TCM Schedule for Friday, September 14 -- What's On Tonight: Elizabeth I

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TCM is running away to sea today, with a day full of films about life at sea. And in prime time, we have a trio of films about the life of the first Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy!



6:00 AM -- Them Thar Hills (1934)
When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law.
Dir: Charles Rogers
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy,
BW-20 mins, TV-G, CC,

Filming was moved from Santa Ynez Canyon to the Roach Studios lot when heavy fog put a stop to location filming.


6:30 AM -- White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
An alcoholic doctor runs off to Tahiti, where he finds love with a native girl.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson
BW-85 mins, TV-PG,

Won an Oscar for Best Cinematography -- Clyde De Vinna

This was MGM's first sound picture, and premiered in Hollywood at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater on Friday, 3 Aug 1928. And this was the first movie in which Leo the MGM lion, roared during the introduction.


8:00 AM -- Sea Devils (1937)
A feud between Coast Guardsmen heats up when one falls for the other's daughter.
Dir: Ben Stoloff
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Preston Foster, Ida Lupino
BW-88 mins, TV-G,

Keep a sharp eye on the scene when Mike O'Shea escapes from the brig by tricking a fellow seaman. The key was already in the cell lock - he could have gotten out at any time he wanted!


9:30 AM -- The Sea Wolf (1941)
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC,

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Effects, Special Effects -- Byron Haskin (photographic) and Nathan Levinson (sound)

This was the first movie to have its world premiere on a ship, on the luxury liner "America" during a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles.


11:00 AM -- Ship Ahoy (1942)
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines.
Dir: Edward Buzzell
Cast: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr
BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC,

The title was changed from "I'll Take Manila" to "Ship Ahoy" because the Philippines had already fallen to the Japanese in the war. The ship destination was changed from Manila to Puerto Rico, and the song "I'll Take Manila" was changed to "I'll Take Tallulah".


12:45 PM -- High Barbaree (1947)
A downed pilot looks back on his life as he awaits rescue in the South Pacific.
Dir: Jack Conway
Cast: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC,

The original ending for the film had Van Johnson hearing over his radio that the ship on which his lady-love, June Allyson, was serving had been sunk. Johnson then died and the picture ended. The New York Times reported on November 17, 1946 that 40 percent of the audience opinion cards handed out at a preview of the film in Los Angeles demanded that Johnson's character live. MGM spent $50,000 to shoot scenes for a new ending, which also had Allyson's character surviving as well.


2:30 PM -- All The Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals.
Dir: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth
C-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography, Color -- George J. Folsey

Based on the novel by Ben Ames Williams, and previously filmed as All The Brothers Were Valiant (1923 - starring Malcolm McGregor and Lon Chaney, Sr.) and Across To Singapore (1928 - starring Ramon Novarro and Ernest Torrence).


4:15 PM -- Crest Of The Wave (1954)
British and American sailors conduct demolitions experiments off the Scottish coast.
Dir: John Boulting
Cast: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee
BW-90 mins, TV-G,

Originally titled Seagulls Over Sorrento.


6:00 PM -- The Sea Around Us (1952)
Documentary based on Rachel Carson's pioneering study of ocean life.
Dir: Irwin Allen
Cast: Don Forbes, Theodor von Eltz,
C-62 mins, TV-G,

Won an Oscar for Best Documentary, Features -- Irwin Allen

Carson won a National Book Award in 1952 for her non-fiction book "The Sea Around Us."


7:15 PM -- MGM Parade Show #14 (1955)
Clark Gable and Charles Laughton perform in a clip from "Mutiny on the Bounty"; Howard Keel introduces a clip from "Kismet." Hosted by George Murphy.
BW-25 mins, TV-G,



TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: ELIZABETH I



8:00 PM -- The Virgin Queen (1955)
Sir Walter Raleigh wins favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
Dir: Henry Koster
Cast: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins
C-92 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design, Color -- Charles Le Maire and Mary Wills

This is the second time that actress Bette Davis portrays British monarch Queen Elizabeth I. The first film will be shown tonight at midnight.


10:00 PM -- Young Bess (1953)
The future Elizabeth I fights court intrigue in the turbulent years before her ascension to the throne.
Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr
C-112 mins, TV-G, CC,

Nominated for Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color -- Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore, and Best Costume Design, Color -- Walter Plunkett

Cast as on-screen lovers Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I) and Sir Thomas Seymour, in real life Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger were married to each other when this movie was filmed.


12:00 AM -- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
BW-106 mins, TV-G, CC,

Nominated for Oscars for Best Art Direction -- Anton Grot, Best Cinematography, Color -- Sol Polito and W. Howard Greene, Best Effects, Special Effects -- Byron Haskin (photographic) and Nathan Levinson (sound), Best Music, Scoring -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Best Sound, Recording -- Nathan Levinson (Warner Bros. SSD)

To give the illusion of baldness, Bette Davis shaved her head two inches in front to show a high forehead under Elizabeth's red wigs. She also had her eyebrows removed. She later complained that they never grew back properly and that ever after she had to draw them in with an eyebrow pencil.


2:00 AM -- Equinox (1970)
Four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information.
Dir: Dennis Muren
Cast: Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Boers Jr.
C-82 mins, TV-PG,

Film debut of Frank Bonner (best known as Herb from WKRP in Cincinnati).


3:30 AM -- The Wasp Woman (1959)
A cosmetics executive's search for eternal beauty turn her into a monster.
Dir: Roger Corman
Cast: Susan Cabot, Fred Eisley, Barboura Morris
BW-61 mins, TV-PG,

This was Susan Cabot's final movie.


5:00 AM -- Engagement Party (1956)
BW-28 mins, TV-PG,


5:30 AM -- When I am Old Enough, Goodbye (1962)
Dir: Karl Genus
Cast: Barry Primus, Al Hinckley, Ann Dee
BW-28 mins, TV-PG,