TCM Schedule for Sunday April 18, 2021 - 31 Days of Oscar: Oscar A to Z

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From M to N today.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
1h 55m | Comedy | TV-G
When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet has to deal with the corruption of city life.
Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft

8:00 am My Fair Lady (1964)
2h 50m | Comedy | 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

11:00 am My Favorite Wife (1940)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-G
A shipwrecked woman is rescued just in time for her husband's remarriage.
Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott

12:30 pm My Favorite Year (1982)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-14
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Director: Richard Benjamin. Cast: Peter O'toole, Mark Linn-baker, Jessica Harper

2:15 pm Mystery Street (1950)
1h 33m | Crime | TV-PG
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.
Director: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett

4:00 pm The Naked Spur (1953)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-PG
A captive outlaw uses psychological tactics to prey on a bounty hunter.
Director: Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan

5:45 pm National Velvet (1944)
2h 5m | Drama | TV-G
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor

8:00 pm Nebraska (2013)
1h 54m | Comedy
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous old alcoholic thinks he's struck it rich and wrangles his son into taking a road trip across the heartland of America to claim the fortune.
Director: Alexander Payne. Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb

10:15 pm Network (1976)
2h 1m | Comedy | TV-MA
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Director: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

12:30 am Night Must Fall (1937)
1h 57m | Thriller | TV-PG
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitt.

2:45 am The Night of the Iguana (1964)
2h 5m | Drama | TV-14
A defrocked priest surrenders to the sins of the flesh in a Mexican hotel.
Director: John Huston. Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr

5:00 am Ninotchka (1939)
1h 50m | Comedy | TV-G
A coldhearted Soviet agent is warmed up by a trip to Paris and a night of love.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

[Staph]

1. Three of my all time favorite comedies!

My Favorite Wife -- Cary Grant is just the best at physical comedy. The shot of him in an elevator with his second wife as he spots his supposedly dead first wife . . .



My Favorite Year -- Peter O'Toole as a washed-up Errol Flynn type, invited to guest on a 1950s variety show . . . at the end, he drunkenly saves the day when mobsters attack the show's host, live!

Ninotchka -- billed as "Garbo Laughs!", and her first comedy. She turned out to be a great straightwoman, but she retired after her next film. Hollywood tried to tempt her back in front of the camera for decades, but . . . . Enjoy her laugh!

[BigmanPigman]

2. Network just started. It is no longer fiction

but realistic fiction/history. I feel the same way about "A Face In The Crowd". Our society has fallen pretty far.