TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 24th: Moguls and Movie Stars, a History of Hollywood

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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

12:00 AM Sounder (1972)
Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education. Cast: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 AM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall. Dir: Sidney Lumet. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:00 AM Shane (1953)
A mysterious drifter helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman. Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Brandon de Wilde. Dir: George Stevens. C-118 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 AM Turnabout (1940)
Battling spouses accidentally switch bodies. Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-83 mins, TV-G

7:30 AM Jackass Mail (1942)
A horse thief marries for profit, but doesn't reckon with his wife's determination to reform him. Cast: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-80 mins, TV-G

9:00 AM Tish (1942)
Three small-town spinsters adopt a baby. Cast: Marjorie Main, ZaSu Pitts, Aline MacMahon. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

10:30 AM We Were Dancing (1942)
A Polish princess gives up society for the love of a gigolo. Cast: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC

12:15 PM Harvey Girls, The (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity. Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury. Dir: George Sidney. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

2:06 PM Short Film: I Love My Mother-In-Law, But ... (1948)
Every husband loves their mother-in-law, but when they are like the ones portrayed in this short it can be difficult! Cast: Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short Dir: David Barclay BW-8 mins,

2:15 PM Big Jack (1949)
A pair of thieves swindle their way through the gay '90s. Cast: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-85 mins, TV-PG

3:45 PM Ma And Pa Kettle (1949)
On the verge of eviction, the hillbilly family wins a slogan contest and moves into an automated home. Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long. Dir: Charles Lamont. BW-76 mins, TV-G

5:15 PM Mrs. O'Malley And Mr. Malone (1950)
A lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride. Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak. Dir: Norman Taurog. BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC

6:30 PM Mr. Imperium (1951)
An exiled king and a film star try to rekindle a romance from the past. Cast: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Debbie Reynolds. Dir: Don Hartman. C-87 mins, TV-PG, CC

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MOGULS AND MOVIE STARS, A HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD

8:00 PM It Happened One Night (1934)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

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9:49 PM Short Film: Let'S Talk Turkey (1939)
It's turkey 101 in this Pete Smith Specialty showing the do's and don'ts of turkey carving. Cast: Pete Smith Dir: Felix Feist BW-10 mins,

10:00 PM Brother, Can You Spare a Dream? (2010)
C-60 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM Duck Soup (1933)
When he's named dictator of Freedonia, a con artist declares war on the neighboring kingdom. Cast: The Marx Brothers, Louis Calhern, Margaret Dumont. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC



12:30 AM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



2:15 AM Heidi (1937)
An orphaned girl tends goats for her grandfather until she's sold to serve as a disabled girl's companion. Cast: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher. Dir: Allan Dwan. BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC



3:45 AM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas. Dir: George Cukor. BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS



5:45 AM Of Human Bondage (1934)
A medical student falls prey to a sluttish waitress. Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC