TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 3: Sweet!

[CBHagman]

Today TCM offers up a nonbirthday daytime tribute to Dennis Morgan and reserves the night for a disparate group of films that all include the word sweet in the title. This is definitely a Wednesday with variety!

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

2:45 am
A Family Affair (1936)
1h 9m | Comedy | TV-G
In the first Hardy Family film, a small-town judge fights for re-election while dealing wi...
Director:
George B. Seitz
Cast:
Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden

4:00 am
The Human Comedy (1943)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
A small-town telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II.
Director:
Clarence Brown
Cast:
Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig

6:00 am
Quicksand (1950)
1h 19m | Crime | TV-PG
Petty theft leads a mechanic into a life of crime.
Director:
Irving Pichel
Cast:
Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates

7:30 am
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-G
Andy Hardy returns to Carvel to negotiate a land deal.
Director:
Howard W. Koch
Cast:
Mickey Rooney, Patricia Breslin, Fay Holden

9:00 am
The Black Stallion (1979)
1h 57m | Adventure
While traveling with his father, a young boy named Alec Ramsey becomes fascinated by a mysterious...
Director:
Carroll Ballard
Cast:
Tom Dahlgren, Don Hudson, Michael Higgins

11:00 am
The Desert Song (1944)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
A man leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor...
Director:
Robert Florey
Cast:
Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot

1:00 pm
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
1h 28m | War | TV-PG
A flyer dismissed as too old fights to prove himself against the Japanese.
Director:
Robert Florey
Cast:
Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey

2:45 pm
One More Tomorrow (1946)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-PG
A playboy and a lady photographer allow social differences to come between them.
Director:
Peter Godfrey
Cast:
Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

4:15 pm
The Very Thought of You (1944)
1h 39m | Romance | TV-G
World War II intrudes on the speedy courtship and marriage of a GI and his Pasadena sweeth...
Director:
Delmer Daves
Cast:
Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark

6:00 pm
Pretty Baby (1950)
1h 32m | Comedy | TV-G
A pair of advertising executives use a woman's child to snag a client.
Director:
Bretaigne Windust
Cast:
Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SWEET!

8:00 pm
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-PG
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful...
Director:
Alexander Mackendrick
Cast:
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison

10:00 pm
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
1h 35m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder...
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Cast:
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley

12:00 am
Bitter Sweet (1940)
1h 32m | Musical | TV-G
A voice teacher and his star pupil run away together to a life of love and poverty.
Director:
W. S. Van Dyke Ii
Cast:
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders

2:00 am
How Sweet It Is! (1968)
1h 39m | Comedy | TV-PG
A husband and wife take their young son on a trip to Europe as a way of sparking their marriage...
Director:
Jerry Paris
Cast:
James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet

4:00 am
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1972)
1h 43m | Crime | TV-MA
A hitman hides out as a preacher in a ghetto church.
Director:
Henning Schellerup
Cast:
Roger E Mosley, Vincent LaBauve, Lillian Tarry

6:00 am
Music for Millions (1944)
1h 57m | Musical | TV-G
A pregnant musician awaits her husband's return from World War II.
Director:
Henry Koster
Cast:
Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson