TCM Schedule for Thursday, January 4, 2024 - Jane Wyman / The Power of Film

DAYTIME: Birthday tribute, Jane Wyman (born January 5th, 1917). EVENING: Special Theme, The Power of Film

From Wikipedia: Jane Wyman's motion picture career began at age 17 at Paramount Pictures dancing in the chorus for Dance Director LeRoy Prinz in 1934. She signed her first studio contract with Warner Bros. in 1936 at 19. A popular contract player, she quickly progressed from uncredited bit parts to "B" movies and second leads in her first 8 years at the studio.

After this extended apprenticeship she emerged as a dramatic actress and leading lady in 1945 after being cast in The Lost Weekend. More starring vehicles followed including The Yearling (1946), Stage Fright (1950), So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954), and All That Heaven Allows (1955). She received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress between 1946 and 1954, winning for Johnny Belinda (1948).

In 1955 she formed her own television production company Lewman Productions Ltd. (co-owned with MCA Inc.) and assumed responsibility for producing the popular filmed anthology series the Fireside Theatre from Hal Roach Studios. She served as producer, host and frequent star of the NBC series from 1955 to 1958.

In addition to the Oscar, she received four Golden Globe Awards (1948, 1950, 1951 and 1983) and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards (1957 and 1959).

After a couple of periods of virtual retirement between 1963-1968 and 1974-1978 she returned to prominence on the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), portraying the role of villainous matriarch Angela Channing.

Wyman was the first wife of Hollywood actor and the future 40th president of the United States ... Ronald Reagan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Wyman



6:15 AM | He Couldn't Say No (1938)
A timid advertising man learns to fight for the girl of his dreams.
Dir: Lew Seiler | Cast: Frank McHugh, Jane Wyman, Cora Witherspoon
Runtime: 57 mins | Genre: Comedy | Rating: TV-G | CC: N

7:15 AM | Kid Nightingale (1939)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Dir: George Amy | Cast: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
Runtime: 57 mins | Genre: Musical | Rating: TV-G vCC: N

8:15 AM | Miracle in the Rain (1956)
When a lonely woman's wartime lover dies, her loneliness threatens her life.
Dir: Rudolph Maté | Cast: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle
Runtime: 107 mins | Genre: Romance | Rating: TV-G | CC: Y

10:15 AM | My Favorite Spy (1942)
Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.
Dir: Tay Garnett | Cast: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman
Runtime: 86 mins | Genre: Musical | Rating: TV-G | CC: N

11:45 AM | So Big (1953)
A schoolteacher-turned-farmer fights to save the land and her son.
Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson
Runtime: 101 mins | Genre: Romance | Rating: TV-PG | CC: Y

1:30 PM | A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
A concert pianist inherits an apartment house full of loony tenants.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore
Runtime: 88 mins | Genre: Comedy | Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 PM | The Body Disappears (1941)
A scientist's invisibility formula gets him in trouble with the police.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman | Cast: Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman, Edward Everett Horton
Runtime: 72 mins | Genre: Comedy | Rating: TV-G | CC: Y

4:15 PM | The Doughgirls (1944)
Honeymooners in Washington get caught up in wartime crowding, with disastrous results.
Dir: James V. Kern | Cast: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Runtime: 102 mins | Genre: Comedy | Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM | Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Dir: Jean Negulesco | Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford
Runtime: 102 mins | Genre: Drama | Rating: TV-G | CC: Y

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8:00 PM | The Power of Film Episode 1: Popular and Memorable (2023)
A large proportion of the most commercially successful American films are quickly forgotten. A tiny fraction, however, are truly memorable, lasting from one generation to another. Using iconic scenes from many of these classic films, this series explores films that were both popular and memorable.
Dir: Laura Gabbert | Cast: Howard Suber
Runtime: 40 mins | Genre: Documentary | Rating: TV-G | CC:

9:00 PM | A Place in the Sun (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress' heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Runtime: 122 mins | Genre: Drama | Rating: TV-PG | CC: Y

11:15 PM | The Power of Film Episode 1: Popular and Memorable (2023)
A large proportion of the most commercially successful American films are quickly forgotten. A tiny fraction, however, are truly memorable, lasting from one generation to another. Using iconic scenes from many of these classic films, this series explores films that were both popular and memorable.
Dir: Laura Gabbert | Cast: Howard Suber
Runtime: 40 mins | Genre: Documentary | Rating: TV-G

12:15 AM | Do the Right Thing (1989)
On a sweltering hot day in a Brooklyn neighborhood, everyone has their own issues to deal with and tensions between Blacks and Italians rise. Issues of pride and prejudice, justice and inequity come to the surface as hate and bigotry smoulder--finally building into a crescendo as it explodes into violence.
Dir: Spike Lee | Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Gerald Tarack, Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson
Runtime: 120 mins | Genre: Drama | Rating: TV-MA | CC: Y

2:30 AM | City Lights (1931)
In this film, the Little Tramp tries to help a blind flower seller see again.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Runtime: 87 mins | Genre: Silent | Rating: TV-G | CC: Y

4:00 AM | The Great Dictator (1940)
A Jewish barber takes the place of a war-hungry dictator.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie
Runtime: 129 mins | Genre: Comedy | Rating: TV-PG | CC: Y