TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 15: Doctors and Patients
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Happy Tax Day, DUers.
And what's not taxing is today's TCM Schedule, which features everything from a dancing Fred Astaire to Lew Ayres as Dr. Kildare.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
1:30 AM
SITTING PRETTY ( 1948)
An efficiency expert tries to prove his methods apply to child rearing.
Dir: Walter Lang Cast: Robert Young , Maureen O'Hara , Clifton Webb .
BW- 84 mins, CC,
3:15 AM
BACHELOR IN PARADISE ( 1961)
A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Bob Hope , Lana Turner , Janis Paige .
C- 109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:15 AM
MGM PARADE SHOW #31 ( 1956)
Walter Pidgeon discusses Greta Garbo's later career with director George Cukor.
BW- 26 mins,
6:00 AM
ROBERTA ( 1935)
A football player inherits a chic Paris fashion house.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Irene Dunne , Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers .
BW- 106 mins, CC,
8:00 AM
FOLLOW THE FLEET ( 1936)
Two sailors on leave romance a dance-hall hostess and her prim sister.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Randolph Scott .
BW- 110 mins, CC,
10:00 AM
SHALL WE DANCE ( 1937)
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Edward Everett Horton .
BW- 109 mins, CC,
12:00 PM
GAY DIVORCEE, THE ( 1934)
An unhappily married woman mistakes a suitor for the gigolo hired to end her marriage.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Alice Brady .
BW- 105 mins, CC,
2:00 PM
BAND WAGON, THE ( 1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Fred Astaire , Cyd Charisse , Oscar Levant .
C- 112 mins, CC,
4:00 PM
SWING TIME ( 1936)
To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Victor Moore .
BW- 104 mins, CC,
6:00 PM
TOP HAT ( 1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich Cast: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Edward Everett Horton .
BW- 100 mins, CC,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: DOCTORS AND PATIENTS
8:00 PM
DARK VICTORY ( 1939)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis , George Brent , Humphrey Bogart .
BW- 104 mins, CC,
10:00 PM
NO WAY OUT ( 1950)
A racist gangster forces a black doctor to tend to his injuries.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Richard Widmark , Linda Darnell , Stephen McNally .
BW- 107 mins, CC,
12:00 AM
COMA ( 1978)
A lady doctor investigates a series of strange deaths and disappearing bodies at her hospital.
Dir: Michael Crichton Cast: Geneviève Bujold , Michael Douglas , Elizabeth Ashley .
C- 113 mins, CC,
2:00 AM
YOUNG DR. KILDARE ( 1938)
A medical school graduate must choose between a small-town practice and a big-city internship.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Lionel Barrymore , Lew Ayres , Lynne Carver .
BW- 82 mins, CC,
3:30 AM
CITADEL, THE ( 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, CC,