TCM Schedule for Monday January 27, 2024 - 50 Oscar Nights with Dave Karger and Alicia Malone

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Daytime has movies about artists.

(all time Eastern)

6:00 AM Should Ladies Behave (1933)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-PG
A young girl falls for her aunt's lover.
Director: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Conway Tearle

7:30 AM The Common Law (1932)
1h 15m | Drama | TV-PG
A kept woman gives up luxury to move in with a struggling artist.
Director: Paul L. Stein. Cast: Constance Bennett, Joel Mccrea, Lew Cody

9:00 AM Ex-Lady (1933)
1h 5m | Drama | TV-G
A female artist is torn between her belief in free love and the constraints of romance.
Director: Robert Florey. Cast: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank Mchugh

10:15 AM Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
A man-shy fashion editor pretends to be married until a suitor claims to be her husband.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn

12:00 PM Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A portrait painter is reunited with a lost love when her upcoming memoirs threaten his political career.

Director: Edward H. Griffith. Cast: Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Edward Everett Horton.

1:30 PM Live, Love and Learn (1937)
1h 18m | Comedy | TV-G
A bohemian artist and a society girl try to adjust to marriage.
Director: Geo. Fitzmaurice. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley

3:00 PM The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
1h 18m | Comedy | TV-G
An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years.
Director: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken

4:30 PM Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
1h 29m | Comedy | TV-G
A turn-of-the-century socialite joins the women's suffrage movement.
Director: Richard Wallace. Cast: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar

6:15 PM The Light Touch (1951)
1h 33m | Crime | TV-G
An art thief tries to double cross his gangster boss.
Director: Richard Brooks. Cast: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders

8:00 PM Children of a Lesser God (1986)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-MA
A teacher at a school for the deaf marries a rebellious pupil.
Director: Randa Haines. Cast: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie

10:15 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
1h 51m | Crime | TV-14
The legendary bank robbers run riot in the South of the 1930s.
Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

12:15 AM Shampoo (1975)
1h 49m | Comedy | TV-MA
A hairdresser expresses his fear of commitment by seducing his female clients.
Director: Hal Ashby. Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Lee Grant

2:15 AM The Caine Mutiny (1954)
2h 5m | Drama | TV-PG
Naval officers begin to suspect their captain of insanity.
Director: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson

4:30 AM Black Legion (1937)
1h 20m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A disgruntled factory worker is lured into joining a secret society out to terrorize foreigners.
Director: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'brien

[Jeebo]

1. One thing I wish TCM would do ...

I hope Mankiewicz, Malone, Karger, et. al., are reading this ...

I would LOVE to see TCM show ALL the Best Picture Oscar winners, starting with Wings (1927), and then I think Broadway Melody was the second one, and then I think All Quiet on the Western Front was the third one, and then all the others, in chronological order of release date and the year it was awarded Best Picture. TCM could do this every night during prime time hours until they had shown all the Best Picture winners. How long would that take? If prime time is 7-11 p.m., that's four hours every night, assuming they would do this all seven nights of the week, and each film would run an average of a two-hour time slot (although a few of them run three or even four hours), that would be on average two films per night, or 14 per week. At that rate it would take seven or eight weeks to go through all of the Best Picture Oscar winners. An ambitious project, but I would LOVE to see TCM do it.

Some years back there was a grocery store where I live in which the video rental department had most of the Best Picture winners lined up on a couple of the shelves in their store. Not quite all of them were represented there, but I went on a mission to see all of the ones I had never seen. Hamlet (1948) was one of the two or three that were not there, and I had some trouble finding a copy of it, but I finally did. Now, I have seen all of the Best Picture winners up until the third Lord of the Rings movie, and I also haven't seen a few of the very recent ones. But for TCM to undertake this project would facilitate that mission for film lovers like me who would want to undertake it. And I think that's one of the purposes of TCM, isn't it?

As I said, I hope Mankiewicz, Malone, Karger, et. al., are reading this. I just want to put the idea in their heads ...

-- Ron

[Auggie]

2. Great idea, though I believe TCM's library is limited to what they own ...

or control or have rights to air (MGM, United Artists, RKO, Warner Bros.). One reason you don't see a lot of Shirley Temple or Betty Grable films, for instance, is because they were produced by 20th Century Fox -- and under the control of whoever owns the Fox library today.