Thoughts about pop culture and other things
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (6:15AM/5:15AM)
Witness for the Prosecution (8AM/7AM)
The Green Years (10AM/9AM)
The Southerner (12:15PM/11:15AM)
Three Little Words (2PM/1PM)
Kisses for My President (4PM/3PM)
Baby Doll (6PM/5PM)
How the West was Won (8PM/7PM)
The Gunfighter (11PM/10PM)
A Streetcar Named Desire (12:45AM/11:45PM)
Planet of the Apes (3AM/2AM)
Kind Lady (5AM/4AM)
Happy Oscar Day! Also, it’s National Pizza Day!
Can you believe the Oscars are so early this year? This is the earliest Oscars ever aired.
Mystery Street (6:45AM/5:45AM)
CSI 1950s-style
Battleground (8:45AM/7:45AM)
One of the first post-WWII movies set in WWII.
The Harvey Girls (11AM/10AM)
There were real-life Harvey Girls!
Friendly Persuasion (1PM/noon)
Maureen O’Hara was almost cast as the mother.
Gentleman’s Agreement (3:30PM/2:30PM)
The 1947 Best Picture winner. One of the first films to look at anti-Semitism in America.
National Velvet (5:45PM/4:45PM)
Elizabeth Taylor was fell off the horse and was left with lifelong back problems.
Strike Up the Band (8PM/7PM)
Mickey and Judy put on another show!
A Star is Born (10:15PM/9:15PM)
Judy lost the Best Actress Oscar by six votes.
Julius Caesar (1:30AM/12:30AM)
Brando plays Mark Antony.
On the Waterfront (3:45AM/2:45AM)
The 1954 Best Picture winner. Elia Kazan directs Brando in this tale of union corruption.
The Sandpiper (5:45AM/4:45AM)
School principal Burton falls for free-spirited single mom Taylor.
Juarez (7:15AM/6:15AM)
Bette Davis took the small role of Carlotta just so she could play the Empress’s breakdown.
Now, Voyager (9:30AM/8:30AM)
Bette Davis thought that her character should have ended up with her psychiatrist.
The Spanish Main (11:30AM/10:30AM)
Victor Lazlo becomes a pirate after Ilsa dumps him for Rick.
This Land is Mine (1:30PM/12:30PM)
Charles Laughton attempts to fight Nazism in WWII France.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (3:30PM/2:30PM)
Donna Reed’s character was not in the novel.
From Here to Eternity (5:45PM/4:45PM)
The movie with the kiss on the beach. Oh, and it takes place right before Pearl Harbor.
Separate Tables (8PM/7PM)
People wind up at an English resort including exes Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth.
Atlantic City (10PM/9PM)
A former gangster falls for a married waitress.
Bull Durham (midnight/11AM)
TCM premiere. The lives of minor league baseball players.
The Player (2AM/1AM)
An aspiring producer murders a screenwriter.
The Valley of Decision (4:30AM/3:30AM)
An Irish maid falls for her dad’s boss’s son.
Dorothy McGuire makes her SUTS debut with 12 films including the TCM premiere of Mother Didn’t Tell Me.
Dorothy McGuire was born on June 14, 1916, to Thomas and Isabelle McGuire. She made her stage debut at age 13 at a local community playhouse in Omaha, Nebraska. Her co-star was Henry Fonda. She appeared in summer stock before moving to New York. McGuire was on the radio and on stage until receiving her breakthrough role in the play Claudia. She reprised her role in the film adaptation, her film debut.
Dorothy McGuire wanted to be an actress, not a star. She received her only Oscar nomination in 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement. She also developed the La Jolla Playhouse with friend and Men co-star Gregory Peck. By 1956, McGuire permanently switched to “mom” roles starting with Friendly Persuasion, co-starring Gary Cooper, followed by her first Disney film, Old Yeller. Later in her career, Dorothy moved to television. Dorothy McGuire died two days after 9/11 at the age of 85.
The Enchanted Cottage (1945-noon/11AM)
Co-starring: Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, and Mildred Natwick
Plain Dorothy falls in love with disfigured pilot Robert Young in this romantic fantasy.
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947-2PM/1PM)
Co-starring: Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Anne Revere, Dean Stockwell, and Celeste Holm
Dorothy received her only Oscar nomination as a socialite who doesn’t speak out about anti-Semitism, at first. I, and apparently and a lot of people, wish Gregory Peck wound up with colleague Celeste Holm instead.
A Summer Place (1959-8PM/7PM)
Co-starring: Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Arthur Kennedy, Richard Egan, and Constance Ford
Dorothy is an unhappily married woman who rekindles a love affair with a former lover, and then the duo’s respective children hook up.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945-10:15PM/9:15PM)
Co-starring: Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Joan Blondell, and Lloyd Nolan
Dorothy played her first “mom” role in Elia Kazan’s directorial film debut.
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