TCM Schedule for Thurs, Oct. 24, 2024 - Dennis Morgan/Creepy Cinema

Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer.

He began his career as a radio announcer in Milwaukee and broadcaster of Green Bay Packers football games. He also sang on Chicago radio. After relocating to Los Angeles, Morgan began appearing in films at MGM in 1936 (billed as Stanley Morner), eventually moving to Paramount in 1938 under the name Richard Stanley.

By 1939 he was at Warner Bros. as Dennis Morgan, where, according to one biographer, his "shy smile and a pleasant tenor voice appeared in carefree and inconsequential Warner Bros musicals of the forties." He was often teamed with Jack Carson in an attempt to parallel the success of Paramount combo Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Morgan




Creepy Cinema is hosted by Mario Cantone, comedian, impressionist, writer, actor, and singer.


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6:00 AM | MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
Esther Williams in "Ziegfeld Follies"; a clip from "Ransom."
Cast: Esther Williams, Donna Reed, George Murphy

6:30 AM | The Desert Song (1944)
A man leads a group of desert bandits against Nazis.
Dir: Robert Florey | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot

8:30 AM | Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Song-filled look behind the scenes of vaudeville, based on the lives of Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

10:30 AM | The Very Thought of You (1944)
World War II intrudes on the speedy courtship and marriage of a GI and his sweetheart.
Dir: Delmer Daves | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark

12:30 PM | Two Guys from Texas (1948)
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone

2:00 PM | Cheyenne (1947)
A gambler falls for the wife of the outlaw he's out to catch.
Dir: Raoul Walsh | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige

4:00 PM | The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
A woman is saved from drowning by a mysterious submarine, but nobody believes her.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan, Eve Arden

6:00 PM | Pretty Baby (1950)
A pair of advertising executives use a woman's child to snag a client.
Dir: Bretaigne Windust | Cast: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott


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8:00 PM | The Night Digger (1971)
A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
Dir: Alastair Reid | Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay

10:00 PM | The Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover a psychologist's therapy techniques on his wife amidst a series of murders.
Dir: David Cronenberg | Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle

11:45 PM | Demon Seed (1977)
A sophisticated computer falls in love with its creator's wife and terrorizes her.
Dir: Donald Cammell | Cast: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerritt Graham

1:30 AM | They Live (1988)
A drifter discovers that alien beings are controlling the minds of the masses.
Dir: John Carpenter | Cast: Rowdy Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

3:15 AM | The Hidden (1987)
Story traces a bizarre series of murders committed by previously law-abiding citizens.
Dir: Jack Sholder | Cast: Michael Nouri, Kyle Maclachlan, Claudia Christian

5:00 AM | The Shout (1978)
A married man protects his marriage from a mysterious traveler who can kill with a shout.
Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski | Cast: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

6:45 AM | The Thing from Another World (1951)
The crew of a remote Arctic base engages an alien being.
Dir: Christian Nyby | Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite