TCM Schedule for Wednesday, October 29: Van Heflin/Birthday Tribute: Lee Grant (October 31)
Yes, Van Heflin was in a musical, Seven Sweethearts.
And actor/director Lee Grant, survivor of the blacklist, is still with us at this writing and is honored tonight in primetime. She was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, 1925 (not all sources list a year, only the mid-1920s) .
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
12:15 AM The Divorcee (1930)
The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
1:45 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:00 AM Three on a Match (1932)
A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day
Runtime: 64 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:15 AM Heroes for Sale (1933)
A veteran fights drug addiction to make his way in the business world.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
TCM Daytime: Van Heflin
6:00 AM Seven Sweethearts (1942)
A father insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 AM Tennessee Johnson (1942)
This biopic focuses on Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached. Initially an uneducated drifter who stumbles upon a job as a tailor in a Tennessee town, Johnson is taught to read by librarian and future wife, Eliza. Eliza convinces him to enter a local election, and, from there, Johnson rises swiftly. ...
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 AM Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
A small-town girl fights for her big chance on Broadway.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 PM B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
A professor doesn't know his wife is an heiress.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 PM Madame Bovary (1949)
A romantic country girl sacrifices her marriage when she thinks she's found true love.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
4:00 PM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman's obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
6:00 PM Patterns (1956)
A replacement in a large corporation encounters loyalty and power struggles.
Dir: Fielder Cook Cast: Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:30 PM MGM Parade Show #30 (1955)
Walter Pidgeon discusses Greta Garbo's early career; Irene Papas introduces behind-the-scenes footage from "Tribute to a Badman."
Dir: null Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Greta Garbo, Irene Papas
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N
TCM Primetime: Birthday Tribute: Lee Grant (October 31)
8:00 PM Shampoo (1975)
A hairdresser expresses his fear of commitment by seducing his female clients.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Lee Grant
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
10:00 PM Voyage of the Damned (1976)
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Cast: Frederick Jaeger, Ian Cullen, Luther Adler
Runtime: 182 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:
12:45 AM Down and Out in America (1985)
Documentary that examines how a recession in the mid-1980s affected Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.
Dir: Lee Grant Cast: Lee Grant (narrator), Jeff Farmer, Bob Hanson
Runtime: 57 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC:
2:00 AM Plaza Suite (1971)
Neil Simon's comedy, made up of three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel.
Dir: Arthur Hiller Cast: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:
4:00 AM The Swarm (1978)
Killer bees that attack without reason descend on Texas.
Dir: Irwin Allen Cast: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y