TCM Schedule for Sunday, August 4, 2013 - Essentials Jr.: Mary Boland

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
STINGAREE (1934)
An Australian bandit kidnaps an opera singer and falls in love with her.
Dir: William Wellman
Cast: Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Mary Boland.
BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

7:30 AM
THERE GOES THE GROOM (1937)
A young man strikes it rich in the Alaskan gold mines, then faces romantic complications when he returns home.
Dir: Joseph Santley
Cast: Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Mary Boland.
BW-65 mins, TV-G

8:49 AM
HOW TO HOLD YOUR HUSBAND - BACK (1941)
BW-9 mins

9:00 AM
HE MARRIED HIS WIFE (1940)
A race horse owner pays so much attention to business that he winds up divorced from his wife.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young.
BW-83 mins, TV-G

10:30 AM
MARRY THE GIRL (1937)
Brother-and-sister news tycoons try to save their niece from marrying the wrong man.
Dir: William McGann
Cast: Mary Boland, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert.
BW-68 mins, TV-G

11:45 AM
THE SOLITAIRE MAN (1933)
Crooks double cross each other during a tense flight from Paris to London.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, Lionel Atwill.
BW-67 mins, TV-PG

1:00 PM
NEW MOON (1940)
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:00 PM
IN OUR TIME (1944)
A Polish count and his English wife battle Nazi invaders.
Dir: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman.
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1944)
A pair of dimwits get jobs as servants to a boy king whose life is in danger.
Dir: Sam Taylor
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland.
BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:20 PM
A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (1937)
In this comedic short, a man and wife suffer through a night together at the movies.
Cast: Robert Benchley
BW-10 mins

6:30 PM
DANGER - LOVE AT WORK (1937)
A young lawyer is unable to get a family to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.
Dir: Otto Preminger
Cast: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland.
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC


TONIGHT ON TCM
ESSENTIALS, JR.: MARY BOLAND

8:00 PM
RUGGLES OF RED GAP (1935)
A Western rancher wins a British valet in a poker game.
Dir: Leo McCarey
Cast: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

9:35 PM
PRIVATE LESSONS (1934)
Cast: Hal LeRoy
BW-22 mins

10:00 PM
THREE CORNERED MOON (1933)
After losing their fortune, a family tries to find a way out of their predicament.
Dir: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

11:30 PM
THE WOMEN (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell.
BW-133 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:00 AM
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940)
Jane Austen's comic classic about five sisters out to nab husbands in 19th-century England.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland.
BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 AM
JULIA MISBEHAVES (1948)
A showgirl returns to her stuffy estranged husband when their daughter gets engaged.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford.
BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:41 AM
SO YOU WANT AN APARTMENT (1948)
Forever behind-the-eight-ball Joe McDoakes begins an impossible search for an apartment after his wife suggests they move in with her mother. Along the way Joe narrowly avoids falling into countless housing traps, only to end up where he started.
Dir: Richard Bare
Cast: George O'Hanlon
BW-11 mins

[CBHagman]

1. Mary Boland Day!

See, this is why I love TCM: They acknowledge all the people who make classic movies what they are -- the cinematographers, the less familiar directors, the character actors.

I'm not big on Wikipedia, but the entry on Mary Boland was sufficiently intriguing that I'm posting the link here because the entry's more detailed than what's on IMDB.

There's not a great deal on her personal life, though more than one source says she was convent-educated, and she had what was, for the 20th century at least, a long life.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boland[/url]



With Paulette Goddard and Norma Shearer in The Women (1939)



With Laurence Olivier in Pride and Prejudice (1940)



With Edmund Gwenn in Pride and Prejudice (1940)

[Graybeard]

2. Let's have Florence Bates Day !

While not as prolific as Mary Boland, Florence Bates was another of those very reliable and enormously talented character actors.

I read that she was a lawyer and businesswoman in her native Texas who, when she married and moved to California, became in middle-age interested in amateur theater. Auditioned for Alfred Hitchcock and was in his Rebecca (1940) (One of my favorite Bates roles in a Hollywood career that lasted 20 years.)

[CBHagman]

3. On Florence Bates

Of course I had to look up Florence Bates and see what she'd done. Short answer: We've all seen her in something -- Rebecca, Saratoga Trunk, Kitty Foyle, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, or even The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

Her film and TV credits, as per IMDB:

[url]http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060904/[/url]



With S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall

[Graybeard]

4. Two more goodies.

I Remember Mama (1948)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947)

So many good performances by "supporting players".
We could have a month devoted to character actors.

[CBHagman]

5. Star of the Month: Character Actors

I love it! Someone ought to forward that idea to TCM. They already have long had their What a Character! shorts, which have profiled, among others, Mary Wickes, Beulah Bondi, and S.Z. Sakall.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Another reason I love classic films

There were plum roles for women of all ages.