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Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:30 PM Mar 2023

TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 11 -- 31 Days of Oscar - Musicals, Musicals, Musicals!

TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 11 - Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Natalie Wood, Robby the Robot, Hal 9000

TCM at a Glance - March 11

- TCM DAYTIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - MUSICAL
Broadway Melody, The (1929) (6:45 am ET)
Swing Time (1936)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Gigi (1958)
Music Man, The (1962)
Star Is Born, A (1954)
- TCM PRIMETIME
31 DAYS OF OSCAR - MUSICAL

American in Paris, An (1951)
West Side Story (1961)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Cabaret (1972)

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TCM schedule in detail

10:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending ...
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Runtime: 160 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:15 AM The Time Machine (1960)





In this adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, a scientist in 1880s Victorian England builds a vehicle to transport him through time. He first travels to 1917 and the horror of World War I. Next, he sets his destination for 1940 and the start of World War II. From there he travels to a future London where he barely escapes ...
Dir: George Pal Cast: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:15 AM Destination Moon (1950)





A crusading scientist defies the government to launch an expedition to the moon.
Dir: Irving Pichel Cast: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:00 AM Forbidden Planet (1956)





A futuristic version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Dir: Fred Mcleod Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:45 AM The Broadway Melody (1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:30 AM Swing Time (1936)







To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to get involved with his dancing partner.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:15 AM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


12:00 PM Gigi (1958)





The story of an illegitimate waif in late 1800s Paris who is pushed upon by her grandmother to become a courtesan and mistress of a young, handsome and wealthy heir. They fall in love and he wants her to become his wife.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:00 PM The Music Man (1962)





A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:45 PM A Star Is Born (1954)
A falling star marries the newcomer he's helping reach the top.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Runtime: 176 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


8:00 PM An American in Paris (1951)

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When ex-GI Jerry Mulligan remains in Paris to pursue life as an artist, he is discovered by a wealthy patroness interested in more than his art. But Mulligan falls in love with a French shop girl who is engaged to his best friend.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


10:00 PM West Side Story (1961)

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Modern day "Romeo and Juliet" set in a New York City ghetto about a Polish teen from one gang who falls for a Puerto Rican girl whose brother is from a rival gang.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Runtime: 155 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


12:45 AM Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

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Before the Russian revolution, a Jewish milkman tries to marry off his daughters who have plans of their own.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:00 AM Cabaret (1972)



Set in Berlin in 1931, a starry-eyed singer and the club's master of ceremonies try to bring happiness and decadence to the lives of Berliners as the spectre of Nazism grows around them and threatens to destroy their lives.
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


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