TCM Schedule for Monday December 4, 2023 - Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed

Daytime spotlights the Barrymore family.

(all times Eastern)

6:45 AM Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
1h 24m | Drama | TV-G
A wheelchair-bound doctor fights off a homicidal maniac.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, Donna Reed

8:15 AM David Copperfield (1935)
2h 13m | Drama | TV-G
Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphaned boy's fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan

10:30 AM The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
1h 42m | Romance | TV-PG
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

12:30 PM It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
Seven stories celebrate the glorious diversity of American life.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper

2:15 PM Grand Hotel (1932)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
The lives of the denizens of the Grand Hotel intertwine: a lonely ballerina, a noble thief, an ambitious stenographer, a dying man on a last fling and a ruthless industrialist.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford

4:15 PM Playmates (1941)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
A bandleader enlists a down-on-his-luck actor to teach him Shakespeare.
Director: David Butler. Cast: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez

6:00 PM The Great Sinner (1949)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Director: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas

8:00 PM Cabin in the Sky (1943)
1h 38m | Musical | TV-G
God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne

10:00 PM Stormy Weather (1943)
1h 17m | Musical | TV-G
A relationship blossoms between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress.
Director: Andrew Stone. Cast: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway

11:30 PM Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
1h 34m | Western | TV-PG
For 20 years, Marshal Frank Patch has maintained law and order in the Western town of Cottonwood Springs, but now he is looked upon as an anachronism.
Director: Allen Smithee. Cast: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, John Saxon

1:15 AM The Duke Is Tops (1938)
1h 12m | Musical | TV-PG
A producer's romance with his star ends when the latter is offered a better job in New York.
Director: William Nolte. Cast: Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Lawrence Criner

2:45 AM Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
2h | Musical | TV-G
True story of composer Jerome Kern's rise to the top on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Director: Richard Whorf. Cast: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland

5:15 AM MGM is on the Move! (1964)
36m | Short | TV-G
This promotional short showcases MGM's upcoming movies of 1964.