TCM Schedule Saturday Aug. 31 - Summer Under the Stars: Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot, Sex and the Single Girl

TCM Schedule Saturday Aug. 31 - Summer Under the Stars: Tony Curtis - Some Like It Hot, Sex and the Single Girl

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - GINGER ROGERS
Major and the Minor, The (1942)
Primrose Path (1940)
Storm Warning (1951)
SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - TONY CURTIS
Don't Make Waves (1967)
Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Great Race, The (1965)
Perfect Furlough, The (1958)
Black Shield of Falworth, The (1954)
Outsider, The (1961)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
Boston Strangler, The (1968)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Insignificance (1985)



SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - GINGER ROGERS

12:00 AM The Major and the Minor (1942)



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A woman disguises herself as a little girl and ends up in a military academy.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The role was very close to Ginger Rogers' heart. When she was touring America with her vaudeville act and chauffeured by her mother, Lela E. Rogers, they could not afford to pay the full fare. Ginger had to pretend to be younger by rolling her stockings down and holding her old dolly to look like a young child in order to get a cheaper fare.

2:00 AM Primrose Path (1940)



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The youngest child in a family of prostitutes tries to go straight with a working man.
Dir: Gregory La Cava Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel Mccrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: Ginger Rogers dyed her hair brunette for this film, but kept that a secret until the movie was released.

4:00 AM Storm Warning (1951)



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While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group--and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. District Attorney Burt Rainey finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, ...
Dir: Stuart Heisler Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: This was one of only a handful of straight-up dramas in which Doris Day ever appeared, and was her first (and only) film for Warner Brothers in which she did not sing a note. She accepted this role partly for the opportunity to work with one of her childhood idols, Ginger Rogers.

SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - TONY CURTIS

6:00 AM Don't Make Waves (1967)

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A swimming pool salesman gets mixed up with beauty queens and bodybuilders when he falls in love on the west coast.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Sharon Tate
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Sharon Tate's character of Malibu inspired the Malibu Barbie doll.

Trivia: Husband-and-wife Jim and Henny Backus had a cameo role as themselves portraying a pair of Carlo's swimming pool "customers".

7:45 AM Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)



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Two fliers during the Korean War compete for a beautiful Italian nurse.
Dir: Norman Panama Cast: Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C Scott
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: While they play service men in the Air Force, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott both served in the Armed Forces during WWII before entering show business. Unlike their characters though, Curtis was in the Navy, while Scott was in the Marines.

9:45 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)



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A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact or fiction.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: In her contract for this film, Natalie Wood required Warner Bros. to provide a portable trailer, white cigarette holders from London, oil gardenia from Cairo, days off when she was on her menstrual cycle, and a $160,000 salary.


11:45 AM The Great Race (1965)



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Mayhem and double-crossing abound as some zany professional racers go up against each other in a 1908 cross-continental road race from New York to Paris.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: This film was the inspiration for the Saturday morning cartoon show Wacky Races (1968): Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley were based on Professor Fate and Max, Penelope Pitstop was based on Maggie DuBois and Peter Perfect was based on Leslie.

2:30 PM The Perfect Furlough (1958)



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A handsome ladies' man who goes on a three week furlough to Paris with his favorite movie star in an experiment devised by a hard-working female Army shrink. Naturally the psychologist chaperones. Romantic mayhem ensues and eventually the furloughed soldier and the shrink fall in love.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Jamie Lee Curtis was born exactly one week prior to the release of this movie, with both her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, starring in it.

4:15 PM The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)



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A disgraced knight becomes a swashbuckler and fights for the hand of the daughter of the king.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh were real life husband and wife when this film was released.

6:00 PM The Outsider (1961)



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A Native veteran who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima suffers from survivor's guilt.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Film debut of Lynda Day George.

8:00 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)



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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy[4] film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.

Some Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5][6]

The film was produced without approval from the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) because it features cross-dressing. The code had been gradually weakening in its scope since the early 1950s, owing to greater social tolerance for taboo topics in film, but it was enforced until the mid-1960s. The overwhelming success of Some Like It Hot is considered one of the reasons behind the retirement of the Hays Code.[3]

Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: Years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Tony Curtis why his "Josephine" was so much more feminine than Jack Lemmon's "Daphne." Curtis explained he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.


10:15 PM The Defiant Ones (1958)



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Two convicts, a white racist and an angry black, escape while chained to each other.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



Trivia: The young man with the transistor radio is played by Our Gang/The Little Rascals graduate Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer in his final screen appearance before his untimely death in a shooting incident.

12:00 AM The Boston Strangler (1968)



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The Boston Strangler is a 1968 American biographical crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Murray Hamilton, Sally Kellerman and William Hickey.[3] It is loosely based on the true story of the Boston Strangler and the 1966 book of the same name by Gerold Frank.[4]

The Boston Strangler was released in the United States on October 16, 1968, by 20th Century Fox. It was a box-office success, grossing over $17 million, but received mixed reviews from critics, with several deriding it as an exploitation film that featured a number of inaccuracies in its depiction of the actual crimes. For his performance as Albert DeSalvo—the man who confessed to being the Strangler—Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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Trivia: Shortly before filming was set to begin, the real Albert DeSalvo escaped from the mental institution where he was imprisoned. He was later captured after being on the run for thirty-three hours.


2:15 AM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)



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Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir drama film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, and Martin Milner, and written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman, and Mackendrick from the novelette by Lehman. The shadowy noir cinematography filmed on location in New York City was shot by James Wong Howe. The picture was produced by James Hill of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists. The supporting cast features Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Joe Frisco, Edith Atwater, David White, and Emile Meyer. The musical score was arranged and conducted by Elmer Bernstein and the film also features jazz performances by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Mary Grant designed the costumes.

The film tells the story of powerful and sleazy newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (portrayed by Lancaster and based on Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems unworthy of her.

Despite a poorly received preview screening, Sweet Smell of Success has greatly improved in stature over the years. It grew to become highly acclaimed by film critics, particularly for its cinematography and screenplay. In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Publicity materials for the film noted cinematographer James Wong Howe spread a film of Vaseline on Lancaster's glasses to create a shine and make his stare more menacing.

4:00 AM Insignificance (1985)



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One summer night in New York in 1953, a senator, a starlet and her baseball-star husband end up in the hotel room of a physics professor. They discuss sex, power, politics, physics, the atom bomb and their troubled childhoods.
Dir: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: N

Trivia: The Professor's pocket watch always shows the time at being 8:15 which was the time of the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.