DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE 1941
FROST/NIXON, 2008
BORN YESTERDAY, 1950
Saturday Night Fever, 1977
Sunday, 12:30 p.m., VH1
John Travolta (right) didn’t win the Oscar but he was rightly nominated for Best Actor for his role here as a bored-by-day Bay Ridge store clerk who becomes king of the disco by night. When he takes a partner (Karen Lynn Gorney) for the upcoming dance contest, his life changes direction. She’s got ambitions beyond Brooklyn, and he’s never imagined life outside his pack of pals. Best soundtrack, well, ever. With Donna Pescow.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1941
Tuesday, 9:45 a.m., TCM
The second movie made from the great classic by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Spencer Tracy (far left) is the two-faced doctor who experiments with a potion (i.e., a narcotic drug) that brings out his very dark side. In fact he becomes a prostitute killer (Ingrid Bergman, left) before moving on to the father (Donald Crisp) of his fiancée. Interestingly, the book was written two years before the real Jack the Ripper ever struck!
Frost/Nixon,
2008
Thursday, 6:30 a.m., USA
Based on the actual TV interviews post-Watergate between former President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella, left) and a jet-setting, lightweight young British journalist, David Frost, (Michael Sheen, right). Nixon thought he’d rewrite his reputation, not to mention earn $600,000 for the interview, but ended up in a historic battle of brains.
Born Yesterday, 1950
Friday, 8 p.m., TCM
The delightful Judy Holliday (right) stars as the seemingly dim-bulb mistress of a crooked mogul (Broderick Crawford). Before heading to DC to bribe a congressman or two, the sleazy tycoon hires a newspaperman (William Holden) to teach her the finer points of etiquette. He gets more than he bargained for when the dim bulb lights up and learns a thing or two about the crook she’s been with while falling in love with the suave editor. Holliday won the Best Actress Oscar.