TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 19: Aspiring Actors/Star of the Month: Barbara Stanwyck

This is an outstanding schedule. Start the day with people pursuing their craft (and sometimes getting more than they bargained for) and join Star of the Month Barbara Stanwyck for scheming and screaming at evening.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

12:00 AM    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
    Dir: Robert Aldrich    Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
    Runtime: 132 mins    Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


2:30 AM    The Opposite Sex (1956)
A happily married singer lets her catty friends convince her to file for divorce.
    Dir: David Miller    Cast: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray
    Runtime: 117 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:30 AM    Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets.
    Dir: William A. Wellman    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Aspiring Actors

6:00 AM    Stage Struck (1958)
A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway.
    Dir: Sidney Lumet    Cast: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

8:00 AM    Stage Fright (1950)
When witnesses see Jonathan Cooper fleeing the scene of a murder, Cooper asks his former girlfriend, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts student Eve Gill, for help. Believing him innocent, she uses her skills at stagecraft to prove the real murderer is chanteuse Charlotte Inwood. Now, as Eve plays a game of cat and mouse with Scotland Yard detective Wil Smith, she has no clue of the deadly secret her sleuthing will uncover.
    Dir: Alfred Hitchcock    Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



10:00 AM    Nancy Goes to Rio (1950)
Mother-and-daughter singers compete for the same role and the same man.
    Dir: Robert Z. Leonard    Cast: Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Barry Sullivan
    Runtime: 99 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



11:45 AM    Merton of the Movies (1947)
A star-struck hick goes to Hollywood to become a star.
    Dir: Robert Alton    Cast: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



1:15 PM    Movie Crazy (1932)
A stagestruck young actor accidentally receives someone else's invitation for a screen test in Hollywood.
    Dir: Clyde Bruckman    Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: N



3:00 PM    What Price Hollywood? (1932)
A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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4:30 PM    The Actress (1953)
True story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
    Dir: George Cukor    Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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6:15 PM    Stage Door (1937)
Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen.
    Dir: Gregory La Cava    Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
    Runtime: 92 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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TCM Prime Time: Star of the Month: Barbara Stanwyck

8:00 PM    Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
    Dir: Billy Wilder    Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



10:00 PM    Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
    Dir: Anatole Litvak    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
    Runtime: 88 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y




11:45 PM    No Man of Her Own (1950)
A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.
    Dir: Mitchell Leisen    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: N



1:30 AM    Witness to Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
    Dir: Roy Rowland    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



3:00 AM    Cry Wolf (1947)
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
    Dir: Peter Godfrey    Cast: Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks
    Runtime: 83 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y



4:30 AM    Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
    Dir: John Sturges    Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
    Runtime: 69 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

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5:45 AM    The Man with a Cloak (1951)
A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper.
    Dir: Fletcher Markle    Cast: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 81 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y