TCM Schedule for Thurs, Feb 13, 2025: 30 Days of Oscar - Day 13

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6:15 AM | White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
An alcoholic doctor runs off to Tahiti, where he finds love with a native girl.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson

8:00 AM | The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin | Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

10:00 AM | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin | Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed

12:00 PM | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland

2:00 PM | Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor

4:00 PM | National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor

6:15 PM | Black Narcissus (1947)
Nuns founding a convent in the Himalayas are tormented by the area's exotic beauty.
Dir: Michael Powell | Cast: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar


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8:00 PM | The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
A woman takes to the streets to provide for her illegitimate son.
Dir: Edgar Selwyn | Cast: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton

9:30 PM | BUtterfield 8 (1960)
A beautiful New York model and socialite moonlights as a call-girl, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.
Dir: Daniel Mann | Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher

11:30 PM | Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula | Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi

1:30 AM | Primrose Path (1940)
The youngest child in a family of prostitutes tries to go straight with a working man.
Dir: Gregory La Cava | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau

3:30 AM | Anna Christie (1930)
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Dir: Clarence Brown | Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion