TCM Schedule for Sunday September 17, 2023 - Ellen Drew
Plus: Imports has a pair from Robert Bresson.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am Grand Hotel (1932)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PGGuests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through scandal and heartache.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
8:00 am Dinner at Eight (1933)
1h 53m | Comedy | TV-PG
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
10:00 am Out of the Fog (1941)
1h 33m | Crime | TV-PG
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.
Director: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
11:45 am Old Acquaintance (1943)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young
1:45 pm Magnificent Obsession (1954)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-G
A playboy becomes a doctor to right the wrong he's done to a sightless widow.
Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
3:45 pm Bells Are Ringing (1960)
2h 7m | Musical | TV-G
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients' lives.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark
6:00 pm Summer Stock (1950)
1h 49m | Musical | TV-G
A farmer gets sucked into show business when a theatrical troupe invades her farm.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken
8:00 pm Christmas in July (1940)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
An unemployed dreamer thinks he's won a big radio contest.
Director: Preston Sturges. Cast: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn
9:15 pm The Baron of Arizona (1950)
1h 36m | Western | TV-PG
A swindler forges documents to make himself the owner of an entire state.
Director: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff
11:00 pm Isle of the Dead (1945)
1h 12m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Director: Mark Robson. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
12:15 am The Smart Set (1928)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-G
An egotistical polo player has to redeem himself after he's kicked off the U.S. team.
Director: Jack Conway. Cast: William Haines, Jack Holt, Alice Day
2:00 am Au hasard, Balthazar (1966)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-PG
The lives of a donkey and the girl who named him intertwine.
Director: Robert Bresson. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
3:45 am Mouchette (1967)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-14
A neglected girl in rural France gets mixed up with a murderous poacher.
Director: Robert Bresson. Cast: Nadine Nortier, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hébert
5:15 am Hollywood Party (1937)
20m | Short | TV-PG
In this short film, Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood.
Director: Roy Rowland. Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Joan Bennett, Joe E. Brown