TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 31, 2013 -- The Essentials: Rex Harrison

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6:00 AM
MEN ARE NOT GODS (1936)
A secretary to an eccentric drama critic is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of a Shakespearean actor and falls in love with him.
Dir: Walter Reisch
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw.
BW-83 mins, TV-G

7:24 AM
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE (1936)
Charley Chase and his family win $500 at bank night but trouble erupts when Charley is accused of being a fraud.
Dir: Charles Parrott
Cast: Charley Chase, Rosina Lawrence, Darla Hood.
BW-20 mins, TV-PG

7:45 AM
STORM IN A TEACUP (1937)
A small-town politician tries to end his daughter's romance with a crusading reporter.
Dir: Victor Saville
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker.
BW-86 mins, TV-G

9:18 AM
PASSING PARADE NO. 1 (1938)
The first in a long running series of informative shorts, this one detailing various random facts.
Dir: Basil Wrangell
BW-10 mins

9:30 AM
THE CITADEL (1938)
A struggling doctor is tempted to give up his ideals for a posh high-society practice.
Dir: King Vidor
Cast: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson.
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

11:30 AM
OVER THE MOON (1940)
A surprise inheritance breaks up a once-impoverished noblewoman and a doctor.
Dir: Thornton Freeland
Cast: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans.
BW-79 mins, TV-G

1:00 PM
KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS (1954)
King Richard's attempts to win back the Holy Lands are complicated by his love of a tempestuous Englishwoman.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders.
C-114 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 PM
UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948)
Set to music, a symphony conductor envisions multiple possible scenarios for dealing with his wife's infidelity.
Dir: Preston Sturges
Cast: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
A phonetics instructor bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway.
C-172 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

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8:00 PM
ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM (1946)
A young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Dir: John Cromwell
Cast: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell.
BW-128 mins, TV-G, CC

10:19 PM
LOOKING AT LONDON (1946)
A colorful travelogue of London's most historic buildings and the residual damage still left from WWII.
C-10 mins

10:30 PM
ST. MARTIN'S LANE (1938)
A street performer helps a young pickpocket find a new career as a dancer.
Dir: Tim Whelan
Cast: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison.
BW-86 mins, TV-G

12:00 AM
THE FOXES OF HARROW (1947)
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
Dir: John M. Stahl
Cast: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn.
BW-118 mins, TV-PG

2:15 AM
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS (1945)
A man's efforts to seduce his way to a fortune destroy all around him.
Dir: Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Rex Harrison
BW-121 mins, TV-PG

4:30 AM
THE LONG DARK HALL (1951)
A naive family man is framed for the murder of his showgirl girlfriend.
Cast: Rex Harrison
BW-88 mins, TV-PG