TCM Schedule for Saturday 8/26/23: Summer Under the Stars: Doris Day

TCM 8-26-23 Summer Under the Stars: Doris Day

- TCM PRIMETIME
SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - ERNEST BORGNINE
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Escape from New York (1981)
Legend Of Lylah Clare, The (1968)
Saturday, August 26
- TCM DAYTIME
SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - DORIS DAY
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Tea for Two (1950)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Winning Team, The (1952)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
- TCM PRIMETIME
Pillow Talk (1959)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Glass Bottom Boat, The (1966)
Julie (1956)
Tunnel of Love, The (1958)

10:45 PM The Wild Bunch (1969)

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An aging band of outlaws make one last score and head to Mexico with a band of bounty hunters on their heels. They leave a trail of bloody mayhem and violence along the way.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah Cast: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 148 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Original Score--for a motion picture [not a musical]) -- Jerry Fielding
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on material not previously published or produced) -- Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah

Trivia: In an interview, Ben Johnson said that the Mexican women who "frolicked" with him and Warren Oates in the huge wine vats weren't actresses but prostitutes from a nearby brothel, who were hired by Sam Peckinpah so he could tell people that Warner Bros. paid for hookers for his cast.

1:30 AM Escape From New York (1981)



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A hardened criminal is offered a pardon if he rescues the president from convicts in the prison city of Manhattan.
Dir: John Carpenter Cast: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-MA CC: N

Trivia: Kurt Russell pitched himself hard for the role of Snake Plissken, as he was very keen to shake off his Disney image.

Trivia: The model of the city set was repainted and reused for Blade Runner (1982).

Trivia: The opening narration, and the computer's voice in the first prison scene, were provided by an uncredited Jamie Lee Curtis.


3:30 AM The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
An obsessed movie director grooms an unknown to play his deceased movie-star wife.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


6:00 AM My Dream Is Yours (1949)
A talent scout turns a young unknown into a radio singing star.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)



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The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations: MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- George Stoll

Trivia: This movie was based on Billy Rose's 1935 Hippodrome extravaganza and one of Rose's stipulations in negotiating the screen rights was that his name be featured in the title.

10:15 AM On Moonlight Bay (1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day, Gordon Macrae, ["smiling"] Jack Smith
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: This movie proved to be so popular that the studio immediately green-lit By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) which is a direct sequel with all the actors playing the same characters.

Trivia: This film, its sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon and Calamity Jane were among Doris Day's personal favorites of her films.


12:00 PM Tea for Two (1950)



An heiress has to say no to every question for 24 hours if she wants to star on Broadway.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Doris Day, Gordon Macrae, Gene Nelson
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: This was the first movie in which Doris Day received top billing.

1:45 PM Love Me or Leave Me (1955)



True story of torch singer Ruth Etting's struggle to escape the gangster who made her a star.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- James Cagney {"Martin Snyder"}
MUSIC (Scoring of a Musical Picture) -- Percy Faith, George Stoll
MUSIC (Song) -- "I'll Never Stop Loving You," Music by Nicholas Brodszky; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
SOUND RECORDING -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Wesley C. Miller, Sound Director
WRITING (Motion Picture Story) -- Daniel Fuchs (WINNER)
WRITING (Screenplay) -- Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart

Trivia: This was the last time James Cagney portrayed a gangster in a movie. It was also was the only time, after becoming a star in the 1930s, that James Cagney accepted second billing for a major role. He thought that Doris Day's character was more central to the film's plot and so ceded top billing to her.

4:00 PM The Winning Team (1952)

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Baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander fights his way back from a blinding injury.
Dir: Lewis Seiler Cast: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Before making this film together, Doris Day and Ronald Reagan had dated in real life. After hesitating about asking for her hand in marriage, Day instead accepted a proposal from her manager at the time, Martin Melcher, to whom she remained married until his death in 1968.


6:00 PM Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)



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A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 PM Pillow Talk (1959)



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A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

ACTRESS -- Doris Day {"Jan Morrow"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Thelma Ritter {"Alma"}
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Richard H. Riedel; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Ruby R. Levitt
MUSIC (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) -- Frank DeVol
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin (WINNER)

Trivia: Ross Hunter wrote that after he made this film, no theatre managers wanted to book it. Popular movie themes at the time were war films, westerns, and spectacles. Hunter was told by the big movie chains that sophisticated comedies like this movie went out with William Powell. They also believed that Doris Day and Rock Hudson were things of the past and had been overtaken by newer stars. Hunter persuaded Sol Schwartz, who owned the Palace Theatre in New York, to book the film for a two-week run, and it was a smash hit.

Trivia: After Jonathan (Tony Randall) slaps Jan (Doris Day) in the diner, a truck driver (John Indrisano) punches him in the jaw. In an interview, Randall said that he and Indrisano practised the punch many times, and Indrisano assured him that he would not be hit. During the take, Indrisano misjudged, and Randall actually was struck and knocked unconscious.


10:00 PM Move Over, Darling (1963)



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Five years after a woman disappeared in the sea after a plane crash, her husband remarries and sets off to be with the new wife only to be confronted by the woman he had pronounced legally dead.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

Trivia: James Garner accidentally cracked two of Doris Day's ribs during the massage scene, when he pulls her off Polly Bergen. Garner wasn't even aware that Day was injured until the next day when he felt the bandage while putting his arms around her.

Trivia: The movie that Ellen (Doris Day) describes to Bianca (Polly Bergen) while giving her a massage is My Favorite Wife (1940), of which this is a remake.

12:00 AM The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)



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A PR worker in a space laboratory is suspected of being a spy because she calls her dog on the phone and calls him "Vladimir."
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Robert Vaughn briefly appears in his role of Napoleon Solo from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) at the party, with a snatch of that show's theme music on the soundtrack. The same music is heard when Homer Cripps goes undercover in drag. Theodore Marcuse played three different guest characters on that show. Dom DeLuise appeared on the spin-off The Danish Blue Affair (1966).


2:00 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


4:00 AM The Tunnel of Love (1958)
A married couple endures endless red tape when they try to adopt a child.
Dir: Gene Kelly Cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y