TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 14: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 6: Writing, Screenplay
Today is Valentine's Day, a day for lovers, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, and I think you'll find today's 31 Days of Oscar schedule includes both love and penance. So there!
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
2:00 AM Network (1976)
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into the mad prophet of the airwaves.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y
4:15 AM Princess O'Rourke (1943)
A flying ace's romance with a princess creates diplomatic problems.
Dir: Norman Krasna Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:00 AM Pygmalion (1938)
A linguistics professor bets he can turn a flower girl into a lady by teaching her to speak properly.
Dir: Anthony Asquith Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:45 AM Random Harvest (1942)
A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 AM Kitty Foyle (1940)
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks endures scandal and heartbreak when she falls for a high-society boy.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:00 PM A Foreign Affair (1948)
A prim Congresswoman gets caught up in the romantic decadence of post-war Germany.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
2:00 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:45 PM Rebecca (1940)
The second Mrs. de Winter is a shy and naive young woman, besotted with charming and urbane Maxim de Winter. They meet and fall in love while vacationing on the Riviera, and after a speedy marriage, return to Maxim's vast English estate, Manderley. His wife is introduced to an army of servants who immediately, if subtly, display hostility towards her, as they all adored Rebecca, Max's first wife, whose death is shrouded in mystery.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N
What's on Tonight: 31 Days of Oscar - Day 6: Writing, Screenplay
8:00 PM The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Socialite Tracy Lord is getting married, and an honest reporter is there to get the story. It's a dull assignment until Tracy's ex-husband shows up, with a thirst for alcohol and a not-quite extinguished torch for his lovely one-time wife.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
10:00 PM Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor pursuing the woman he loves during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay
Runtime: 197 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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1:30 AM From Here to Eternity (1953)
Powerful drama of the passions and violence of a group of soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor just before World War II. Based on a massive novel by James Jones deemed impossible to put onscreen because of its strong sexual content and language, From Here to Eternity emerged as a lavish, star-studded spectacle.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:45 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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