TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 15: Feel-Good Films
I certainly hope you are ready to dance the hoochie coochie and be someone's tootsie wootsie, because it's time for feel-good films, including Meet Me in St. Louis, Louie.*
*Purists will notice I tinkered with spelling and capitalization in the title song's lyrics.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
1:30 AM
CASQUE D'OR ( 1952)
When a gangster's moll falls for a reformed criminal, their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads inexorably to treachery and tragedy.
Dir: Jacques Becker Cast: Simone Signoret , Serge Reggiani , Claude Dauphin .
BW- 98 mins,
3:30 AM
LE SAMOURAI ( 1967)
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville Cast: Alain Delon , Francois Perier , Nathalie Delon .
BW- 105 mins, Letterbox Format
5:17 AM
FROM PARIS - YOUR REPORTER RICHARD CRENNA ( 1966)
This promotional short film takes a look at the outfits designed for the motion picture, "Made in Paris" (1966).
C- 7 mins,
5:30 AM
MGM PARADE SHOW #3 ( 1955)
George Murphy introduces clips from "A Free Soul" with Clark Gable and "Trial."
BW- 26 mins,
6:00 AM
FLORODORA GIRL, THE ( 1930)
A turn-of-the-century chorus girl searches for romance.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Marion Davies , Lawrence Gray , Walter Catlett .
BW- 79 mins, CC,
7:30 AM
CASANOVA BROWN ( 1944)
A couple on the verge of divorce learns the wife is pregnant.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Gary Cooper , Teresa Wright , Frank Morgan .
BW- 91 mins, CC,
9:15 AM
THAT MAN'S HERE AGAIN ( 1937)
An eccentric plays cupid for an elevator operator and a girl from Australia.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Hugh Herbert , Mary Maguire , Tom Brown .
BW- 59 mins,
10:20 AM
ONE WAY OUT ( 1930)
In this comedic short, a man intent on killing himself discovers a life worth living. Vitaphone Release 1153.
Dir: Arthur Hurley Cast: Thelma White , Charles Lawrence , Ray Collins .
BW- 9 mins,
10:30 AM
WIDE OPEN ( 1930)
A meek and clumsy employee of a large firm gets a chance to implement his useful ideas.
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Edward Everett Horton , Patsy Ruth Miller , Louise Fazenda .
BW- 69 mins,
11:45 AM
BUNKER BEAN ( 1936)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Dir: William Hamilton Cast: Owen Davis Jr. , Louise Latimer , Robert McWade .
BW- 67 mins,
1:00 PM
GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB, A ( 1941)
A stuffy boss tries to steal his secretary from her sailor boyfriend.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: George Murphy , Lucille Ball , Edmond O'Brien .
BW- 90 mins, CC,
2:45 PM
PLEASE BELIEVE ME ( 1950)
Three men pursue a shipboard romance with a woman they think is an heiress.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Deborah Kerr , Robert Walker , Mark Stevens .
BW- 87 mins, CC,
4:15 PM
WHAT'S UP, DOC? ( 1972)
The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Barbra Streisand , Ryan O'Neal , Madeline Kahn .
C- 94 mins, CC,
6:00 PM
MARTY ( 1955)
A lonely butcher finds love despite the opposition of his friends and family.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Ernest Borgnine , Betsy Blair , Esther Minciotti .
BW- 94 mins, CC,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FEEL-GOOD FILMS
8:00 PM
AUNTIE MAME ( 1958)
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton DaCosta Cast: Rosalind Russell , Forrest Tucker , Coral Browne .
C- 143 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
10:30 PM
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS ( 1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland , Margaret O'Brien , Mary Astor .
C- 113 mins, CC,
12:30 AM
LIFE WITH FATHER ( 1947)
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell , Irene Dunne , Elizabeth Taylor .
C- 118 mins, CC,
2:45 AM
MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, THE ( 1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis , Ann Sheridan , Monty Woolley .
BW- 113 mins, CC,
4:45 AM
ON MOONLIGHT BAY ( 1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day , Gordon MacRae , ["Smiling"] Jack Smith .
C- 95 mins, CC,