Mother's Day is tomorrow, which means that it's once again time for TCM to trot out Mildred Pierce and any number of other movies related to motherhood. This time around the tribute is a bit shorter thanks to the presence of Mae West as TCM's Star of the Month on Sundays in prime time. So, there are only six movies in the tribute:
6:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons, the Orson Welles movie with the reputation of having been butchered by the studio;
7:30 AM Gypsy, telling the story of Gypsy Rose Lee (Natalie Wood) and her pushy stage mother (Rosalind Russell);
Noon Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers winds up taking care of a foundling;
1:30 PM Sounder, set in 1930s Louisiana with Cicely Tyson as the mother taking care of her son while her husband is in prison;
3:30 PM I Remember Mama, with Irene Dunne as a Norwegian immigrant mother in turn-of-the-century San Francisco; and
6:00 PM Mildred Pierce, which sees Joan Crawford smack Ann Blyth.
FXM doesn't seem to be doing anything for Mother's Day, which kind of surprised me. I haven't really checked any of the other channels out there, since I don't get any of the premium cable channels, and the FAST channels don't really put up their schedules anywhere that I can find.
It has nothing to do with Mother's Day, but I suppose I should mention the passing of director James Foley, at the age of 71. I have to admit I didn't recognize the name at first, but when I saw the list of films that he directed, several of them are quite recognizable, notably Glengarry Glen Ross, At Close Range, and Who's That Girl?.
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