TCM Schedule for Sunday July 10, 2022 - Jean Arthur / Cary Grant Double Feature

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Plus: an Eric Rohmer twin bill on Imports.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
1h 49m | Romance | TV-G
An invalid poetess defies her father's wishes to marry a dashing young poet.
Director: Sidney Franklin. Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton

8:00 am Tortilla Flat (1942)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of life.
Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield

10:00 am High Tide (1947)
1h 10m | Crime
After a car accident traps the two of them inside the car with the tide coming in, the reporter recounts for his bodyguard the circumstances leading up to their predicament.
Director: John Reinhardt. Cast: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop

11:30 am A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A gangster finds the straight life isn't so simple.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins

1:15 pm His Girl Friday (1940)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

3:00 pm The Story of Three Loves (1953)
2h 2m | Romance | TV-G
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Director: Ridgeway Callow. Cast: James Mason, Moira Shearer, Agnes Moorehead

5:15 pm Gypsy (1962)
2h 29m | Musical | TV-PG
A domineering mother pushes her two daughters to burlesque stardom.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

8:00 pm Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
2h 1m | Adventure | TV-PG
A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country.
Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess

10:15 pm The Talk of the Town (1942)
1h 58m | Comedy | TV-G
An escaped political prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman

12:30 am A Lady of Chance (1928)
1h 19m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a female con artist lures men to her apartment so she can blackmail them.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee

2:00 am From Hand to Mouth (1919)
22m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a young burglar tries to save an heiress from kidnappers.
Director: Alf Goulding. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Snub Pollard

2:30 am Summer (1986)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-MA
A shy secretary tries to make the most of her vacation after her traveling companion cancels.
Director: Eric Rohmer. Cast: Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Michel Laboure

4:15 am Claire's Knee (1970)
1h 46m | Drama | TV-14
On holiday, a conflicted man lusts after beautiful stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter.
Director: Eric Rohmer. Cast: Jean-claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand

[CBHagman]

1. Jean Arthur and Cary Grant AND Eric Rohmer. Wow!

And I know I've posted on this before, but The Talk of the Town deserves to be better known. It's another Golden Age romantic comedy that addresses serious and enduringly relevant topics.