Alec Baldwin returns as co-host of Turner Classic Movies’ “The Essentials”
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Two-time Emmy® winner Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) is returning for a second season as co-host of “The Essentials” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). In his first season, Baldwin displayed a deep knowledge of classic films. Baldwin and TCM host Robert Osborne will return in 2010 with a new slate of “must see” movies each week.
“The Essentials” airs Saturdays at 7 p.m. The 10th season will kick off in March 2010 with Elia Kazan’s 1951 version of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Oscar® winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden.
The season will feature four Best Picture Oscar winners, including The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gigi (1958), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Sting (1973), as well as Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Black Orpheus (1959).
For the first time, “The Essentials” will include two special late-night installments, with the seminal 1970s films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Serpico (1973).
Other titles for 2010 include the groundbreaking Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Graduate (1967); the delightful Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Alec Guinness in eight different roles; and the work of several top-name directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train – 1951), Frank Capra (Meet John Doe – 1941), John Ford (My Darling Clementine – 1946), Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg – 1961) and George Cukor (the newly restored A Star Is Born – 1954).
“I have enormous respect for TCM and Robert Osborne,” Baldwin said. “TCM has stayed true to its mission, with a vast library of movies from many different decades. I’m proud to be able to sit down with Robert again.”
“After we wrapped our first season together, I remember thinking how many more films I would like to discuss with Alec,” Osborne said. “Now we have that chance.”
The following is a complete schedule of the films Baldwin and Osborne will be presenting for the showcase’s 10th season:
March 6 – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
March 6 (late night) – Saturday Night Fever (1977)
March 13 – White Heat (1949)
March 20 – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
March 27 – Gigi (1958)
April 3 – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
April 3 (late night) – Serpico (1973)
April 10 – Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
April 17 – Strangers on a Train (1951)
April 24 – The Graduate (1967)
May 1 – A Foreign Affair (1948)
May 8 – The Lion in Winter (1968)
May 15 – The Blue Dahlia (1946)
May 22 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
May 29 – The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
June 5 – Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
June 12 – San Francisco (1936)
June 19 – A Star is Born (1954)
June 26 – The Snake Pit (1948)
July 3 – Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
July 10 – My Darling Clementine (1946)
July 17 – The Road to Morocco (1942)
July 24 – Black Orpheus (1959)
July 31 – Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Aug. 7 – The Sea Hawk (1940)
Aug. 14 – Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Aug. 21 – The Sting (1973)
Aug. 28 – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sept. 4 – The Graduate (1967)
Sept. 11 – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sept. 18 – Gigi (1958)
Sept. 25 – White Heat (1949)
Oct. 2 – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Oct. 9 – Strangers on a Train (1951)
Oct. 16 – A Foreign Affair (1948)
Oct. 23 – Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Oct. 30 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Nov. 6 – Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Nov. 13 – The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Nov. 20 – San Francisco (1936)
Nov. 27 – A Star is Born (1954)
Dec. 4 – The Snake Pit (1948)
Dec. 11 – Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Dec. 18 – Meet John Doe (1941)
Dec. 25 – The Lion in Winter (1968)
Jan. 1 – My Darling Clementine (1946)
Jan. 8 – The Road to Morocco (1942)
Jan. 15 – Black Orpheus (1959)
Jan. 22 – Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Jan. 29 – The Sea Hawk (1940)
Prior to co-hosting “The Essentials,” Baldwin appeared on TCM as part of the network’s “Guest Programmer” series. In 2008, he hosted the TCM special “Role Model: Gene Wilder,” in which he interviewed the comic actor.
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