TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 14: Starring Bebe Daniels

The daytime theme is Southern Gothic. Quite an intriguing schedule of films.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

1:15 AM
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
1h 18m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
A scientist shrinks humans so they can be his puppet friends.
Director
Bert I. Gordon
Cast
John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenny

2:45 AM
Lili (1953)
1h 21m | Musical | TV-G
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Director
Charles Walters
Cast
Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont

4:15 AM
The Great Rupert (1950)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-G
A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family.
Director
Irving Pichel
Cast
Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake

6:00 AM
The Main Attraction (1962)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous drifter causes problems for a small European circus.
Director
Daniel Petrie
Cast
Pat Boone, Nancy Kwan, Mai Zetterling

7:30 AM
Baby Doll (1956)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-14
In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan is married to the much younger Baby Doll.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach

9:30 AM
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
2h | Drama | TV-PG
Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a young man dreaming of stardom who meets up with a has-been movie star.
Director
Richard Brooks
Cast
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight



11:45 AM
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
1h 49m | Drama | TV-14
Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando star in John Huston's intriguing melodrama of repressed love and obsession set on an Army base in the South.
Director
John Huston
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith

1:45 PM
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
A deaf mute changes the lives of all he meets.
Director
Robert Ellis Miller
Cast
Alan Arkin, Chuck McCann, Peter Mamakos

4:00 PM
Ode To Billy Joe (1976)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
It's 1953 and 15-year-old Bobbie Lee Hartley and 18-year-old Billy Joe McAllister are in love.
Director
Max Baer
Cast
Robby Benson, James Best, Glynnis O'Connor



6:00 PM
Wise Blood (1979)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-14
An ambitious Southern boy tries to set himself up as a street preacher.
Director
John Huston
Cast
Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton

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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STARRING BEBE DANIELS

8:00 PM
Cocktail Hour (1933)
1h 14m | Romance
A wealthy artist courts disaster when she tries to live as freely as a man.
Director
Victor Schertzinger
Cast
Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer

9:30 PM
Counsellor at Law (1933)
1h 18m | Drama | TV-G
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Director
William Wyler
Cast
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon

11:00 PM
42nd Street (1933)
1h 25m | Musical | TV-G
When revered Broadway director Julian Marsh falls on hard times with both his health and his finances, he helms an ambitious musical as a final production.
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Cast
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent



12:45 AM
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
1h 15m | Crime | TV-G
Detective Sam Spade investigates the theft of a priceless statue.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges



2:15 AM
Registered Nurse (1934)
1h 2m | Drama | TV-G
After her husband goes mad, a nurse fights off the advances of two amorous doctors.
Director
Robert Florey
Cast
Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday

3:30 AM
Silver Dollar (1932)
1h 24m | Drama | TV-G
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon

5:00 AM
My Past (1931)
1h 23m | Romance | TV-G
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon