TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 31st: Summer Under the Stars: Marlene Dietrich

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The awful truth: I still haven't watched The Blue Angel all the way through. :blush:

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011



1:30 AM Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
A real cowboy signs on to impersonate a faded western star for public appearances.
Dir: Norman Panama Cast: Fred MacMurray , Dorothy McGuire , Howard Keel .
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC,

3:00 AM Pagan Love Song (1950)
An American tourist romances a Tahitian beauty.
Dir: Robert Alton Cast: Esther Williams , Howard Keel , Minna Gombell .
C-77 mins, TV-G, CC,

4:30 AM Texas Carnival (1951)
A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Esther Williams , Red Skelton , Howard Keel .
C-77 mins, TV-G, CC,

6:00 AM Monte Carlo Story, The (1957)
Two compulsive gamblers fall in love on the French Riviera.
Dir: Samuel A. Taylor Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Vittorio De Sica , Arthur O'Connell .
C-101 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

7:45 AM Knight Without Armour (1937)
A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union.
Dir: Jacques Feyder Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Robert Donat , Irene Van Brugh .
BW-107 mins, TV-G,

9:45 AM Lady Is Willing, The (1942)
A Broadway star has to find a husband so she can adopt an abandoned child.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Fred MacMurray , Aline MacMahon .
BW-91 mins, TV-G,

11:30 AM Kismet (1944)
In the classic Arabian Nights tale, the king of the beggars enters high society to help his daughter marry a handsome prince.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Ronald Colman , Marlene Dietrich , James Craig .
C-100 mins, TV-G, CC,

1:15 PM Stage Fright (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Jane Wyman , Marlene Dietrich , Michael Wilding .
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:15 PM Rancho Notorious (1952)
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Arthur Kennedy , Mel Ferrer .
C-89 mins, TV-G, CC,

4:45 PM Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2001)
Documentary, directed by Dietrich's grandson, that reveals the passionate artist and political activist beneath the star's glamorous facade. Interviews with Rosemary Clooney and Burt Bacharach.
Dir: J David Riva Cast: Burt Bacharach , Rosemary Clooney ,
C-101 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

6:30 PM Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Clive Brook , Anna May Wong .
BW-82 mins, TV-14, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: MARLENE DIETRICH

8:00 PM Scarlet Empress, The (1934)
A young innocent masters the decadent ways of Imperial Russia in order to reign as Catherine the Great.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Marlene Dietrich , John Lodge , Sam Jaffe .
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC,

10:00 PM Devil Is A Woman, The (1935)
A member of the Spanish guard falls for a temptress who once ruined his commanding officer's life.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Marlene Dietrich , Lionel Atwill , Edward Everett Horton .
BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC,

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11:30 PM Manpower (1941)
Power linemen feud over the love of a sultry nightclub singer.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Edward G. Robinson , Marlene Dietrich , George Raft .
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC,

1:30 AM Foreign Affair, A (1948)
A prim Congresswoman gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jean Arthur , Marlene Dietrich , John Lund .
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC,



3:30 AM Blue Angel, The (1930)
A stodgy professor falls from grace when he's seduced by a nightclub singer.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Emil Jannings , Marlene Dietrich , Kurt Gerron .
BW-107 mins, TV-PG,