TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 9, 2013 -- The Essentials: Long Weekends

[Bolo Boffin]

6:00 AM
NAUGHTY MARIETTA (1935)

A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with an Indian scout.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan.
BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC


8:00 AM
THE LITTLEST REBEL (1935)

A Confederate officer risks everything to go home and see his daughter.
Dir: David Butler
Cast: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt.
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC


9:15 AM
CYCLOPS (1957)

A scientific expedition discovers a 25-foot tall mutant.
Dir: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney [Jr.].
BW-65 mins, TV-PG


10:30 AM
THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG (1934)

Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland
Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG


12:00 PM
TORCHY GETS HER MAN (1938)

Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine
Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-63 mins, TV-G


1:15 PM
KIT CARSON (1940)

Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Dir: George B. Seitz
Cast: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews.
BW-96 mins, TV-PG


3:00 PM
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1947)

The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.
Dir: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero.
C-141 mins, TV-PG, CC


5:30 PM
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

A blue-collar worker's encounter with a UFO leaves him a changed man.
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr.
C-135 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


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THE ESSENTIALS: LONG WEEKENDS

8:00 PM
GRAND HOTEL (1932)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through scandal and heartache.
Dir: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC


10:00 PM
WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF (1945)

In this remake of Grand Hotel, guests at a New York hotel fight to survive personal tragedy.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon.
BW-130 mins, TV-G, CC


12:30 AM
THE BIG CHILL (1983)

A friend's death brings together a group of former college activists.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Glenn Close, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum.
C-105 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format


3:30 AM
RULES OF THE GAME (1939)

A famed flier pursues a married woman during a weekend at her husband's country estate.
Dir: Jean Renoir
Cast: Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio.
BW-106 mins, TV-14


4:30 AM
FUN ON A WEEKEND (1947)

Penniless strangers team up to fleece the rich.
Dir: Andrew Stone
Cast: Eddie Bracken, Priscilla Lane, Tom Conway.
BW-93 mins, TV-G

[CBHagman]

1. Sigh. Proofreading and fact checking are falling by the wayside.

I see it more and more in the newspaper, and it's rampant online, even at reputable sites.

TCM's offense in this regard: Identifying actress Teri Garr (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) as "Terry Garr."

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Shoot. And I thought that was basically an automated process for them.

I'm going to check her actor page there at TCM.

ETA: OMG, it's misspelled on her actor page at TCM.com as well. That's unbelievable.

I was also able to fix François Truffaut's name as well. I do try to catch those, but I was in a hurry posting these.

EATA: I joined TCM.com as a contributor so I could submit a correction to this. Looking at her Wikipedia page, her legal birth name is Terry Garr. But I agree with you: it should be listed as Teri Garr in their database, because that's what people know her as.

[CBHagman]

3. Don't feel bad about Truffaut!

There's a problem with copying and pasting diacritical marks from the TCM monthly schedule. I usually have to watch for problems with Spanish and French names.