Turner Classic Movies to Remember the Renowned Glenn Fordwith On-Air Tribute on Sunday, Sept. 10

ATLANTA, Aug. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- 

  What:  Turner Classic Movies will dedicate a viewing block of six films to
         remember Glenn Ford, who died Wednesday, Aug. 30, at age 90.  His
         career spanned more than 50 years and almost 100 movies, from
         Westerns and romance to comedies and urban dramas.

         Ford is perhaps best known for his starring roles in Gilda (1946),
         with Rita Hayworth; Blackboard Jungle (1955), with Sidney Poitier;
         The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), with Shirley Jones; A
         Stolen Life (1946), with Bette Davis; The Big Heat (1953), with Lee
         Marvin; The Rounders (1965), with Henry Fonda; and Midway (1976),
         with Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda and James Coburn.  His
         performance in Frank Kapra's Pocketful of Miracles earned him a
         Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1962.

  When:  Sunday, Sept. 10. The schedule is as follows:
             8 a.m.    The Desperadoes (1943)
          9:30 a.m.    A Stolen Life (1946)
         11:30 a.m.    Gilda (1946)
          1:30 p.m.    Blackboard Jungle (1955)
          3:30 p.m.    The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
          5:45 p.m.    The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)

  Who:   Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 70 million
         homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System,
         Inc.  TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from
         the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and
         Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '90s, commercial-
         free and without interruption.  Expanding TCM's role as a curator
         of movie history, the network recently launched TCMdb, one of the
         Internet's most media-rich interactive movie databases.  For more
         information, please visit http://tcm.com/.


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