TCM Schedule for Thursday, March 14, 2024: Streets of Crime / Women at Work (1960s)

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Equal Pay Act of 1963 (wikipedia)

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.[3] In passing the bill, Congress stated that sex discrimination:

• depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency;
• prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor resources;
• tends to cause labor disputes, thereby burdening, affecting, and obstructing commerce;
• burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and
• constitutes an unfair method of competition.

The law provides in part that "no employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs, the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex."

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Act_of_1963

I guess Hollywood execs of the 1960s couldn't be bothered with such events as the Equal Pay Act and instead offered up drivel the likes of which are programmed for tonight. I'm not familiar with any of the films, though in reading their collective synopsis it seems romance and bruised male egos are more important than actual workplace advancement and/or victories achieved by women. If anyone knows of any Hollywood films produced in the 1960s that do please share them in the comments below. I couldn't find any on Google.


----- DAYTIME: STREETS OF CRIME (EST) -----

6:30 AM | Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann | Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig

8:00 AM | Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irving Kershner | Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze

9:30 AM | Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang | Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

11:30 AM | Main Street After Dark (1944)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn | Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout

12:30 PM | The House Across the Street (1949)
Mob pressure sends a crusading reporter from the front page to the advice column.
Dir: Richard Bare | Cast: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett

1:45 PM | Crime in the Streets (1956)
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
Dir: Don Siegel | Cast: James Whitmore, Sal Mineo, Mark Rydell

3:30 PM | Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett

5:30 PM | Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
A father returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child.
Dir: Terry Hughes | Cast: Michael Kalinyea, Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury

----- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT: WOMEN AT WORK (1960s) -----

8:00 PM | Lover Come Back (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann | Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall

10:00 PM | The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Texas tycoons try to mix love with finance on a trip to New York.
Dir: Arthur Hiller | Cast: Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris

12:00 AM | Come Fly with Me (1962)
Three stewardesses try to find husbands while flying over the Atlantic.
Dir: Henry Levin | Cast: Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Hugh O'Brian

2:00 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: Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda

4:00 AM | Kisses for My President (1964)
The first female president has to deal with her husband's bruised ego.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt | Cast: Polly Bergen, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl