TCM Schedule for Sunday January 31, 2021 - Cicely Tyson

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The recently departed Cicely Tyson is spotlighted. Plus: Imports wraps its month-long Pedro Almodovar salute.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Gabriel Over The White House (1933)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-G
A crooked president reforms mysteriously.
Director: Gregory Lacava. Cast: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone

7:45 am Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A gigolo flees Nazi occupation and sets his sights on a shy schoolteacher who happens to be a US citizen.
Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia De Havilland, Paulette Goddard

10:00 am The Killers (1964)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
Charlie and Lee, two hired killers, go to an institution for the blind where they shoot Johnny North.
Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes

12:00 pm The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-PG
A young Union soldier fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.
Director: John Huston. Cast: Andy Devine, Robert Easton Burke, Douglas Dick

1:15 pm I Married a Witch (1942)
1h 16m | Comedy | TV-G
A 300-year-old witch wreaks havoc when she falls in love with a young politician.
Director: René Clair. Cast: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley

2:45 pm From Here to Eternity (1953)
1h 58m | Drama, War | TV-PG
Enlisted men in Hawaii fight for love and honor on the eve of World War II.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

5:00 pm My Fair Lady (1964)
2h 50m | Musical | TV-G
A phonetics instructor bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway

8:00 pm Sounder (1972)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews

10:00 pm A Man Called Adam (1966)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A guilt-ridden jazz trumpeter blames himself for a car accident that killed his family.
Director: Leo Penn. Cast: Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson

12:00 am The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
1h 10m | Silent, Epic | TV-G
A Russian mutiny triggers revolutionary sentiments around the nation.
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein. Cast: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Mikhail Gomorov

2:00 am Live Flesh (1997)
1h 40m | Adaptation
Victor goes to meet Elena for a date. Elena, uninterested, tells Victor to leave.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Cast: Angela Molina, Penélope Cruz, Mariola Fuentes

4:00 am All About My Mother (1999)
1h 41m | Comedy
Manuela, a nurse and single mother in her late thirties, must come to terms with the tragic loss of her only son, Esteban, when he is struck by a car.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar. Cast: Fernando-fernan Gomez, Lola Garcia, Juan Jose Otegu

[Staph]

1. I just checked the January TCM calendar at a glance,

and the Sunday night salute to Cicely Tyson was already on the schedule, probably months ago. Eerie!