TCM Schedule for Thursday, July 14 -- TCM Spotlight: Race and Hollywood

[Staph]

During the day, TCM is featuring the two amazing Roberts -- Montgomery and Young. It's not the birthday for either, but I never turn down the opportunity to watch them. Today in primetime TCM continues their Race and Hollywood series with a look at Arabs in film. Enjoy!



7:15 AM -- Shipmates (1931)
A young sailor falls for the captain's daughter.
Dir: Harry Pollard
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan.
72 min, TV-G

He's the Patron Saint of the Classic Films Forum.




8:30 AM -- Another Language (1933)
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Dir: Edward H. Griffith
Cast: Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Louise Closser Hale.
76 min, TV-G

Debut of the Wicked Witch of the West, Margaret Hamilton.


10:00 AM -- Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
A country girl follows the man who jilted her to the big city, where she finds two new suitors.
Dir: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone.
70 min, TV-G , CC

In Sept. 1938, M-G-M distributed this film on a double bill with Rich Man, Poor Girl starring Robert Young, Lew Ayres and Ruth Hussey. The tag line said "Comedy swings to a new high in these two romantic M-G-M hits!"


11:15 AM -- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery.
98 min, TV-G , CC

Myrna Loy was originally cast as Fay Cheyney, while Joan Crawford was cast in Parnell. Because Crawford did not like her role in that film, she switched roles and films with Loy.


1:00 PM -- The Right To Romance (1933)
A lady plastic surgeon jeopardizes her marriage when her ex-boyfriend is scarred.
Dir: Alfred Santell
Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Young, Nils Asther.
67 min, TV-G

He's much more than the Father that knows best.

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2:15 PM -- Calm Yourself (1935)
An advertising man takes off after kidnappers.
Dir: George B. Seitz
Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness.
70 min, TV-G

The print shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel is missing the end credits, which adds 9 additional credits to the opening cast members and all the character names.


3:30 PM -- The Bride Walks Out (1936)
A model weds a struggling engineer then has her own struggles with domesticity.
Dir: Leigh Jason
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young.
81 min, TV-G , CC

Apparently, Robert Young liked brides. Despite being married to the same woman for 61 years, he made four films with "bride" in the title -- The Bride Comes Home (1935), The Bride Walks Out (1936), The Bride Wore Red (1937), and Bride for Sale (1947). Unlike today's Hollywood, none of the films were sequels, prequels or remakes of one another.


5:00 PM -- The Longest Night (1936)
A department-store head tries to stop a gangland plot.
Dir: Errol Taggart
Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Ted Healy.
51 min, TV-G

Thought to be the shortest feature ever produced by MGM (the title notwithstanding!).


6:00 PM -- The Bride Wore Red (1937)
A chorus girl crashes an exclusive Swiss resort to snare a rich husband.
Dir: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young.
103 min, TV-G , CC

Probably the real "star" of the film, and the source of its title, was the red beaded gown by Adrian, worn by Joan Crawford in the climactic ball scene. The dress was reused in fashion show sequences in The Big Store and, finally in color, in Du Barry Was a Lady.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: TCM SPOTLIGHT: RACE AND HOLLYWOOD



8:00 PM -- Ali Baba Goes To Town (1937)
After stumbling onto a movie set, a hobo dreams he's caught up in an Arabian Nights adventure.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young.
77 min, TV-G

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Dance Direction -- Sammy Lee for "Swing Is Here to Stay"

Two special-effects grips were killed when a machine that was being used to make the "flying carpet" look like it was flying jumped off its tracks and fell on them.


10:00 PM -- Road to Morocco (1942)
Two castaways get mixed up in an Arabian nightmare when they're caught between a bandit chief and a beautiful princess.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour.
82 min, TV-G , CC

Nominated for Oscars for Best Sound, Recording -- Loren L. Ryder (Paramount SSD), and Best Writing, Original Screenplay -- Frank Butler and Don Hartman

The scene where the camel spits in Turkey's (Bob Hope's) face wasn't planned. The camel did it of its own accord while the cameras were rolling, and Hope's recoil and Bing Crosby's reaction were so funny that it was left in the final cut of the film.


11:45 PM -- Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy (1955)
Two bumblers get mixed up with Egyptian grave robbers and a murderous mummy.
Dir: Charles Lamont
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor.
79 min, TV-G , CC

Though Bud Abbott's character in this film was named Peter Patterson and Lou Costello's character's name was Freddie Franklin, they addressed each other by their own, real names ("Heeeeey Abbott!") throughout the entire picture. The credits are the only place where their characters' names are used.


1:45 AM -- Arabian Tights (1933)
A trip to Paris turns sour for Charley Chase and his friends when they are captured by an Arabian sultan.
Dir: Hal Roach
Cast: Charley Chase, Carlton E. Griffin, Marvin Hatley.
20 min,

In an interview on the David Letterman show, Hal Roach said that Chase first auditioned for him by saying he could play ANY part. Chase then proceeded to do his impression of a lighthouse by turning his head, pausing with his eyes wide open when he was facing forward during each rotation.


2:30 AM -- The Sad Sack (1957)
A hopelessly innocent private gets himself kidnapped in Morocco.
Dir: George Marshall
Cast: Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk.
98 min, TV-PG

George Dolenz, who plays the character Ali Mustapha, is the father of Micky Dolenz of the Monkees.


4:30 AM -- Bowery to Baghdad (1955)
The Bowery Boys unleash an Arabian nightmare when they find Alladin's magic lamp.
Dir: Edward Bernds
Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bernard Gorcey.
64 min, TV-G , CC

Final film of the amazing Eric Blore.

[CBHagman]

1. Ah, the unofficial Patron Saint of the Classic Movie Group...

...joined by Marcus Welby, M.D. :popcorn: