I just got this email from the people at Turner Classic Movies

For Release: August 31, 2006


Media Advisory

Turner Classic Movies to Remember the Renowned Glenn Ford
with On-Air Tribute on Sunday, Sept. 10

• What: Turner Classic Movies will dedicate a viewing block of six films to remember Glenn Ford, who died Tuesday, Aug. 30, at age 90. His career spanned more than 50 years and almost 100 movies, from Westerns and romance to comedies and urban dramas.

Ford is perhaps best known for his starring roles in Gilda (1946), with Rita Hayworth; Blackboard Jungle (1955), with Sidney Poitier; The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963), with Shirley Jones; A Stolen Life (1946), with Bette Davis; The Big Heat (1953), with Lee Marvin; The Rounders (1965), with Henry Fonda; and Midway (1976), with Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda and James Coburn. His performance in Frank Kapra’s Pocketful of Miracles earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1962.

• When: Sunday, Sept. 10. The schedule is as follows:
8 a.m. The Desperadoes (1943)
9:30 a.m. A Stolen Life (1946)
11:30 a.m. Gilda (1946)
1:30 p.m. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
3:30 p.m. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
5:45 p.m. The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963)

• Who: Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 70 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the ‘20s through the ‘90s, commercial-free and without interruption. Expanding TCM’s role as a curator of movie history, the network recently launched TCMdb, one of the Internet’s most media-rich interactive movie database. For more information, please visit tcm.com.

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CONTACTS:
Sarah Hamilton Atlanta 404/575-6313 sarah.hamilton@turner.com
Julie Smith Los Angeles 310/788-6915 julie.smith@turner.com
Erin Bix New York 212/275-8234 erin.bix@turner.com