TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 14: Summer Under the Stars: Bette Davis

[CBHagman]

Several special features to note in today's schedule, aside from those Bette Davis eyes: First of all, the Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett interviews of our star of the day, and then a true rarity, the short on the effort to get Pennsylvania to allow movies to be screened on Sundays -- a bit of cultural and political history I hadn't encountered.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2013

12:01 AM
Return From Nowhere (1944)
BW-10 mins,

12:15 AM
Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962)
A washed-up prizefighter tries to free himself from his ruthless promoters to build a new life.
Dir: Ralph Nelson Cast: Anthony Quinn , Jackie Gleason , Mickey Rooney .
BW-85 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:44 AM
Moonshine War, The - Featurette (1970)
C-7 mins,

2:00 AM
Pulp (1972)
A pulp fiction novelist fights to survive an assignment to ghost write a controversial star's memoirs.
Dir: Mike Hodges Cast: Michael Caine , Mickey Rooney , Lionel Stander .
C-95 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM
80 Steps To Jonah (1969)
A young man hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Wayne Newton , Jo Van Fleet , Keenan Wynn .
C-107 mins, TV-G,

6:00 AM
Parachute Jumper (1933)
A gangster victimizes three friends trying to get jobs.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Bette Davis , Frank McHugh .
BW-72 mins, TV-G,

7:20 AM
Audition, The (1933)
Phil Emerton and his band play tunes and accompany guest performers in this musical short.
BW-9 mins,

7:30 AM
Girl from 10th Avenue, The (1935)
After a working girl reforms an alcoholic lawyer who was recently dumped, his ex wants him back.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Bette Davis , Ian Hunter , Colin Clive .
BW-69 mins, TV-G,



8:50 AM
Movies On Sundays (1935)
A promotional short from 1935 encouraging Pennsylvania's citizens to allow movie showings on Sundays, just as other leisure was allowed at the time. Interesting look at the relative political conservatism of the day.
BW-8 mins,

9:00 AM
Dangerous (1935)
A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress he's fallen in love with.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Bette Davis , Franchot Tone , Margaret Lindsay .
BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC,

10:30 AM
Petrified Forest, The (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard , Bette Davis , Genevieve Tobin .
BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC,



12:00 PM
Jezebel (1938)
A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis , Henry Fonda , George Brent .
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,



2:00 PM
Letter, The (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis , Herbert Marshall , James Stephenson .
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,

3:45 PM
Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis , Paul Henreid , Claude Rains .
BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC,



5:45 PM
Watch On The Rhine (1943)
Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington.
Dir: Herman Shumlin Cast: Bette Davis , Paul Lukas , Geraldine Fitzgerald .
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC,

7:45 PM
Carson on TCM: Bette Davis (2/9/83) (2013)
TCM presents a classic interview from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
C-9 mins, TV-PG, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: BETTE DAVIS

8:00 PM
Ex-Lady (1933)
A female artist is torn between her belief in free love and the constraints of romance.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Bette Davis , Gene Raymond , Frank McHugh .
BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC,



9:15 PM
Dark Victory (1939)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis , George Brent , Humphrey Bogart .
BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,

11:15 PM
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1941)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis , Ann Sheridan , Monty Woolley .
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC,



1:15 AM
Dick Cavett Show, The: Bette Davis (1971)
Bette Davis appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired November 17, 1971.
C-62 mins, TV-PG, CC,

2:30 AM
Payment On Demand (1951)
A bitter divorcee thinks back on the mistakes that destroyed her marriage.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis , Barry Sullivan , Jane Cowl .
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC,

4:15 AM
Nanny, The (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Bette Davis , Wendy Craig , Jill Bennett .
BW-93 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format