TCM Schedule for Fri, Apr 4, 2025: Screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert / Pulp Fiction (Genre)
Frederick Hugh Herbert (May 29, 1897 – May 17, 1958) was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, and infrequent film director.
Emigrating to America from Austria in 1920, he joined Paramount Pictures as a film writer, beginning his career in 1926 with two projects starring Conrad Nagel -- The Waning Sex and There You Are!, the latter adapted from his play of the same title.
His screenwriting credits included Vanity Fair, Fashions of 1934, Smarty in 1934 (adapted from his own play -- all airing today); Sitting Pretty, Dark Command, Our Very Own, The Little Hut, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and The Girls of Pleasure Island, the last two of which he also directed.
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6:00 AM | Snowed Under (1936)
A playwright in search of solitude is besieged by three women.
Dir: Raymond Enright | Cast: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell
7:30 AM | Road to Paradise (1930)
A delinquent girl helps a criminal gang rob her look-alike.
Dir: William Beaudin | Cast: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, George Barraud
9:00 AM | The Women in His Life (1933)
When his ex-wife is murdered, a hard-living lawyer defends the chief suspect.
Dir: George B. Seitz | Cast: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon
10:30 AM | Smarty (1934)
A squabbling couple can't seem to make it to the divorce court.
Dir: Robert Florey | Cast: Joan Blondell, Warren William, Edward Everett Horton
11:45 AM | Fashions of 1934 (1934)
A con artist and his beautiful assistant take on the fashion world.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
1:15 PM | Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
A maid's ability to pick stock market winners keeps her employer in the money.
Dir: Arthur Greville Collins | Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Anita Louise
2:30 PM | Vanity Fair (1932) TCM PREMIERE
Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.
Dir: Chester M. Franklin | Cast: Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent
Trivia: First starring role for Myrna Loy.
4:00 PM | We're in the Money (1935)
Gold-digging process servers set their sights on a breach of promise defendant.
Dir: Ray Enright | Cast: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert
5:15 PM | The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious "dragon pool."
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone | Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
6:30 PM | The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann | Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM | Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
A British lord raised by apes kidnaps a beautiful noblewoman exploring Africa with her father.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith
9:45 PM | Lost Horizon (1937)
Plane crash survivors discover a lost world of peace and harmony.
Dir: Frank Capra | Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
12:00 AM | King Solomon's Mines (1937)
African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.
Dir: Robert Stevenson | Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
1:30 AM | Gunga Din (1939)
Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks
3:45 AM | The Killer Shrews (1959)
A maniacal scientist creates a formula that turns your average shrew into a giant, man-killing beast.
Dir: Ray Kellogg | Cast: James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
5:00 AM | Trader Horn (1931)
Traders in 1870s Africa find a missionary's daughter, captured as a child, now worshiped as a goddess.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke | Cast: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo