TCM Schedule for Sunday May 21, 2023 - Acing the Audition
Plus: Silent Sunday has several Harold Lloyd shorts.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 am Without Love (1945)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-PG
A World War II housing shortage inspires a widow to propose a marriage of convenience with an inventor.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
8:00 am The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
1h 44m | Drama | TV-G
A fading stage star gets caught up in the decadent life of modern Rome when she hires a male companion.
Director: Jose Quintero. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya
10:00 am Dial 1119 (1950)
1h 15m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
A killer holds the customers at a bar hostage.
Director: Gerald Mayer. Cast: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King
11:30 am The Star (1953)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A faded film star fights to hold on to her past glamour despite failing finances.
Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood
1:15 pm Charade (1963)
1h 54m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband's lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
3:30 pm Suspicion (1941)
1h 39m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
5:30 pm The Women (1939)
2h 12m | Comedy | TV-PG
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
8:00 pm Give a Girl a Break (1953)
1h 21m | Musical | TV-G
Three young dancers vie for a starring role on Broadway.
Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
9:45 pm A Chorus Line (1985)
1h 53m | Musical | TV-14
A director forces dancers to reveal their inner torments during an audition.
Director: Richard Attenborough. Cast: Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Alyson Reed
12:00 am High and Dizzy (1920)
25m | Silent | TV-G
A young man gets drunk by accident then winds up on a narrow ledge high above the street.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks
12:30 am Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
12m | Silent | TV-G
Harold Lloyd cleans up the town in this western parody.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels
1:00 am Ask Father (1919)
13m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a young man asks his girlfriend's father for permission to marry her.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels
1:30 am An Eastern Westerner (1920)
23m | Silent | TV-G
A pampered East Coast lad is sent west to be toughened up.
Director: Hal Roach. Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young
2:00 am The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
1h 19m | Biography
Director: Sergei Paradjanov. Cast: Sergei Paradjanov, Melkon Alekyan , Suren Shakhbaz
3:30 am Marketa Lazarova (1967)
2h 42m | Drama | TV-MA
A Czech clan goes against the King in medieval times.
Director: Frantiek Vláčil. Cast: Josef Kemr, Nada Hejna, Frantisek Velecky