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1/2/44 at 8:45 pm on W2XVW. Jean Negulesco's FOOD AND MAGIC (1943) with Jack Carson, a theatrical short made by Warner Bros. for the U.S. Office of War Information, is listed as FOOD FOR THOUGHT on DuMont's New York City flagship.
1/2/49 from 7:15 to 8:30 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' This appears to be New York City TV debut for Carol Reed's 1939 British film about Welsh coal miners with Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. initially distributed theatrically in the US by MGM.
1/2/54 from 5 to 6 pm on WCBS' "Late Matinee.'' A Gabor sister makes screen debut in 1941 production from Pine-Thomas, which produced dozens '40s B pictures under contract for Paramount. Studio sold them off early to TV minus their original logos. All public domain now.
NY TV debut 1/2/59 from 11:15 pm to 1:15 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Sidney's 1944 Technicolor extravaganza was originally broadcast in black and white, as Channel 2 didn't think enough people had color sets to justify the additional expense of renting color prints.
1/2/64 from 2:45 to 4 am on WCBS' "Late Late Show II.'' You might not guess it from this still, but Grinde's skyjack melodrama FUGITIVE IN THE SKY (1936) is one of the better efforts from Bryan Foy's B unit at Warner Bros, albeit a knockoff of Paramount's THIRTEEN HOURS BY AIR.
1/2/69 at noon on WNEW's "Ladies Day Movie With Fran Lee.'' Was Channel 5 actually showing the 1933 version, which MGM had retitled STRANGE SKIRTS for TV? Or R.Z. Leonard's 1941 remake with Crawford, Taylor and Garson? Hostess Lee led campaign for NYC's "pooper-scooper'' law.
1/2/74 from 1 to 2:30 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Loan-out for Nichols' dreadful 93-minute 1943 comedy prompted de Havilland's landmark suit to end WB contract. NY TV debut 9/10/57 from 5:30 to 6:40 pm on WRCA, which leased a batch of mostly second-tier titles from RKO General.
1/2/79 at 1 pm on WOR's "Movie 9.'' Lamarr, who had been sought for Ilsa in CASABLANCA, lands at Warner Bros. a couple of years later in the middle of several wartime melodramas reuniting various cast members.
1/2/84 at 4:30 pm on WOR. Directed by Hal Roach Sr. and Jr., 1940 special effects extravaganza made NY TV debut 8/24/48 on WPIX.
1/2/89 at 12:30 am on "TNT Overnight.'' Cagney plays movie palace usher turned gangster turned Hollywood extra in Roy Del Ruth's LADY KILLER, a breezy 1933 comedy with Mae Clark and Margaret Lindsay.
1/2/94 at 10:30 am on AMC. New York City's WOR does not seem to have gotten around to debuting Jason Leigh's 1936 comedy until 2/1/66, though it was running on WNHC in New Haven as early as 2/8/59. The two stations' signals overlapped a bit, particularly on Eastern Long Island.
1/2/99 at 9 am on @TCM. Abetted by Ed Brophy, Robinson wound up his WB contract in 1941 with Lloyd Bacon's adaptation of S.J. and Laura Perelman's short-lived Broadway crime farce "The Night Before Christmas.''
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