TCM sked Saturday 1/6/24: Spinal Tap, Dames, The Apartment, Jane Fonda, George Burns

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Saturday, January 6



At a Glance
NEW YORK LOVE STORIES
Moonstruck (1987)
Apartment, The (1960)
Crossing Delancey (1988)
Sunday in New York (1963)
Clock, The (1945
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Mayor of 44th Street, The (1942)
(P) MGM Cartoons: Senor Droopy (1949)
Believe It or Not #1 (1931) (short)
Chile "Land of Charm" (1937) (short)
Father Is a Prince (1940)
Buck Rogers Ch. 9: Bodies Without Minds (1939)
Popeye: Dizzy Divers (1935)
Action in Arabia (1944)
Dark Shadows (1944) (short)
Dames (1934) (Musical Matinee)
Stars in My Crown (1950)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Detour (1945)
Going in Style (1979)
- TCM PRIMETIME
BROTHERLY BONDS
Dominick and Eugene (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
- NOIR ALLEY
(P) Pickup (1951)
- TCM LATE NIGHT: ROCK BANDS
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

10:00 PM The Apartment (1960)

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An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred Macmurray
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR -- Jack Lemmon {"C.C. 'Bud' Baxter"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jack Kruschen {"Dr. Dreyfuss"}
ACTRESS -- Shirley MacLaine {"Fran Kubelik"}
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Art Direction: Alexander Trauner; Set Decoration: Edward G. Boyle (WINNER)
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White) -- Joseph LaShelle
DIRECTING -- Billy Wilder (WINNER)
FILM EDITING -- Daniel Mandell (WINNER)
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- Billy Wilder, Producer (WINNER)
SOUND -- Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon E. Sawyer, Sound Director
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) -- Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond (WINNER)

Trivia: Billy Wilder originally thought of the idea for the film after seeing Brief Encounter (1945) and wondering about the plight of a character unseen in that film -- the person who lends his apartment for an extramarital tryst. Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn't want her to know how the story would turn out. She thought it was because the script wasn't finished.


12:15 AM Crossing Delancey (1988)

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Romantic drama about a single New York City woman and her quest to find the right man, but then a matchmaker introduces the upscale intellectual to a pickle salesman.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: When Isabelle and Bubbie are sitting on a park bench waiting to meet the wedding broker, there is a shot of a bag beside Bubbie on the ground to her right. The white bag has "Humphrey / Muskie" written on it. They were the Democratic ticket for 1968, twenty years before this movie was released.

Trivia: In the scene where Isabel (Amy Irving) is berating her grandmother about her job, she talks about calling Isaac Bashevis Singer on his private phone number. Singer wrote "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," and Irving played Haddass in Barbra Streisand's film version, Yentl (1983).


2:00 AM Sunday in New York (1963)

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A prim 22-year-old virgin, Eileen Tyler, considers premarital sex when she travels from Albany to visit her womanizing brother in New York City, and although engaged to another man, flirts with a stranger she meets on a bus.
Dir: Peter Tewksbury Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Jane Fonda has been quoted as stating that this film was the first time she enjoyed making a movie or thought she was any good at acting.


4:00 AM The Clock (1945)

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A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: The escalator in the Penn Station scene where Alice loses her shoe heel had unusually high sides to disguise that fact that it wasn't a real escalator at all. Wartime material shortages and restrictions prohibited MGM from building a real escalator, so the studio compromised with a conveyor belt. At no time in the scenes do you actually see escalator steps.


6:00 AM The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

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A dance-band manager has to cope with hooligans trying to get into the act.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
MUSIC (Song) -- "There's A Breeze On Lake Louise," Music by Harry Revel; Lyrics by Mort Greene

Trivia: George Murphy (Joe) was 40 years old when this was filmed. His character's love interest, Anne Shirley (Jessey), was 24. Murphy was borrowed from MGM for this picture.

8:00 AM Cartoon: Senor Droopy (1949)
Droopy and a wolf compete in a bullfighting competition in Mexico.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: William H. Thompson, Tex Avery, Lina Romay
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-G CC:


8:09 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: N


8:18 AM Short: Chile "Land of Charm" (1937)
Chile's history, culture, and customs are the star in this short film.
Dir: null Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Winton Hoch, Jack Shilkret
Runtime: 9 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N


8:28 AM Father Is a Prince (1940)
An industrialist values money over his family's happiness.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, John Litel
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


9:30 AM Serial: Buck Rogers, Chapter 9: Bodies Without Minds (1939)
In Chapter Nine of Buck Rogers, Buddy tries to rescue a brainwashed Buck.
Dir: Ford Beebe, Ray Trampe Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: N


10:00 AM Cartoon: Dizzy Divers (1935)
It's Olive's first visit to a skating rink, and Popeye accidentally crashes into the pillar to which she is clinging. The impact sends her flying out of the rink and into the street. Olive finds herself in a crowded department store, on an escalator. Popeye manages to rescue Olive in an amusing climax.
Dir: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky Cast: William Costello, Bonnie Poe, Gus Wickie
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:08 AM Action in Arabia (1944)

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An adventurous reporter tangles with Nazis in the desert on the eve of World War II.
Dir: Leonide Moguy Cast: George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:30 AM Short: Dark Shadows (1944)
A psychiatrist investigates the murder of another psychiatrist.
Dir: Walter Hart Cast: William Tannen, Dorothy Adams, Paul Langton
Runtime: 21 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N


12:00 PM Dames (1934)

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A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: According to TCM's Dave Karger, Joan Blondell was pregnant with Norman S. Powell at the time of the "ironing board" number. Her husband, and the child's father George Barnes was this film's cinematographer and used camera angles and props to hide her condition.


1:45 PM Stars in My Crown (1950)

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A parson uses six-guns and the Bible to bring peace to a Tennessee town.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: The cast includes a young James Arness and Amanda Blake, who appeared together for 19 (of 20) seasons on the television series Gunsmoke as Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.


3:30 PM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)

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A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Edward's convertible is a 1955 Sunbeam Mark III.

Trivia: The Health & Strength magazine Edward is reading in the seaside restaurant is a real periodical. It is the April 14, 1955 (volume 84, number 8) issue, featuring Reuben Govender from India on the cover. The price was 1 shilling (1/20th of a pound, or about $2.00 in 2022).

5:00 PM Detour (1945)

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A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: According to Ann Savage, she and Tom Neal did not get along during filming. Savage stated that Neal embarrassed her on the set by putting his tongue in her ear. She retaliated by slapping his face as hard as she could. After that incident, they did not speak to each other except when filming scenes.

Trivia: While the crew was setting up to film a hitchhiking scene, a passing car tried to pick up Ann Savage (made up to look dirty and disheveled), causing the crew to break out laughing.

6:15 PM Going in Style (1979)

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Three elderly men decide to better their lot by robbing a bank.
Dir: Martin Brest Cast: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: When Joe (George Burns) is looking through his old photos and other memorabilia, he looks at a photo of a young couple, presumably Joe and his wife, and it makes him start to cry. The photo is actually a picture of Burns and his real (late) wife and legendary stage partner Gracie Allen.


8:00 PM Dominick And Eugene (1988)

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Story of twin brothers, one of whom is studying to be a doctor, and is being put through medical school by his mentally handicapped sibling.
Dir: Robert M Young Cast: Amanda Picciafoco, Victoria Dym, Thomas Rocco
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

Trivia: Sean Penn was offered to do this film, and accepted the role of Dominick, but left the production due to creative differences and made Colors (1988) instead.


10:00 PM Rain Man (1988)

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Charlie Babbitt has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of ...
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Dustin Hoffman {"Raymond Babbitt"} (WINNER)
ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Ida Random; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
CINEMATOGRAPHY -- John Seale
DIRECTING -- Barry Levinson (WINNER)
FILM EDITING -- Stu Linder
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Hans Zimmer
BEST PICTURE -- Mark Johnson, Producer (WINNER)
WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Screenplay by Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow; Story by Barry Morrow (WINNER)

Trivia: For in-flight viewing, several airlines deleted the sequence in which Raymond Babbitt reels off statistics on airline accidents, except Qantas. They even promoted one of the movie's writers to first class once when he travelled on their airline.

Trivia: During filming, Dustin Hoffman was unsure of the film's potential and his own performance. Three weeks into the project, Hoffman wanted out, telling Barry Levinson, "Get Richard Dreyfuss, get somebody, Barry, because this is the worst work of my life." Hoffman would later nab his second Best Actor Academy Award for his work.


NOIR ALLEY: 12:30 AM Pickup (1951)

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An older man falls for a much younger beauty who is after his money.
Dir: Hugo Haas Cast: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon
Runtime: 78 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC:


2:15 AM This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

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A filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world's loudest rock band.
Dir: Rob Reiner Cast: Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael Mckean
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

Trivia: Several rock stars have commented on what an uncannily accurate spoof of the rock and heavy metal world this film was. Ozzy Osbourne said when he first watched the film, he was the only person who wasn't laughing because he thought it was a real documentary. U2 guitarist The Edge said, "I didn't laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth." Marillion had five drummers in the space of a year between their first two albums, which guitarist Steve Rothery later admitted was "like Spinal Tap".


4:00 AM Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

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A reporter researches 60s rock star Eddie Wilson, who was lead singer of the band Eddie and the Cruisers. Wilson died in a car accident but his body was never found and neither were the tapes of the band's final recording session.
Dir: Martin Davidson. Cast: Tom Berenger, Michael Paré, Joe Pantoliano
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

Trivia: The Fender Stratocaster guitar used by Michael Paré as Eddie Wilson in the concert scenes formerly belonged to John Lyon, a technical consultant for the movie. Lyon is better known as Southside Johnny Lyon, leader of the New Jersey shore band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and also longtime friend and frequent collaborator of Bruce Springsteen.