Lauren Bacall is TCM’s Star of the Month for September 2024, Which Marks What Would Have Been the Hollywood Icon’s 100th Birthday
Legendary actress Betty Joan Perske — better known as Lauren Bacall — will be celebrated as Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September 2024, with evening lineups of her most memorable films airing the first four Mondays.
The third of those Mondays, Sept. 16, marks what would have been the Hollywood icon’s 100th birthday (she was born on Sept. 16, 1924, in New York City; she died there on Aug. 12, 2014, at the age of 89).
On that date, you can enjoy watching her and Humphrey Bogart in all four of the legendary films in which they appeared together, like The Big Sleep, pictured below. The full month’s schedule of Bacall films follows.
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TCM STAR OF THE MONTH: LAUREN BACALL — SEPTEMBER 2024 SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
Monday, Sept. 2, 2024 — Begins at 8pm
8pm: Woman’s World (1954) — A corporate drama costarring Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin and Fred MacMurray.
10pm: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) — The classic screwball comedy also featuring Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable.
12am: Designing Woman (1957, pictured below) — A romantic comedy costarring Gregory Peck.
2:15am: Sex and the Single Girl (1964) — A comedy headlined by Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Henry Fonda
4:15am: Young Man With a Horn (1950) — A musical drama costarring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day and Hoagy Carmichael.
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Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 — Begins at 8pm
8pm: Written on the Wind (1956) — Director Douglas Sirk’s Southern Gothic melodrama also stars Rock Hudson, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Dorothy Malone and Best Supporting Actor nominee Robert Stack.
10pm: The Cobweb (1955) — A fairly intense drama directed by Vincente Minnelli, most renowned for his musicals, this film also stars Richard Widmark, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame and Lillian Gish.
12:30am: Confidential Agent (1945, pictured below) — This spy film set amid the Spanish Civil War costars Boyer and was Bacall’s second movie.
2:30am: Blood Alley (1955) — Director William A. Wellman’s China-set adventure film pairs Bacall with John Wayne.
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Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 (Lauren Bacall’s 100th Birthday) — Begins at 8pm
Today’s Bacall lineup is especially notable, since it takes place on the day she was born, a century ago.
Commemorating such a special day calls for a special lineup, so on the evening of what would have been Bacall’s 100th birthday on Sept. 16, you can enjoy all four of the films in which she costarred with Humphrey Bogart, whom she married in 1945 after they fell in love on the set of their first movie together — and Bacall’s first film overall — director Howard Hawks’ 1944 romantic war adventure drama To Have and Have Not, based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel.
That film fittingly kicks things off this evening.
BOGIE & BACALL CLASSICS
8pm: To Have and Have Not (1944)
10pm: The Big Sleep (1946) — The legendary (and legendarily confusing, but highly entertaining) film noir mystery, also directed by Hawks and featuring Bogart as Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe
12am: Dark Passage (1947) — Agnes Moorehead costars in this film noir.
2am: Key Largo (1948, pictured below) — Another iconic noir, directed by John Huston, and costarring Edward G. Robinson and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Claire Trevor.
4am: Bacall on Bogart (1988) — Originally airing as an episode of PBS’ Great Performances, this roughly 80-minute production is hosted by Bacall and presents a retrospective of Bogart’s life and career, featuring clips, photos and recollections from costars, colleagues and friends.
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Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 — Begins at 8pm
Turner Classic Movies’ monthlong Thursday night celebration of legendary actress Lauren Bacall in September 2024 concludes this evening with five titles:
8pm: Murder on the Orient Express (1974, pictured below) — This star-filled adaptation of Agatha Christie’s mystery is led by Best Actor nominee Albert Finney as famed detective Hercule Poirot, and along with Bacall also features Best Supporting Actress winner Ingrid Bergman, Martin Balsam, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins and more.
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10:15pm: The Shootist (1976) — This Western earned Bacall a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress alongside John Wayne in his final role.
12am: Appointment With Death (1988) — Another Christie adaptation, making its TCM premiere, this mystery stars Peter Ustinov as Poirot and also features Gielgud, Carrie Fisher, Piper Laurie and Hayley Mills.
2am: Harper (1966) — Paul Newman leads this mystery thriller as the titular detective; Julie Harris costars.
4:15am: Bright Leaf (1950) — Michael Curtiz directed this Western that also stars Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in one of her early roles.
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