TCM Schedule for Sunday May 12, 2024 - Mother's Day

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Plus: Imports spotlights contemporary Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Three Daring Daughters (1948)
1h 55m | Musical | TV-G
Three young girls try to help their widowed mother find the right husband.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox. Cast: Jeanette Macdonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell

8:00 AM Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-G
A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige

10:00 AM Follow Me Quietly (1949)
59m | Crime | TV-14
Police track a mysterious killer nicknamed "The Judge."
Director: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey

11:15 AM So Big (1953)
1h 41m | Romance | TV-PG
A schoolteacher-turned-farmer fights to save the land and her son.
Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson

1:15 PM Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
2h 16m | Comedy | TV-G
A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter.
Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange

3:45 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

5:45 PM Imitation of Life (1959)
2h 5m | Romance | TV-PG
Two mothers, one white, one black, face problems with their rebellious daughters.
Director: Douglas Sirk. Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee

8:00 PM I Remember Mama (1948)
2h 14m | Drama | TV-G
Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka

10:30 PM Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-PG
A widow with eight children marries a widower with ten, then gets pregnant.
Director: Melville Shavelson. Cast: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson

12:30 AM The Merry Widow (1925)
1h 51m | Silent | TV-PG
In this silent film, a European nobleman courts the wealthy American widow he once loved to save his bankrupt homeland.
Director: Erich Von Stroheim. Cast: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'arcy

3:00 AM Unknown Pleasures (2002)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-14
Two unemployed slackers, neither with job prospects nor motivation, hang out in a sheltered town in China trying to make sense of their aimless and uncertain futures.
Director: Jia Zhang-ke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Zhao Wei, Wu Qiong

5:00 AM The World (2004)
2h 19m | Adventure | TV-14
An amusement park security guard is smitten by a showgirl. Tao and Taisheng are lovers who work in the park, however, their romance doesn't unfold smoothly.
Director: Jia Zhang-ke. Cast: Zhao Tao, Jing Jue, Jiang Zhongwei

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1. !!!Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)!!!