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Mother’s Day Movie Marathons
MOVIES! and TCM, beginning at noon Happy Mother’s Day! Two classic movie channels have lineups of films celebrating Mom starting this afternoon: MOVIES! is airing four films with stories featuring memorable mothers, including a couple of noir titles. This lineup begins with I Remember Mama (1948), starring Best Actress Oscar nominee Irene Dunne as Mama and Best Supporting Actress nominee Barbara Bel Geddes as one of her daughters. It continues with the 1949 adaptation of Little Women (pictured), featuring Mary Astor as the matriarch of the March family, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O’Brien and Janet Leigh as her daughters; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), starring Gene Tierney and a young Natalie Wood as mother and daughter, with Rex Harrison as the title ghost; and Mildred Pierce (1945), the Best Picture Oscar-nominated melodrama led by Best Actress winner Joan Crawford as the titular mother and Best Supporting Actress nominee Ann Blyth as her spoiled daughter.
Turner Classic Movies starts its Mother’s Day marathon with Mildred Pierce (1945), then continues with My Reputation (1946), a romantic drama starring Barbara Stanwyck as an upper-class widow and Scotty Beckett and Bobby Cooper as her young sons; The Trip to Bountiful (1985), starring Best Actress Oscar winner Geraldine Page in one of her final roles, as an elderly woman determined to visit her childhood home one last time, even as her overprotective son (John Heard) tries to stop her; Hairspray (1988), John Waters’ comedy featuring Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), in one of his final roles, as Edna Turnblad, mother to Ricki Lake’s Tracy Turnblad; Martin Scorsese’s comedy/ drama Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), led by Best Actress winner Ellen Burstyn as a recently widowed woman who takes to the road with her precocious preteen son (Alfred Lutter) in pursuit of a better life; and Postcards From the Edge (1990), based on Carrie Fisher’s semiautobiographical novel and starring Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep as a substance-abusing actress who is forced to move back in with her self-absorbed mother (Shirley MacLaine) to avoid unemployment.