TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 10, 2013 -- The Essentials: Lana Turner

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6:00 AM
THEY WON'T FORGET (1937)
Bigotry flares when a teacher is accused of killing a small-town girl in the South.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris.
BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC

7:45 AM
RICH MAN, POOR GIRL (1938)
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Dir: Reinhold Schunzel
Cast: Robert Young, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey.
BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

9:00 AM
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Dir: Victor Fleming
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 AM
JOHNNY EAGER (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA's daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold.
BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC

1:00 PM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)

Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman's older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett
Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:00 PM
GREEN DOLPHIN STREET (1947)
In 19th-century New Zealand, two sisters compete for the same man against a backdrop of political unrest and natural disaster.
Dir: Victor Saville
Cast: Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed.
BW-141 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 PM
ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941)
Three showgirls in the Ziegfeld Follies face romantic trials on their way to the top.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr.
BW-133 mins, TV-G, CC

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8:00 PM
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)

An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll.
BW-118 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:15 PM
IMITATION OF LIFE (1959)

Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters.
Dir: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee.
C-125 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:30 AM
PEYTON PLACE (1957)

Small-town scandals erupt when a repressed woman deals with her daughter's move into adulthood.
Dir: Mark Robson
Cast: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan.
C-157 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

3:11 AM
GREAT LADY HAS AN INTERVIEW (LANA TURNER - 1954) (1954)
BW-8 mins

3:30 AM
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948)
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson.
C-126 mins, TV-G, CC

5:48 AM
THE AMAZING MR. NORDILL (1947)
This short film focuses on Everett Nordill, a mastermind behind a counterfeiting ring in the mid-nineteenth century.
BW-11 mins