Several days ago, I was going through the extended schedule on my satellite box to see what was coming up on both TCM and FXM, especially to see if there were any more movies being brought back to the FXM rotation. Anyhow, I saw the documentary Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity coming up overnight tonight at 1:00 AM (or late this evening if you're on the west coast). I wasn't paying close enough attention to the schedule, and was thinking that this was on the schedule as part of a 105th birthday salute, or what would have been her 105th birthday if she hadn't died a few weeks back.
But no; Hunt's birthday is October 17, so the salute would have been on Monday if there were one. Instead, this is part of a series TCM is doing on the Hollywood Blacklist, because that's a subject they obviously haven't covered enough. The series is running for the next three Thursdays this month, starting with a short documentary about High Noon (an anti-blacklist allegory, and on at 8:30 PM) and On the Waterfront (director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg both fingered Communists; the movie is on at 10:30 PM). The documentary gets three airings, at 8:00 PM, 10:00 PM, and 12:30 AM.
Following the Marsha Hunt documentary, there's one of her feature films, Carnegie Hall, at 3:00 AM.
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I DVR'd the documentary.
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