TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 3: Star of the Month: Laurence Olivier

[CBHagman]

A happy birthday to Doris Day, born exactly two years before the late Marlon Brando. TCM's schedule honors the two of them before turning the spotlight to Star of the Month Laurence Olivier. There's truly something for everyone today!

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

12:15 AM
Graduate, The (1967)
A recent college graduate has an affair with his neighbor's wife, then falls for their daughter.
Dir: Mike Nichols Cast: Anne Bancroft , Dustin Hoffman , Katharine Ross .
C-106 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 AM
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
An aging couple's liberal principles are tested when their daughter announces her engagement to a black doctor.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy , Sidney Poitier , Katharine Hepburn .
C-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM
Dick Cavett Show, The: Katharine Hepburn (One) (1973)
Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired September 14, 1973.
C-68 mins, TV-14, CC,

5:30 AM
Dick Cavett Show, The: Katharine Hepburn (Two) (1973)
Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired October 2, 1973.
C-70 mins, TV-14, CC,

6:45 AM
West Point Story, The (1950)
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney , Virginia Mayo , Doris Day .
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC,

8:45 AM
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day , Gordon MacRae , ["Smiling"] Jack Smith .
C-95 mins, TV-G,

10:30 AM
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
A small-town girl's love life goes ballistic when her sweetheart returns from World War I.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Doris Day , Gordon MacRae , Leon Ames .
C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC,



12:15 PM
Calamity Jane (1953)
The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Doris Day , Howard Keel , Allyn McLerie .
C-101 mins, TV-G, CC,

2:00 PM
Wild One, The (1953)
Motorcycle-riding delinquents take over a small town.
Dir: Laslo Benedek Cast: Marlon Brando , Mary Murphy , Robert Keith .
BW-79 mins, TV-14, CC,

3:30 PM
On The Waterfront (1954)
A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando , Karl Malden , Lee J. Cobb .
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format



5:30 PM
Guys And Dolls (1955)
A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando , Jean Simmons , Frank Sinatra .
C-149 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: LAURENCE OLIVIER

8:00 PM
Henry V (1944)
Shakespeare's tale of the warrior king who learns the meaning of heroism during a daring invasion of France.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Robert Newton , Leslie Banks .
BW-137 mins, TV-PG,



10:30 PM
Hamlet (1948)
The melancholy Dane flirts with insanity while trying to prove his uncle murdered his father.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Eileen Herlie , Basil Sydney .
BW-154 mins, TV-14, CC,

1:15 AM
Richard III (1955)
A hunchbacked madman plots to make himself king of England.
Dir: Laurence Olivier Cast: Laurence Olivier , Ralph Richardson , Claire Bloom .
C-159 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format



4:00 AM
Othello (1965)
A famed general convinces himself that his wife is unfaithful.
Dir: Stuart Burge Cast: Laurence Olivier , Frank Finlay , Maggie Smith .
C-166 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

[graham4anything]

1. Any movie Laurence Olivier was in, was better because he was in it.

One of my favorites, however, I would say he was the #1 classical actors actor of all time.

It's too bad for the movie public that the middle period of his career was mostly spent on stage.
Thankfully, he decided that his family needed the money in his later days and did one big paycheck after another- because in all cases, the public was well better off with those films having the gravitas of his performances than had he remained just on stage, and possibly forgotten.

Marathon Man proved that. (is it safe?)

BTW, he should have had many more Oscars in his life.

BTW2-I would not mind if the Best Actor award was named the Laurence Olivier best Actor award.

[Kurovski]

2. On Moonlight Bay--Theatrical Trailer

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[Kurovski]

3. HENRY V--Trailer

HENRY V - 1944 original version of the film begins with a dedication to the commandos and airborne troops of Great Britain.

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[Matilda]

4. As TCM in Oz has Clark Gable as its Star of the Month

again, I found myself thinking "why don't they ever have Laurence Olivier as star of the month?". Your TCM programmers have much more imagination than ours do.

"Hamlet" is one of my personal "great films", and I love what he did with "Henry V", not least because of the limitations of a wartime budget. But then, I could watch him recite the telephone book. (Anything but Richard III - as a Richard III tragic, I just can't watch it, not even for Sir Larry. Stupid, but that's how it is.)

And "Othello" - I saw that eight times a week for months as a cinema usherette in London. I got into the habit of picking one actor each night to watch, even when they weren't speaking - I learned a lot by doing that. Memories.