TCM Schedule for Thursday, July 25, 2024: Walter Brennan B-Day Tribute / Star of the Month, Eva Marie Saint

Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He played more than 230 film and television roles during a career that spanned nearly five decades. He is perhaps most famous for appearing on television's The Real McCoys (1957-1963)

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards, and the only male or female actor to win three awards in the supporting actor category.

Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941), airing today at 5:45 pm. Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948) and Rio Bravo (1959).

Brennan was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and studied engineering in high school. While working as a bank clerk he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a private for two years with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during World War I. While there he suffered an injury to his vocal cords from exposure to mustard gas that left him with his screen trademark: a distinctively reedy, high-pitched voice that became a favorite for celebrity impersonators.

Penniless following losses in real estate speculation, Brennan began taking parts as an extra in films at Universal Studios in 1925. The rest, as they say, is history.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brennan



Garry Cooper and Walter Brennan in Sergeant York


--- MORNING & AFTERNOON (EST) ---

6:00 AM | Glory (1956)
A young woman's devotion to her racehorse creates romantic problems.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood

7:45 AM | Slightly Dangerous (1943)
A small-town girl changes her identity to make it in New York, leaving her boyfriend a suspect in her "disappearance."
Dir: Wesley Ruggles | Cast: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan

9:30 AM | Along the Great Divide (1951)
A U.S. Marshall tries to get a rustler to trial before a vengeful rancher can kill him.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar

11:00 AM | Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
A stray dog brings together a young boy and an old man in the Georgia swamps.
Dir: William A. Wellman | Cast: Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon De Wilde

12:45 PM | The Green Promise (1949)
A farmer's daughter is torn between love and her obligation to work the family's land.
Dir: William D. Russell | Cast: Marguerite Chapman, Walter Brennan, Robert Paige

2:30 PM | Three Godfathers (1936)
Three fugitives risk their lives to bring a newborn baby out of the desert to safety.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski | Cast: Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan

4:00 PM | Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Dir: Jean Negulesco | Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan

5:45 PM | Sergeant York (1941)
Farm boy transitions from religious pacifist to World War I hero.
Dir: Howard Hawks | Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie


--- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT ---

8:00 PM | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
A Soviet submarine accidentally runs aground off the coast of a small New England town.
Dir: Norman Jewison | Cast: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin



10:15 PM | The Stalking Moon (1968)
A retired Army scout protects a woman from her son's vicious Native father.
Dir: Robert Mulligan | Cast: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster



12:15 AM | Loving (1970)
A conflicted artist tries to find a sense of purpose in life.
Dir: Irvin Kershner | Cast: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden

2:00 AM | Nothing in Common (1986) TCM Premiere
An advertising executive finds his life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Dir: Garry Marshall | Cast: Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint, Hector Elizondo



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4:15 AM | This is Joan Collins (2022)
Joan Collins takes us through her 70 year silver screen and showbiz career.
Dir: Clare Beavan | Cast: Joan Collins | Genre: Documentary