TCM Saturday 2-10-24 - 31 Days of Oscars, Day 2 - Supporting Actress - Camelot, Singin' in the Rain, The Miracle Worker

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TCM Schedule for Saturday, February 10 - 31 Days of Oscars, Day 2 - Supporting Actress
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31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 1 - COSTUME DESIGN
Roman Holiday (1953)
All That Jazz (1979)
Camelot (1967)
- TCM DAYTIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 2 - SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Merrily We Live (1938)
Caged (1950)
Mogambo (1953)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Harvey (1950)
Butterflies Are Free (1972)
- TCM PRIMETIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - DAY 2
- SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Written on the Wind (1957)
Miracle Worker, The (1962)
(P) Pollock (2000)
Patch of Blue, A (1965)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)

10:15 PM Roman Holiday (1953)

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A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Eddie Albert {"Irving Radovich"}
ACTRESS -- Audrey Hepburn {"Princess Anne"} (*WINNER*)
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Hal Pereira, Walter Tyler
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Frank Planer, Henri Alekan
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Edith Head (*WINNER*)
DIRECTING -- William Wyler
FILM EDITING -- Robert Swink
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- William Wyler, Producer
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Dalton Trumbo (WINNER)
[NOTE: The screen credit and award were originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter, who was a "front" for Dalton Trumbo. On December 15, 1992, the Academy's Board of Governors voted to change the records and award Mr. Trumbo with the achievement. Ian McLellan Hunter's name was removed from the Motion Picture Story category. The Oscar was posthumously presented to Trumbo's widow on May 10, 1993.] (*WINNER*)
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton

Trivia: After filming, Gregory Peck informed the producers that, as Audrey Hepburn was certainly going to win an Oscar (for this, her first major role), they had better put her name above the title. They did and she did.

12:30 AM All That Jazz (1979)

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Joe Gideon is a hedonistic workaholic who knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey, steady girlfriend Kate, a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique ...
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Gary Bayer, Leonard Drum, Jan Flato
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Roy Scheider {"Joe Gideon"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart, Gary Brink (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Giuseppe Rotunno
COSTUME DESIGN -- Albert Wolsky (*WINNER*)
DIRECTING -- Bob Fosse
FILM EDITING -- Alan Heim (*WINNER*)
MUSIC (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score) -- Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns (*WINNER*)
BEST PICTURE -- Robert Alan Aurthur, Producer
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse

Trivia: Richard Dreyfuss was originally cast in the role of Joe Gideon but departed from the production during the rehearsal stage, citing a lack of confidence in the production. He later admitted that he made a mistake in passing up the chance to work with Bob Fosse.


2:45 AM Camelot (1967)

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This lavish film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical celebrates a fleeting, mythical time of love and chivalry--the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table. Although torn apart by the conflicts between passion, love, honor and duty, it was a golden era that could have been ... and could yet be.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
Runtime: 179 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: John Truscott, Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Richard H. Kline
COSTUME DESIGN -- John Truscott (*WINNER*)
MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Alfred Newman, Ken Darby (*WINNER*)
SOUND -- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department

Trivia: At one point, while filming on a Warner Brothers soundstage, Richard Harris and producer Jack L. Warner were at odds over how to do a scene. Warner took Harris out onto the studio lot, and showed him the famous water tower with the Warner Brothers logo on it. "What does that tower say, Richard?" asked Warner. Harris replied "It says 'Warner Brothers." "Right," said Warner. "Now when it says 'Harris Brothers', *then* we'll do it *your* way."

Trivia: In later years, Richard Harris bought the rights to the stage version of "Camelot" for $1 million, revamped the musical, and took it on tour.

6:00 AM Merrily We Live (1938)

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A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter.
Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Billie Burke {"Mrs. Emily Kilbourne"}
ART DIRECTION -- Charles D. Hall
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Norbert Brodine
MUSIC (Song) -- "Merrily We Live," Music by Phil Charig; Lyrics by Arthur Quenzer
SOUND RECORDING -- Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director

Trivia: Billie Burke's only Oscar-nominated performance.

Trivia: Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, and Constance Bennett had worked on director Norman Z. McLeod's previous film, Topper (1937). The commercial and critical success of Topper played a large role in their inclusion in this film.


8:00 AM Caged (1950)

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A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Eleanor Parker {"Marie Allen"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Hope Emerson {"Evelyn Harper"}
WRITING (Story and Screenplay) -- Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld

Trivia: After I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) led to prison reform in six states, Warners producer Jerry Wald wanted to do the same for women's prisons and sent former newspaper reporter Virginia Kellogg out. She had written a novel that became a Kay Francis film, Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933), about a doctor who bears a child out of wedlock. She had also written well-researched original stories that were the basis for T-Men (1947), about treasury agents, and White Heat (1949), starring James Cagney as a psychotic gangster. She spent months doing research for Caged (1950) at prisons around the country, and was even briefly incarcerated in one of them. Her research is evident in the script with authentic prison slang of the era, and details of prison life, such as the caste system, and the tedium of daily life. Virginia Kellogg and Bernard C. Schoenfeld received an Oscar® nomination for Caged (1950)'s story and screenplay.

Trivia: Eleanor Parker allowed her head to be shaved for the sake of reality in the scene where the two prison matrons, played brilliantly by Hope Emerson and Frances Morris, tie her up and shave her head.

Trivia: In an early example of product placement, Snickers, Mason Mints and Life-Savers are clearly visible when Harper opens the drawer in her room.

10:00 AM Mogambo (1953)

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In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Ava Gardner {"Eloise 'Honey Bear' Kelly"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Grace Kelly {"Linda Nordley"}

Trivia: Clark Gable did not get along with director John Ford during filming, and at one point walked off the set in protest at Ford's treatment of Ava Gardner. Ford also made several remarks about Gable's age and weathered appearance.

Trivia: While Ava Gardner was shooting a scene with a baby elephant, the creature pushed her into a mud pool. She screamed for help, but John Ford motioned the crew to keep quiet and keep on filming. The scene proved to be one of the funniest in the movie.

12:00 PM 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 nomations:
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.

Trivia: James Dean was injured several times while shooting the switchblade fight, during which a real weapon was used.

2:00 PM Singin' in the Rain (1952)

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A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Dir: Gene Kelly Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jean Hagen {"Lina Lamont"}
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Lennie Hayton

Trivia: Debbie Reynolds remarked many years later that making this movie and surviving childbirth were the two hardest things she'd ever had to do. The filming experience was particularly unpleasant due to her harsh treatment by perfectionist Gene Kelly. Decades later, Kelly expressed remorse about his behavior: "I wasn't nice to Debbie. It's a wonder she still speaks to me."

Trivia: For the "Make 'em Laugh" number, Gene Kelly asked Donald O'Connor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer: running up a wall and completing a somersault. The number was so physically taxing that O'Connor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, ended up in a hospital bed for a week after its completion. He suffered from exhaustion and painful carpet burns. Unfortunately, an accident ruined all of the initial footage, so after a brief rest O'Connor agreed to do the difficult number all over again. Donald O'Connor recalled, "I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day then, and getting up those walls was murder. They had to bank one wall so I could make it up and then through another wall. We filmed that whole sequence in one day. We did it on a concrete floor. My body just had to absorb this tremendous shock. Things were building to such a crescendo that I thought I'd have to commit suicide for the ending. I came back on the set three days later. All the grips applauded. Gene Kelly applauded, told me what a great number it was. Then Gene said, "Do you think you could do that number again?" I said, "Sure, any time". He said, "Well, we're going to have to do it again tomorrow". No one had checked the aperture of the camera and they fogged out all the film. So the next day I did it again! By the end my feet and ankles were a mass of bruises."

4:00 PM Harvey (1950)

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When a man whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see, is committed to a mental hospital, a wondrously funny turn of events occurs.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: James Stewart, Wallace Ford, Victoria Horne
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTOR -- James Stewart {"Elwood P. Dowd"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Josephine Hull {"Veta Louise Simmons"} (*WINNER*)

Trivia: At the suggestion of James Stewart, the director changed many shots to make them wider so that "Harvey" would be in the frame.

Trivia: As a joke, the cast and crew would often set a chair for the title character at lunch and order him something to eat.

6:00 PM Butterflies Are Free (1972)

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Don Baker, a self-reliant, sightless young man becomes the object of affection for kooky Jill. After Jill makes love to Don, she tries to help him break free from the smothering influence of his mother, a children's-story writer.
Dir: Milton Katselas Cast: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Eileen Heckart {"Mrs. Baker"} (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Charles B. Lang
SOUND -- Arthur Piantadosi, Charles Knight

Trivia: Eileen Heckart was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "Butterflies are Free" but lost to co-star Blythe Danner. She recreated her stage role in this movie version, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. This time, she won.

8:00 PM Written on the Wind (1957)

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A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband's best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Robert Stack {"Kyle Hadley"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Dorothy Malone {"Marylee Hadley"} (*WINNER*)
MUSIC (Song) -- "Written On The Wind," Music by Victor Young; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

Trivia: Despite Rock Hudson's pleasant camaraderie with everyone on the set and his apparent happiness in his marriage, Dorothy Malone said she found him to be somewhat of a loner who hid his feelings of sadness and insecurity. Nevertheless, she developed a bond with him that helped her through moments of tension on the set. "Rock gave me that sense of security whenever I worked with him."


10:00 PM The Miracle Worker (1962)

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True story of the determined teacher who helped Helen Keller overcome deafness and blindness to learn to communicate.
Dir: Arthur Penn Cast: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Anne Bancroft {"Annie Sullivan"} (*WINNER*)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Patty Duke {"Helen Keller"} (*WINNER*)
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Ruth Morley
DIRECTING -- Arthur Penn
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- William Gibson

Trivia: Mark Twain was the first person to refer to Anne Sullivan as "the miracle worker". Twain was a friend of Helen Keller.

Trivia: Although Patty Duke had been playing Helen Keller in the play for more than a year, she almost didn't get the part in the film adaptation. The studio felt that being a teenager, she looked too old to play a seven-year-old. However, they decided to use Duke after deciding to use Anne Bancroft, who played Duke's original Annie Sullivan in the play. Patty Duke later played Annie Sullivan (with Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller) in the TV production (The Miracle Worker (1979).


12:00 AM Pollock (2000)

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The life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
Dir: Ed Harris Cast: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-MA CC:

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Ed Harris {"Jackson Pollock"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Marcia Gay Harden {"Lee Krasner"} (*WINNER*)


2:15 AM A Patch of Blue (1965)

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A young blind white woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts her into a school for the blind, and promises to marry her.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Elizabeth Hartman {"Selina D'Arcey"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Shelley Winters {"Rose-Ann D'Arcey"} (*WINNER*)
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: George W. Davis, Urie McCleary; Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Charles S. Thompson
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Robert Burks
MUSIC (Music Score--substantially original) -- Jerry Goldsmith

Trivia: Shelley Winters hated her role as "Rose-Ann", primarily because, as a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, she was very uncomfortable playing a racist. Winters actually was overwhelmed and speechless the night she won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Trivia: Scenes of Sidney Poitier and Elizabeth Hartman kissing were excised from the film when it was shown in theaters in the American South, where many states still had laws against what they called "race-mixing".


4:15 AM The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

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An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations: )
ACTOR -- Kirk Douglas {"Jonathan Shields"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Gloria Grahame {"Rosemary Bartlow"} (*WINNER*)
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason (*WINNER*)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Robert Surtees (*WINNER*)
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Helen Rose (*WINNER*)
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Charles Schnee (*WINNER*)

Trivia: At 9 minutes and 32 seconds, Gloria Grahame's performance in this movie became the shortest to ever win an Oscar. She held the record until 1976, when Beatrice Straight won for her 5 minute performance in Network (1976).

Trivia: Sex is mentioned six times throughout the film. While this may not be a big deal today the filmmakers in 1952 had trouble getting the word to make it past the censors.