TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 17: Noteworthy African American Performances
Romances with royalty dominate TCM's daytime schedule.
Come nightfall, there's a roster of films from various genres and eras, every one featuring great performances by Black actors.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
12:15 am
Four Daughters (1938)
1h 30m | Romance | TV-G
A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious ...
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield
2:00 am
Four Wives (1939)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-G
Three married women play matchmaker for their widowed sister.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane
3:45 am
Daughters Courageous (1939)
1h 43m | Romance | TV-G
A father returns to the family he left years earlier and tries to solve their problems.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Cast:
John Garfield, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn
5:45 am
Tortilla Flat (1942)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
Inhabitants of a Southern California fishing village strive for the simple pleasures of li...
Director:
Victor Fleming
Cast:
Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield
7:45 am
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
1h 17m | Drama | TV-PG
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Director:
Anatole Litvak
Cast:
John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien
9:15 am
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
1h 28m | Crime | TV-G
A young misfit lands on a prison chain gang and falls for the foreman's daughter.
Director:
Lewis Seiler
Cast:
John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale
10:45 am
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A misfired flirtation lands a young lieutenant married to a princess instead of the one he...
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast:
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopki...
12:15 pm
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-G
A flying ace's romance with a princess creates diplomatic problems.
Director:
Norman Krasna
Cast:
Olivia De Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Cobu...
2:00 pm
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-G
A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of...
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Cast:
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson
4:00 pm
The Student Prince (1954)
1h 47m | Musical | TV-G
A prince falls in love with a barmaid during his last fling before assuming the crown.
Director:
Richard Thorpe
Cast:
Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson
6:00 pm
The Swan (1956)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-G
On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor.
Director:
Charles Vidor
Cast:
Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan
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8:00 pm
Stars in My Crown (1950)
1h 29m | Western | TV-G
A parson uses six-guns and the Bible to bring peace to a Tennessee town.
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Cast
Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell
9:45 pm
The Pawnbroker (1965)
1h 54m | Drama
With the rise of Hitler, Prof. Sol Nazerman, a Jew, and his family were dragged to a conce...
Director:
Sidney Lumet, Dan Eriksen
Cast:
Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters,...
12:00 am
In This Our Life (1942)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-PG
A neurotic southerner steals her sister's husband then vies with her for another man.
Director:
John Huston
Cast:
Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
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2:00 am
Super Fly (1972)
1h 36m | Crime | TV-MA
A cocaine dealer tries to pull off one big score so he can get out of crime.
Director:
Gordon Parks Jr.
Cast:
Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier
4:00 am
Brothers (1977)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-MA
After an African American man named David Thomas is imprisoned for a crime he did not comm...
Director:
Arthur Barron
Cast"
Renny Roker, Ron O'Neal, John Lehne