TCM Schedule for Monday, March 3 -- FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD

[Longhorn]

3:30am Backdraft (1991)
Feuding firefighter brothers bury their differences to catch an arsonist.
Cast: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro. Dir: Ron Howard. C-137 mins, TV-MA

6:00am Ann Vickers (1933)
A social worker's fight for reform is compromised by her love for a corrupt judge.
Cast: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-76 mins, TV-G

7:15am Enchantment (1948)
When a well-off family takes in a young orphan, her presence ignites romance and jealousy.
Cast: David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes. Dir: Irving Reis. BW-101 mins, TV-G

9:00am Kiss In The Dark, A (1949)
A concert pianist inherits an apartment house full of loony tenants.
Cast: David Niven, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford. Dir: Delmer Daves. BW-88 mins, TV-PG

10:30am Man to Remember, A (1938)
A small-town doctor fights crooked politicians during a polio epidemic.
Cast: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman. Dir: Garson Kanin. BW-78 mins, TV-G

12:00pm Hairy Ape, The (1944)
A ship's stoker becomes obsessed with a society beauty who finds him repulsive.
Cast: William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder. Dir: Alfred Santell. BW-91 mins, TV-PG

1:45pm Marnie (1964)
A rich man marries a compulsive thief and tries to unlock the secrets of her mind.
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-130 mins, TV-PG

4:00pm Jamaica Inn (1939)
A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-99 mins, TV-PG

5:50pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Pest Control (1950)
A narrated how to short on how to handle various pest including, an obnoxius man, a bratty kid and an ink pen that does not work.
Cast: Dave O'Brien, Pete Smith Dir: David Barclay BW-8 mins

6:00pm Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. C-99 mins, TV-PG

7:42pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Over The Counter (1932)
C-18 mins

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD

8:00pm Divorcee, The (1930)
The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-82 mins, TV-G

9:30pm Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history.
BW-68 mins, TV-MA

10:45pm Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins, TV-G

12:00am Three on a Match (1932)
A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Cast: Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-63 mins, TV-PG

1:15am Female (1933)
A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive.
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-60 mins, TV-G

2:30am Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history.
BW-68 mins, TV-MA

3:45am Free Soul, A (1931)
A hard-drinking lawyer's daughter falls for one of his underworld clients.
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-94 mins, TV-G

5:30am Festival of Shorts #19 (1999)
TCM features two sports shorts from the vaults of Warner Bros. Kings of the Turf (1941)and Facing Your Danger (1946)
BW-22 mins, TV-G

[Longhorn]

1. Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)

Over seventy years later, they’ve lost none of their power to shock, entertain, and titillate. So-called “pre-Code” movies remain among the most vital films America has ever produced. But why were these films so much more sexually free and socially critical than what came before or after? Who created the Code, and what did it forbid? And why did it finally become a Hollywood commandment? The answer is a fascinating mix of scandal, big business and social history – a unique collision of events that resulted in one of the most dynamic – and delicious – periods in Hollywood history.

BW-70m.

[CBHagman]

2. Wow! That sounds unmissable.

I've always been fascinated by the era and the concept. The other night TCM aired The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, in which Preston Sturges managed to get away with breaking various taboos, with hilarious results.

[Longhorn]

3. Yes, I'm looking forward to it!

Those of you who really are film experts often refer to the pre-code era and I realized I don't know much about it. With y'all's help, TCM is my own film school! :D

[Sparkly]

4. I'm fascinated with all that but am no expert!

I read "Complicated Women," on the subject -- very interesting! Looking forward to seeing this documentary. :hi:

[CBHagman]

5. Well, Robert Osborne has got our number!

TCM is airing Thou Shalt Not as we speak, and according to host Robert Osborne, previous shows on the pre-code films have been a resounding success and TCM viewers have asked for more. I guess it's reflective of our exquisite taste and, for all I know, our total depravity. ;-) As Tom Lehrer put it, "I do have a cause; it's obscenity. I'm for it."

[BuelahWitch]

6. That's wonderful news!

It took them a long time to release the Forbidden Hollywood series on DVD. Hopefully they'll dust off the rest of them in the vaults and give us many more sets!