TCM Schedule for Monday March 7, 2022 - 31 Days of Oscar: 1920s & 1930s Winners

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Both silents and early talkies on display today.

(all times Eastern)

6:30 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

8:30 am Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home.
Director: Busby Berkeley. Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart

10:30 am A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
2h 12m | Comedy | TV-PG
Shakespeare's classic about two pairs of lovers and an amateur actor who get mixed up with fairies.
Director: Max Reinhardt. Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh

1:00 pm Swing Time (1936)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore

3:00 pm The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
3h | Musical | TV-G
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer

6:00 pm A Star Is Born (1937)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-G
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou

8:00 pm Wings (1937)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-G
In this silent film, romantic rivals fly against the enemy in World War I.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Clara Bow, Charles [budy] Rogers, Richard Arlen

10:30 pm The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
1h 42m | Adventure | TV-G
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone

12:30 am The Champ (1931)
1h 26m | Drama | TV-G
A broken-down prizefighter battles to keep custody of his son.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich

2:15 am Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
1h 30m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart

4:00 am Viva Villa (1934)
1h 55m | Western | TV-PG
Rousing biography of the bandit chief who led the battle for Mexican independence.
Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray