TCM Saturday 7/22: Network, Jazz on a Summer's Day, The Philadelphia Story

STAR OF THE MONTH: 1970s STARS
- LEADING WOMEN
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Sounder (1972)
Klute (1971)
Network (1976)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950) (7 am ET)
MGM Cartoons: The Little Wise Quacker (1952)
Spreadin' the Jam (1945) (short)
Mexican Police on Parade (1943) (short)
Footloose Heiress, The (1937)
Batman and Robin Ch. 5: Robin Rescues Batman
(1949)
Popeye: Seasin's Greetinks! (1933)
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
Heart to Heart (1949) (short)
Absolute Beginners (1986) (Musical Matinee)
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
The Rounders (1965)
Bounty Hunter, The (1954)
Crime Wave (1954)
- TCM PRIMETIME
GUEST PROGRAMMER
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Red Shoes (1948)
- NOIR ALLEY
Julie (1956)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: SUMMER
The Picasso Summer (1970)
Last Summer (1969)

10:30 PM Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More (1974)



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A widow dreaming of a singing career ends up waiting tables in Phoenix.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar wins: ACTRESS -- Ellen Burstyn {"Alice Hyatt"}
Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Diane Ladd {"Flo"}
WRITING (Original Screenplay) -- Robert Getchell

Trivia: Diane Ladd's daughter Laura Dern can be seen in the final diner scene. She is the little blonde girl with glasses sitting at the end of the counter eating an ice cream cone. As Dern would recall years later, it was after the 19th take, and exactly that many cones consumed that director Martin Scorsese informed Ladd that if her daughter could do that without throwing up, she had to be an actress.

12:30 AM Sounder (1972)



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In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Paul Winfield {"Nathan Lee Morgan"}
ACTRESS -- Cicely Tyson {"Rebecca Morgan"}
BEST PICTURE -- Robert B. Radnitz, Producer
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- Lonne Elder, III

Trivia: Cicely Tyson commented in a TCM interview that director Martin Ritt's cinematographer (principal cameraman), while shooting the famous "homecoming sequence" with Tyson and co-star Paul Winfield, was so moved by their performances that he was certain he missed framing the action properly in the shots and respectfully asked them to do the difficult scene again. They obliged, but later examination of daily rushes revealed that they got shot and acting perfect the first time, and the first take was a print.

2:30 AM Klute (1971)



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A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ACTRESS -- Jane Fonda {"Bree Daniel"}
Oscar nominations:
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) -- Andy Lewis, Dave Lewis

Trivia: Sutherland and Fonda developed a nonexclusive romantic relationship offscreen which lasted until about June 1972. He was her date to the Oscars when she won Best Actress for this movie.

4:45 AM Network (1976)



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Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Peter Finch {"Howard Beale"}
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Faye Dunaway {"Diana Christensen"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Beatrice Straight {"Louise Schumacher"}
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen--based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced) -- Paddy Chayefsky
Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- William Holden {"Max Schumacher"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Ned Beatty {"Arthur Jensen"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Owen Roizman
DIRECTING -- Sidney Lumet
FILM EDITING -- Alan Heim
BEST PICTURE -- Howard Gottfried, Producer

Trivia: Peter Finch was desperate to win the role of Howard Beale once he had read the script. He even offered to pay his own airfare to New York City for the screentest. But Sidney Lumet was concerned about Finch's Australian accent. Finch won the part after sending Lumet a recording of himself reading the New York Times with a perfect American accent.

7:00 AM The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)
A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.
Dir: Herman Hoffman Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
Runtime: 56 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Cartoons: The Little Wise Quacker (1952)
Barney Bear has to abide by the duck hunting rule book provided by the only duck left at the pond during hunting season.
Dir: Dick Lundy Cast: Paul Frees
Runtime: 6 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:08 AM Short: Spreadin' the Jam (1945)
In this musical short, a young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help from her fellow tenants.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Helen Boyce, Ben Lessy, Jan Clayton
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:19 AM Short: Mexican Police on Parade (1943)
This short film focuses on the Mexico City police department's yearly festival.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, Marin Hernández, General Martinez, Juan Chávez
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:28 AM The Footloose Heiress (1937)



To win a bet, a society girl elopes with someone she hardly knows.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: Craig Reynolds, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Stuntwoman Marcella Arnold was killed on location at Oak Grove Park, Pasadena, California, when the car she was in overturned.


9:30 AM Serial: Batman & Robin, chapter 5: Robin Rescues Batman (1949)
Batman risks his life to rescue a young woman captured by a criminal mastermind.
Dir: Spencer Gordon Bennet. Cast: Robert Lowery, Johnny Duncan, Jane Adams
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Seasin's Greetinks! (1933)
Popeye and Olive Oyl go ice skating and all is well until Bluto arrives. Bluto tries to attract Olive with some fancy skating but she ignores him. Angered, he puts saws on his skates and spins around Olive, causing her to float down the river.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: William Costello, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe
Runtime: 5 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
A young doctor uses pioneering methods to treat a mental patient.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Heart to Heart (1949)
This short film focuses on heart disease and preventive measures an individual should take to avoid heart failures.
Dir: Gunther Von Fritsch Cast: Herbert Morgan
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Absolute Beginners (1986)



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An adman corrupts a photographer who loves a fashion designer in riotous 1958 Soho London.
Dir: Julien Temple Cast: Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit-Healy, Ray Davies, David Bowie
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Julien Temple asked David Bowie to write music for the film. After reading the book and then the script, Bowie agreed to Temple's offer if he could also play the part of Vendice Partners.

Trivia: The character of "Harry Charms" was based on a real-life British manager and impresario of the period, Larry Parnes, who was famous for hiring unknown singers and giving them extravagant stage names (his most famous client was Billy Fury). In 1960 he hired an unknown Liverpool band called The Beatles to accompany one of his lesser stars, Johnny Gentle, on a tour of Scotland, but he decided not to take the Beatles on as clients because he was only interested in handling solo singers, not groups.


2:00 PM Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)



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An incredible collection of classic live performances, "Jazz on a Summer's Day" captures Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, Mahalia Jackson, and many others performing at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Dir: Bert Stern Cast: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Gerry Mulligan
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Bert Stern, when trying to retrieve his archives from Spain, offered the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, all the footage of the film, along with the outtakes, in return for their paying the outstanding $50,000 storage bill and shipping them back to New York.

Trivia: In Hilton Als' 2008 New Yorker review of the documentary Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (2007), Als reports that Anita O'Day was high on heroin during her performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, and she was unaware that her performance was filmed until later. O'Day spoke frankly about her struggles with heroin addiction in her 1981 autobiography.

3:30 PM The Rounders (1965)



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Two ne'er-do-well cowpokes look for sex and easy money in the modern West.
Dir: Burt Kennedy Cast: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Vince (Edgar Buchanan) asks Howdy (Henry Fonda) how he came to have such a name as Howdy. "Made it up. Why?" "Marion . . . that was my given name. A man can't ride bucking horses with a handle like that so I changed it." This was a poke at fellow actor John Wayne, who became famous playing cowboys and who was born Marion Michael Morrison.

5:00 PM The Bounty Hunter (1954)
A bounty hunter attempts to track down three killers.
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)



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A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: According to an interview on US DVD, Jack L. Warner originally wanted Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner to star in the movie, but André De Toth vehemently protested this. Warner was fed up after a long argument and told De Toth he could make the movie any way he wanted, but it had to be in two weeks, which suited De Toth since he finished under schedule and under budget with his preferred star, Sterling Hayden.


8:00 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)



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Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins: ACTOR -- James Stewart {"Mike Connor"}
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Donald Ogden Stewart
Oscar nominations: ACTRESS -- Katharine Hepburn {"Tracy Lord"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Ruth Hussey {"Liz Imbrie"}
DIRECTING -- George Cukor
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Trivia: The film was shot in eight weeks, and required no retakes. During the scene where James Stewart hiccups when drunk, you can see Cary Grant looking down and grinning. Since the hiccup wasn't scripted, Grant was on the verge of breaking out laughing and had to compose himself quickly. Stewart (apparently spontaneously) thought of hiccuping in the drunk scene, without telling Grant. When he began hiccuping, Grant turned to Stewart, saying, "Excuse me." The scene required only one take.

10:00 PM The Red Shoes (1948)



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Tale of a famous ballerina who must choose between art and love.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins: ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Hein Heckroth; Set Decoration: Arthur Lawson
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Brian Easdale
Oscar nominations:
FILM EDITING -- Reginald Mills
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- J. Arthur Rank-Archers
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Emeric Pressburger

Trivia: The title ballet sequence took six weeks to shoot and employed over 120 paintings by Hein Heckroth. The dancing newspaper was achieved through careful cutting and use of wires.

NOIR ALLEY: 12:30 AM Julie (1956)



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A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic, estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "Julie," Music by Leith Stevens; Lyrics by Tom Adair
WRITING (Screenplay--Original) -- Andrew L. Stone

Trivia: While making this film on location, Doris Day repeatedly complained to her husband Martin Melcher, whose first film as a producer this was, that she felt ill and needed a rest. He insisted that she adhere to her Christian Science beliefs - and the film's shooting schedule - and "have faith" that whatever was ailing her would pass. Once shooting was completed, Day consulted her doctor in Beverly Hills, and discovered a large ovarian tumor, which required her to have a hysterectomy.

2:30 AM The Picasso Summer (1970)

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A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.
Dir: Serge Bourguignon Cast: Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, Luis Miguel Dominguin
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Serge Bourguignon was never officially credited as director on this film. His original footage was edited and his "cut" was deemed unacceptable for submission to Warner-7 Arts. Robert Sallin and his production company, Kaleidoscope Productions, were hired to re-shoot the film. Some of Bourguignon's footage was used in the completely re-structured final version. Sallin received the final and sole director's credit.

4:15 AM Last Summer (1969)

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Three vacationing students set out to humiliate an insecure girl.
Dir: Frank Perry Cast: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations: ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Catherine Burns {"Rhoda"}

Trivia: A subplot involving a wounded seagull affected Barbara Hershey sufficiently for her to change her surname to Seagull for a few years.