TCM Schedule for Sunday May 19, 2024 - Directed by Frank Oz

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A night of films from Muppets co-founder Frank Oz. Plus: two Greta Garbo silents, and two from Krzysztof Kieslowski.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Behind Office Doors (1931)
1h 26m | Drama | TV-G
An under-appreciated secretary finds a new job and takes her former boss's success with her.
Director: Melville Brown. Cast: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez

7:30 AM The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning (1937)
10m | Short | TV-G
In this short film, an office worker fears for his job after his boss fails to respond to his "good morning".
Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Donald Haines, John Ince, Granville Bates

8:00 AM Executive Suite (1954)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-PG
When a business magnate dies, his board of directors fights over who should run the company.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck

10:00 AM Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
1h 19m | Action | TV-PG
A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.
Director: Seijun Suzuki. Cast: Michitaro Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Misako Watanabe

11:45 AM The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-G
A fading stage star gets caught up in the decadent life of modern Rome when she hires a male companion.
Director: José Quintero. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya

1:45 PM Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
1h 54m | Comedy | TV-PG
A nosy smut magazine editor wishes to find out whether a novelist has based her erotic novel on fact of fiction.
Director: Richard Quine. Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda

3:45 PM Adam's Rib (1949)
1h 41m | Comedy | TV-G
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women's rights case.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday

5:45 PM Some Like It Hot (1959)
2h | Comedy | TV-PG
Two musicians on the run from gangsters masquerade as members of an all-girl band.
Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

8:00 PM The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
1h 34m | Musical | TV-G
Kermit and his friends try to get their musical produced on Broadway.
Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

10:00 PM Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
1h 28m | Musical | TV-14
A timid shop clerk discovers a plant from outer space that lives on blood.
Director: Frank Oz. Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin

12:00 AM The Kiss (1929)
50m | Silent | TV-PG
A woman's generosity to an amorous youth leads to tragedy.
Director: Jacques Feyder. Cast: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf

1:00 AM Love (1927)
1h 22m | Silent | TV-G
In this updated, silent adaptation of Anna Karenina, a married woman sacrifices everything for the love of a military officer.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett

2:30 AM No End (1985)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-14
Antek is a young lawyer who dies four days before the beginning of the film, but continues to haunt his beautiful young widow.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski. Cast: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini

4:30 AM Blind Chance (1981)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-MA
Three separate storylines, told in succession, about a man running after a train and how such an ordinary incident could influence the rest of the man's life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski. Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz