Beginning Sunday, August 1 at 6AM, “Summer Under the Stars” on TCM

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.”