TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 12th: TCM Prime Time Feature: Luise Rainer's 100th Birthday

[CBHagman]

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

12:30 AM East Of Eden (1955)
Two brothers compete for their father's approval and a woman's love. Cast: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris. Dir: Elia Kazan. C-118 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM Member of the Wedding, The (1952)
When her brother marries, a 12-year-old girl faces the awkward pains of adolescence. Cast: Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC

4:15 AM Scream of Fear (1961)
A wheelchair-bound heiress doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father's body around the family estate. Cast: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd. Dir: Seth Holt. BW-81 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:38 AM Short Film: Rowan And Martin At The Movies (1969)
C-11 mins,

6:00 AM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb. Dir: Nicholas Ray. C-99 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

7:45 AM Play Girl (1940)
An aging gold digger takes a young woman under her wing. Cast: Kay Francis, Nigel Bruce, James Ellison. Dir: Frank Woodruff. BW-77 mins, TV-PG

9:15 AM Petty Girl, The (1950)
A cheesecake artist tries to get a college professor to pose for him. Cast: Robert Cummings, Joan Caulfield, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Henry Levin. C-88 mins, TV-G

10:45 AM Cover Girl (1944)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind. Cast: Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Phil Silvers. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-107 mins, TV-G

12:33 PM Short Film: Rita Hayworth Biography (1962)
BW-4 mins,

12:45 PM Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Three showgirls in the Ziegfeld Follies face romantic trials on their way to the top. Cast: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Lana Turner. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-132 mins, TV-G, CC

3:00 PM Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld imagines the kind of Follies he could produce with MGM's musical stars. Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland. Dir: Vincente Minnelli and others. C-
110 mins, TV-G, CC

4:50 PM Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-185 mins, TV-G, CC

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: LUISE RAINER'S 100TH BIRTHDAY

8:00 PM Great Waltz, The (1938)
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer. Cast: Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet, Miliza Korjus. Dir: Julien Duvivier. BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC

9:49 PM Short Film: Rainbow Pass, The (1937)
BW-11 mins,

10:00 PM Good Earth, The (1937)
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic about Chinese farmers battling the elements. Cast: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly. Dir: Sidney Franklin. BW-138 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

12:30 AM Big City (1937)
An honest cab driver fights against corruption. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-80 mins, TV-PG

2:00 AM Emperor's Candlesticks, The (1937)
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia. Cast: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Maureen O'Sullivan. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-89 mins, TV-G, CC

3:45 AM Toy Wife, The (1938)
A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors. Cast: Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-96 mins, TV-G

5:30 AM Dramatic School (1938)
A young actress struggles to make a hit on stage and in married life. Cast: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Lana Turner. Dir: Robert B. Sinclair. BW-80 mins, TV-G

[Matilda]

1. TCM Sydney is also celebrating Luise Rainer's centenary this week.

And star of the month is Barbara Stanwyck, so there's some really good work from women showing now.