TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 10: Noteworthy African American Performances

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On TCM in daytime, everyone's contemplating divorce, but it will be fun, especially with unofficial Classic Films Group patron saint Robert Montgomery turning up in Private Lives.

And tonight we are in awe of an array of African American actors who scored on-screen triumphs in films from the 1930s through the '60s.

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

1:45 am
The Breaking Point (1950)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-PG
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter

3:30 am
Juarez (1939)
2h 12m | Epic | TV-G
True story of a revolutionary leader who causes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian of Mexi...
Director:
William Dieterle
Cast:
Bette Davis, Paul Muni, Brian Aherne

5:45 am
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
A young boxer flees to farming country when he thinks he's killed an opponent in the ring....
Director:
Busby Berkeley
Cast:
John Garfield, Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson

7:30 am
Between Two Worlds (1944)
1h 52m | Drama | TV-G
Passengers on a luxury liner realize they are en route to the afterlife.
Director:
Edward A. Blatt
Cast:
John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet

9:30 am
Affectionately Yours (1941)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
A foreign correspondent hurries home to stop his wife from getting a divorce.
Director:
Lloyd Bacon
Cast:
Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth

11:00 am
The Keyhole (1933)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell

12:15 pm
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
1h 5m | Comedy | TV-G
A divorcee can't stop meddling in her ex-husband's affairs.
Director:
Alfred E. Green
Cast:
Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin

1:30 pm
In Name Only (1939)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
A wealthy man falls for a widow but can't get his wife to divorce him.
Director:
John Cromwell
Cast:
Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis

3:15 pm
Private Lives (1931)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-G
A divorced couple rekindles the spark after landing in adjoining honeymoon suites with new...
Director:
Sidney Franklin
Cast:
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny

4:45 pm
Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
1h 4m | Comedy | TV-PG
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast:
Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Donald Woods

6:00 pm
Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
1h 49m | Comedy | TV-PG
A couple divorces by mistake during a madcap Mexican vacation.
Director:
Jack Donohue
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: NOTEWORTHY AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCES

8:00 pm
Moonrise (1948)
1h 30m | Drama
When his wife becomes ill, Virginian Jeb Hawkins phones a doctor, but the doctor refuses t...
Director:
Frank Borzage, Lee Lukather
Cast:
Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Ally...

10:00 pm
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
1h 30m | Adventure | TV-G
Mark Twain's classic troublemaker helps a runaway slave escape to the North.
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Cast:
Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley

11:45 pm
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-PG
A deaf mute changes the lives of all he meets.
Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Chuck McCann, Peter Mamakos

2:00 am
A Man Called Adam (1966)
1h 43m | Drama
Black trumpet player Adam Johnson stalks off a Cincinnati bandstand when a white patron he...
Director:
Leo Penn
Cast:
Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson

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4:00 am
Convicts 4 (1962)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Director:
Millard Kaufman
Cast:
Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston

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