For Release: July 22, 1998

T The Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable network will honor the late Robert Young with a special 24-hour, 13-movie tribute on Friday, July 24, beginning at 6 a.m. (ET). Long before he made Jim Anderson of Father Knows Best and Marcus Welby, M.D. household names, Young had a long and successful movie career. He signed with MGM in 1931 and would go on to star in more than 100 films.

TCM's Robert Young tribute includes the following:

6 a.m.- THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET (1931)óco-starring Helen Hayes and Lewis Stone
7:30 a.m. - HELL BELOW (1933)óco-starring Robert Montgomery and Walter Huston
9:30 a.m. - TODAY WE LIVE (1933)óco-starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper
11:30 a.m. - PARIS INTERLUDE (1934)óco-starring Madge Evans and Otto Kruger
1 p.m. - THE BAND PLAYS ON (1934)óco-starring Stewart Erwin and Leo Carrillo
2:30 p.m. WEST POINT OF THE AIR (1935)óco-starring Maureen O'Sullivan
4 p.m. - THE EMPEROR'S CANDLESTICKS (1937)óco-starring William Powell
6 p.m. THE BRIDE WORE RED (1937)óco-starring Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone
8 p.m. - THE MORTAL STORM (1940)óco-starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart
10 p.m. - NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940)óco-starring Spencer Tracy and Walter Brennan
12:30 a.m. - CAIRO (1942)óco-starring Jeannette MacDonald and Ethel Waters
2:30 a.m. - THE CANTERVILLE GHOST (1944)óco-starring Charles Laughton and Margaret O'Brien
4:30 a.m. - CROSSFIRE (1948)óco-starring Robert Mitchum and Gloria Grahame


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