Each day in August TCM will feature movies from a famous actor or actress. The salute begins Sunday with films from Bette Davis.
This year’s summer festival kicks off with a salute to one of Hollywood’s greatest and most forceful talents: two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis. The lineup begins early with 1937’s obscure Marked Woman, where she plays opposite Humphrey Bogart as a prosecutor who tries to get her to flip on a gangster who’s done her wrong. Highlights include her Oscar-winning role in Jezebel (8/7c) from 1938 and her iconic Oscar-nominated title performance in the Hollywood Gothic classic from 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (12:30AM/11:30c). Download a PDF of the complete schedule.
TCM reserves all of August for 24-hour tributes to selected performers, and this time, those fall on the birthdates of several of the given stars. They include:
August 1 Bette Davis
August 2 Richard Burton
August 3 Kim Novak
August 4 Louis Armstrong 🎂 Birthday
August 5 Margaret Rutherford
August 6 Robert Mitchum 🎂 Birthday
August 7 Abbot & Costello
August 8 Esther Williams 🎂 Birthday
August 9 Kay Francis
August 10 George Segal
August 11 Kathryn Grayson
August 12 Ramon Novarro
August 13 Jane Fonda
August 14 Gregory Peck
August 15 Judy Garland
August 16 Robert Young
August 17 Gloria Grahame
August 18 Robert Redford 🎂 Birthday
August 19 Setsuko Hara
August 20 Van Heflin
August 21 Katharine Hepburn
August 22 Tyrone Power
August 23 Eve Arden
August 24 Maurice Chevalier
August 25 Jane Wyman
August 26 Tony Randall
August 27 Merle Oberon
August 28 Lee Marvin
August 29 Ingrid Bergman
August 30 James Cagney
August 31 Fredric March 🎂 Birthday
Also a debuting during “Summer Under the Stars” is a tribute to the recently deceased George Segal, with his August 10 “day” doubling as a memorial. The lineup that ranges from the comedic “Fun With Dick and Jane” to the deeply dramatic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (for which Segal was Oscar-nominated) falls on the watch of Alicia Malone, TCM’s Sunday-afternoon and Tuesday-evening host.
“It’s a real pleasure to get to pay tribute to him,” Malone said. “He left behind a huge body of work since he worked so much, particularly in the 1970s, and with incredible directors like Paul Mazursky and Robert Altman. It’s a treat to see him in ‘King Rat,’ because that’s a film I had on my watch list for a long time. That was his first big break, a role turned down by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, but it ended up being perfect for what George Segal was able to do. Not only was he handsome, he was very charming, and he had that wit.”
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