TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 13: Hollywoodland: Screenwriting Stories

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

12:00 AM Phffft (1954)
A couple divorce but can't stop getting mixed up in each other's lives.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:45 AM Full of Life (1957)
A married couple has to deal with pregnancy and the husband's meddling father.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:30 AM Bells Are Ringing (1960)
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients' lives.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin", which is curiously signed the Bishop. Vance is on the case but the pressure to uncover the ...
Dir: David Burton Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

7:30 AM The Lady of Scandal (1930)
A nobleman risks his family's wrath by courting an actress.
Dir: Sidney Franklin Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: N

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9:00 AM Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)
A stenographer tries to save her boss from his divorcee girlfriend.
Dir: Paul Stein Cast: Constance Bennett, Kenneth Mackenna, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

10:30 AM The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
A blacksmith's rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast: Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:15 PM A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
A British lawyer sacrifices himself to save another man from the guillotine.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allen, Edna May Oliver
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:30 PM Romeo and Juliet (1937)
Shakespeare's classic tale of young lovers from feuding families.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:45 PM The Dawn Patrol (1938)
A flight commander in France almost cracks under the pressure of sending men to their deaths.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:45 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: HOLLYWOODLAND: SCREENWRITING STORIES

8:00 PM Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

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10:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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12:00 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

2:15 AM Crashing Hollywood (1938)
A true to life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Paul Guilfoyle
Runtime: 61 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:30 AM Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Two wacky Hollywood writers drive their boss crazy while trying to help a pregnant waitress.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:15 AM Best Friends (1982)
Two screenwriters who have lived and worked together for years decide to escalate their relationship and marry. Soon into their marriage, they discover the great differences between being a married couple rather than best friends.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y