TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 11: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Writing/Troubled Women

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This is going to be fun! There really is something for everyone during 31 Days of Oscar. Enjoy.

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Daytime: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Writing

6:00 AM In Which We Serve (1942)
Survivors of a bombed British destroyer think back on the paths that led them to war.
Dir: Noel Coward Cast: Noel Coward, John Mills, Celia Johnson
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:00 AM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:15 AM The North Star (1943)
Ukrainian villagers unite to fight off invading Nazis.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:15 PM The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Playboy artist Dick Nugent appears before Judge Margaret Turner after a barroom brawl, but when the judge learns that her teenage sister, Susan, is lovestruck over the older artist, she sentences Nugent to romance her sister until the infatuation is over. Now, as Susan pretends to be more sophisticated than her age and Nugent tries to behave like a hip teenager, Judge Turner realizes that she's the one who loves the charming bachelor.
Dir: Irving Reis Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:00 PM Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:00 PM Adam's Rib (1949)
A happily married middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM The Band Wagon (1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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Primetime: 31 Days of Oscar - Eccentrics

8:00 PM Harvey (1950)
When a man whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see, is committed to a mental hospital, a wondrously funny turn of events occurs.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: James Stewart, Wallace Ford, Victoria Horne
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton Dacosta Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:30 AM Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet has to deal with the corruption of city life.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:45 AM Being There (1979)
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

5:00 AM Travels with My Aunt (1972)
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt's shady schemes.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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