TCM Schedule for Sunday September 11, 2022 - Deanna Durbin Double Feature
Tonight a pair of films starring Universal's songbird-in-residence.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am The Women (1939)
2h 12m | Comedy | TV-PG
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
8:30 am Romance in Manhattan (1935)
1h 20m | Romance | TV-G
A New York chorus girl helps an illegal immigrant build a new life in the big city.
Director: Stephen Roberts. Cast: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl
10:00 am Obsession (1949)
1h 36m | Crime | TV-14
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife's lover in an acid bath.
Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
11:45 am Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
1h 33m | Crime | TV-G
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
1:30 pm The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
3h | Musical | TV-G
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
4:30 pm On the Town (1949)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Director: Gene Kelly. Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
6:15 pm My Favorite Year (1982)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-14
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Director: Richard Benjamin. Cast: Peter O'toole, Mark Linn-baker, Jessica Harper
8:00 pm Mad About Music (1938)
1h 38m | Drama
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him.
Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick
10:00 pm For the Love of Mary (1948)
1h 30m | Comedy
Director: Frederick De Cordova. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'brien, Don Taylor
12:00 am The Rag Man (1925)
1h 7m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a runaway orphan helps a junk dealer make his fortune.
Director: Edward F. Cline. Cast: Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ethel Wales, Robert Edeson
1:30 am A Day's Pleasure (1919)
17m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent short film, a man's attempts to give his family a day out are complicated by their dilapidated car.
Director: Charles Chaplin. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
2:00 am In Vanda's Room (2000)
2h 59m | Documentary | TV-MA
An unflinching view into the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict, in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon.
Director: Pedro Costa. Cast: Vanda Duarte, Zita Duarte, Lena Duarte
5:15 am A Well Spent Life (1971)
44m | Documentary | TV-PG
A deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
Director: Les Blank. Cast: Mance Lipscomb, Les Blank, Les Blank