TCM Schedule for Monday March 20, 2023 - 31 Days of Oscar: Silents

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Daytime features backstage musicals; at night some of the earliest Oscar winners/nominees.

(all times Eastern)

6:15 am Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor

8:00 am Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
1h 40m | Musical | TV-G
A group of insurance salesmen try to get into show business.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell

10:00 am 42nd Street (1933)
1h 25m | Musical | TV-G
The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who goes on for the injured star.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent

11:45 am Easter Parade (1948)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
When his partner leaves him, a vaudeville star trains an untried performer to take her place, finding love in the process.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford

1:30 pm Kiss Me Kate (1953)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-G
Feuding co-stars reunite for a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

3:30 pm The Band Wagon (1953)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant

5:30 pm Gypsy (1962)
2h 29m | Musical | TV-PG
A domineering mother pushes her two daughters to burlesque stardom.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

8:00 pm Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
1h 37m | Silent | TV-PG
In this silent film, a farmer's affair with a city woman almost destroys his life.
Director: F. W. Murnau. Cast: George O'brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston

9:45 pm The Last Command (1928)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-14
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Director: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell

11:30 pm The Circus (1928)
1h 11m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, the Little Tramp joins a circus to hide from the police.
Director: Charles Chaplin. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Betty Morrissey

1:00 am The Crowd (1928)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-G
In this silent film, an office worker deals with the simple joys and tragedies of married life.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach

2:45 am White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
1h 25m | Romance | TV-PG
An alcoholic doctor runs off to Tahiti, where he finds love with a native girl.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson

4:30 am Speedy (1928)
1h 25m | Silent | TV-G
A young man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business.
Director: Ted Wilde. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff