Take the looks of a Lancaster and add the charming disposition of a Jack Lemmon, dress well and you might just have a George Peppard. Peppard emerged as a fresh-faced force on the screen in the 1960s. To film audiences, his mannered magnetism recalled the suave matinee idols of yore. Peppard never raised his voice or broke a sweat, but his easygoing mild-mannered nature usually got him the girl. Which is where George Peppard spent the 1960s - in the arms of the screen's most beautiful women. Truman Capote captured the ambiance of bohemian New York with his 1958 novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's." In the 1961 film adaptation, Audrey Hepburn was cast as Holly Golightly, a carefree and charming girl with a hidden dark side. With a lithe figure and mod styles, she seems peeled off the page of a glossy fashion magazine. In the film's opening party scene, Ms. Golightly catches the eye of a young writer named Paul. As their relationship develops, the good-looking couple begins to reveal the fragile human emotions behind their perfect make-up. Peppard seems perfect as the sympathetic neighbor, but author Capote felt that Hollywood had white-washed his story too much, cutting out Holly's more immoral secrets. List of films Today! on TCM Operation Crossbow (1965) Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) The Carpetbaggers(1964) Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Novel & Three Stories by Truman Capote The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins If the real story was cleaned up for Breakfast at Tiffany's, Peppard made up for that failing in The Carpetbaggers (1964), a trashy, dirt-dishing tale based on the legend of Howard Hughes. Peppard plays Jonas Cord, a multi-millionaire mogul who loses interest in his Chemical company for the glamour of Hollywood. With crosses and double crosses, Cord proves himself as a ruthless businessman, marrying Elizabeth Ashley - Peppard's real-life wife at the time - for her money while scheming to seduce a starlet played by the delectable Carroll Baker. While no story about Howard Hughes can be as bizarre as the truth, The Carpetbaggers sheds light on the dirty dealings of a mogul with lusty appetites. Even when he played a detestable scoundrel, George Peppard had a stylish way of making it look so good. Leave it to George Peppard to find the prettiest thing on frontlines of WW II. In Operation Crossbow (1965), he led a mission behind enemy lines to destroy a rocket base. Along the way our hero, of course, found the time to console Sophia Loren, the wife of a Nazi collaborator. In the New York nightlife or the dog-eat-dog world of Hollywood or undercover in Vichy, France, this was one actor who always had a moment to enjoy the finer things in life. George Peppard had a way of finding himself in the arms of the most beautiful women onscreen - whether she was slim and sexy or voluptuous and exotic. In the smoked dens of The Subterraneans (1960), he held Leslie Caron. Peppard also counted Ursula Andress, Jean Simmons, Jean Seberg and Joan Collins among his onscreen paramours. But the three women who stand out in Peppard's cinematic rendezvous are the elegant Audrey Hepburn, the alluring Sophia Loren, and Peppard's own off screen leading lady, Elizabeth Ashley. TCM celebrates one of the suavest guys to cross the screen in his most memorable films of the '60s. LIST OF FILMS 11 Tuesday 8:00 PM   The Carpetbaggers (1964) A young tycoon takes Hollywood by storm to quench his thirst for power. George Peppard, Carole Baker, Alan Ladd. D: Edward Dmytryk. C 150m. LBX 10:30 PM   Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) A young writer gets caught up in a party girl's carefree existence. Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal. D: Blake Edwards. C 115m. LBX 1:00 AM   Operation Crossbow (1965) Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base. George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard. D: Michael Anderson. C 117m. LBX CC 3:00 AM   Home From the Hill (1960) A southern landowner's family is torn apart by the revelation that he has an illegitimate son. Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard. D: Vincente Minnelli. C 151m. LBX CC