TCM Schedule for Monday July 4 - Guest Programmer: Conan O'Brien.

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Coco comes to TCM (will Triumph be there to poop on? I keed, I keed), with Cagney, "Network" and the Marx Brothers in tow. Plus, lots of patriotic films for 4th of July.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Flag, The (1927)
In this silent film, George Washington appeals to Betsy Ross to help create a flag for the new United States. C-20 mins, TV-G,

6:30 AM Devil's Disciple, The (1959)
A preacher and a rebel leader change places during the Revolution. Dir: Guy Hamilton Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier. BW-83 mins, TV-PG,

8:00 AM Howards of Virginia, The (1940)
A young Virginian joins the American Revolution despite his love for a beautiful Royalist. BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC,

10:00 AM John Paul Jones (1959)
The hero of the Revolutionary War clashes with Congress. Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn. C-126 mins, TV-G,

12:15 PM Scarlet Coat, The (1955)
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor. Dir: John Sturges Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders. C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

2:00 PM 1776 (1972)
The founding fathers struggle to draft the Declaration of Independence. Dir: Peter H. Hunt Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard. C-165 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM America, America (1963)
A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America. Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Harry Davis. BW-168 mins, TV-PG, CC,

8:00 PM Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars. Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston. BW-126 mins, TV-G, CC,

10:15 PM Roaring Twenties, The (1939)
Three WWI Army buddies get mixed up with the mob in peacetime. Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC,

12:15 AM Network (1976)
Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into 'the mad prophet of the airwaves.' Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, William Holden.
BW-121 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

2:15 AM Duck Soup (1933)
When he's named dictator of Freedonia, a con artist declares war on the neighboring kingdom. Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx.
BW-69 mins, TV-G, CC,

3:30 AM Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Dir: Norman McLeod Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC,

5:00 AM Animal Crackers (1930)
Three zanies try to recover a stolen painting during a madcap house party. Dir: Victor Heerman Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx. BW-97 mins, TV-G, CC,

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1. What he was thinking...

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/411005%7C0/Guest-Programmer:-Conan-O'Brien---7-4/

"When I come home at night I don't want to watch another talk show," Conan O'Brien tells TCM host Robert Osborne during the comic superstar's stint as Guest Programmer for July. "I want to watch you talking about classic movies." Emmy award-winning writer, comedian and talk-show host extraordinaire, O'Brien currently hosts Conan, the late-night show on TCM sister station TBS.

"This is probably the movie that made me want to go into show business," O'Brien says of his first film pick, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)--a felicitous choice for Fourth of July programming. "I saw it as a kid and it just grabbed me. I wanted to be the character that Jimmy Cagney is playing, George M. Cohan." O'Brien also loves Cagney in The Roaring Twenties (1939). "It was his stock in trade, playing gangsters, but he does it with such a light touch."

O'Brien kids that he selected his third film because he thought the tagline "Conan O'Brien choosing Network" would be an attention- getter. He feels that screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's caustic take on the ruthless world of television in the 1976 movie is no longer satire. "We're there--we're really there, right now!"

Growing up in the 1970s in Brookline, Mass., O'Brien was often taken by his father--a fan of vintage comedies--to watch classic performers including the Marx Brothers. "When you get comedians and comedy writers together, talk always turns to who's the best," he says now. In his opinion, his final choice, the Brothers' Duck Soup (1933) is "the best movie by the best comedians that ever lived."