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LEW AYRES TRIBUTE
August 28, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET

 

We’re down to the last few days of August, which means the final days of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” salutes, where a single performer is showcased for an entire day and night. Today’s recipient is Lew Ayres, and the high point is his starring role in one of the first, and still best, antiwar war movies ever made. It’s called All Quiet on the Western Front, it’s about the brutal battles and conditions of what became known as World War I, and it was released in 1930, just a few years after sound came to the cinema. That’s televised at 8 p.m. ET, and is a prime offering for movie fans. For TV fans, there’s also a daytime double feature of the two movies, from the same decade, that inspired the popular Sixties TV medical series Dr. Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlain. At 12:15 p.m. ET, TCM is showing 1938’s Young Dr. Kildare, with Ayres in the title role (pictured), followed at 1:45 p.m. ET by the 1939 sequel, Calling Dr. Kildare. In both movies, Lionel Barrymore plays the fledgling physician’s crusty mentor, Dr. Gillespie.

 
 
 
 
 
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