TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 25: Studio Contract Players: Doris Day, Natalie Wood, Patricia Neal

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As we go into the final week of April, TCM is shining a spotlight on studio contract players at Warner Brothers.

Added bonus: multiple sightings of S.Z. Sakall.

Classic movie challenge: Name the featured film that was based on the same source as To Have and Have Not, which aired the other week.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

2:00 AM McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
An itinerant gambler and a madame become business partners in this off-beat western set in a small mining town in the Pacific Northwest.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

4:15 AM Countdown (1968)
An astronaut takes a one-way voyage to the moon.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:00 AM Night and Day (1946)
Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter, who rose from high society to find success on Tin Pan Alley.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:30 AM San Antonio (1945)
A reformed rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:45 AM Pride of the Marines (1945)
A blinded Marine tries to adjust to civilian life.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:00 PM Caged (1950)
A young innocent fights to survive the harsh life in a women's prison.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 PM Baby Doll (1956)
In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan has been married to the pretty 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan for two years. Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib in their decrepit mansion as Archie waits impatiently for Baby Doll's 20th birthday, which is just a few days away.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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5:00 PM Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS: DORIS DAY, NATALIE WOOD, AND PATRICIA NEAL

8:00 PM Romance on the High Seas (1948)
A man hires a private eye to watch his wife on a cruise, but the wife sends an impostor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM Calamity Jane (1953)
The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:00 AM Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
A behind-the-scenes epic that explores the effects of the Hollywood dream machine on a spirited young singer and actress from the time of her discovery at age 15 through her triumphs and defeats.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:15 AM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
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

4:15 AM Bright Leaf (1950)
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:15 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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