TCM Schedule for Thursday, January 3, 2013 -- What's On Tonight -- Shirley Temple

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Most of the daylight hours feature Star of the Month Loretta Young. But we are also celebrating Marion Davies, born Marion Cecilea Douras on January 3, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, one of the great comedic actresses of the silent era and into the 30's. Sadly, today she is best remembered as the longtime mistress of William Randolph Hearst, but she was a fine actress and today's films prove it. We're also briefly celebrating Zasu Pitts, born Eliza Susan Pitts on January 3, 1894 in Parsons, Kansas, who built her career as a scene-stealing, fluttery-fingered, quavery-voiced comedienne. And speaking of scene-stealing, in prime time, TCM is featuring the films of Shirley Temple. Enjoy!


6:00 AM -- Loose Ankles (1930)
A young woman will inherit a million dollars if she marries well.
Dir: Ted Wilde
Cast: Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louise Fazenda
BW-67 mins, TV-G,

Louise Fazenda and Ethel Wales are credited on-screen with names "Katherine" and "Sarah" respectively, but within the film, Fazenda is called Sarah and Wales is called Katherine.


7:15 AM -- I Like Your Nerve (1931)
A bookworm turns himself into a romantic adventurer in Central America.
Dir: William McGann
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker
BW-62 mins, TV-G,

A number of exterior scenes were filmed on the grounds of the Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916) in San Diego. The buildings seen in the film still stand today in Balboa Park.


8:30 AM -- Road To Paradise (1930)
A delinquent girl helps a criminal gang rob her look-alike.
Dir: William Beaudine
Cast: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, George Barraud
BW-75 mins, TV-G,

The play, "Cornered." opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 8 December 1920 and closed in April 1921 after 143 performances. The opening night cast included Madge Kennedy in the lead.


10:00 AM -- The Truth About Youth (1930)
A gold digging cabaet singer is unaware that her latest love is penniless.
Dir: William Seiter
Cast: Loretta Young, David Manners, Conway Tearle
BW-67 mins, TV-G,

Myrna Loy was actually a fully trained professional dancer, having studied with Ted Shawn (husband of modern dancer Ruth St. Denis and co-leader with her of the Denishawn company), but "The Truth About Youth" and Warners' all-star musical "The Show of Shows" were among the few movies in which she actually got to dance.


11:15 AM -- The Bachelor Father (1931)
An aging Don Juan decides to get better acquainted with his grown children.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC,

Because of the subject of illegitimate children, the movie was banned in Ireland and underwent dialogue deletions in many areas, including Milwaukee, Massachusetts and Virginia.


1:00 PM -- Polly Of The Circus (1932)
A small-town minister risks his career when he falls for a trapeze artist.
Dir: Alfred Santell
Cast: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith
BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC,

The original play by Margaret Mayo opened in New York on 23 December 1907.


2:15 PM -- Page Miss Glory (1935)
A con artist creates a composite photo to win a beauty contest, then has to find the real thing.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Marion Davies, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell
BW-93 mins, TV-G, CC,

The original play, by Joseph Schrank and Phillip Dunning, opened in New York at the Mansfield Theater on 27 November 1934 and ran for 63 performances.


4:00 PM -- Ever Since Eve (1937)
A plain-jane secretary masquerades as a beauty to win her boss's heart.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh
BW-80 mins, TV-G,

Marion Davies' last film.


5:30 PM -- Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline
Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
BW-63 mins, TV-G,

Fifth of the Inspector Oscar Piper films, starring James Gleason as the Inspector, based on the stories of Stuart Palmer.


6:45 PM -- Weekend for Three (1941)
A married woman invites a former boyfriend to dinner, and he decides to move in.
Dir: Irving Reis
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Jane Wyatt, Phillip Reed
BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC,

"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 2, 1946 with Dennis O'Keefe reprising his film role.



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SHIRLEY TEMPLE



8:00 PM -- The Littlest Rebel (1935)
A Confederate officer risks everything to go home and see his daughter.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC,

Both John Boles and Bill Robinson nearly drowned while trying to cross a raging, fifteen-foot river for an escape scene that was cut from the film.


9:30 PM -- Captain January (1936)
An orphaned girl living with a lighthouse keeper is forced to go to boarding school.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville
BW-77 mins, TV-G,

When Star's lack of schooling is being questioned, Captain January says that he has taught her using "the Bible and Bowditch". "Bowditch" refers to "The American Practical Navigator" by Nathaniel Bowditch, first published in 1802. Over the years, the text has evolved with advances in navigation practices, and continues to be a valuable reference for marine navigation in modern times.


11:00 PM -- Stowaway (1936)
A little girl gets lost in Shanghai, and ends up as a stowaway on a ship to America.
Dir: William A. Seiter
Cast: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye
BW-87 mins,

After filming of this movie was completed, Shirley Temple was given the Pekingese dog that had played her character's pet dog, "Mr. Woo." Temple renamed the dog "Ching-Ching," after her character in the movie.


12:30 AM -- I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
A soldier meets a woman on Christmas furlough from prison and they fall in love.
Dir: William Dieterle
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC,

The quote from Lincoln under his photograph in the YMCA room is from his Cooper Union Address: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it" (February 27, 1860).


2:00 AM -- Fort Apache (1948)
An experienced cavalry officer tries to keep his new, by-the-books commander from triggering an Indian war.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
BW-128 mins, TV-PG, CC,

The Fort Apache fort, built for this production, stood for years. It was reused in dozens of productions, most notably the TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. It was located at the Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, California. Today it is possible to visit this location, as it is now administered as a City Park in Simi Valley.


4:15 AM -- Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
A turn-of-the-century socialite joins the women's suffrage movement.
Dir: Richard Wallace
Cast: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar
BW-89 mins, TV-G,

"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 30, 1950 with Shirley Temple reprising her film role.


5:46 AM -- Historic Maryland (1941)
A travelogue highlighting such Maryland destinations as Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, Annapolis, and Fort McHenry.
Narrator: James A. FitzPatrick
C-8 mins,