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cordially invites GMM fans and Film lovers to "Grand Manner Magazine Movie Night"  to watch the comedy drama,  "THE LADYKILLERS" starring  PETER SELLERS, co-starring Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson. D: Alexander Makendrick.  GMM fans grab your laptop, popcorn and your favorite drink (for GMM a Martini) and join us as we watch on Turner Classic Movies
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6:15 p.m. - THE LADYKILLERS  (1955)  - An eccentric bandit gang moves into a little old lady's boardinghouse to plot a major heist. Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson. D: Alexander Mackendrick

TCM STAR OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY
31 Days of Oscar®

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

8:30AM (Eastern Time)
5:30AM  (Pacific Time)
THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1929)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in
love with one of her marks. Norma
Shearer, Basil Rathbone, Hedda
Hopper. D: Sidney Franklin

10:15AM (Eastern Time)
7:15AM (Pacific)
THE TIME MACHINE (1960)
A turn-of-the-century inventor sends
himself into the future to save humanity.
Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young.
D: George Pal

12:15PM (Eastern Time)
9:15AM  (Pacific Time)
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1942)
A man remains young and handsome while
his portrait shows the ravages of age and
sin.  Hurd Hatfield, Angela Lansbury,
Donna Reed. D: Albert Lewin

2:15PM (Eastern Time)
11:15AM  (Pacific Time)
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she's going mad when
strange things start happening at the
family mansion. Charles Boyer, Ingrid
Bergman, Angela Lansbury. D: George
Cukor 

4:15PM (Eastern Time)
1:15PM (Pacific Time)
THE GAY DIVORCEE (1934)
An unhappily married woman mistakes a suitor
for the gigolo hired to end her marriage. Fred
Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett
Horton.  D: Mark Sandrich

6:15PM (Eastern Time)
3:15PM  (Pacific Time)
HOLY MATRIMONY (1943)
An artist returning from years abroad takes 
the identity of a dead valet to escape the 
attention of the press.  Monty Woolley, Gracie 
Fields, Laired Cregar. D: John M. Stahl

8:00PM (Eastern Time)
5:00PM  (Pacific Time)
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
A phonetics instructor bets that he can
pass as street urchin off as a lady.
Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley
Holloway. D: George Cukor

11:00PM (Eastern Time)
8:00PM  (Pacific Time)
A YANK IN THE R.A.F.  (1941) A hot shot flyer discovers the hero within when he joins the British Air Force during World War II.  Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Reginald Gardiner. D: Henry King

12:45AM (Eastern Time)
9:45PM  (Pacific Time)
MRS. MINIVER (1984) A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright. D: William Wyler

3:15AM (Eastern Time)
12:15PM  (Pacific Time)
THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER  (1944) An American woman with a British husband fights to keep her family together through two world wars. Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Roddy McDowall. D: Clarence Brown

5:30AM (Eastern Time)
2:30AM  (Pacific Time)
SCROOGE  (1970) A miser faces the ghosts of his past on Christmas Eve. Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More. D: Ronald Neame   

Photo image courtesy of Turner Classic Movies

TCM host Robert Osborne, the official biographer of the Academy Awards will once again introduce the primetime entries in this year’s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR, which marks its 18th year on TCM. Throughout the month, TCM will feature movies set in 47 worldwide locations such as Canada (Feb. 2), Mexico (Feb. 2). India (Feb. 3), Eastern Europe and the Netherlands (Feb. 6), Germany (Feb. 7), Texas (Feb. 9-10), Greece (Feb. 13), Italy (Feb. 14), Africa (Feb. 15-16), Russia (Feb. 16), Austria (Feb. 20), South America (Feb. 21), Southeast Asia (Feb. 23), New Mexico (Feb. 24), New England (Feb. 27), the Middle East (Feb. 28), China (Feb. 29), Japan (March 1) and Hawaii (March 1).

Each Saturday and Sunday, TCM will focus the entire weekend on one location, with stops in England (Feb. 4-5), New York (Feb. 11-12), France (Feb. 18-19) and California (Feb. 24-25). The month-long festival will wrap up Friday, March 2, with a day of movies set all over the world, Heaven and in outer space.

The month’s festivities will kick off Wednesday, Feb. 1, with a day of Florida-set flicks, including The Yearling (1946), Key Largo (1948) and the TCM premiere of Happy New Year (1987), starring Peter Falk. That night, TCM will take viewers to Pennsylvania with Best Picture winner Rocky (1976), The Philadelphia Story (1940), 1776 (1972) and three other movies set in the Keystone State.

Among the high-profile movies making their TCM debut during this year’s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR is Good Will Hunting (1997 – Feb. 27), director Gus Van Sant’s drama about an aimless janitor with a gift for mathematics. Star Matt Damon and Ben Affleck took home Oscars for their smart screenplay, while Robin Williams earned a Best Supporting Actor trophy as a dedicated psychologist who helps Damon’s Will Hunting find direction in his life.

Also featured are several fascinating films from the 1970s, including Lies My Father Told Me (1975 – Feb. 2), a moving Jewish family drama set in a Canadian ghetto in the 1920s; Hester Street (1975 – Feb. 12), an immigration tale starring Steven Keats and Carol Kane; Bless the Beasts and the Children (1971 – Feb. 24), a teen drama starring Billy Mumy and Miles Chapin and featuring Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr.’s Oscar-nominated song, “Cotton’s Dream” that would later become known worldwide as “Nadia’s Theme”; Harry and Tonto (1974 – Feb. 25), a gentle road picture starring Art Carney in an Oscar-winning performance; Pieces of Dreams (1970 – Feb. 24), a controversial romance with Robert Forster and Lauren Hutton as a priest and social worker who fall in love; and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970 – March 1), Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku’s’s star-studded epic about of the attack on Pearl Harbor, as told from both the American and Japanese perspectives.

In addition to Rocky on the opening night of TCM’s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR, Best Picture winners in the 2012 edition include Gandhi (1982) on Feb. 3, My Fair Lady (1964) and Mrs. Miniver (1942) on Feb. 4; Grand Hotel (1932) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) on Feb. 7; On the Waterfront (1954), Going My Way (1944), The Apartment (1960) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on Feb. 11; Marty (1955) on Feb. 12; Casablanca (1942) on Feb. 15; All the King’s Men (1949), In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Gone with the Wind (1939) on Feb. 17; Gigi (1958) on Feb. 18; The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and An American in Paris (1951) on Feb. 19; Ben-Hur (1959) and Amadeus (1984) on Feb. 20; Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on Feb. 23; Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on Feb. 28; From Here to Eternity (1953) on March 1; and Around the World in 80 Days (1956) on March 2.