Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Lucille Ball Movie Schedule: EASY TO WED, THE BIG STREET, PANAMA LADY

lucille ball=Lucille Ball Centennial on TCM: STAGE DOOR, BEST FOOT FORWARD

Schedule (ET) and synopses from the TCM website:

6:00 AM DU BARRY WAS A LADY (1943) A night club employee dreams he's Louis XV, and the star he idolizes is his lady love. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly. C-101 mins.

8:00 AM PANAMA LADY (1939) An oil man forces a cabaret singer to work for him after she tries to rob him. Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna. BW-65 mins.

9:30 AM WITHOUT LOVE (1945) A World War II housing shortage inspires a widow to propose a marriage of convenience with an inventor. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball. BW-111 mins.

11:30 AM MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND (1949) An inept secretary goes to work for a bogus real estate firm thinking it's for real. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Lucille Ball, William Holden, Janis Carter. BW-88 mins.

1:00 PM THE FULLER BRUSH GIRL (1950) A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid. BW-84 mins.

2:30 PM THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954) Life on the road isn't what it's cracked up to be when a honeymooning couple invests in an oversized motor home. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main. C-96 mins.

4:30 PM BEST FOOT FORWARD (1943) A movie star wreaks havoc when she accepts an invitation to a military academy dance. Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler. C-94 mins.

6:15 PM DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (1940) A ballet dancer and a burlesque queen compete for a wealthy suitor. Dir: Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball. BW-90 mins.

8:00 PM STAGE DOOR (1937) Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen. Dir: Gregory LaCava. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou. BW-92 mins.

9:45 PM THE BIG STREET (1942) A nightclub waiter, who's in love with a selfish showgirl, gets to prove his love when she's injured. Dir: Irving Reis. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane. BW-89 mins.

11:30 PM EASY TO WED (1946) In this remake of Libeled Lady, a tough newspaper editor hires a gigolo to compromise a woman suing his paper for libel. Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball. C-110 mins.

1:30 AM LURED (1947) A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend. Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn. BW-103 mins.

3:15 AM THE AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL (1938) A screen queen suffers through harebrained publicity stunts schemed up by her press agent. Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly. BW-67 mins.

4:30 AM ANNABEL TAKES A TOUR (1938) A movie star on tour gets thrown into a variety of wacky publicity stunts. Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly. BW-67 mins.

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