TCM Schedule for Saturday, August 27 --- THE ESSENTIALS: LINDA DARNELL

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27 Saturday



6:00 AM Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Dir: Hall Bartlett Cast: Dana Andrews , Linda Darnell , Sterling Hayden .
BW-81 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

7:30 AM Sweet and Low Down (1944)
Dir: Archie Mayo Cast: Benny Goodman , Linda Darnell , Jack Oakie .
BW-76 mins,

9:00 AM Rise and Shine (1941)
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game.
Dir: Allan Dwan Cast: Jack Oakie , George Murphy , Linda Darnell .
BW-88 mins,

10:45 AM Brigham Young (1940)
Two young Mormons struggle to survive their people's journey to a new home in the West.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Tyrone Power , Linda Darnell , Dean Jagger .
BW-113 mins,

12:45 PM Two Flags West (1950)
A bitter Union commander is forced to accept Confederate prisoners to help fight an Indian war.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Joseph Cotten , Linda Darnell , Jeff Chandler .
BW-92 mins,

2:30 PM Second Chance (1953)
A crooked boxer falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.
Dir: Rudy Maté Cast: Robert Mitchum , Linda Darnell , Jack Palance .
C-82 mins, TV-PG, CC,

4:00 PM Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
A kidnapped beauty gets caught between feuding pirates.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Robert Newton , Linda Darnell , William Bendix .
C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC,

6:00 PM Fallen Angel (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife's money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Alice Faye , Dana Andrews , Linda Darnell .
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC,


WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS: LINDA DARNELL

8:00 PM A Letter to Three Wives (1948)
A small-town seductress notifies her three best friends that she has run off with one of their husbands.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Jeanne Crain , Linda Darnell , Ann Sothern .
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM Star Dust (1940)
When the studios reject her because she's too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
Dir: Walter Lang Cast: Linda Darnell , John Payne , Roland Young .
BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC,

11:30 PM Hangover Square (1945)
A composer who can't control his creative temperament turns to murder.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Laird Cregar , Linda Darnell , George Sanders .
BW-78 mins, TV-14, CC,

1:00 AM No Way Out (1950)
A racist gangster forces a black doctor to tend to his injuries.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Richard Widmark , Linda Darnell , Stephen McNally .
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:00 AM Everybody Does It (1949)
While fostering his wife's opera career, a businessman discovers he's the one with talent.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Paul Douglas , Linda Darnell , Celeste Holm .
BW-98 mins,

4:45 AM Day-Time Wife (1939)
After catching her husband with his secretary, a young wife goes to work for his business rival.
Dir: Gregory Ratoff Cast: Tyrone Power , Linda Darnell , Warren William .
BW-72 mins,

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1. Watching 'Letter To Three Wives'

and just heard Robert Osbourne and Alec Baldwin on the intro say that Jeanne Crain was supposed to be the first choice of Darryl Zanuck for the part of 'Eve', in 'All About Eve', but she kept getting pregnant, and they never could schedule the filming around her pregnancies. She ended up having 7 children.

I never knew that Anne Baxter was second choice! IMHO, she played the part to perfection-