Tuesday, December 10: Comedy/Memorial Tribute: Maggie Smith

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

1:15 AM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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

3:00 AM Black Orpheus (1959)
A streetcar conductor loses his true love during Brazil's carnival season.
Dir: Marcel Camus Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes Deoliveira
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: N

5:00 AM Sylvia and the Phantom (1946)
On the eve of a young girl's birthday she is visited by the ghost of her grandmother's former lover.
Dir: Claude Autant-Lara Cast: Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Pierre Larquey
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N

6:45 AM The Glass Slipper (1955)
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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8:30 AM Born to Dance (1936)
A sailor on leave helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:30 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:30 PM Panama Hattie (1942)
A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, "Rags" Ragland
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:00 PM Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
Singer May wants to marry a rich man but her heart belongs to a penniless dancer named Alec. Louis Blore, who has just won a fortune through a sweepstakes, promptly marries May. However, after Louis accidentally has a laced drink, he has a fantastic dream in which he, May and Alec are members of the royal French court. Once Louis awakens, he begins to reconsider his relationship with May.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:45 PM Kiss Me Kate (1953)
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

5:45 PM Les Girls (1957)
Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

What's on Tonight: Memorial Tribute: Maggie Smith

8:00 PM Nowhere to Go (1958)
A burglar on the run holes up with an innocent English girl.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 PM The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
An age-resisting private girls-school teacher grows eccentric and vicarious through her young students. Set in 1930s Edinburgh.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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12:00 AM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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2:00 AM A Room with a View (1985)
An Englishwoman visiting Florence is torn between her straitlaced fiance and a young Bohemian.
Dir: James Ivory Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

4:00 AM Young Cassidy (1965)
True story of playwright Sean O'Casey's involvement with the Irish rebellion of 1910.
Dir: Jack Cardiff, John Ford Cast: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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1. GOOD one(s!)

Kiss me Kate!!!
and Room with a View!!!

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2. IKR

Dancing! Passionate piano playing!

Ann Miller! Bob Fosse!

Simon Callow! Judi Dench!

It's an amazing schedule.