TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 21: Female Ensemble Casts

[CBHagman]

Whoa. A day filled with women in jeopardy, followed by an evening in which the women take charge.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

12:00 AM
FRENCH LINE, THE ( 1954)
A Texas heiress masquerades as a model in hopes of finding true love.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Jane Russell , Gilbert Roland , Arthur Hunnicutt .
C- 101 mins, CC,

2:00 AM
REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER, THE ( 1956)
A prostitute has no choice but to flee San Francisco when the police turn on her and want her out of town.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Jane Russell , Richard Egan , Joan Leslie .
C- 93 mins, CC,

3:45 AM
FUZZY PINK NIGHTGOWN, THE ( 1957)
A kidnapped movie star falls for one of her captors.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Jane Russell , Keenan Wynn , Ralph Meeker .
BW- 88 mins, CC,

5:14 AM
BIG IDEA, THE ( 1934)
In this short comedy, the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" suffers as various visitors constantly interrupt his train of thought.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Muriel Evans , Henry Taylor , Heinie Conklin .
BW- 19 mins,

6:00 AM
VANISHING, THE ( 1988)
A young man is obsessed with finding the girlfriend who vanished at a rest stop.
Dir: George Sluizer Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu , Gene Bervoets , Johanna ter Steege .
C- 106 mins,

8:00 AM
LADY VANISHES, THE ( 1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood , Michael Redgrave , Paul Lukas .
BW- 96 mins, CC,



9:45 AM
NARROW MARGIN, THE ( 1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw , Marie Windsor , Jacqueline White .
BW- 72 mins, CC,

11:00 AM
MURDER, SHE SAID ( 1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock Cast: Margaret Rutherford , Arthur Kennedy , Muriel Pavlow .
BW- 86 mins, CC,

12:30 PM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ( 1951)
A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger , Ruth Roman , Robert Walker .
BW- 101 mins, CC,

2:15 PM
DIAL M FOR MURDER ( 1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings .
C- 105 mins, CC,

4:15 PM
JULIE ( 1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day , Louis Jourdan , Barry Sullivan .
BW- 97 mins, CC,

6:00 PM
WAIT UNTIL DARK ( 1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn , Alan Arkin , Richard Crenna .
C- 108 mins, CC,



WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FEMALE ENSEMBLE CASTS

8:00 PM
GROUP, THE ( 1966)
Eight friends from a women's college fight for happiness during the Great Depression.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Candice Bergen , Joan Hackett , Elizabeth Hartman .
C- 152 mins, CC,

10:45 PM
WOMEN, THE ( 1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer , Joan Crawford , Rosalind Russell .
BW- 133 mins, CC,



1:15 AM
CRY 'HAVOC' ( 1944)
A group of war nurses fights to survive the siege of Bataan.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Margaret Sullavan , Ann Sothern , Joan Blondell .
BW- 97 mins, CC,

2:57 AM
WOMAN IN THE HOUSE, THE ( 1942)
This short film explores the social phobia of anthropophobia, which is the fear of people.
Dir: Sammy Lee Cast: Mark Daniels , Ann Richards ,
BW- 11 mins,

3:15 AM
STAGE DOOR ( 1937)
Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen.
Dir: Gregory LaCava Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Ginger Rogers , Adolphe Menjou .
BW- 92 mins, CC,



5:00 AM
LITTLE WOMEN ( 1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: June Allyson , Peter Lawford , Margaret O'Brien .
C- 122 mins, CC,

[Staph]

1. I love The Women!

Aside from being a bitingly funny film, it's one of the earliest all-female films. Even the dogs and horses are all female!