TCM Schedule for Monday January 2 - TCM Spotlight: Joseph Cotten
TCM devotes the first Monday of the new year to the one and only Joseph Cotten.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM Beginning Or The End, The (1947)
True story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb. Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Brian Donlevy , Robert Walker , Tom Drake . BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 AM Stolen Life, A (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis , Glenn Ford , Dane Clark . BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 AM Roughly Speaking (1945)
A man's wild moneymaking schemes leave his wife to raise their family. Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Rosalind Russell , Jack Carson , Robert Hutton . BW-117 mins, TV-G, CC,
12:00 PM Time Of Your Life, The (1948)
A philosophical drunk encourages his friends to live their dreams to the hilt.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: James Cagney , William Bendix , Wayne Morris . BW-105 mins, TV-PG,
1:51 PM One Reel Wonder: Did 'Ja Know? (1950) BW-8 mins,
2:00 PM So Well Remembered (1947)
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: John Mills , Martha Scott , Patricia Roc .BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:00 PM Corn Is Green, The (1945)
A dedicated teacher sacrifices everything to send a young miner to Oxford. Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis , Nigel Bruce , Rhys Williams . BW-114 mins, TV-G, CC,
6:00 PM Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest. Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Margaret O'Brien , James Craig . BW-106 mins, TV-PG, CC,
8:00 PM Portrait of Jennie (1948)
An artist discovers his gift when he falls for a beautiful ghost. Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten , Ethel Barrymore . C-86 mins, TV-PG, CC,
9:30 PM Farmer's Daughter, The (1947)
When she goes to work for a congressman, a Minnesota farm girl takes Washington by storm. Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Loretta Young , Joseph Cotten , Ethel Barrymore . BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC,
11:15 PM Steel Trap, The (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole. Dir: Andrew Stone Cast: Joseph Cotten , Teresa Wright , Jonathan Hale .
BW-85 mins, TV-PG,
12:50 AM One Reel Wonder: Mighty Niagara (1943) C-9 mins,
1:00 AM Niagara (1952)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife. Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe , Joseph Cotten , Jean Peters . C-89 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:45 AM Lydia (1941)
An unmarried woman stages a reunion with former suitors to recapture the romance of her past. Dir: Julien Duvivier Cast: Merle Oberon , Edna May Oliver , Alan Marshal . BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:30 AM That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Merle Oberon , Melvyn Douglas , Burgess Meredith . BW-83 mins, TV-G,
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We've also got a little Midwestern Nice thing going on here, with Edward G. Robinson cast against type in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes.
But my real favorite on the schedule is The Farmer's Daughter, for its progressive politics, its campaign time romance, and of course its message of being true to yourself. A big plus is Ethel Barrymore, as a matriarch who's seen it all and doesn't suffer fools gladly, and Charles Bickford as her below-stairs equal in toughness.
