TCM Schedule - April 2023 At a Glance - Month-long tribute to the 100th anniversary of Warner Bros.

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Monthly theme - A special tribute to the
100th Anniversary of Warner Brothers
Great Directors at WB - Mondays, Thursdays
Studio Contract Players - Tuesdays, Wednesday

APRIL PREMIERE FILMS
Apr 1 - The Invention of Cinema:
Cinema Finds Its Voice (2022) (doc.)
Apr 2 - Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993) (doc.)
(repeat showing on Apr 10)
Apr 17 - Treasure Island (1973) (animated)
Apr 20 - Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Apr 27 - Rollover (1981)
Apr 30 - Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Apr 30 - Argo (2012)

DAILY SCHEDULES
Unless otherwise indicated, a programming day
starts at 6 am ET and extends past midnight,
and TCM primetime starts at 8 pm ET.
(P) - indicates TCM premiere
(restored) - restored film with special introduction

Saturday, April 1
-- TCM DAYTIME --
SATURDAY MATINEES / EARLY YEARS
Beau Brummel (1924)
Disraeli (1929)
Noah's Ark (1929)
Flight Commander (1930) (aka 'Dawn Patrol')
Night Nurse (1931)
Jewel Robbery (1932)
Blessed Event (1932)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
HOW IT STARTED AND THE DAWN OF SOUND
Brothers Warner, The (2007) (doc.)
Clash of the Wolves (1925)
(P) The Invention of Cinema:
Cinema Finds Its Voice (2022) (doc.)
Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove
Orchestra (1928) (short)
Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929) (short)
Lambchops (1929) (short)
Jazz Singer, The (1927)
Don Juan (1926)
Lights of New York (1928)

Sunday, April 2
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER JOINS A GANG
Little Caesar (1930) (6:30 am ET)
'G' Men (1935)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
High Sierra (1941)
Key Largo (1948)
Larceny, Inc. (1942)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
PRE-CODE CLASSICS AND
AN EMPHASIS ON REALISM
Public Enemy, The (1931)
(P) Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993) (doc.)
Baby Face (1933)
One Way Passage (1932) (restored)
Two Seconds (1932)
Life Begins (1932)

Monday, April 3
-- TCM DAYTIME --
CHOREOGRAPHY BY BUSBY BERKELEY
Dames (1934) (7:00 am ET)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
- MUSIC BY MAX STEINER
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music (2021) (doc.)
Adventures of Mark Twain, The (1944)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Helen of Troy (1956) (restored)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- WILLIAM A. WELLMAN
Safe in Hell (1931) (restored)
Heroes for Sale (1933)
- MERVYN LEROY
Page Miss Glory (1935)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
- LLOYD BACON
Marked Woman (1937)
Cain And Mabel (1936)

Tuesday, April 4
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- MYRNA LOY
Great Divide, The (1929) (6:30 am ET)
Truth About Youth, The (1930)
- BEBE DANIELS
My Past (1931)
Maltese Falcon, The (1931)
- DELORES DEL RIO
Madame Du Barry (1934)
In Caliente (1935)
- ANN DVORAK
Love Is A Racket (1932)
Murder in the Clouds (1934)
- GLENDA FARRELL
Smart Blonde (1936)
Little Big Shot (1935)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- GINGER ROGERS
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- JOAN BLONDELL
Footlight Parade (1933)
Three on a Match (1932)
- KAY FRANCIS
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
I Found Stella Parish (1935)

Wednesday, April 5
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JOHN BARRYMORE
When a Man Loves (1927)
Svengali (1931)
- JOE E. BROWN
You Said A Mouthful (1932)
Elmer The Great (1933)
- PAT O'BRIEN
Oil for The Lamps of China (1935)
Great O'Malley, The (1937)
- DICK POWELL
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- EDWARD G. ROBINSON
Sea Wolf, The (1941)
Brother Orchid (1940)
- PAUL MUNI
Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Story of Louis Pasteur, The (1936)
- GEORGE BRENT
So Big! (1932)
From Headquarters (1933)

Thursday, April 6
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GOES TO SCHOOL
Corn Is Green, The (1945) (6:30 am ET)
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
Up the Down Staircase (1967)
WARNER JOINS THE TEAM
Jim Thorpe: All-American (1951)
Winning Team, The (1952)
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
One on One (1977)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- MICHAEL CURTIZ
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Life with Father (1947)
- WILLIAM WYLER
Jezebel (1938)
Letter, The (1940)
- ARCHIE MAYO
Bordertown (1935)
Life of Jimmy Dolan, The (1933)

Friday, April 7
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER LEARNS TO READ
Moby Dick (1930) (7:15 am ET)
Old Man and the Sea, The (1958)
Fountainhead, The (1949)
WARNER STUDIES HISTORY
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1971)
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Alexander Hamilton (1931)
Charge of the Light Brigade, The (1936)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
A STUDIO THAT TAKES A STAND
They Won't Forget (1937)
Storm Warning (1951) (restored)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mayor of Hell, The (1933)

Saturday, April 8
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER COMES OF AGE
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Kings Row (1942)
Good-Bye, My Lady (1956)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Learning Tree, The (1969)
Summer of '42 (1971)
Little Romance, A (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER AT WAR
Casablanca (1942)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
Objective, Burma! (1945)
This is the Army (1943)
Across the Pacific (1942)

Sunday, April 9
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER FINDS RELIGION
Green Pastures, The (1936) (7:00 am ET)
Sergeant York (1941)
One Foot In Heaven (1941)
Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, The (1952)
Nun's Story, The (1959)
Oh, God! (1977)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
THE POSTWAR YEARS AND
THE TELEVISION ERA
Star is Born, A (1954)
Lion is in the Streets, A (1953) (restored)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
FBI Story, The (1959)

Monday, April 10
-- TCM DAYTIME --
SHOT AT TEDDINGTON,
WARNER'S BRITISH STUDIOS
Crime Unlimited (1935)
Something Always Happens (1934)
Crown vs. Stevens (1936)
Father Takes a Walk (1936)
(aka 'Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk')
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul (1993) (doc.)
PRODUCED BY HAMMER,
DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROTHERS
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- JOHN HUSTON
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
In This Our Life (1942)
- RAOUL WALSH
True Adventures of Raoul Walsh, The (2014) (doc.)
Roaring Twenties, The (1939)
- WILLIAM DIETERLE
Juarez (1939)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) (6:45 am ET)

Tuesday, April 11
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- PRISCILLA LANE
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) (8:30 am ET)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- IDA LUPINO
Out of the Fog (1941)
Hard Way, The (1942)
- MARY ASTOR
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018) (doc.)
Great Lie, The (1941)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- BETTE DAVIS
Now, Voyager (1942)
Dark Victory (1939)
- OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND
Strawberry Blonde, The (1941) (restored)
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
- ANN SHERIDAN
City for Conquest (1940)
Nora Prentiss (1947) (6:15 am ET)

Wednesday, April 12
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
Union Depot (1932) (8:15 am ET)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
- JOHN GARFIELD
They Made Me A Criminal (1939)
Air Force (1943)
- CLAUDE RAINS
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1945)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JAMES CAGNEY
White Heat (1949)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- ERROL FLYNN
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Sea Hawk, The (1940)
- GEORGE RAFT
Manpower (1941)
Background to Danger (1943) (6:45 am ET)

Thursday, April 13
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER LEARNS TO DRIVE
Crowd Roars, The (1932) (8:15 am ET)
They Drive by Night (1940)
Greased Lightning (1977)
WARNER LEARNS TO FLY
Dawn Patrol, The (1938)
Chain Lightning (1950)
Spirit of St. Louis, The (1957)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- JOHN FORD
Searchers, The (1956)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
- ELIA KAZAN
America America (1963)
Arrangement, The (1969)

Friday, April 14
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER JOINS THE BAND
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Blues in the Night (1941)
Sparkle (1976)
WARNER RUNS FOR OFFICE
Kisses for My President (1964)
Flamingo Road (1949)
Candidate, The (1972)
Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
EARLY CINEMASCOPE
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (restored)
Mister Roberts (1955)
SHOT FOR 3D
Dial M for Murder (1954)
House of Wax (1953)
Bounty Hunter, The (1954)

Saturday, April 15
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GETS SCARED
Doctor X (1932) (5:30 am ET)
Mystery of the Wax Museum, The (1933)
Them! (1954)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Dead Ringer (1964)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER LOOKS TO BROADWAY
FOR INSPIRATION
My Fair Lady (1964)
Music Man, The (1962)
Gypsy (1962)
Camelot (1967)

Sunday, April 16
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER TURNS TO CRIME
Petrified Forest, The (1936) (8:00 am ET)
Dark Passage (1947)
Crime Wave (1954)
Bullitt (1968)
Yakuza, The (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER LEADS A REVOLUTION
IN FILMMAKING
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Petulia (1968)
Fox, The (1967)

Monday, April 17
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER BROTHERS ANIMATED FEATURES
Gay Purr-ee (1962) (7:15 am ET)
(P) Treasure Island (1973)
Incredible Mr. Limpet, The (1964)
THE RAT PACK AT WARNER BROTHERS
Ocean's 11 (1960)
4 for Texas (1963)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- HOWARD HAWKS
Rio Bravo (1959) (restored)
Big Sleep, The (1946)
- ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
- VINCENT SHERMAN
All Through the Night (1942)
Old Acquaintance (1943) (7:00 am ET)

Tuesday, April 18
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JOAN LESLIE
Male Animal, The (1942) (9:00 am ET)
Two Guys From Milwaukee (1946)
- VIRGINIA MAYO
Colorado Territory (1949)
West Point Story, The (1950)
- JANE WYMAN
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Stage Fright (1950)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JOAN CRAWFORD
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
(doc.)
- LAUREN BACALL
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Harper (1966)
- GERALDINE FITZGERALD
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
Nobody Lives Forever (1946) (6:15 am ET)

Wednesday, April 19
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- SYDNEY GREENSTREET
Mask of Dimitrios, The (1944) (8:00 am ET)
Three Strangers (1946)
- RONALD REAGAN
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Hasty Heart, The (1950)
- PAUL HENREID
Between Two Worlds (1944)
Deception (1946)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- HUMPHREY BOGART
Black Legion (1937)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- TAB HUNTER
Tab Hunter Confidential (2015) (doc.)
Battle Cry (1955)
- PETER LORRE
Beast with Five Fingers, The (1946)
Verdict, The (1946) (6:00 am ET)

Thursday, April 20
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GOES TO COURT
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) (7:30 am ET)
Wrong Man, The (1956)
Young Philadelphians, The (1959)
WARNER GOES TO PRISON
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
San Quentin (1937)
Blackwell's Island (1939)
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- MARTIN SCORSESE
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Mean Streets (1973)
- STANLEY KUBRICK
(P) Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
- FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Rain People, The (1969)
Finian's Rainbow (1968) (6:45 am ET)

Friday, April 21
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER HEADS SOUTH
Cabin in the Cotton, The (1932) (9:15 am ET)
Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, The (1968)
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
WARNER GOES WEST
Oklahoma Kid, The (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
Along the Great Divide (1951)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
SEVEN ARTS COMES IN
AS JACK PREPARES TO LEAVE
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Rachel, Rachel (1968) (restored)
Firecreek (1968)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)

Saturday, April 22
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER SEEKS ADVENTURE
Captain Blood (1935) (5:45 am ET)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Great Race, The (1965)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Time After Time (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER EMBRACES A NEW HOLLYWOOD
All the President's Men (1976)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Night Moves (1975)

Sunday, April 23
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER FALLS IN LOVE
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) (6:30 am ET)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Warm December, A (1972)
Fanny (1961)
Prince and the Showgirl, The (1957)
Goodbye Girl, The (1977)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
THE SUPERHERO ERA BEGINS
Superman (1978)
Batman (1989)
AND WOMEN FINALLY HAVE A SAY
Girlfriends (1978)
Cookie (1989)
Brothers Warner, The (2007) (doc.)

Monday, April 24
-- TCM DAYTIME --
CULT CLASSICS
Untamed Youth (1957)
Swarm, The (1978)
Big Wednesday (1978)
Over the Edge (1979)
Last of Sheila, The (1973)
It's Alive (1974)
Omega Man, The (1971)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- STEVEN SPIELBERG
Color Purple, The (1985)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
- ROBERT ALTMAN
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Countdown (1968)

Tuesday, April 25
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- ALEXIS SMITH
Night and Day (1946)
San Antonio (1945)
- ELEANOR PARKER
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Caged (1950)
- CARROLL BAKER
Baby Doll (1956)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- DORIS DAY
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Calamity Jane (1953)
- NATALIE WOOD
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
- PATRICIA NEAL
Bright Leaf (1950)
Breaking Point, The (1950) (6:15 am ET)

Wednesday, April 26
-- TCM DAYTIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JACK CARSON
Roughly Speaking (1945) (8:00 am ET)
John Loves Mary (1949)
- JAMES GARNER
Up Periscope (1959)
Cash McCall (1960)
- TROY DONAHUE
Summer Place, A (1959)
Rome Adventure (1962)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
STUDIO CONTRACT PLAYERS
- JAMES DEAN
East of Eden (1955) (restored)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Giant (1956)
Return to 'Giant' (1996) (doc.)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
(doc.)

Thursday, April 27
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GETS MARRIED
Bride Came C.O.D., The (1941) (6:45 am ET)
Janie Gets Married (1946)
June Bride (1948)
WARNER RAISES A FAMILY
Room for One More (1952)
Four Daughters (1938)
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Sundowners, The (1960)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
GREAT DIRECTORS AT WARNER BROTHERS
- CLINT EASTWOOD
Bird (1988)
Unforgiven (1992)
- ALAN J. PAKULA
Klute (1971)
(P) Rollover (1981)
- SIDNEY LUMET
Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
Deathtrap (1982) (7:15 am ET)

Friday, April 28
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER GOES A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY
Every Which Way but Loose (1978) (9:15 am ET)
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
WARNER GOES A LITTLE BIT ROCK 'N ROLL
This Is Elvis (1981)
Song Remains the Same, The (1976)
Jimi Hendrix (1973) (doc.)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
WARNER REINVENTS THE CONCERT FILM
Woodstock: The Director's Cut (1970)
WARNER VENTURES INTO BLAXPLOITATION
Super Fly (1972)
Black Belt Jones (1974)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Black Samson (1974)

Saturday, April 29
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER HAS SOME FUN
Slight Case of Murder, A (1938) (6:30 am ET)
Horn Blows at Midnight, The (1945)
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (1942)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Auntie Mame (1958)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
In-Laws, The (1979)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
INTIMATE STORIES BREAK THROUGH
Local Hero (1983)
Crossing Delancey (1988)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Running on Empty (1988)
Great Santini, The (1979)

Sunday, April 30
-- TCM DAYTIME --
WARNER SEEKS THE TRUTH
Sunrise at Campobello (1960) (6:30 am ET)
Cry in the Dark, A (1988)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Right Stuff, The (1983)
Killing Fields, The (1984)
-- TCM PRIMETIME --
THE TRADITION CONTINUES,
WHERE EVERY STORY MATTERS
Malcolm X (1992)
(P) Million Dollar Baby (2004)
(P) Argo (2012)
Going in Style (1979)