TCM Schedule for Monday March 31, 2025 - Growing Up Ron Howard

Daytime spotlights Warner Bros. house director Lloyd Bacon.

(all time Eastern)

6:00 AM Kept Husbands (1931)
1h 16m | Romance | TV-G
A steel worker marries the boss's daughter, then has to teach her about life on a budget.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, Ned Sparks

7:30 AM Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
1h 12m | Drama | TV-G
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell

8:45 AM 42nd Street (1933)
1h 25m | Musical | TV-G
The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who goes on for the injured star.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent

10:30 AM Picture Snatcher (1933)
1h 17m | Crime | TV-PG
An ex-con brings his crooked ways to a job as a news photographer.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis

12:00 PM Marked Woman (1937)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-G
A crusading DA fights to get a nightclub hostess to testify against her gangster boss.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane

2:00 PM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
1h 36m | Suspense | TV-G
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy

4:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-PG
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford

5:45 PM Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
2h 7m | War | TV-G
A Merchant Marine crew fights off enemy attacks at the start of World War II.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale

8:00 PM American Graffiti (1973)
1h 49m | Comedy | TV-MA
Four high-school seniors face an uncertain future as they try to live through their last big school dance.
Director: George Lucas. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith

10:00 PM The Spikes Gang (1974)
1h 36m | Western | TV-PG
Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber who teaches them the trade.
Director: Richard O. Fleischer. Cast: Lee Marvin, Ron Howard, Gary Grimes

12:00 AM The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
1h 57m | Comedy | TV-G
A widower with a six year-old boy has a hard time finding a new wife/stepmother that meets his son's approval.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens

2:15 AM The Music Man (1962)
2h 31m | Musical | TV-G
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Director: Morton Dacosta. Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett

5:00 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
1h 20m | Crime | TV-PG
A deranged bandit holds a bank president's wife hostage.
Director: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester