TCM Schedule for Saturday, Sept. 2: Bogie & Bacall, Glenn Ford, James Dean, Claudette Colbert

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TCM Schedule for Saturday, Sept. 2

TCM SEPTEMBER 2 AT A GLANCE

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TCM SPOTLIGHT: COMING OF AGE - YOUNG LOVE
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- YOUNG AND REBELLIOUS
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Saturday, September 2
- TCM DAYTIME
TCM SPOTLIGHT: COMING OF AGE (cont.)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
WEEKEND FEATURES
(P) MGM Cartoons: Old Mill Pond (1936)
Her Honor, the Nurse (1956) (short)
Old New Mexico (1940) (short)
Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
Batman and Robin Ch. 7: The Fatal Blast (1949)
Popeye: Sock-A-Bye, Baby (1934)
Bowery Bombshell (1946)
Torture Money (1937) (short)
Born to Dance (1936) (Musical Matinee)
Big Sleep, The (1946)
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953)
Rio Bravo (1959)
- TCM PRIMETIME
DON KNOTTS
Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966)
(P) Love God?, The (1969)
- NOIR ALLEY
Secret Fury, The (1950)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: JAMES CAAN
Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
Rabbit, Run (1970)

All times ET/PT

12:00 AM Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Natalie Wood {"Wilma Dean Loomis"}
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- William Inge (WINNER)

Trivia: Right before shooting was set to begin, Pat Hingle suffered devastating injuries when he accidentally fell 54 feet down an elevator shaft in his apartment building. It would take Hingle over a year to fully recover from the accident. In the meantime, however, he decided to go ahead and do the film - he would simply incorporate his limp into the character. "I broke everything," Hingle said later. "I landed upright, so I broke hips and knees and ankles and ribs, and that sort of thing. That lurching walk that Ace Stamper has - that was as good as I could walk."

2:15 AM The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

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A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
Dir: Tony Richardson Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


4:15 AM Blackboard Jungle (1955)

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An idealistic teacher confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Henry Grace
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Russell Harlan
FILM EDITING -- Ferris Webster
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Richard Brooks

Trivia: This film launched the rock'n'roll era, especially in American movies, by using "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets as its theme. The song was chosen for the theme song after it was heard among records owned by Peter Ford, son of the film's star Glenn Ford. "Rock Around the Clock" had been largely ignored until it was heard in the movie, after which it soon shot to #1 around the world, and eventually sold an estimated 25 million copies. In an embarrassing miscalculation, MGM could have owned the complete rights to the song, but it ignored writer/director Richard Brooks' advice to buy it outright; instead, the studio went and merely purchased, for only a few dollars, the film-use rights to the mega-hit song.

Trivia: When Sidney Poitier showed up to start work on this film, he was called to the front office by a studio lawyer. Told they were concerned about his activism and association with blacklisted actors Paul Robeson and Canada Lee, he was asked to sign a loyalty oath to the American government. Poitier thought that was ridiculous and director Richard Brooks agreed, so they simply started shooting. He never heard from the studio lawyer again.

Trivia: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce prevented the film from being shown at the Venice Film Festival; and a Senate committee had decided that the film would not have beneficial effects on contemporary youth. Both incidents only served to increase publicity and ticket sales for the controversial movie.

Trivia: Film debuts of Jamie Farr and Vic Morrow.

6:00 AM Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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The landmark teen film that solidified Dean's image with the public, follows the story of rebellious middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly, dangerous drag racing to win over women.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Sal Mineo {"Plato"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Natalie Wood {"Judy"}
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Nicholas Ray

Trivia: The exterior of the mansion where the main characters confront each other with guns, as well as the empty pool in which they sit and discuss their lives, previously appeared in Sunset Blvd. (1950). The pool had been built specially for the earlier film, as a condition of renting the property from its owner, Mrs. Jean Paul Getty.

8:00 AM Short: Old Mill Pond (1936)
Jazz frogs sing and dance and play music as caricatures of well-known black performers of the swing-jazz era.
Dir: Hugh Harman Cast: Harland Evans, The Four Blackbirds, Geraldine Harris
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


8:09 AM Short: Her Honor, the Nurse (1956)
This documentary short looks at the duties of the modern nurse.
Dir: Harry W. Smith Cast: Peter Roberts
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:18 AM Short: Old New Mexico (1940)
This Traveltalks short takes the viewer on a tour of New Mexico.
Dir: James A. FitzPatrick Cast: James A. FitzPatrick, Jimmy Begay
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:27 AM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Serial: Batman and Robin: Chapter 7 - The Fatal Blast (1949)
Batman's investigation of a criminal mastermind leads him to a deadly encounter with a railroad magnate.
Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
Runtime: 16 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Sock-A-Bye, Baby (1934)
Popeye babysits an infant when many obstacles and problems ensue.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: William Costello, Mae Questel
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Bowery Bombshell (1946)
The Bowery Boys tackle gangsters to clear one of their own from a bogus robbery charge.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Torture Money (1937)
The police track down a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Edwin Maxwell, George Lynn
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


12:00 PM Born to Dance (1936)

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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

Oscar nominations:
DANCE DIRECTION -- "Swingin' the Jinx" number; Dave Gould
MUSIC (Song) -- "I've Got You Under My Skin," Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

Trivia: Cole Porter picked James Stewart for the male lead and later said he sang "Easy to Love" as well as any professional singer. A dubbing track was prepared with baritone Jack Owens, but it was decided that Stewart's tenor voice was perfect for the song. In That's Entertainment! (1974), Stewart said, "The song had become a huge hit, even my singing wouldn't hurt it."

2:00 PM The Big Sleep (1946)

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Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Due to Humphrey Bogart's affair with co-star Lauren Bacall, his marital problems escalated during filming, and his drinking often resulted in his being unable to work. Three months after the film was finished, Bacall and Bogart were married.


4:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 PM Rio Bravo (1959)

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A sheriff enlists a drunk, a kid and an old man to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Howard Hawks did not want to cast Ricky Nelson, whom he considered to be both too young and too lightweight, and deliberately gave him the fewest possible number of lines for a third-billed star. However, he later admitted that having Nelson's name on the poster had probably added $2 million to the film's box office performance.


8:00 PM The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

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A meek and bumbling news reporter gets an assignment to investigate a haunted house.
Dir: Alan Rafkin Cast: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM The Love God? (1969)

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The editor of a nature journal becomes an unlikely sex object after a new publisher makes the magazine a girlie book.
Dir: Nat Hiken Cast: Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC:


12:00 AM The Secret Fury (1950)
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else.

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Dir: Mel Ferrer Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Ryan, Vivian Vance
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM Hide in Plain Sight (1980)

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True story of a divorced father in search of his children when his ex-wife enters the witness relocation program.
Dir: James Caan Cast: James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y


4:00 AM Rabbit, Run (1970)

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Feeling trapped by a lack of a career and a loveless marriage, a former high school basketball star takes off in search of a better life.
Dir: Jack Smight Cast: James Caan, Anjanette Comer, Carrie Snodgress
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y