TCM Schedule for Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 - Virginia Mayo / Political Films
Virginia Mayo (November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer. She was in a series of popular comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Bros.' biggest box-office draw in the late 1940s. She also co-starred in the 1946 Oscar-winning movie The Best Years of Our Lives.
Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Mayo
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6:00 AM | Out of the Blue (1947)
A young woman passes out in the apartment of an innocent young man.
Dir: Leigh Jason | Cast: George Brent, Virginia Mayo, Turhan Bey
7:30 AM | Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth | Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman
9:30 AM | Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)
Three chorus girls hit Las Vegas in search of rich husbands.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson
11:15 AM | The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years.
Dir: Peter Godfrey | Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken
12:45 PM | Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare | Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
2:15 PM | She's Back on Broadway (1953)
A fading Hollywood star returns to the stage to work with the man who discovered her.
Dir: Gordon Douglas | Cast: Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Frank Lovejoy
4:00 PM | She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)
A professor helps a burlesque queen get a college education.
Dir: Bruce Humberstone | Cast: Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson
6:00 PM | The West Point Story (1950)
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth | Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day
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8:00 PM | The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo | Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
10:15 PM | All the King's Men (1949)
A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted.
Dir: Robert Rossen | Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
12:15 AM | The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
2:30 AM | Fail Safe (1964)
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
Dir: Sidney Lumet | Cast: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau
4:30 AM | Ivan the Terrible (Part 2) (1958)
The Russian czar sinks to ever more bloodthirsty means of consolidating power.
Dir: Sergei M. Eisenstein | Cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov