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Humphrey DeForest Bogart



(December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster in B-movies. His breakthrough came in 1941, with High Sierra (1941) and The Maltese Falcon (1941). The next year, his performance as Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942) raised him to the peak of his profession and at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954), and The Caine Mutiny (1954). During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.

At the time of his death from cancer in 1957, Bogart was one of the most respected figures in American cinema. Since his death, his persona and film performances have been considered as having a lasting impact and have led to him being described as a cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the Greatest Male Star of All Time.

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BIRTHDAYS

Agnes Moorehead~1906-1974

TCM SCHEDULE

TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: COMEDIANS AS ACTORS

8:00pm [Comedy] All Of Me (1984)
A lawyer's body is invaded by the soul of a recently deceased female client.
Cast: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith Dir: Carl Reiner C-92 mins, TV-14

10:00pm [Comedy] California Suite (1978)
Four sets of guests at a posh hotel face personal crises.
Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda Dir: Herbert Ross C-102 mins, TV-14

12:00am [Silent] Miss Mend (1926)
Three reporters fight off a capitalist attempt to release deadly bacteria in the USSR.
Cast: Boris Banet, Vladimir Fogel, Natalya Glan. Dir: Fyodor Otsep. BW-250 mins, TV-PG

BIRTHDAYS

Frankie Muniz~24

Little Richard~77

Walt Disney~1901-1966

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TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: THE ESSENTIALS: RONALD COLMAN

8:00pm [Romance] Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia.
Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters Dir: Mervyn LeRoy BW-127 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned]

10:15pm [Comedy] Talk Of The Town, The (1942)
An escaped political prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher.
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan Dir: George Stevens BW-117 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned]

12:30am [Adventure] Kismet (1944)
In the classic Arabian Nights tale, the king of the beggars enters high society to help his daughter marry a handsome prince.
Cast: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold Dir: William Dieterle C-100 mins, TV-G

BIRTHDAYS

Tyra Banks~36

Marisa Tomei~45

Jeff Bridges~60

Dennis Wilson~65

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8:00pm [Comedy] Enchanted April (1991)
Four women search for happiness on an Italian vacation.
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker Dir: Mike Newell C-93 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned]

10:00pm [Comedy] Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
A young man's chance encounters with a beautiful woman are complicated by his close-knit extended family.
Cast: Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah Dir: Mike Newell C-118 mins, TV-MA [Letterbox] [Close Captioned]

12:00am [Drama] Amazing Grace And Chuck (1987)
A Little League star organizes a sports boycott to end nuclear proliferation.
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English, Gregory Peck, William Petersen Dir: Mike Newell C-115 mins, TV-14

BIRTHDAYS

Holly Marie Combs~36

Daryl Hannah~49

Ozzy Osbourne~61

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8:00pm [Drama] Christmas Carol, A (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn Dir: Edwin L. Marin BW-69 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned]

9:15pm [Drama] Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor Dir: Mervyn LeRoy C-122 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned]

11:30pm [Drama] Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
A child of the tenements helps an ex-con find a new life.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy, Phyllis Thaxter Dir: Roy Rowland BW-74 mins, TV-G

BIRTHDAYS

Britney Spears~28

Lucy Liu~41

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What's On Tonight:STAR OF THE MONTH: HUMPHREY BOGART

8:00pm [Drama] Petrified Forest, The (1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran Dir: Archie L. Mayo BW-82 mins, TV-G [Close Captioned]

9:30pm [Crime] Dead End (1937)
A killer returns to his childhood home to plot his escape from the law.
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie Dir: William Wyler BW-92 mins, TV-PG

11:30pm [Adventure] Kid Galahad (1937)
A mob-connected trainer grooms a bellhop for the boxing ring.
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-102 mins, TV-PG

BIRTHDAYS

Bette Middler~64

Woody Allen~74

Richard Pryor~1940-2005

Mary Martin~1913-1990

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8:00pm [Western] Far Horizons, The (1955)
Romanticized version of Lewis and Clarks voyage of discovery through the American West.
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale Dir: Rudolph Maté C-108 mins, TV-PG [Letterbox] [Close Captioned]

10:00pm [Adventure] Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938)
Classic biography of the Italian explorer and his journeys to China.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier Dir: John Cromwell BW-104 mins, TV-G

12:00am [Epic] Christopher Columbus (1949)
The legendary explorer discovers the new world while searching for a route to Asia.
Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Linden Travers Dir: David MacDonald C-99 mins, TV-G

Faye Wray dead at 96

Actress Fay Wray, Object of `King Kong,' Dies at 96 Aug. 9 2004 (Bloomberg) -- Fay Wray, the actress best known for her role as the object of a giant ape's desire in the 1933 film ``King Kong,'' died yesterday. She was 96.

Wray died in her Fifth Avenue apartment in New York, the New York Times reported, citing friend Rick McKay.

As blonde-haired beauty Ann Darrow in ``King Kong,'' Wray earned the nickname ``The Queen of Scream'' for the yelp she uttered as she was plucked out of an Empire State Building window by the giant ape and carried to the top of the 102-story skyscraper.

``Although he had tremendous strength and power to destroy, some kind of instinct made him appreciate what he saw as beautiful,'' Wray said in a 1993 interview. ``Just before he dies, he reaches toward me but can't quite reach. The movie affects males of all ages.''

Fay made more than 100 films in her career, yet she was forever identified with ``Kong.''

``Recently, a 6-year-old boy said to me, `I've been waiting to meet you for half my life,''' she said in the 1993 interview.

Wray often repeated the story of how one of the movie's producers told her that he had an idea for a film, and ``the only thing he'd tell me was that it was going to have `the tallest and darkest leading man in Hollywood.'''

``Well, naturally I thought of Clark Gable, hopefully, and when the script came I was absolutely appalled! I thought it was a practical joke,'' she said.

1976 Remake

The 1976 remake of ``Kong'' won an Academy Award for visual affects, and Jessica Lange received a Golden Globe for playing Wray's role of Ann Darrow. In 1988, the American Film Institute ranked ``King Kong'' 43rd on its list of 100 Greatest Films in American film history.

Fay Wray was born Vina Fay Wray near Cardston, Alberta, on Sept. 15, 1907. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother moved Wray and her five siblings to Los Angeles.

As a teenager, Wray began to act in small parts in silent movies. Her first movie role was at the age of 16 in ``Gasoline Love'' (1923). Her second film was ``The Coast Patrol'' (1925), and was followed by four more movies. Her first hit was in the lead role in director Erich von Stroheim's ``The Wedding March'' in 1928.

Her prominent movies included ``The Four Feathers'' (1929), ``Dirigible'' (1931), ``One Sunday Afternoon'' (1933) and ``Viva Villa!'' (1934). During her film career, she starred with such leading men as Gary Cooper, Ronald Coleman, Frederic March and William Powell.

Married Two Screenwriters

After ``King Kong,'' her popularity declined and she made low- budget films. She retired in 1942, and reappeared in the movies ``Queen Bee'' (1955) and ``Crime of Passion'' (1957), and also in the television series ``The Pride of the Family.'' The show co- starred Natalie Wood and Paul Hartman and ran from 1953 to 1955. She made her last screen appearance in the 1980 TV movie ``Gideon's Trumpet'' with Henry Fonda.

She married John Monk Saunders, the screenwriter of ``Wings'' and ``Dawn Patrol,'' in 1928. The couple, who divorced in 1939, had a daughter, Susan. In 1942, Wray married Robert Riskin, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of ``It Happened One Night,'' ``Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,'' and ``Lost Horizon.'' They had daughter, Vicki, and a son, Bobby. Riskin died in 1955.

Wray's last marriage was to Dr. Sanford Rothenberg, one of Riskin's doctors, in 1970. He died in 1991.

BIRTHDAYS

Elisha Cuthbert~27

Clay Aiken~31

Ben Stiller~44

Robert Guillaume~82

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8:00pm [Crime] Lady From Shanghai, The (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders Dir: Orson Welles BW-87 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned]

9:45pm [Adventure] Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Three prospectors fight off bandits and each other after striking-it-rich in the Mexican mountains.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett Dir: John Huston BW-126 mins, TV-PG [Close Captioned]

12:00am [Drama] Grapes Of Wrath, The (1940)
Oklahoma farmers dispossessed during the Depression fight for better lives in California.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin Dir: John Ford BW-129 mins, TV-G