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TCM On Demand for August 14, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Bye Bye Birdie (1963) -- Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Lynde, Mary LaRoche, Jesse Pearson, Bobby Rydell, Michael Evans, Robert Paige, Gregory Morton, Bryan Russell, Milton Frome, Ed Sullivan. Cameo appearance: John Charles Daly. Uncredited: Trudi Ames, Linda Kaye Henning, Peter Menefee, Kim Darby. Directed by George Sidney ("Anchors Aweigh," "The Harvey Girls"), this film was based on the 1961 Tony Award-winning musical inspired by Elvis Presley's induction into the U.S. Army in 1958. In this version, a teen Ohio schoolgirl named Kim McAfee is chosen to give drafted rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie (Pearson) a live goodbye kiss on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Van Dyke, reprising his Tony-winning stage role, plays a songwriter who must come up with a final song for Birdie. Along for the ride is his longtime fiancée (Leigh) and his clinging vine of a mother (Stapleton). The screenplay was co-written by Michael Stewart, who was responsible for the book of the stage play, and Irving Brecher. Although it was only Ann-Margret's third film, her performance made the Swedish-born actress-singer a star, and launched her career as a screen sex symbol. The next year, she starred opposite Presley in "Viva Las Vegas," also directed by Sidney. Her charisma in "Birdie" was the subject of a Season 3 episode of TV's "Mad Men." The movie musical is chock full of memorable songs by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse, including the title tune, "The Telephone Hour," "We Love You Conrad," "Hymn for a Sunday Evening (Ed Sullivan)" "Put on a Happy Face," "Kids," "One Last Kiss" and "A Lot of Livin' to Do." Interestingly, "Put on a Happy Face" was used as the theme song of "The Hollywood Palace," ABC's Sullivan-like variety show that aired on Saturday nights from 1964 to 1970. Cast notes: Daly, who appears as a news reporter at the beginning of the movie, hosted the long-running CBS panel game show "What's My Line?" It aired for years on the same Sunday night lineup with Sullivan's variety series. Pearson later appeared on an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" as a TV music star who ruins a song written by Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) and Clara Edwards (Hope Summers). Rydell, who plays Kim's boyfriend Hugo Peabody, was a major teen idol during the early 1960s. But his career was eclipsed in the middle of the decade by Beatlemania and the British Invasion. In 1995, a revised, made-for-television version of "Bye Bye Birdie" starred Vanessa L. Williams and Jason Alexander (George in "Seinfeld") in the roles played by Leigh and Van Dyke, respectively. Chynna Phillips, one-third of the pop music trio Wilson Phillips, played Kim McAfee. Songwriters Adams and Strouse won Primetime Emmys for a new tune written for the TV production -- "Let's Settle Down." Van Dyke, who also starred with Dame Julie Andrews in the 1964 screen musical "Mary Poppins," observed his 90th birthday on December 13, 2005. He celebrated it with an organized party at Disneyland. Expires August 20, 2015.

"I'll get this to Mr. Fox, but no more. I've sewn you up, I've set your bones, but I won't bury you. I've buried enough members of the Wayne family." -- Bruce Wayne's longtime manservant Alfred Pennyworth (Sir Michael Caine), threatening to part ways with the sometime Batman (Christian Bale) in "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012). The scene inspired another round of dueling impersonations by Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, this time in the 2014 production "The Trip to Italy":

TCM On Demand for August 14, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. The Cincinnati Kid (1965) -- Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Rip Torn, Jack Weston, Cab Calloway, Jeff Corey, Theo Marcuse, Milton Selzer, Karl Swenson, Émile Genest, Ron Soble, Irene Tedrow, Midge Ware, Dub Taylor. Uncredited: Burt Mustin, Olan Soule, Robert DoQui, Bill Zuckert, Sandy McPeak. McQueen stars as the title character, a hotshot poker player who hopes to win big during a high-stakes card game in 1930s New Orleans. The drama was directed by Norman Jewison, whose film output includes "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966), "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973), "...And Justice for All" (1979), "A Soldier's Story" (1984), "Agnes of God" (1985), "Moonstruck" (1987) and "The Hurricane" (1999). Although he was nominated for Academy Awards seven times as a producer and director, Jewison never won a competitive Oscar. On March 21, 1999. he was presented the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which goes to filmmakers "whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." Memorable quote: "You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're second best." -- Card sharp Lancey Howard (Robinson) to The Cincinnati Kid. Expires August 20, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 14, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. Tommy (1975) -- Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Paul Nicholas, Robert Powell, Arthur Brown. Victoria Russell, Ben Aris, Mary Holland, Gary Rich, Dick Allan, Barry Winch, Eddie Stacey. Ann-Margret earned her second of two Academy Award nominations in Ken Russell's production of the groundbreaking 1969 rock opera by The Who. Daltrey, the rock group's lead singer, takes on the role of the title character -- a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who becomes a renowned pinball player and something of a cult figure. A highlight of the film is when Tommy squares off against The Pinball Wizard (John). Ann-Marget plays Tommy's mother, who begins to have mixed emotions about her son's sudden stardom. Expires August 20, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 14, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 4. Viva Las Vegas (1964) -- Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair. Uncredited: Jack Carter, Teri Garr, Toni Basil, Kent McCord, Lance LeGault, Eddie Quillan, George Cisar, Roy Engel, Ivan Triesault, Red West, The Jubilee Four. Elvis and Ann-Margret sizzled onscreen (and offscreen) during the making of this lively musical directed by George Sidney ("Bye Bye Birdie"). Presley stars as racing driver Lucky Jackson, who becomes involved in a competitive -- and romantic rivalry -- with the handsome Italian racer Count Elmo Mancini (Danova). One of them will win first place at the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix -- and the heart of a fetching redhead named Rusty Martin (Ann-Margret). Meeting cute: While Lucky makes preparations for the race, Rusty -- who's having car trouble --mistakes him for a mechanic. The driver does all he can to keep her around for a while. Expires August 20, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 13, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: Thunder Road (1958) -- Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, Trevor Bardette, Sandra Knight, James Mitchum. Uncredited actors: Peter Breck, Jerry Hardin, Mitchell Ryan. Star Robert Mitchum created the story and co-produced this tale of Lucas Doolin, a Southern bootlegger who eludes law enforcement authorities thanks to his impressive driving skills. Randy Sparks performs the movie's theme song "The Ballad of Thunder Road." Mitchum recorded a version of the song, which he co-wrote with Don Raye. The song charted on Billboard's Hot 100 twice -- in 1958 and 1962. Here is Mitchum's version with footage from the movie: Cast notes: Five months after this movie was released, Barry, who co-starred as federal agent Troy Barrett, began headlining the NBC Western drama "Bat Masterson"...Mitchum's eldest son James plays Doolin's younger brother and mechanic, Robin. The role originally was intended for Elvis Presley, who priced himself out of the movie...This film marked the screen debut of Smith, who was renowned as a jazz singer and longtime partner (and wife) of musician Louis Prima...Knight, who appears as Roxanna Ledbetter, was married to Jack Nicholson from 1962 to 1968. Their daughter Jennifer Nicholson appeared in a few movies, but has excelled as a fashion designer and the owner of a Venice, California boutique called Pearl Drop. Expires August 19, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 12, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Anna Lucasta (1958) -- Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram, Georgia Burke, James Edwards, Rosetta LeNoire, Isabelle Cooley, Alvin Childress, Claire Leyba, John Proctor, Charles Swain, Isaac Jones, Eileen Harley, Wallace Earl. Philip Yordan's stage play first became a movie in 1949, starring Paulette Goddard, John Ireland, Oskar Holmolka and Will Geer. Yordan wrote the screenplay for this version, filmed almost a decade later and featuring an all-black cast directed by Arnold Laven ("The Rack," "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"). Kitt stars as the title character, a San Diego barfly who returns home to her money-grubbing family in Los Angeles. Davis plays the sailor who wants Anna to run off with him. Davis sings the title song, "That's Anna," written by Sammy Cahn and the film's composer Elmer Bernstein. LeNoire, who plays Stella, starred as Mother Winslow on the ABC comedy "Family Matters," which ran from 1989 to 1997 on ABC and from 1997 to 1998 on CBS. Childress, who plays the proprietor of Noah's Wharf Cafe, previously starred as Fresh Air Taxi Cab Co. owner Amos Jones in TV's "The Amos 'n' Andy Show." Expires August 18, 2015. 2. Cabin in the Sky (1943) -- Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John W. Bubbles (John William Sublett), Oscar Polk, Mantan Moreland, Willie Best, Moke (Fletcher Rivers), Poke (Leon James), Bill Bailey, Buck (Ford Washington Lee), Butterfly McQueen, Ruby Dandridge, Nick Stewart (as Nicodemus), Ernest Whitman, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, The Hall Johnson Choir. Uncredited: Juanita Moore, Amanda Randolph, Ernestine Wade, Joel Fluellen. In the 1936 screen version of Marc Connelly's "The Green Pastures," Ingram appeared as De Lawd (God). In this film version of the 1940 stage musical -- created by Vernon Duke (music), John Latouche (lyrics) and Lynn Root (book) -- he appears as the Devil's son, Lucifer Jr. Directed by Vincente Minnelli ("Meet Me in St. Louis"), the picture stars Waters as Petunia Jackson, a good Christian woman who hopes to persuade her gambler husband Little Joe (Anderson) to walk a righteous path. Joe becomes the center of a power struggle between heavenly and hellish forces determined to possess his soul. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song -- "Happiness Is a Thing Named Joe" by Harold Arlen (music) and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (lyrics). The song is performed in the movie by Waters. Arlen and Harburg won the 1939 Best Original Song Oscar for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz." There also is a performance of "Going Up" by Ellington and His Orchestra: Be sure to pay attention to the tornado footage in the final minutes of the film. Chances are you've seen it before. Expires August 18, 2015. 3. Erskine Caldwell's 'God's Little Acre' (1958) -- Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Tina Louise, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Vic Morrow, Rex Ingram, Michael Landon. Anthony Mann, known for his memorable 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart, directed this film version of Caldwell's controversial 1933 novel about a Southern farming family. Ryan, Louise and Hackett In the years after the movie's release, Landon ("Bonanza"), Morrow ("Combat!"), Louise ("Gilligan's Island") and Lord ("Hawaii Five-0") became top television stars. Expires August 18, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 12, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 4. The Green Pastures (1936) -- Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed, Abraham Gleaves, Myrtle Anderson, Al Stokes, Edna Mae Harris, James Fuller, George Randol, Ida Forsyne, Ray Martin, Charles Andrews, Dudley Dickerson, Jimmy Burress, William Cumby, Ivory Williams, David Bethea, Ernest Whitman, Reginald Fenderson, Slim Thompson, Clinton Rosemond, The Hall Johnson Choir. Uncredited: Jester Hairston, Willie Best, Mantan Moreland, Johnny Lee, Etta McDaniel. Ingram plays three roles -- De Lawd, Adam and a soldier named Hezdrel -- in this all-black screen adaptation of Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play. Ingram also became one of the few actors to portray God and the Devil in motion pictures (he shows up as Lucifer Jr. in the 1943 musical "Cabin in the Sky"). Memorable dialogue: (Noah tries to persuade De Lawd to allow two kegs of liquor aboard the ark.) De Lawd: I think the one keg is enough. Noah: No, I better take two kegs. Besides, I can put one on each side of the boat and balance the ship with them, as well as having them for medicinal uses. De Lawd: You can put one keg in the middle of the ship. Noah: Uh, it's just as easy to take two kegs, Lawd. De Lawd: I think the one keg is enough. Noah: Yes, I know, Lawd. But you see, 40 days and 40 nights... (A loud thunderclap is heard from above). De Lawd: ONE keg, Noah. Noah: Yes, Lawd. One keg. Expires August 18, 2015. 5. Sahara (1943) -- Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Richard Aherne, Dan Duryea, Carl Harbord, Patrick O'Moore, Louis Mercier, Guy Kingsford, Kurt Kreuger, John Wengraf. Uncredited: Peter Lawford. Directed and co-written by Zoltan Korda, this World War II drama revolves around the exploits of a tank commander (Bogart) and his crew against the Nazis in northern Africa. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Naish), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Rudolph Maté) and Best Sound, Recording (John P. Livadary, Columbia SSD.) Expires August 18, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 11, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) -- Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy, Bert Freed, Anna Lee, Maidie Norman, B.D. Merrill. Robert Aldrich directed screen legends Davis and Crawford in their only film together. It may have been his greatest challenge because the two stars intensely disliked each other. Davis received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as a faded child star of the vaudeville era. She lost to Anne Bancroft, who won for "The Miracle Worker." Crawford, who plays Davis' invalid sister in the film, reportedly made arrangements to accept the Oscar when Bancroft was unable to attend the ceremony. Merrill, Davis' real-life daughter, appears as Liza Bates. Davis' Oscar nomination was her 10th and last in the Best Actress category. She won for the dramas "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). She also received nominations for her work in "Dark Victory" (1939), "The Letter" (1940), "The Little Foxes" (1941), "Now, Voyager" (1942), "Mr. Skeffington" (1944), "All About Eve" (1950) and "The Star" (1952). Expires August 17, 2015. 2. The Women (1939) -- Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Weidler, Lucile Watson, Marjorie Main, Virginia Grey, Ruth Hussey, Muriel Hutchison, Hedda Hopper, Florence Nash. George Cukor directed this comedy -- featuring an all-star, all-female cast -- based on the acclaimed stage play by Clare Booth Luce. This film was remade in 1956 as "The Opposite Sex," a musical release starring June Allyson, Dame Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Agnes Moorehead and Joan Blondell. Another remake -- a 2008 drama also titled "The Women" -- was headlined by Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher and Cloris Leachman. Memorable quote: "By the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel." -- Crystal Allen (Crawford). Expires August 17, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 10, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: The Clock (1945) -- Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady. Uncredited: Terry Moore, Steve Brodie, Ray Teal, Ruby Dandridge, Arthur Space, Roger Edens, Arthur Freed. Vincente Minnelli directed this drama about a New York woman (Garland) and her whirlwind romance with a U.S. Army soldier on a 48-hour leave (Walker). This was a rare non-singing role for Garland in the early stages of her career. She would go on to do more dramatic fare in the 1960s films "Judgement at Nuremberg" (1961) and "A Child Is Waiting" (1963). Expires August 16, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 9, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Frank Capra's 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (1944) -- Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser, Chester Clute, Charles Lane, Edward McWade. Released in theaters on September 23, 1944, Capra's screen version of the stage comedy by Joseph Kesselring actually was filmed in 1941. Warner Bros. had agreed that the picture would only be released after the stage production's run was over. The play closed on June 17, 1944 after its 1,444th performance. Memorable quote No. 1: " Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well...Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." -- Mortimer Brewster to Elaine Harper. Memorable quote No. 2: "Do I hafta, Sarge? Look at that puss. He looks like Boris Karloff." -- Police officer O'Hara (Carson) after his superior officer asks him to accompany the murderous Jonathan Brewster down to the family cellar. Karloff played Jonathan in the original Broadway play. Massey took over the role for the movie version. Expires August 15, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 9, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. John Steinbeck's 'East of Eden' (1955) -- Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith, Harold Gordon, Nick Dennis. Uncredited: Barbara Baxley, John Beradino, Timothy Carey, Lonny Chapman, Robert Foulk, Gail Kobe, Pat Priest. Kazan's screen adaptation of a portion of Steinbeck's Bible-inspired novel earned an Academy Award for Van Fleet in the Best Supporting Actress category. It also received nominations for Best Actor (Dean, one of two posthumous nominations he would get), Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (Paul Osborn). The drama was released on March 9, 1955 -- a little more than six months before Dean's tragic death in an automobile accident on September 30, 1955. He became the first actor in the history of the Academy Awards to receive a posthumous nomination. He would receive a second Best Actor nomination after his death for his performance in George Stevens' 1956 epic "Giant." Actor Alec Baldwin, who co-hosted TCM's The Essentials from 2009 to 2011, co-starred with Harris in the CBS TV drama series "Knots Landing" from 1984 to 1986. A couple of months after her death on August 24, 2013, he wrote a tribute to her for The Huffington Post. Baldwin recalled that he once asked the distinguished actress about her most memorable moments on screen. Her reply? "She paused for a moment," Baldwin wrote, "then, with the pride of a ten year old recounting the winning home run she hit, Julie beamed and said, 'I'm one of two women to kiss Jimmy Dean in a movie'." Family Ties: Davalos, who died March 8, 2016 at the age of 85, was the father of actress Elyssa Davalos. Her daughter, who acts under the name Alexa Davalos, played Gwen Raiden on episodes of the TV series "Angel" in the early 2000s. She is one of the stars of the Amazon Studios drama series "The Man in the High Castle." The story, based on a tale by science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, is about an alternate, post-World War II America divided by the victorious Axis Powers. Expires August 15, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 9, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) -- Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Sr., Andrea King, John Ridgely, Stanley Ridges, Craig Stevens, Warren Douglas, Mark Stevens, Charles Smith, Minor Watson, Richard Loo. Uncredited: Philip Ahn, Clarence Muse, George Cleveland, Clark Burroughs, Leon Lontoc, Sammee Tong, Gigi Perreau. Film biography of Colonel Robert Lee Scott, Jr. (1908-2006), the American flying ace who served with General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers" during World War II. Scott, the pride of Macon, Georgia, was a decorated pilot who went on to become a brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force. Morgan portrays Scott during his early days in China with Chennault (Massey), whose fliers form a strong defense against attacks by Japanese fighter planes. The Chinese-American actor Loo, who appeared as many Japanese military men in war films of the era, plays a villainous enemy pilot known as "Tokyo Joe." Memorable dialogue: Lee (over the radio to Tokyo Joe): You can't beat my luck, Joe, and next time I'll nail you. Tokyo Joe: I'll be looking for you, Yank. Lee: And don't call me Yank. I'm from Georgia. Expires August 15, 2015. 4. H.G. Wells' 'Things to Come' (1936) -- Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Sir Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers, Ivan Brandt, Dame Anne McLaren, Patricia Hilliard, Charles Carson. Uncredited: George Sanders, Terry-Thomas, Abraham Sofaer, Sir John Clements. Allan Jeayes. This futuristic screen story by author Wells correctly predicted the outbreak of World War II and how London would be vulnerable to enemy bomb attacks. Its vision of the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century have proved to be far off the mark. Wells was invited by producer Sir Alexander Korda to write the movie's screenplay in 1934, the year after the author published "The Shape of Things to Come." This sci-fi tale predicted the bombing of London during World War II The film was directed by veteran production designer William Cameron Menzies, who later received an honorary Academy Award for his invaluable contributions to the making of the 1939 Best Picture winner, "Gone with the Wind." Expires August 15, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 8, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: Adam's Rib (1949) -- Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson, Eve March, Clarence Kolb, Emerson Treacy, Polly Moran, Will Wright, Elizabeth Flournoy. Uncredited: Marvin Kaplan, Tommy Noonan, Madge Blake, William Self, Anna Q. Nilsson, "Snub" Pollard. George Cukor ("Keeper of the Flame," "Pat and Mike") directed this courtroom comedy starring Tracy and Heburn as married attorneys who wind up on opposite sides of a sensational criminal case. Adam Bonner (Tracy) is the assistant district attorney charged with prosecuting a frustrated housewife (Holliday) who shoots her philandering husband (Wayne). Amanda Bonner is the feminist lawyer who decides to head the woman's defense. The comedy was written by the husband-and-wife team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, who were Oscar-nominated for their screenplay. This was the sixth of nine films that Tracy and Hepburn made together. The motion picture inspired a 1973 ABC television sitcom that reteamed "1776" co-stars Ken Howard and Blythe Danner. He played Adam Bonner; she was Amanda. The series version of "Adam's Rib" lasted only 13 episodes. Holy Batconnection! The film features three actors who would go on to make contributions to the hit 1960s television series "Batman." Wayne, who appears as the Bonners' neighbor Kip Lurie, was Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter on the ABC series. Blake, who plays Adam Bonner's mother, was Dick Grayson's aunt, Harriet Cooper. The actor who appears as the jury foreman is William Self, who became the executive in charge of the production of "Batman" at 20th Century Fox Television. Expires August 14, 2015.

I've always liked the dueling Caine impersonations between Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan from the 2010 British sitcom "The Trip." Which one does the better job?

"I'm kind of psychic. I have a fifth sense...It's like I have ESPN or something." -- Dim high schooler Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried) to new student Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) in Tina Fey's comedy "Mean Girls" (2004).

TCM On Demand for August 7, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Get Carter (1971) -- Sir Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley, George Sewell, Geraldine Moffat, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, Petra Markham, Alun Armstrong, Bryan Mosley, Glynn Edwards, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, John Bindon, Godfrey Quigley, Kevin Brennan, Maxwell Deas, Liz McKenzie, John Hussey, Ben Aris, Kitty Atwood, Denea Wilde, Geraldine Sherman, Joy Merlyn, Yvonne Michaels, Alan Hockey, Karl Howard. British director Mike Hodges' gritty revenge tale stars Caine as the unrelenting title character, who works as a hitman for a mob syndicate in London. Jack Carter returns to his hometown of Newcastle -- in northeastern England -- to look into the mysterious death of his brother Frank. When he finds the explanations for his sibling's sudden demise are unsatisfactory, Carter begins waging a personal war against local racketeers. The question is whether he can get to the bottom of things before the racketeers get to him. Adding fuel to Carter's fire is the discovery that his teen niece Doreen (Markham) -- who may be his own daughter -- has been preyed upon by underworld pornographers. Hodges ("Flash Gordon," "Croupier"), who adapted this movie's screenplay from the 1970 novel "Jack's Return Home" by Ted Lewis, filmed a similar picture 30-plus years later. In "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (2003), Clive Owen stars as a former gangster who emerges from hiding to investigate the supposed suicide of his brother. Hodges and Caine worked together again for the 1972 comedy "Pulp," which also starred Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander and Lizabeth Scott (in her final screen appearance). This movie's music score was composed by British jazz pianist Roy Budd (1947-1993). Twice the fun: Caine appeared in a 2000 remake of this film -- also titled "Get Carter" -- that starred Sylvester Stallone as the title character in an American setting. It was one of two remakes of Caine films in which the Oscar-winning actor made an appearance. He co-starred with Jude Law in the 2007 version of "Sleuth." In the 1972 original, Caine appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier. Cast notes: Although Caine and Ekland play clandestine lovers, they have little actual screen time together. Their biggest scene involves a sexy phone conversation...Osborne, who plays Newcastle crime kingpin Cyril Kinnear, was the internationally renowned British playwright whose stage dramas "Look Back in Anger" and "The Entertainer" were turned into motion pictures. He won the 1963 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the year's Best Picture winner, "Tom Jones"...Hendry, who has the role of Eric Paice, was the original star of the British television drama "The Avengers" in 1961. When he decided to leave the series to make movies, his co-star Patrick Macnee became the show's headliner. Macnee, who died in June 2015, stayed with the long-running series as John Steed until it ended in 1969. Memorable quote: "Listen, the only reason I came back to this crap house is to find out who did it. And I'm not leaving till I do." -- Jack Carter to Margaret (White), an acquaintance of his dead brother. Expires August 13, 2015.

I guess he's always been practical about the business side of the motion picture industry. He said he made "Jaws: The Revenge" because he was well compensated for it. It was the same thing with a 1978 horror film that TCM aired during its SUTS tribute to Caine. "It’s like when people ask me why I made 'The Swarm' – I made 'The Swarm' because my mother needed a house to live in," he told the online magazine Sabotage Times in 2013. "Then I made 'Jaws 4' because she was lonely and I needed to buy her a bigger house which she could live in with all of her friends. It’s that simple."

In his outro for "Hannah and Her Sisters," Mankiewicz surprised me by saying that Caine "didn't bother" to pick up his Oscar for the movie. The way I always heard it, Caine couldn't attend the Academy Awards ceremony in 1987 because he was stuck in the Bahamas filming "Jaws: The Revenge." Does Mankiewicz know something that we don't? By the way, Caine WAS present and delivered a gracious acceptance speech when he won his second Oscar in 2000 for "The Cider House Rules."

"Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained." -- President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), leader of the futuristic North American nation of Panem in "The Hunger Games" (2012).

TCM On Demand for August 7, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) -- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sir Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, Barbara Hershey, Maureen O'Sullivan, Max von Sydow, Lloyd Nolan, Carrie Fisher, Sam Waterston, Daniel Stern, Julie Kavner, Tony Roberts, Joanna Gleason, Lewis Black, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Turturro, Bobby Short (as himself). Allen's family-oriented comedy/drama -- the story of three New York siblings (played by Farrow, Wiest and Hershey) and their friends, lovers and relatives -- earned seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. It won for Allen's original screenplay and the supporting performances by Caine and Wiest. It also earned nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stuart Wurtzel, Carol Joffe) and Best Film Editing (Susan E. Morse). Since the late 1970s, Allen's films have produced an impressive 18 Oscar nominations for acting and seven wins (award winners are in bold): Allen himself (Best Actor 1977, "Annie Hall"). Diane Keaton (Best Actress 1977, "Annie Hall"). Geraldine Page (Best Actress 1978, "Interiors"). Maureen Stapleton (Best Supporting Actress 1978, "Interiors"). Mariel Hemingway (Best Supporting Actress 1979, "Manhattan"). Caine (Best Supporting Actor 1986, "Hannah and Her Sisters"). Wiest (Best Supporting Actress 1986, "Hannah and Her Sisters"). Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor 1989, "Crimes and Misdemeanors"). Judy Davis (Best Supporting Actress 1992, "Husbands and Wives"). Chazz Palminteri (Best Supporting Actor 1994, "Bullets Over Broadway"). Wiest (Best Supporting Actress 1994, "Bullets Over Broadway"). Jennifer Tilly (Best Supporting Actress 1994, "Bullets Over Broadway"). Mira Sorvino (Best Supporting Actress 1995, "Mighty Aphrodite"). Sean Penn (Best Actor 1999, "Sweet and Lowdown"). Samantha Morton (Best Supporting Actress 1999, "Sweet and Lowdown"). Penélope Cruz (Best Supporting Actress 2008, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"). Cate Blanchett (Best Actress 2013, "Blue Jasmine"). Sally Hawkins (Best Supporting Actress 2013, "Blue Jasmine"). Allen still has a way to go before he catches the great William Wyler, who directed 14 Oscar winners in 36 nominations. But it's an impressive track record for the prolific filmmaker who also has won three Original Screenplay Oscars in a record 16 nominations. Caine, who is tied with Jack Nicholson for receiving Academy Award nominations in the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s, was not available to pick up his Oscar at the 59th annual ceremony on March 30, 1987. He was shooting "Jaws: The Revenge" in the Bahamas at the time. Thirteen years later, he was in attendance when he won a second Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Cider House Rules" (1999). Cast notes: This was the final screen appearance by Nolan, who died of lung cancer on September 27, 1985, five months before the film was released. It also was one of the last movie roles for O'Sullivan (1911-1998), Farrow's real-life mother and the actress best known for her performances between 1932 and 1942 as Jane in the "Tarzan" movie series. Several of Farrow's biological and adopted children appear in the holiday scenes in the movie. But not her son Ronan Farrow, who later became a correspondent for NBC News and msnbc. He wasn't born until 1987. Gleason is the daughter of game show host and producer Monty Hall of TV's original "Let's Make a Deal" series. Expires August 13, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 7, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. Len Deighton's 'The IPCRESS File' (1965) -- Sir Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson, Aubrey Richards , Frank Gatliff, Thomas Baptiste, Oliver MacGreevy, Freda Bamford, Pauline Winter, Anthony Blackshaw, Barry Raymond, David Glover, Stanley Meadows. Caine's first starring role was in this non-glamorous espionage tale -- the first in a series of films about author Deighton's British spy Harry Palmer. Caine would play the character again -- twice in the 1960s ("Funeral in Berlin," "Billion Dollar Brain") and twice in the 1990s (the non-Deighton projects "Bullet to Beijing" and "Midnight in St. Petersburg"). This film had several connections to the James Bond movie series. It was produced by Harry Saltzman, who collaborated with fellow producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli on the first eight serious 007 pictures. Broccoli or his family produced the others after the partnership with Saltzman was dissolved. The movie's original score was composed by five-time Oscar winner John Barry, best known for his work on numerous James Bond films between 1962 and 1987. Barry also scored the 1964 historical drama "Zulu," one of Caine's first noteworthy pictures. Movie crossover reference: Palmer, who resembles a British civil servant more than an espionage agent because of his black-rimmed glasses, was an inspiration for Mike Myers' Swinging '60s spy Austin Powers. Myers even persuaded Caine to play Powers' father, Sir Nigel, in the series' third installment -- "Austin Powers in 'Goldmember' " (2002). Although he wears glasses in real life, Caine has said that he rarely shows up with them on screen because he became so identified with the character of Palmer. Memorable dialogue: Jean Courtney (Lloyd): Do you always wear your glasses? Palmer: Yes. Except in bed. Expires August 13, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 6, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Band Wagon (1953) -- Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell, Robert Gist. Uncredited: Ava Gardner (as herself), India Adams (singing voice for Charisse), Julie Newmar, Steve Forrest, John Lupton, Herb Vigran, Barbara Ruick, Don Beddoe, Madge Blake, Henry Corden, Roy Engel, Douglas Fowley, Thurston Hall, Dee Hartford, Lawrence Montaigne, Leroy Daniels. Directed by Vincente Minnelli ("An American in Paris," "Gigi"), this is one of the great movie musicals. Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne considers it one of his favorite films (although he laments the fact that Clifton Webb turned down the role played by Buchanan). Astaire stars as fading musical comedy film star Tony Hunter, who hopes to resuscitate his career by headlining a stage show bound for Broadway. The show's creators are Hunter's friends Lily and Lester Marton (Fabray, Levant) -- based on the movie's real-life screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Buchanan co-stars as Jeffrey Cordova, the multi-hatted stage veteran who joins the production. The film's durable songs, written by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Howard Dietz (lyrics), include "That's Entertainment," "Shine on Your Shoes," "By Myself," "Dancing in the Dark," "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" and "Triplets." Fabray, who will turn 96 on October 27, 2016, went on to win two Primetime Emmy Awards as a co-star of "Caesar's Hour," Sid Caesar's television sketch comedy after the legendary "Your Show of Shows." She is the aunt of actress Shelley Fabares (who uses the original family spelling of the surname), a series regular on the TV sitcoms "The Donna Reed Show" and "Coach." Continued in the next section:

Continued from the previous section: Media crossover reference: Astaire's look and the nightclub setting for the musical number "Girl Hunt Ballet" (with Charisse) inspired Michael Jackson's 1988 long-form video "Smooth Criminal." Expires August 12, 2015.

TCM On Demand for August 6, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. You Were Never Lovelier (1942) -- Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara, Gus Schilling, Barbara Brown, Douglas Leavitt, Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra (featuring Lina Romay). Uncredited: Catherine Craig, Kirk Alyn, Larry Parks. Was Hayworth ever lovelier in a film? Directed by William A. Seiter ("Roberta"), this was the second and final teaming of the actress-dancer and Astaire (they had co-starred in "You'll Never Get Rich" the year before). Astaire stars as an out-of-work American entertainer seeking a break in Argentina. He falls for the daughter of a wealthy Buenos Aires nightclub owner (Menjou), who follows strict protocol about family weddings. Among the Jerome Kern-Johnny Mercer songs in the movie are "Dearly Beloved" (nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar), "I'm Old-Fashioned" and the title tune. Memorable moment: Astaire's character auditions for the disapproving Menjou with an inspired, Latin-style tap routine using only a cane and office furniture as props. Cast notes: Look for Alyn, the movie Superman of the late 1940s and early 1950s, as the bridegroom at the wedding of Menjou's eldest daughter (Craig). Parks, who won a 1947 Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Al Jolson in "The Jolson Story," appears as Mara's suitor, Tony. Expires August 12, 2015.