Notable movies and other programs on TV for Monday September 3 to Sunday September 9:Turner Classic Movies will run a mini-marathon of movies on Saturday based on the works of Oscar Wilde, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Meanwhile, Stephen Fry stars as Wilde himself on LOGO Wednesday.
TCM will air a 24-hour tribute to the Telluride Film Festival Monday, with films ranging from 1941's Babes on Broadway to 1965's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Plus, each Tuesday this month TCM will present the movies that made our favorite stars, well, stars. This week's spotlight shines on the breakthrough roles of Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth and Rosalind Russell.
Also on LOGO, Daphne Du Maurier, the author of Rebecca and The Birds, gets the biopic treatment in the TV movie Daphne, airing Tuesday. The channel explores the Butch Mystique of African-American lesbians in a documentary on Saturday, followed by Rock the Boat, another doc centering on 11 HIV-positive sailors in a 2200-mile yacht race.
AMC kicks off the month with a John Wayne marathon Monday, airing such classics as Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man and Rio Bravo. Saturday on the channel brings an hour-long Backstory of Halloween, while Sunday has another edition of Movies That Shook the World.
And finally: Fox Movie Channel will air the Oscar-winning Cavalcade (not on DVD) on Thursday, and Friday's "Fox Legacy" takes a look at Tom Hanks' Big.
Click on the network links to find the show times in your area. All programming is subject to change.
Links via TCM.com, LOGOOnline.com, TellurideFilmFestival.com, AMCTV.com and FoxMovieChannel.com.
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