TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 13 --- THE ESSENTIALS: JAMES STEWART

[lavenderdiva]

13 Saturday



6:00 AM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig Cast: Edward G. Robinson , James Stewart , Rose Stradner .
BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC,

7:30 AM The Shopworn Angel (1938)
A showgirl gives up life in the fast lane for a young soldier on his way to fight World War I.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Margaret Sullavan , James Stewart , Walter Pidgeon .
BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC,

9:00 AM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
An idealistic Senate replacement takes on political corruption.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur , James Stewart , Claude Rains .
BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC,

11:15 AM Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
A secretary becomes so valuable to her boss that it jeopardizes his marriage.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Clark Gable , Jean Harlow , Myrna Loy .
BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC,

12:45 PM Vivacious Lady (1937)
After a whirlwind courtship, a nightclub singer has to adjust to her professor husband's conservative family.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Ginger Rogers , James Stewart , James Ellison .
BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC,

2:30 PM The Shop Around The Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers don't realize they're secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Margaret Sullavan , James Stewart , Frank Morgan .
BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC,

4:15 PM Bell, Book and Candle (1959)
A beautiful witch puts a love spell on an unknowing publisher.
Dir: Richard Quine Cast: James Stewart , Kim Novak , Jack Lemmon .
C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 PM The Naked Spur (1953)
A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart , Janet Leigh , Robert Ryan .
C-92 mins, TV-PG, CC,


TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: JAMES STEWART

8:00 PM The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
An experienced gunman and a peace-loving tenderfoot clash with a Western bully.
Dir: John Ford Cast: James Stewart , John Wayne , Vera Miles .
BW-123 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM No Highway in the Sky (1951)
An engineer fights to prove that a new model airplane is not safe.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: James Stewart , Marlene Dietrich , Glynis Johns .
BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC,

12:00 AM Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart , Lee Remick , Ben Gazzara .
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM The Murder Man (1935)
A hard-drinking reporter specializes in murder cases, until he becomes a suspect in one himself.
Dir: Tim Whelan Cast: Spencer Tracy , Virginia Bruce , Lionel Atwill .
BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC,

4:00 AM The Stratton Story (1949)
True story of Monty Stratton, the baseball star who fought to continue his career after losing a leg.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: James Stewart , June Allyson , Frank Morgan .
BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC,

[CBHagman]

1. Interesting line-up.

I have to admit that I haven't seen The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance since high school (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth). I do, however, have a soft spot for the theme song, sung by Gene Pitney).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN4L7cAQf0

[lavenderdiva]

2. Yes, interesting picks to highlight

Jimmy Stewart, I think. I would have included either Rear Window or Vertigo or The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Shop Around The Corner, It's A Wonderful Life, The Stratton Story, Anatomy of a Murder, and maybe a western. But no one asked me! :hi:

[Matilda]

3. The Shopworn Angel is a quirky little film.

It's a very different story, and Margaret Sullavan is, as ever, excellent. And James
Stewart is - James Stewart, but there's an edge to this one, perhaps because of
Margaret Sullavan. It was believed he was in love with her - I don't know, but
there's certainly something happening between them when they're on screen together.
Seems to me that he's especially tender towards her.

[lavenderdiva]

4. That same chemistry was evident in

'The Shop Around The Corner' with Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. I heard that about his being in love with her. I just found this interesting article on wikipedia about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullavan

It was years earlier, during a casual conversation with some fellow actors on Broadway that Sullavan first predicted that Stewart one day would become a major Hollywood star. By 1936, Stewart was a contract player at MGM but getting only small parts in B-movies. At that time Sullavan worked for Universal and when she brought up Stewart's name, they were puzzled. The Universal casting-people had never heard of him. At Sullavan's suggestion Universal agreed to test him for her leading man and eventually he was borrowed from a willing MGM to star with Sullavan in Next Time We Love.

Stewart had been nervous and unsure of himself during the early stages of production. At that time he had only had two minor MGM parts which had not given him much camera experience. The director, Edward H. Griffith, began bullying Stewart. "Maggie, he's wet behind the ears", Griffith told Sullavan. "He's going to make a mess of things". Sullavan believed in Stewart and spent the evenings coaching him and helping him scale down his awkward mannerisms and hesitant speech that were soon to be famous around the world. "It was Margaret Sullavan who made James Stewart a star", director Griffith later said. "And she did, too", Bill Grady from MGM agreed. "That boy came back from Universal so changed I hardly recognized him".

The inevitable gossip in Hollywood at that time (1935–36) was that William Wyler, Sullavan's then-husband, was suspicious about his wife's and Stewart's private rehearsing together. When Sullavan divorced Wyler in 1936 and married Leland Hayward that same year, they moved to a colonial house just a block down from Stewart. Stewart's frequent visits to the Sullavan/Hayward home soon restoked the rumors of his romantic feelings for Sullavan.

Sullavan and Stewart's second movie together was The Shopworn Angel (1938). "Why, they´re red-hot when they get in front of a camera", Louis B. Mayer said about their onscreen chemistry. "I don't know what the hell it is, but it sure jumps off the screen". Walter Pidgeon, who was part of the triangle in The Shopworn Angel later recalled: "I really felt like the odd-man-out in that one. It was really all Jimmy and Maggie ... It was so obvious he was in love with her. He came absolutely alive in his scenes with her, playing with a conviction and a sincerity I never knew him to summon away from her". Eventually the duo would do four movies together from 1936-1940 (Next Time We Love, The Shopworn Angel, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm).