UNTAMED YOUTH
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Untamed Youth isn’t the sort of B movie TCM presents very often – but tonight, it’s the first of a mini-marathon of films featuring actress Mamie Van Doren, who competed with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield in the late Fifties for the title of American film goddess (and lost to both). This is a rare chance to see a lot of her films in one place, beginning with this 1957 drama, in which she plays a wannabe actress detained in a rural prison. Six additional Mamie Van Doren movies follow, and the later it gets, the stranger they get. Set your recorders for 3:15 a.m. ET, for example, when the film on view is 1960’s Sex Kittens Go to College. You can thank me in the morning.