TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 4th: Star of the Month: Angela Lansbury
In TCM's January spotlight: a very versatile lady with one amazing career. Let's have some wolf whistles for Star of the Month Angela Lansbury.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
1:30 AM Westward The Women (1951)
A frontiersman leads a wagon train full of mail-order brides.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Beverly Dennis , Renata Vanni , John McIntire .
BW-117 mins, TV-PG,
3:30 AM Mail Order Bride (1964)
An aging cowhand tries to help a young rancher settle down by buying him a wife.
Dir: Burt Kennedy Cast: Buddy Ebsen , Keir Dullea , Lois Nettleton .
C-83 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 AM Montana Belle (1952)
The Daltons force Belle Starr to help them on a dangerous raid.
Dir: Allan Dwan Cast: Jane Russell , George Brent , Scott Brady .
C-81 mins, TV-G, CC,
6:30 AM Screen Directors Playhouse: Partners (1956)
A rodeo star takes an orphan under his wing.
BW-25 mins, TV-PG,
7:00 AM Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
A stray dog brings together a young boy and an old man in the Georgia swamps.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Walter Brennan , Phil Harris , Brandon de Wilde .
BW-95 mins, TV-G,
8:45 AM Screen Directors Playhouse: White Corridors (1956)
An American tourist fights to get the staff of a British hospital to believe she's witnessed a murder.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,
9:15 AM Rogue's March (1953)
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Dir: Allan Davis Cast: Peter Lawford , Richard Greene , Janice Rule .
BW-84 mins, TV-G,
10:45 AM Screen Directors Playhouse: Carroll Formula, The (1956)
A college professor accidentally discovers how to shrink things.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,
11:15 AM Law And The Lady, The (1951)
A society jewel thief falls for one of her marks.
Dir: Edwin H. Knopf Cast: Greer Garson , Michael Wilding , Fernando Lamas .
BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC,
1:01 PM One Reel Wonder: Greer Garson Bio (1962)
BW-4 mins,
1:15 PM Screen Directors Playhouse: Apples On The Lilac Tree (1956)
An unconventional marriage excites small-town gossip.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,
1:45 PM Cattle King (1963)
Cattlemen square off over a hotly contested strip of grazing land.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Robert Taylor , Joan Caulfield , Robert Loggia .
C-90 mins, TV-G,
3:15 PM Screen Directors Playhouse: Bitter Waters, The (1956)
A young man's romance at a German resort is threatened by the woman's past.
BW-25 mins, TV-PG,
3:45 PM Traveling Husbands (1931)
A wild party puts two married salesmen in trouble with their wives and the law.
Dir: Paul Sloane Cast: Evelyn Brent , Frank Albertson , Constance Cummings .
BW-74 mins, TV-G,
5:15 PM Screen Directors Playhouse: Day I Met Caruso, The (1956)
A Quaker girl's resentment of the great tenor's worldliness competes with her admiration for his voice.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,
5:45 PM Great Caruso, The (1951)
The legendary opera singer fights to win his place in society.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Mario Lanza , Ann Blyth , Dorothy Kirsten .
C-109 mins, TV-G, CC,
7:36 PM One Reel Wonder: Inflation (1943)
Cast: Edward Arnold , Esther Williams ,
BW-17 mins,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: ANGELA LANSBURY
8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer , Ingrid Bergman , Joseph Cotten .
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,
10:00 PM National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Mickey Rooney , Donald Crisp , Elizabeth Taylor .
C-124 mins, TV-G, CC,
12:15 AM Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders , Hurd Hatfield , Donna Reed .
BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC,
2:15 AM Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Judy Garland , John Hodiak , Ray Bolger .
C-101 mins, TV-G, CC,
4:15 AM Hoodlum Saint, The (1946)
After finding religion, a cynical newspaperman tries to help young hoods.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: William Powell , Esther Williams , Angela Lansbury .
BW-92 mins, TV-PG, CC,
5:48 AM One Reel Wonder: Return From Nowhere (1944)
BW-10 mins,
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