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NY TV debut 12/2/48 at 8 pm on WATV. Marian M. as "a sympathetic and even glamorous gold-digger'' (Sennwald) who protects innocent sister Joan M. (no kin in real life) from urban wolves in 1933 Poverty Row drama that played the Roxy. Reportedly reissued as CITY VIRGIN in 1955.
NY TV debut 12/2/53 from 7:30 to 9 pm on WPIX's "First Show.'' Sirk's independently-produced 1944 Chekov adaptation for UA ran 106 minutes in theaters, so it lost at least half an hour for its a week-long run on Channel 11's prime-time movie showcase.
NY TV debut 12/2/53 at 11:30 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Three years before deluge of major studios pre-1948 packages, there were a growing number of post-1948 Indies like Lippert's 1950 sci-fi, which beat DESTINATION MOON into theaters. Martian sequences originally tinted red.
12/2/58 from 5 to 6:30 pm on WNBC's "Movie 4.'' Landers' 1942 B ran only 60 minutes in theaters. No idea exactly how Channel 4 padded out this Screen Gems presentation to fill a 90-minute time slot.
12/2/58 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Making of Green's 1940 potboiler is depicted, briefly and none too approvingly, in Farmer biopic FRANCES (1982).
NY TV debut 12/2/63 from 11:20 to 12:55 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Believe me, adolescence was confusing enough without Channel 2 showing both 1957 Republic horror and similarly titled THE BEGINNING OR THE END (MGM, 1947) at the same time.
12/2/68 at 12:30 pm on WOR. Director Tuttle was borrowed from Paramount for 1939 comedy mystery. Distributed to TV at the time by Screen Gems, now sadly languishing in Universal's vaults. Cummings and Sutton play newspaper reporters.
12/2/73 from 8:30 to 10:30 on "The ABC Sunday Night Movie.'' The less said about noted TV director Fielder Cook's birth-control farce for 1968 theatrical release via Fox, the better.
12/2/78 from 2 to 3 pm on WCBS' "Picture for a Saturday Afternoon.'' Thorpe's location-filmed, 66-minute MGM western always came handy when Channel 2 had to fill an hour between public affairs and sports programming. Remade a decade later as APACHE WAR SMOKE (1952).
12/2/83 from 1 to 2:30 pm on WOR. The Falcon mystery series was among many RKOs that Channel 9 ran to death from 1956 until RKO General was forced by the FCC to sell the station in 1987. They were also running on cable by this point.
12/2/88 at 7 pm on The Disney Channel. Mouse House was showing the colorized version of David Butler's delightful BRIGHT EYES (1934), though not the improved colorized version I showed my granddaughter last summer.
12/2/93 at midnight on WNYC. Most prints of Milestone's crackling 1931 Hecht-MacArthur adaptation had poor sound until the 2016 restoration, which also brought back dialogue that had been changed for international audiences.
12/2/98 at 8 am on TCM. Anyone know whatever happened to that actor who Garbo had replaced by John Gilbert in Mamoulian's QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933)? What was his name again?
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