TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 25: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Adapted Screenplay/Entertainers

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

12:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she sees a dimming of the gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who've invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

31 Days of Oscar - Best Adapted Screenplay

6:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn Leroy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



7:30 AM Great Expectations (1946)
A mysterious benefactor finances a young boy's education.
Dir: David Lean Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



9:30 AM Baby Doll (1956)
In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan has been married to the pretty 19-year-old virgin Baby Doll Meighan for two years. Baby Doll still sleeps in a crib in their decrepit mansion as Archie waits impatiently for Baby Doll's 20th birthday, which is just a few days away, when - by prior agreement with Baby Doll's dying father - the marriage can finally be consummated. Meanwhile, Archie's competitor, Silva Vacarro, has taken away all of Archie's business, and Archie retaliates by burning down Vacarro's gin. Suspecting Archie as the arsonist, Vacarro plans to have his revenge by pursuing, seducing, and terrorizing Baby Doll into signing a confession that will admit her husband's guilt.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



11:30 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Runtime: 190 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



2:45 PM Elmer Gantry (1960)
A young drifter finds success as a traveling preacher until his past catches up with him.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy
Runtime: 146 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



5:15 PM Lolita (1962)
A professor finds himself in a struggle of temptation of desire for a young teen nymphet.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters
Runtime: 153 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



31 Days of Oscar - Entertainers

8:00 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



10:15 PM Cabaret (1972)
Set in Berlin in 1931, a starry-eyed singer and the club's master of ceremonies try to bring happiness and decadence to the lives of Berliners as the spectre of Nazism grows around them and threatens to destroy their lives.
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



12:30 AM Lili (1953)
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:00 AM The Broadway Melody (1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



3:45 AM The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is aptly celebrated in this marvelous musical biography.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Runtime: 180 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y