TCM Schedule for Monday January 8 - World Premiere Restorations
Daytime features films about creative types.
(all times Eastern)
6:00 AM Make Me a Star (1932)
1h 28m| Comedy | TV-G
A grocery clerk goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
Director: William Beaudine. Cast: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts
7:45 AM A Star Is Born (1937)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-G
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
9:45 AM Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
1h 30m | Musical | TV-G
A ballet dancer and a burlesque queen compete for a wealthy suitor.
Director: Dorothy Arzner. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball
11:30 AM Swing Time (1936)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to get involved with his dancing partner.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
1:30 PM The Constant Nymph (1943)
1h 52m | Romance | TV-PG
A composer finds inspiration in his wife's romantic cousin.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith
3:30 PM Humoresque (1946)
2h 3m | Romance | TV-PG
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy neurotic.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant
5:45 PM Lust for Life (1956)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
Passionate biography of painter Vincent van Gogh, whose genius drove him mad.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
8:00 PM The Johnstown Flood (1926)
1h | Drama | TV-G
Personal stories set during the events of the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Director: Irving Cummings. Cast: George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, Janet Gaynor
9:15 PM Annie Laurie (1927)
1h 40m | Silent | TV-PG
A woman comes between two clans of Scots.
Director: John S. Robertson. Cast: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale
11:00 PM Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021)
2h | Documentary | TV-G
Archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers from around the world explain what film preservation is and why it is needed.
Director: Inés Toharia Terán. Cast: Ann Adachi-Tasch, Laure Adler, Benjamin Chowkwan Ado
1:15 AM America America (1963)
2h 57m | Drama | TV-PG
A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.
Director: Elia Kazan. Cast: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Harry Davis
4:15 AM Wanda (1970)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-14
A rootless working class woman takes up with an abusive criminal.
Director: Barbara Loden. Cast: Michael Higgins, Barbara Loden, Frank Jourdano