TCM Schedule for Tuesday, August 20: Summer Under the Stars: Jeanne Crain

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

2:15 AM La Boheme (1926)
In this silent film, a starving artist falls in love with a sickly seamstress in 19th-century Paris.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: N


4:00 AM The Cossacks (1928)
A young Cossack is branded a coward when he opposes the slaughter of the Turks.
Dir: George Hill Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N


6:00 AM Skyjacked (1972)
While on route to Los Angeles, a commercial airliner is hijacked to Russia by an unbalanced Vietnam veteran.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


8:00 AM Guns of the Timberland (1960)
Logging partners with a government contract lock horns with a rancher and her neighbors.
Dir: Robert D. Webb Cast: Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:00 AM The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
A reformed gunslinger's past keeps catching up with him.
Dir: Russell Rouse Cast: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



12:00 PM Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
A sister act in Paris tries to top their aunts' escapades there during the roaring twenties.
Dir: Richard Sale Cast: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:00 PM The Tattered Dress (1957)
After top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for Michael Reston who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:



4:00 PM State Fair (1945)
An Iowa family finds romance and adventure at the yearly state fair.
Dir: Walter Lang Cast: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:00 PM A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
A small-town seductress notifies her three best friends that she has run off with one of their husbands.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



8:00 PM Pinky (1949)
After passing up North, a young woman leaves her job and fiance in Boston and returns home to experience life as a black woman in the deep South.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:00 PM Margie (1946)
A brainy school girl falls apart over a new, handsome teacher.
Dir: Henry King Cast: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 AM The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady, Thelma Ritter
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:00 AM People Will Talk (1951)
A controversial doctor gets mixed up with an unwed mother.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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4:00 AM Twenty Plus Two (1961)
When a Hollywood secretary is found murdered, a detective is hired to investigate the murder.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y