TCM Schedule for Wednesday, February 23rd: Best Picture, but Not Most Academy Awards

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

12:46 AM Short Film: Merry Wives Of Windsor (1953)
The MGM Symphony Orchestra performs the Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor. C-9 mins, , Letterbox Format

31 DAYS OF OSCAR: TWO IN ONE

1:00 AM Thelma & Louise (1991)
Fighting back against a rapist turns two women on vacation into desperate fugitives. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Brad Pitt. Dir: Ridley Scott. C-130 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format



3:15 AM Giant (1956)
A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times. Cast: James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson. Dir: George Stevens. C-201 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:45 AM Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A dowager tries to buy a lobotomy to silence the woman who witnessed her son's murder. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. BW-114 mins, TV-PG,
CC, Letterbox Format

31 DAYS OF OSCAR: SOUND BITES

8:45 AM Too Many Husbands (1940)
When her long lost husband returns after her re-marriage, a woman decides to try life with two mates. Cast: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC

10:15 AM Lost Horizon (1937)
Four fugitives from a Chinese revolution discover a lost world of peace and harmony. Cast: Ronald Colman, H.B. Warner, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-133 mins, TV-G, CC



12:30 PM You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer. Cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC

2:15 PM Sahara (1943)
An international platoon fights off Nazis in World War II Africa. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, Lloyd Bridges. Dir: Zoltan Korda. BW-98 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 PM Cover Girl (1944)
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind. Cast: Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth, Phil Silvers. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-107 mins, TV-G, CC

6:00 PM Song to Remember, A (1945)
The famed composer Chopin sacrifices everything, even love, for his native Poland. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni. Dir: Charles Vidor. C-112 mins, TV-G, CC

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: BEST PICTURE, BUT NOT THE MOST ACADEMY AWARDS

8:00 PM All the King's Men (1949)
A backwoods politician rises to the top only to become corrupted. Cast: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge. Dir: Robert Rossen. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:00 PM You Can't Take It With You (1938)
A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker. Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-126 mins, TV-G



12:15 AM Great Ziegfeld, The (1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. C-185 mins, TV-G, CC

31 DAYS OF OSCAR: MOST HONORED FOREIGN DIRECTOR

3:30 AM Amarcord (1973)
A young Italian deals with his awakening sexual urges during the days of Fascism. Cast: Puppela Maggio, Magali Noel, Armando Brancia. Dir: Federico Fellini. C-128 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format



5:40 AM Short Film: Main Street On The March (1941)
BW-20 mins,