Briefs for Mother's Day 2022

It was only last month that I mentioned the documentary Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story. I hadn't looked up the TCM schedule for May at the time, so didn't notice that it's actually on the TCM schedule, overnight tonight at 2:15 AM. It's fitting that, as Harold Michelson storyboarded the shot of Dustin Hoffman being framed by Anne Bancroft's leg in The Graduate, this movie should follow at 4:00 AM.

Tomorrow (May 8) is Mother's Day, and very surprisingly, TCM doesn't seem to have Mildred Pierce on the schedule. I Remember Mama, however, is another movie that quintessentially fits Mother's Day, and it's understandable that this one is includes as part of TCM's schedule for the day, at 8:00 PM Sunday. Somewhat more interestingly on TCM's schedule is Bunny Lake Is Missing, which I suppose is about a mother looking for her missing daughter that nobody else even knows exists; that one can be seen at 4:00 PM Sunday.

FXM is not getting into the Mother's Day hoopla. I don't see any way that The French Connection (3:00 AM and 1:15 PM) could be considered a Mother's Day movie. Ditto Frank Sinatra in The Detective (11:20 AM). However, all of the movies FXM has tomorrow morning are interesting, and definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen any of them.

Getting back to TCM, there seems to be an error in the monthly schedule I downloaded. Their Silent Sunday Nights lists a pair of Harold Lloyd films preceding a Harold Pinter movie called Butley that I've never heard of for Imports at 2:30 AM. In fact the revised schedule, and my set-top box, lists the four-hour version of Greed at 12:30 AM, followed by the Pinter film Butley at 4:30 AM.

Surprisingly, there's a significant number of birthdays worth mentioning today. Oscar-winning actor Gary Cooper was born on this day in 1900, as was Oscar-winning actress Anne Baxter -- well, she was born in 1923. I think, though, that if I had done a full-length birthday post, I would have done one on Gabby Hayes, who wsa born on this date in 1885. Hayes was an interesting presence in all those B westerns, and doesn't get the mention that lead actors and actresses do.