Angela Lansbury (l.) and Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (6:15 AM)
Angela Lansbury died last month a few days before her 97th birthday, and TCM, as usual, takes a little while to schedule a programming tribute so that they can do something a little bigger. (Besides, they're not the channel with the rights to the old Murder She wrote episodes so they can't simply do a marathon of that like some other channels can.) In the case of TCM, the tribute is coming up tomorrow, November 21, starting at 6:15 AM because the TCM Import runs a bit past 6:00 AM. TCM will be airing a dozen of Lansbury's movies, right through to 6:15 AM Tuesday. Those movies are:
National Velvet, a vehicle for a very young Elizabeth Taylor, at 6:15 AM;
The Three Musketeers, starring Gene Kelly, at 8:30 AM;
Tenth Avenue Angel, a mawkish Margaret O'Brien movie I personally don't much care for, at 10:45 AM;
If Winter Comes, with Lansbury playing wife to a much older Walter Pidgeon, at noon;
All Fall Down, seeing Lansbury married to Karl Malden and mom to Warren Beatty and Brandon de Wilde, at 2:00 PM;
Dear Heart, with a smaller role for Lansbury as the fiancée to Glenn Ford, at 4:00 PM;
The Harvey Girls, which sends Lansbury out west with Judy Garland, at 6:00 PM;
The Manchurian Candidate at 8:00 PM;
Gaslight, which was Lansbury's breakout role, at 10:15 PM;
The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the story by Oscar Wilde, at 12:15 AM;
Kind Lady, which has Lansubry gaslighting (pun intended) Ethel Barrymore, at 2:15 AM; and
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at 3:45 AM.
And a note about the TCM website. Their front page has that big rotating carousel of programming features at the top. On of those is, right now, the salute to Lansbury. But the "Learn More" link, doesn't link to an article about her, but TCM's daily schedule. And not the schedule for Lansbury's tribute, but the current day. So it'll work tomorrow, more or less, but not today. Also, something that I probably mentioned when I first brought up the design change to the TCM site is that TCM's broadcasting day begins around 6:00 AM, in that things like "Monday at 2:00 AM" means the overnight between Monday and Tuesday. But: the daily schedule page runs from midnight to midnight.
2 comments:
Thanks. I don't think I've ever heard of Kind Lady. Will DVR that one. And Sweeny Todd, too; have never seen that one either.
Kind Lady is one of those low-budget programmers MGM made in the early 50s to pay for the Freed Unit musicals. In this case, MGM saved money by dusting off the original version of Kind Lady from the 30s which had Aline MacMahon as the trapped woman, and, IIRC, Basil Rathbone as the bad guy trapping her.
I find all of those shorter 50s MGM "B" movies interesting, even when they're a misfire, which Kind Lady isn't, at least in my opinion.
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