TCM Schedule for Fri., Mar 28, 2025: Flora Robson / Movie Mix-ups

Dame Flora Robson (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity.

Robson made her stage debut in 1921. By the 1930s she was appearing in several prominent films both in the UK and in Hollywood, alongside such stars as Laurence Olivier, Paul Muni and George Raft.

Her most notable role was that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire Over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940).

In 1934, Robson played the Empress Elizabeth in Alexander Korda's The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Angelique Buiton, a servant, in Saratoga Trunk (1945). Many of the films are on today's schedule.

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


DAYTIME (EST):

6:00 AM | The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Marriage to the heir to the Russian throne is far from a picnic for his lovely German bride.
Dir: Paul Czinner | Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson

7:45 AM | The Sea Hawk (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains

10:15 AM | Saratoga Trunk (1945)
A woman with a past returns to 19th-century New Orleans for revenge.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson

12:45 PM | Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government.
Dir: Gabriel Pascal | Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Flora Robson

3:00 PM | Great Day (1945)
Small-town women face personal problems while preparing for a visit from Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dir: Lance Comfort | Cast: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim

4:30 PM | Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar

6:30 PM | Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock | Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson

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PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT:

8:00 PM | The Gay Divorcee (1934)
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady

10:00 PM | Tom Jones (1963)
The young Tom Jones grows up to become a bawdy womanizer.
Dir: Tony Richardson | Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith

12:30 AM | A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt | Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark

2:30 AM | The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
A proper Englishman gets caught leading a double life.
Dir: Anthony Asquith | Cast: Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis

4:15 AM | Love Crazy (1941)
A businessman concocts a series of schemes to keep his wife from divorcing him.
Dir: Jack Conway | Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick