Dean Stockwell and Charles Coburn in The Green Years (8:30 AM)
Actor Dean Stockwell died earlier this month. I didn't know whether TCM would get a programming tribute together before the end of the year, figuring they'd be likelier to give him one movie when they do a night of programming remembering various people who died over the course of 2021. Happily, I was wrong. Tomorrow morning and afternoon, TCM will be running seven of Stockwell's juvenile roles. It looks like most of them are MGM, with the exception of The Boy With Green Hair which is RKO; in any case, it's all stuff from the old "Turner Library" that forms the backbone of TCM's programming:
Gene Kelly dances with a mouse instead of Stockwell in Anchors Aweigh at 6:00 AM;
Stockwell has to go up against Charles Coburn's ridiculous beard in the first half of The Green Years at 8:30 AM;
Stockwell becomes the latest child star who has to suffer Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk at 10:45 AM;
I have to admit not having seen The Happy Years, at 12:30 PM, before;
Dean Stockwell is opposite Margaret O'Brien in The Secret Garden at 2:30 PM;
Stockwell is the title character of the Kipling-based Kim, at 4:15 PM; and
Stockwell is the titular Boy With Green Hair at 6:15 PM.
Incidentally, IMDb's search function is a mess. I don't know whether it's because of the site redesign or that they just don't care about anything old anymore. But I did a search on the advanced search page of Stockwell and MGM, and only four movies came up, none of which are on the schedule tomorrow.
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