TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 21: Screwball Comedy: Lying for Love/Later Era Screwballs
Daytime's theme is Alain Delon All Day Long. Feast on a cinematic menu of selections from the career of actor Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon. He's still with us, too.
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And at nighttime we're back to a perennial favorite: screwball comedies! Enjoy! 
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
12:15 AM Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt is vacationing with his family at their estate on Campobello Island on the Maine/New Brunswick border. During their stay, the 39-year-old Roosevelt comes down with a fever and sudden paralysis that is eventually diagnosed as polio.
Dir: Vincent J. Donehue Cast: Zina Bethune, Tim Considine, Alan Bunce
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:00 AM Tennessee Johnson (1942)
This biopic focuses on Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached. Initially an uneducated drifter who stumbles upon a job as a tailor in a Tennessee town, Johnson is taught to read by librarian and future wife, Eliza. Eliza convinces him to enter a local election, and, from there, Johnson rises swiftly.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:00 AM Hollywood My Hometown (1965)
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Dir: William Martin Cast: Ken Murray
Runtime: 52 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC:
6:00 AM Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
When a widow's family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals, with deadly results.
Dir: Luchino Visconti Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
Runtime: 182 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N
9:15 AM The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Three episodes follow a rare, yellow Rolls-Royce as it passes through the lives of three different owners.
Dir: Anthony Asquith Cast: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom
Runtime: 122 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:30 AM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson Cast: Alain Delon, Van Heflin, Jack Palance
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:30 PM Red Sun (1971)
A train carrying a Japanese delegation with a ceremonial sword for President Grant is robbed by bandits led by Link and Gauche. When Gauche double-crosses him and leaves him for dead, Link is ordered to team up with Kuroda Jubei, one of the ambassador's guards, who has a week to recover the sword or commit suicide.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Ursula Andress, Capucine, Charles Bronson
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:30 PM Eclipse (1962)
After growing jaded from troubled relationships, a woman chooses a life of solitude.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N
5:45 PM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts. The two young men enjoy the good life in Italy until Tom finds his money source cut off and discovers a more sinister way to maintain his lifestyle
Dir: René Clément Cast: Maurice Ronet, Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: N
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: LYING FOR LOVE/LATER ERA SCREWBALLS
8:00 PM The Lady Eve (1941)
A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:45 PM Twentieth Century (1934)
A tempestuous theatrical director tries to win back the star he created and then drove away.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
11:45 PM Nothing Sacred (1937)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaperman turns her into a national heroine.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
1:00 AM Monkey Business (1952)
A scientist's search for the fountain of youth makes him and his wife regress to childhood.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:45 AM What's Up, Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N
4:30 AM The Automat (2021)
A documentary focusing on the popular 20th century vending machine that offered freshly cooked meals.
Dir: Lisa Hurwitz Cast: Mel Brooks, Elliott Gould, Colin Powell
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-PG CC:
