TCM Schedule for Thursday, May 9, 2014: Clark Gable & Joan Crawford / Director Frank Borzage (Part 2) [View all]

Seven of the eight films Gable made with Crawford are featured during the day, several of which are pre-Hays code. Missing: Strange Cargo (1940).

Prime time and late night, there's more output from Director Frank Borzage, credited with 108 known silent and talking films.

Borzage films screened on TCM, May 2: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10309205

Full wikipedia bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Borzage


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7:30 AM | Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
A brother and sister risk their lives to expose the gangsters who ruined their family.
Dir: Harry Beaumont | Cast: Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Richards, Clark Gable

Trivia: First film featuring Crawford and Gable

9:00 AM | Possessed (1931)
A factory girl rises to the top as mistress of a tycoon, then falls in love.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford

10:30 AM | Laughing Sinners (1931)
A Salvation Army preacher saves a troubled girl from suicide.
Dir: Harry Beaumont | Cast: Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable

11:45 AM | Dancing Lady (1933)
A musical star is torn between a millionaire playboy and her stage manager.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ted Healy and his Stooges

Trivia: Hollywood film debut of Fred Astaire

1:30 PM | Forsaking All Others (1934)
A woman pursues the wrong man for almost twenty years.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable

3:00 PM | Chained (1934)
A kept woman finds herself drawn to a charismatic South American rancher.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger

4:30 PM | Love on the Run (1936)
Rival newsmen get mixed up with a runaway heiress and a ring of spies.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone

6:00 PM | Boom Town (1940)
Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil.
Dir: Jack Conway | Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert

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8:00 PM | History Is Made at Night (1937)
A romantic headwaiter fights to save a woman from her possessive ex-husband.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo

10:00 PM | Smilin' Through (1941)
An embittered man threatens the love life of his niece, who's a dead ringer for his lost fiancee.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond

12:00 AM | Seven Sweethearts (1942)
A father insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker

1:45 AM | Flirtation Walk (1934)
A West Point cadet falls for his commanding officer's daughter.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien

3:30 AM | Shipmates Forever (1935)
An admiral's son gives up the Navy for a career as a song-and-dance man.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone

5:30 AM | Hearts Divided (1936)
Napoleon's younger brother falls for a girl from Baltimore.
Dir: Frank Borzage | Cast: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles