TCM Schedule for Saturday April 15 -- Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood

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Saturday April 15 At a Glance

Mister Roberts (1955)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
House of Wax (1953)
Bounty Hunter, The (1954)
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GETS SCARED
Doctor X (1932) (5:30 am ET)
Mystery of the Wax Museum, The (1933)
Them! (1954)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Dead Ringer (1964)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER LOOKS TO BROADWAY
FOR INSPIRATION
My Fair Lady (1964)
Music Man, The (1962)
Gypsy (1962)
Camelot (1967)


(Friday) 10:00 PM Mister Roberts (1955)

A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jack Lemmon {"Ensign Pulver"}
Oscar nominations:
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Leland Hayward, Producer
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, William A. Mueller, Sound Director

12:15 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)

A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:15 AM House of Wax (1953)

Ghoulish shenanigans, creepy goings-on, and bloody mayhem all register to full effect in the "Wax Museum."
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM The Bounty Hunter (1954)
A bounty hunter attempts to track down three killers.
Dir: Andre Detoth Cast: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 AM Doctor X (1932)

A reporter investigates a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


7:00 AM Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


9:00 AM Them! (1954)

Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Warner Bros. Studio


11:00 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl--a quintessential psychopath--kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this "bad seed" to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke
Runtime: 129 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Nancy Kelly {"Christine Penmark"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Eileen Heckart {"Mrs. Daigle"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Patty McCormack {"Rhoda Penmark"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Hal Rosson


1:30 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


3:30 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White) -- Norma Koch
Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Victor Buono {"Edwin Flagg"}
ACTRESS -- Bette Davis {"Jane Hudson"}
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Ernest Haller
SOUND -- Glen Glenn Sound Department, Joseph Kelly, Sound Director


6:00 PM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTRESS -- Audrey Hepburn {"Susy Hendrix"}

8:00 PM My Fair Lady (1964)

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A phonetics instructor bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Runtime: 170 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: N

Oscar wins:
ACTOR -- Rex Harrison {"Professor Henry Higgins"}
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Harry Stradling
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Cecil Beaton
DIRECTING -- George Cukor
MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Andre Previn
BEST PICTURE -- Jack L. Warner, Producer
SOUND -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director
Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Stanley Holloway {"Alfred P. Doolittle"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Gladys Cooper {"Mrs. Higgins"}
FILM EDITING -- William Ziegler
WRITING (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) -- Alan Jay LernerOscar nominations:


11:00 PM The Music Man (1962)

A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins:
MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Ray Heindorf
Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Paul Groesse; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Dorothy Jeakins
FILM EDITING -- William Ziegler
BEST PICTURE -- Morton Da Costa, Producer
SOUND -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, George R. Groves, Sound Director


1:45 AM Gypsy (1962)

During New York's vaudeville days a tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars. After a long, seedy struggle, the shy "Gypsy" becomes a hit and then tries to turn her back on the mother who got her there.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Harry Stradling, Sr.
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Orry-Kelly
MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Frank Perkins


4:15 AM Camelot (1967)

This lavish film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical celebrates a fleeting, mythical time of love and chivalry--the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table. Although torn apart by the conflicts between passion, love, honor and duty, it was a golden era that could have been ... and could yet be.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
Runtime: 179 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: John Truscott, Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: John W. Brown
COSTUME DESIGN -- John Truscott
MUSIC (Scoring of Music--adaptation or treatment) -- Alfred Newman, Ken Darby
Oscar nominations:
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Richard H. Kline
SOUND -- Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studio Sound Department