TCM Schedule Saturday 11/9/24 - Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple, Rio Bravo, The Fisher King

- TCM PRIMETIME
DAMON RUNYON ADAPTATIONS
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Little Miss Marker (1934)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Slight Case of Murder, A (1938)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: JEAN RENOIR, FRANCE
Day in the Country, A (1946) (short)
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Broadway Melody, The (1929)
MGM Cartoons: Wags to Riches (1949)
My Tomato (1943) (short)
Believe It or Not #1 (1931) (short)
In the Money (1958)
The Wolf Dog Ch. 6: The Gates of Mercy (1933) (TCM Premiere)
Popeye: I Yam Love Sick (1938)
Secret of Dr. Kildare, The (1939)
Wells Fargo Days (1944) (short)
- MUSICAL MATINEE
Hips, Hips, Hooray (1934)
Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Triple Cross (1966)
- TCM PRIMETIME
TCM SERIES: TWO FOR ONE - PATTY JENKINS
Fisher King, The (1991)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- NOIR ALLEY
Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: BARBRA STREISAND
Star Is Born, A (1976)



10:45 PM Little Miss Marker (1934)





A big-time gambler picks up a young girl as security on an IOU.
Dir: Alexander Hall Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Shirley Temple, Charles Bickford
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N

Trivia: Adolphe Menjou was having difficulty with a particular line in the script. After the prompting of others on the set, Shirley Temple turned to director Alexander Hall and asked, "Is it too late to replace Mr. Menjou on this picture?"

Trivia: Dorothy Dell and Shirley Temple became good friends while filming this movie. When Dell died in a car crash shortly after the movie was completed, Temple was shielded from the news for as long as possible.

Trivia: Shirley Temple was nervous about filming the blood transfusion scene because she feared that she would really be given a shot. In fact the needle was merely taped against her arm.

12:15 AM Lady for a Day (1933)





A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- May Robson {"Apple Annie"} [came in 2nd]
DIRECTING -- Frank Capra [came in 2nd]
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Columbia
WRITING (Adaptation) -- Robert Riskin [came in 2nd]

Trivia: When Frank Capra was nominated for his first Best Director Oscar in 1934 for his work on this movie, presenter Will Rogers merely opened the envelope and said, "Come and get it, Frank!". Already halfway to the stage, Capra realized that Rogers wasn't referring to him, but to Frank Lloyd, who was getting the award for Cavalcade (1933).



2:00 AM A Slight Case of Murder (1938)





A gangster finds the straight life isn't so simple.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Jane Bryan plays Edward G. Robinson's daughter in this film. A year earlier she played his sister in Kid Galahad (1937).


3:30 AM Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)





The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The film was originally designed as a vehicle for Danny Kaye, then under contract to Warner Brothers, but the comedian terminated his agreement with the studio.

Trivia: Lauren Bacall was offered the female lead, but she refused the role.

5:00 AM A Day in the Country (1946)
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn where they are staying. Written and directed by Jean Renoir in 1936, but not edited and released until 1946. Also known as 'Une Partie de Campagne'.
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Sylvia Bataille, Jeanne Marken, Georges D'arnoux
Runtime: 42 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

6:00 AM The Broadway Melody (1929)





Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: A silent version was also released, as many cinemas hadn't yet acquired sound equipment in 1929.

Trivia: 1929's top-grossing film.


8:00 AM Cartoon: Wags to Riches (1949)
A millionaire with two dogs leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune would go to Spike. Guess what Spike is up to?
Dir: Tex Avery Cast: Tex Avery, William H. Thompson, Pat McGeehan
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:08 AM Short: My Tomato (1943)
In this comedic short, Robert Benchley attempts to grow his own tomatoes.
Dir: Will Jason Cast: John Dilson, Ruth Lee, Monte F. Collins
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:16 AM Short: Believe It or Not #1 (1931)
This short entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series focuses on various sites and oddities to be found in northern Africa. Vitaphone Release 1282.
Dir: Murray Roth Cast: Robert L Ripley
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:25 AM In the Money (1958)



The Bowery Boys escort a diamond concealing poodle on a cruise.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, Patricia Donahue
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The last of 48 Bowery Boys movies released from 1946 to 1958.


9:30 AM Serial: The Wolf Dog: Chapter 6 - The Gates of Mercy.

When a boy's guardian secretly plots to steal his inheritance, only his radio operator friend and wolf-dog companion stand between him and disaster.
Dir: Colbert Clark, Harry L. Fraser Cast: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Frankie Darro, Boots Mallory
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC:


10:00 AM Cartoon: I Yam Love Sick (1938)
Popeye plays sick to win Olive's attention. Doctors fail to locate his illness and Olive believes it's his end. When Popeye sits up in bed and confesses that it was all a gag, Olive pummels him.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel Cast: Bonnie Poe, Jack Mercer, Gus Wicke
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:09 AM The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)



A young doctor tries to help a woman suffering from psychosomatic blindness.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.


11:30 AM Short: Wells Fargo Days (1944)
A gunman attempts to avoid trouble in a new town.
Dir: Mack V. Wright Cast: Oscar Gahan, Karl Hackett, Cactus Mack
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)



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Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby wrote "Keep Doin' What You're Doin'" as a duet for Zeppo Marx and Raquel Torres in The Marx Brothers' film "Duck Soup." When the number was cut from that picture, they recycled it in 'Hips, Hips, Hooray."

Trivia: During the song "Keep On Doing What You're Doing", Dorothy Lee is dropped on her back. Although she carries on, and finishes the number, the injury to her spine left her in pain for the rest of her life.

1:15 PM Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
The story of Dean Martin told through interviews and archival footage.
Dir: Tom Donahue Cast: Jerry Lewis, Bob Newhart, Angie Dickinson
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:15 PM Rio Bravo (1959)





Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, and Ward Bond. Written by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, based on the short story "Rio Bravo" by B. H. McCampbell, the film stars Wayne as a Texan sheriff who arrests the brother of a powerful local rancher for murder and then has to hold the man in jail until a U.S. Marshal can arrive. With the help of a lame old man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter, they hold off the rancher's gang. Rio Bravo was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Eastmancolor, with film processing provided by Technicolor.

In 2014, Rio Bravo was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Runtime: 141 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: Howard Hawks did not want to cast Ricky Nelson, whom he considered to be both too young and too lightweight, and deliberately gave him the fewest possible number of lines for a third-billed star. However, he later admitted that having Nelson's name on the poster had probably added $2 million to the film's box office performance.


5:45 PM Triple Cross (1966)





A safe-cracker turns double agent during WWII.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Gert Fröbe plays a man called "Steinhäger". In Germany Steinhäger is a alcoholic drink with a minimum of 38% ABV and is distilled in Steinhagen.


8:00 PM The Fisher King (1991)





A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
Dir: Terry Gilliam Cast: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant
Runtime: 137 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Robin Williams {"Parry"}
(*WINNER*) ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Mercedes Ruehl {"Anne"}
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Cindy Carr
MUSIC (Original Score) -- George Fenton
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Richard LaGravenese



Trivia: Terry Gilliam had three rules in life when it came to filmmaking: 1) he'd never do anyone's script but his own, 2) he'd never work for a major studio, and 3) he'd never work in America. He violated all three of the rules to make this film.

10:30 PM Synecdoche, New York (2008)





A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Dir: Charlie Kaufman Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Philip Seymour Hoffman's character's last name, Cotard, is a reference to the Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome, also known as nihilistic or negation delusion. It's a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person believes that they are dead, do not exist, are decaying, or have lost their blood or internal organs.


12:45 AM Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966)



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A gangster escapes prison and teams up with a gang to plan a major heist in Marseilles. But when he is caught by a detective on his trail, he is faced with the dilemma of ratting out his friends.
Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Runtime: 150 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-14 CC: N

Trivia: During the shooting of the scene in which Lino Ventura runs after the freight train that he tries to jump in, director Jean-Pierre Melville asked the train conductor to speed the train up, making it more difficult for Ventura to successfully make the jump, and Melville wanted to see the pain on his face as he tried harder to catch the train. When Ventura heard about this, long after the shooting, he was so angry about it that he had a huge row with Melville. The two never spoke again. They did make another film together, Army of Shadows (1969), but only spoke to each other through assistants.


3:30 AM A Star Is Born (1976)



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A fast-rising singer tries to put a has-been rocker back on top.
Dir: Frank R. Pierson Cast: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Robert Surtees
MUSIC (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score) -- Adaptation Score by Roger Kellaway
(*WINNER*) MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)," Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams
SOUND -- Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass, Tom Overton



Trivia: Barbra Streisand wanted Elvis Presley for the part of John Norman Howard. She even went to Las Vegas to see Elvis after one of his performances in 1975, and talked to him directly. Elvis wanted to do it, but his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was angry that Streisand hadn't come to him first. He told the producers that if they wanted Elvis, his name had to be at the top of the movie poster, above Streisand's. He also asked for a very large sum of money. Elvis hadn't been in a movie since 1969, and nobody knew what he could do at the box office.