TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 12 - 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: '40S

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008.

12:00am Awful Truth, The (1937) A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives. Cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-91 mins, TV-PG



1:35am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Penny Wisdom (1937)
A newspaper columnist saves an important family dinner.
BW-10 mins

1:45am Carefree (1938) A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-83 mins, TV-G

3:15am Lady For A Day (1933) A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter.
Cast: May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-96 mins, TV-G


5:00am Alibi (1929) A mobster kills a police offer and uses the victim's daughter as his alibi. Cast: Chester Morris, Mae Busch, Regis Toomey. Dir: Roland West. BW-83 mins, TV-PG

6:30am Window, The (1949) A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can't get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy. Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. BW-74 mins, TV-G
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7:45am Theodora Goes Wild (1936) A woman's two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
Cast: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell. Dir: Richard Boleslawski. BW-94 mins, TV-G



9:30am Mannequin (1937) A small-time crook's wife falls for a shipping magnate. Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-95 mins, TV-PG

11:15am Guys And Dolls (1955) A big-city gambler bets that he can seduce a Salvation Army girl. Cast: Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. C-149 mins, TV-G

1:45pm Odd Couple, The (1968) A divorced neat freak moves in with his sloppy best friend. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Herb Edelman. Dir: Gene Saks. C-105 mins, TV-PG

3:45pm Apartment, The (1960) An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray. Dir: Bily Wilder. BW-125 mins, TV-PG



6:00pm Thousand Clowns, A (1965) A free-living New Yorker fights to maintain custody of his nephew. Cast: Jason Robards Jr., Martin Balsam, Barry Gordon. Dir: Fred Coe. BW-118 mins, TV-PG

"Nick, you are about to see a horrible, horrible thing."

"What's that, Murray?"

"People going to work."


8:00pm Caesar And Cleopatra (1945) Julius Caesar gives the famed Egyptian queen lessons in government. Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger. Dir: Gabriel Pascal. C-128 mins, TV-G

You tell her, Claude.

10:22pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Little Orphan, The (1949)
C-8 mins

10:30pm Red Shoes, The (1948) A young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. C-134 mins, TV-G



12:52am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Hatch Up Your Troubles (1945)
C-8 mins

1:00am Pirate, The (1948) An actor poses as a notorious pirate to court a romantic Caribbean girl. Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Gladys Cooper. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-102 mins, TV-PG

2:45am Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Spirited musical biography of the song-and-dance man who kept America humming through two world wars. Cast: James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-126 mins, TV-G

"I know I have talent, even if I am from Buffalo!"