TCM Schedule for Thursday, August 22, 2024 - Summer Under The Stars: Bette Davis
All times Eastern
Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall in The Letter, airing tonight
6:00 AM | The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
A sharecropper fighting for better working conditions succumbs to the boss's seductive daughter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis
7:30 AM | Front Page Woman (1935)
Rival reporters try to scoop each other while covering a fire.
Dir: Michael CurtizvCast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Roscoe Karns
9:00 AM | Dangerous (1935)
A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he's fallen in love with.
Dir: Alfred E. GreenvCast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay
10:30 AM | Marked Woman (1937)
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Dir: Lloyd BaconvCast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane
12:15 PM | The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
2:00 PM | Dark Victory (1939)
Judith Traherne is a rich heiress, but despite a life of parties she takes little pleasure in the trappings of wealth. When she begins to suffer from dizzy spells, her doctor, Frederick Steele, has to tell her that she has a brain tumor.
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
4:00 PM | The Great Lie (1941)
Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby.
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
6:00 PM | The Little Foxes (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
8:00 PM | Another Man's Poison (1951)
A mystery writer's real life turns to intrigue when her criminal husband escapes from prison.
Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
10:00 PM | The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
12:00 AM | Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
2:00 AM | Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid | Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
4:00 AM | The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family "accidentally" drowns the family's daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt | Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett