off her skills because her dance partner Jeff Richards (Benjamin Pontifee) was a former professional baseball player with no dancing skills.

4:00 PM Royal Wedding (1951)

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A brother-and-sister musical team find romance when they tour London for Elizabeth II's wedding.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "Too Late Now," Music by Burton Lane; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

Trivia: Originally envisioned as the first pairing of Fred Astaire and June Allyson, but Allyson left the project within weeks when she discovered she was pregnant. Judy Garland was tapped as her replacement, but when she failed to appear for costume fittings, MGM finally severed her contract, and Jane Powell took over the role of Ellen Bowen. Ironically, towards the end of filming, Powell discovered she also was pregnant.

6:00 PM Indiscreet (1958)

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An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him--even though he's already married.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:

Trivia: The casting of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as slightly older and wiser lovers had greater relevance to 1958 audiences. Grant was on the third of his five marriages, while Bergman had ridden the waves of scandal following her adulterous relationship with Italian director Roberto Rossellini.

8:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958)

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An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Rosalind Russell {"Auntie Mame Dennis"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Peggy Cass {"Agnes Gooch"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Malcolm Bert; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Harry Stradling, Sr.
FILM EDITING -- William Ziegler
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Warner Bros.

Trivia: Rosalind Russell broke her ankle in the first take of the scene where she comes flying down the stairs in the gown with the capri pants and shooting had to be delayed until she recovered.

10:45 PM Grey Gardens (1976)

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The unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie who live in a world of their own in a decaying mansion.
Dir: Ellen Hovde Cast: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Jerry Torre
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The film was something of an accident in the sense that Albert Maysles and David Maysles came across Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale when involved in another project--a movie about (Jacqueline Kennedy's sister) Lee Radziwill's childhood. As part of research, the Maysles brothers were introduced to the Beales, and were captivated by their world. Deciding not to make the Radzwill film, they turned instead to the Beales, and a year after first meeting the two women, began filming.


12:30 AM The Breaking Point (1950)

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A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: John Garfield's penultimate film, and his last at Warner Bros., where he started his career.

2:15 AM Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

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The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 AM The Guardsman (1931)

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A jealous husband dons a disguise to test his wife's fidelity.
Dir: Sidney Franklin Cast: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Alfred Lunt {"The Actor"}
ACTRESS -- Lynn Fontanne {"The Actress"}

Trivia: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, husband and wife, recreated the roles that they had played on Broadway in 1924. Although both had done silents, this was their debut in sound films. They would remain married until his death in 1977.

5:30 AM The Pirate (1948)

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An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Lennie Hayton

Trivia: According to Judy Garland biographer Gerold Frank, The Pirate (1948) was the first film ever in which the studio hired a psychiatrist, paid for out of the film's production budget, to treat the star during shooting and make sure she was mentally healthy enough to perform.