Plot Synopsis

Each week during the summer, a celebrity host introduces feature films for ESSENTIALS JR., which showcases movies that are ideal for parents to share with their kids as a way of introducing them to classic films.
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With Bill Hader returning for his fourth outing as host, TCM broadcast the season premiere of ESSENTIALS JR. on Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, opening the new season with BRINGING UP BABY (1938), the ultimate screwball comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The 2014 edition of ESSENTIALS JR. aired on Sunday evenings throughout the summer, highlighted by these feature films and shorts:
Jun 1: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Jun 8: The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Jun 15: The Yearling (1947)
Jun 22: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956, American version)
Jun 29: A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Jul 6: Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jul 13: The Little Princess (1939)
Jul 20: Silent Comedy Shorts -- Laurel & Hardy in "Two Tars" (1928); Harold Lloyd in "Never Weaken" (1921); Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in "Coney Island" (1917); and Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant" (1917)
Jul 27: Cat People (1942)/The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Aug 3: How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Aug 10: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Aug 17: Lifeboat (1944)
Aug 24: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Aug 31: Shane (1953)