This Wednesday, August 14 is Bette Davis day on TCM. Below is a list of the films they will show that day including interviews. A must for all Bette Davis fans.
6:00 AM - PARACHUTE JUMPER (1933) A gangster victimizes three friends trying to get jobs.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank
McHugh. BW-72 mins, TV-G,
7:30 AM - GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE, THE (1935) After a working girl reforms an alcoholic lawyer who was
recently dumped, his ex wants him back. Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive. BW-69 mins, TV-G,
9:00 - AM DANGEROUS (1935) A young fan tries to rehabilitate an alcoholic actress
he's fallen in love with.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay. BW-79 mins, TV-G, CC,
10:30 - AM STARDUST: THE BETTE DAVIS STORY (2005) TCM original documentary that explores the life and
career of legendary actress Bette Davis. C-88 mins, TV-14, CC,
12:00 PM - JEZEBEL (1938) A tempestuous Southern belle's willfulness threatens to
destroy all who care for her. Dir: William Wyler Cast:
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:00 PM - LETTER, THE (1940) A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a
blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence. Dir: William Wyler Cast:
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson. BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC,
3:45 PM - NOW, VOYAGER (1942) A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her
love for a married man. Dir: Irving Rapper Cast:
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC,
5:45 PM - WATCH ON THE RHINE (1943) Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his
family to Washington. Dir: Herman Shumlin Cast:
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC,
7:45 PM - CARSON ON TCM: BETTE DAVIS (2/9/83) (2012) TCM presents a classic interview from The Tonight Show
starring Johnny Carson. C-12 mins, TV-PG,
8:00 PM - EX-LADY (1933) A female artist is torn between her belief in free love
and the constraints of romance. Dir: Robert Florey Cast:
Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh. BW-67 mins, TV-G,
9:15 PM - DARK VICTORY (1939) A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she
develops a brain tumor. Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC,
11:15 PM - MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, THE (1941) An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces
him to move in with a midwestern family. Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley. BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC,
1:15 AM - DICK CAVETT SHOW, THE: BETTE DAVIS (1971) Bette Davis appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an
interview that originally aired November 17, 1971. C-62 mins, TV-PG, CC,
2:30 AM - PAYMENT ON DEMAND (1951) A bitter divorcee thinks back on the mistakes that
destroyed her marriage. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl.
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC,
4:15 AM - NANNY, THE (1965) A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to
kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt Cast:
Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett. BW-93 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format