TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 7: Screwball Comedy: Hepburn and Grant

[CBHagman]

Oh, Classic Films Group friends, how much fun can TCM be? This much fun!

The day starts with Pirate Pictures and swings into Screwball Comedy, including some unmissable classics Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant made, together and separately, during Hollywood's Golden Age.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

12:00 AM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Runtime: 132 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:30 AM The Shining Hour (1938)
A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:


6:00 AM Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Two waiters stumble on a treasure map and land in hot water with pirates.
Dir: Charles Lamont Cast: [bud] Abbott, [lou] Costello, Charles Laughton
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

7:30 AM Captain Blood (1935)
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Lionel Atwill
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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9:45 AM The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
A Scottish lord rebels against the British by taking up piracy.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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11:30 AM The Spanish Main (1945)
Dutch rebels in the Caribbean turn pirate and kidnap the corrupt Spanish governor's bride-to-be.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:30 PM The Crimson Pirate (1952)
A pirate gets mixed up in a Caribbean revolution.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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3:30 PM Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:30 PM The Pirate (1948)
An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #3 (1955)
George Murphy introduces clips from "A Free Soul" with Clark Gable and "Trial."
Dir: Not available Cast: George Murphy
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SCREWBALL COMEDY: HEPBURN AND GRANT

8:00 PM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper's star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife. She's tired of the business and is ready to settle down with a new beau. But (as Walter well knows) she has one weakness, she can't quite resist a juicy scoop.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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11:45 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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1:45 AM Holiday (1938)
An unhappy heiress falls in love with her stodgy sister's freethinking fiance.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:30 AM My Favorite Wife (1940)
A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's remarriage.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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5:15 AM Easy Life (1944)
A high school dropout finds that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Dir: Walter Hart Cast: William "Bill" Phillips, William Tannen, James Warren
Runtime: 20 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N

[pansypoo53219]

1. milw pbs sat movie recently Philadelphia story + bringing up baby.

love bringing up baby.