Turner Classic Movies' Summer Under the Stars spends 24 hours with Cary Grant beginning at 6 am Sunday, August 9. The movies cover a 30 year period of Grant's career and include entertaining back-to-back showings of Grant classics with Irene Dunne in the morning and Grant under Alfred Hitchcock's direction in the early evening, plus Cary Grant's last film, "Walk, Don't Run" appropriately capping the programming at 4 am early Monday morning.
Much like Saturday's Bette Davis schedule I'm tempted to hold my nose and wonder why TCM isn't playing more of the Cary Grant movies I like, but at the same time I realize that their Sunday schedules tend towards family programming more than any other day of the week, so I suppose I can forgive the afternoon programming--heck, I even like "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer," but still, I'd have chosen more 30's and 40's titles.
I know TCM airs these often, but the list of missing titles is so long: No "Holiday" (1938), "Bringing Up Baby" (1939), "Gunga Din" (1939), "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939), "His Girl Friday" (1940), "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "The Talk of the Town" (1942), "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), etc., etc., and, of course, none of the early stuff from Paramount, which leaves us with what's listed below.
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