Big-screen romances – real, fabricated and imagined – often have been problematical for Hollywood movies. This summer is certainly no exception: Everyone is officially sick of Brad and Angelina, Tom and Katie and the latest incarnation of Ben and Jennifer. It’s comforting to know that Hollywood publicists have been using the whiff of offscreen coupling to promote on-screen sizzle ever since the days of Mary Pickford.

There are times when the romance is real and the on-screen chemistry is palpable, as in the case of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Their love affair both on- and off-screen is a major part of Robert Osborne’s “Private Screenings” (7 p.m., Turner Classic Movies) interview with actress Lauren Bacall.

Born in Manhattan in the 1920s, Bacall retains the “r”-less accent of old New York, a vocal inflection that will certainly pass with her generation. She uses the word “marvelous” quite often and without irony or affectation, and the way it sounds is, well, marvelous.

She celebrates her strong-willed single mother, her brief stint as a fashion model, her discovery by director Howard Hawks, and the sparks that flew on the set of the 1944 drama “To Have and to Have Not” (11 p.m., TCM) between her and Bogart, a married man 25 years her senior. She would go on to marry him and appear with Bogart in such films as “Dark Passage” (9:30 a.m., TCM), “The Big Sleep” (1 p.m., TCM) and “Key Largo” (8 p.m., TCM). They were working on a film together when Bogart died of cancer in 1957.

Bacall recalls her other leading men with great fondness, including Gregory Peck from “Designing Women” (3 p.m., TCM) and Kirk Douglas in “Young Man with a Horn” (1 a.m. Tuesday, TCM). And while she and John Wayne (“The Shootist”) were miles apart politically, Bacall always liked him for his on-screen vulnerability and for his “tiny feet” that contributed to his signature walk. She glides briefly and diplomatically by a brief fling with Frank Sinatra. She says it would have never lasted because of his wandering eye. Perhaps Old Blue Eyes considered it just one of those things … too hot not to cool down. Bacall’s late former husband, Jason Robards, goes unmentioned.

Osborne conducts a gracious interview, and at the end Bacall calls him “a prince.” Knowledgeable but never a show-off, Osborne keeps the conversation moving. He’s clearly a fan but is never gushing or unctuous in the manner of James Lipton, the host of “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” who has turned that production into a slick parody.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Debra and Marie’s cold war worries Ray on “Everybody Loves Raymond” (7:30 p.m., CBS).

¢ A brutal bias attack on “The Closer” (8 p.m., TNT).

¢ Ed shuffles the deck on “Las Vegas” (8 p.m., NBC).

¢ Fears of a pirate attack on “CSI: Miami” (9 p.m., CBS).

¢ Allison envisions a murdered TV star on “Medium” (9 p.m., NBC).