TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 29: TCM Spotlight: Five Came Back - George Stevens
There's an Irene Dunne tribute on today (No, it's not her birthday), and then TCM's September Five Came Back series wraps up with an evening of George Stevens' work, including the sexy wartime comedy The More the Merrier.
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
12:30 AM
Five And Ten (1931)
A dime-store heiress elopes with a married man.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Marion Davies , Leslie Howard , Richard Bennett .
BW-89 mins, CC,
2:15 AM
Very Honorable Guy, A (1934)
A gambler sells his body to science to pay his debts.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Joe E. Brown , Alice White , Robert Barrat .
BW-62 mins, CC,
3:30 AM
Three Faces East (1930)
During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Constance Bennett , Erich von Stroheim , Anthony Bushell .
BW-71 mins,
4:45 AM
Reducing (1931)
A beauty-parlor manager brings in an old friend to help her with disastrous results.
Dir: Charles F. Riesner Cast: Marie Dressler , Polly Moran , Anita Page .
BW-77 mins, CC,
6:15 AM
Consolation Marriage (1931)
A couple who married after each was jilted faces the return of their former loved ones.
Dir: Paul Sloane Cast: Irene Dunne , Pat O'Brien , John Halliday .
BW-81 mins,
7:45 AM
Bachelor Apartment (1931)
An honest working girl falls for a skirt-chasing playboy.
Dir: Lowell Sherman Cast: Lowell Sherman , Irene Dunne , Mae Murray .
BW-77 mins, CC,
9:15 AM
Ann Vickers (1933)
A social worker's fight for reform is compromised by her love for a corrupt judge.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Irene Dunne , Walter Huston , Conrad Nagel .
BW-76 mins, CC,
10:45 AM
No Other Woman (1933)
A newly rich couple finds wealth drives them apart.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben Cast: Irene Dunne , Charles Bickford , Gwili Andre .
BW-58 mins, CC,
11:50 AM
Harry Warren America's Foremost Composer (1933)
In this short film, songwriter Harry Warren performs a number of his own compositions, such as "Forty-Second Street" and "You're My Everything." Vitaphone Release 1544.
Dir: Ray McCarey
BW-9 mins,
12:00 PM
Age of Innocence, The (1934)
A young attorney risks his career for love of a glamorous divorcee.
Dir: Philip Moeller Cast: Irene Dunne , John Boles , Lionel Atwill .
BW-81 mins, CC,
1:30 PM
Stingaree (1934)
An Australian bandit kidnaps an opera singer and falls in love with her.
Dir: William Wellman Cast: Irene Dunne , Richard Dix , Mary Boland .
BW-77 mins, CC,
3:00 PM
Sweet Adeline (1935)
A gay nineties waitress rises from beer gardens to Broadway.
Dir: Mervyn Le Roy Cast: Irene Dunne , Donald Woods , Hugh Herbert .
BW-88 mins, CC,
4:30 PM
Joy of Living (1938)
A Broadway musical star falls for an eccentric millionaire.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Irene Dunne , Douglas Fairbanks , Alice Brady .
BW-91 mins, CC,
6:15 PM
My Favorite Wife (1940)
A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's re-marriage.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Irene Dunne , Cary Grant , Randolph Scott .
BW-88 mins, CC,
7:45 PM
So You Want To Hold Your Wife (1947)
In this comedic short, a husband attempts to save his marriage with humorous consequences. Vitaphone Release 1605A.
Dir: Richard Bare Cast: Frank Moran , Roland Hill , A. Edward Sutherland .
BW-11 mins,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FIVE CAME BACK - GEORGE STEVENS
8:00 PM
More the Merrier, The (1943)
The World War II housing shortage brings three people together for an unlikely romance.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Jean Arthur , Joel McCrea , Charles Coburn .
BW-104 mins, CC,
9:55 PM
Censored (1944)
Private Snafu runs into military censorship when he tries to tell the girl back home too much.
Dir: Frank Tashlin
BW-5 mins,
10:00 PM
That Justice Be Done (1945)
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.
Dir: George Stevens
BW-11 mins,
10:15 PM
Nazi Plan, The (1945)
Documentary cameras capture the atrocities of the concentration camps.
Dir: George Stevens
BW-127 mins,
12:30 AM
Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959)
A young girl comes of age while hiding from the Nazis.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Millie Perkins , Joseph Schildkraut , Shelley Winters .
BW-180 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
3:45 AM
Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy , Burt Lancaster , Richard Widmark .
BW-179 mins, CC,
