TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 7: 31 Days of Oscar: Historical

[CBHagman]

It's another golden day (and night) at TCM as 31 Days of Oscar continue. Daytime is devoted to Kid Classics. Evening brings out the historical dramas, including Pau Scofield's Academy Award-winning turn as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.

Also, notice that Norma Shearer pictures bracket the schedule. Fire up those DVRs and stock up on snacks!

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

12:15 AM Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:15 AM A Free Soul (1931)
A hard-drinking lawyer's daughter falls for one of his underworld clients.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

4:00 AM Anna Christie (1930)
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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6:00 AM Gulliver's Travels (1939)
An English sailor is washed ashore in the land of Liliput, where everyone is about two inches tall.
Dir: Dave Fleischer Cast: Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross, Robert Bentley
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

7:30 AM The Green Years (1946)
An orphaned Irish boy is taken in by his mother's Scottish relations.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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9:45 AM David Copperfield (1935)
Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphaned boy's fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:00 PM Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:15 PM The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
A young boy dreams that his piano teacher is a super-villain out to rule the world.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942)
A boy raised by wolves adjusts to life among humans.
Dir: Zoltan Korda Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 PM Tom Sawyer (1973)
Musical version of the classic Mark Twain novel about Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and their adventures in nineteenth-century Missouri.
Dir: Don Taylor Cast: Celeste Holm, Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Warren Oates
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: HISTORICAL

8:00 PM A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Sir Thomas Moore opposes Henry VIII's divorce, and events lead inexorably to his execution.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 PM Julius Caesar (1953)
Cassius and Brutus lead the conspirators who murder Caesar, but are themselves routed by Mark Antony.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: John Doucette, George Macready, Michael Pate
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:30 AM Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Story of Russia's last czar, Nicolas II, and his ill-fated family.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Runtime: 183 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

3:45 AM Cleopatra (1934)
The fabled queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Marc Antony astray.
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille Cast: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N

5:30 AM Marie Antoinette (1938)
Lavish biography of the French queen who "let them eat cake".
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Ii Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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