TCM today: TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 2: Mad Obsession/Cary Grant Comedies
(He really was funny!)
8:00 PM His Girl Friday (1940) Walter Burns is a conniving but irresistible newspaper publisher desperate to woo back the paper's star reporter, who happens to be his estranged wife. She's tired of the business and is ready to settle down with a new beau. But (as Walter well knows) she has one weakness: she can't quite resist a juicy scoop. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:00 AM Monkey Business (1952) A scientist's search for the fountain of youth makes him and his wife regress to childhood. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
2:00 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938) A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 AM The Philadelphia Story (1940) Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife. Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y