TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 23: 100th Birthday Tribute: Mickey Rooney

[CBHagman]

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

12:15 AM
SALAAM BOMBAY! ( 1988)
When his mother abandons him, a Hindu boy falls into a life of street crime.
Dir: Mira Nair Cast: Shafiq Syed , Hansa Vithal , Chanda Sharma .
C- 114 mins, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST ( 1991)
Three generations of Gullah women reunite in 1902 before the family emigrates to the North.
Dir: Julie Dash Cast: Cora Lee Day , Alva Rogers , Barbara O .
C- 112 mins,

4:30 AM
KRANE'S CONFECTIONERY ( 1951)
Dir: Astrid Henning-Jensen Cast: Erik Hell , Ronnaug Alten ,
BW- 103 mins,

6:16 AM
TREASURES FROM TRASH ( 1946)
This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.
Dir: Dave O'Brien Cast: Dave O'Brien ,
BW- 10 mins,

6:30 AM
MIKEY AND NICKY ( 1976)
Dir: Elaine May Cast: Peter Falk , John Cassavetes , Ned Beatty .
BW- 107 mins, CC,

8:22 AM
ALIBI RACKET ( 1935)
This short film focuses on a police interrogation that cracks the false alibi of a criminal.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lee Phelps , John Sheehan , Harry Semels .
BW- 18 mins,

8:45 AM
JUNIPER TREE, THE ( 1990)
Dir: Nietzchka Keene Cast: Valdimar Orn Flygenring , Bj÷rk , Gudrún Gísladóttir .
BW- 79 mins, CC,

10:15 AM
WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA (PART 1 & 2) ( 2002)
Dir: Marianne Khoury
BW- 119 mins,

12:15 PM
LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY HARDY ( 1941)
A small-town boy tries life in the big city before going to college.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone , Mickey Rooney , Judy Garland .
BW- 101 mins, CC,



2:00 PM
GIRL CRAZY ( 1943)
A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Mickey Rooney , Judy Garland , Gil Stratton .
BW- 99 mins, CC,

3:46 PM
CRAZY HOUSE ( 1930)
In this short film, a woman takes a tour of the "Lame Brain Sanitarium" and meets some of its strange patients.
Cast: Earl Tucker , Gus Shy , Nat Pendleton .
C- 13 mins,

4:00 PM
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, THE ( 1939)
Mark Twain's classic troublemaker helps a runaway slave escape to the North.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Mickey Rooney , Walter Connolly , William Frawley .
BW- 91 mins, CC,

5:35 PM
BACKYARD BROADCAST, THE ( 1936)
In this short film, a boy holds a talent show in his back yard by and for his adolescent friends. Vitaphone Release 2007-2008.
Dir: Joseph Henabery Cast: Arnold Stone , Yuyita Concheiro , Betty Ann Nyman .
BW- 22 mins,

6:00 PM
AH, WILDERNESS! ( 1935)
In his only comedy, Eugene O'Neill captures the trials of growing up in small-town America.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Wallace Beery , Lionel Barrymore , Aline MacMahon .
BW- 98 mins, CC,

7:40 PM
WAY IN THE WILDERNESS, A ( 1940)
This short film focuses on Joseph Goldberger, the physician who found a cure for an endemic that affected the American South in the 1910's.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Helen Brown , Barbara Bedford , Edward Hearn .
BW- 10 mins,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 100TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE: MICKEY ROONEY

8:00 PM
BOYS TOWN ( 1938)
True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Spencer Tracy , Mickey Rooney , Henry Hull .
BW- 93 mins, CC,

9:45 PM
HUMAN COMEDY, THE ( 1943)
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Mickey Rooney , Frank Morgan , James Craig .
BW- 117 mins, CC,

12:00 AM
BLACK STALLION, THE ( 1979)
A boy and a horse forge a close friendship after being shipwrecked together in Africa.
Dir: Carroll Ballard Cast: Kelly Reno , Mickey Rooney , Terry Garr .
C- 117 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 AM
STRIKE UP THE BAND ( 1940)
A high-school band sets out to win a national radio contest.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Mickey Rooney , Judy Garland , Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra .
BW- 120 mins, CC,



4:30 AM
KILLER MCCOY ( 1947)
A lightweight boxer gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Mickey Rooney , Brian Donlevy , Ann Blyth .
BW- 104 mins, CC,

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. I understand the concept that actors are not

the characters they play.

Still, I was shocked to learn how very different Mickey was from Andy Hardy and similar characters he played. If his biographers are to be believed, in real life he was a foul-mouthed, rage-filled, heavy-drinking womanizer who collected for mobsters to defray some of his the massive gambling debts he owed them.