TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 12: The Studio System

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

12:15 am
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
1h 46m | Adventure | TV-G
A young thief faces amazing monsters to return Bagdad's deposed king to the throne. ...
Director: Ludwig Berger
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin

2:15 am
Ideal Husband, An (1947)
1h 36m | Comedy | TV-G
An upstanding politician is haunted by his past when a blackmailer threatens to reveal a y...
Director: Alexander Korda
Cast: C. Aubrey Smith, Christine Norden, Glynis Johns,...

4:00 am
Vacation From Marriage (1945)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion. ...
Director: Alexander Korda
Cast: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann T...



6:00 am
Divorce Of Lady X, The (1938)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
In need of a hotel room, a woman poses as a scandalous divorcee.
Director: Tim Whelan
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, ...

8:00 am
Knight Without Armour (1937)
1h 39m | Adventure | TV-G
A British spy tries to get a countess out of the new Soviet Union.
Director: Jacques Feyder
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Van Brugh,...

10:00 am
Swing Time (1936)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to get involve...
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore

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12:00 pm
His Kind of Woman (1951)
2h 2m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Ti...



2:15 pm
Citizen Kane (1941)
1h 59m | Drama | TV-PG
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about h...
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehea...

4:30 pm
The Set-Up (1949)
1h 12m | Drama | TV-PG
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

6:00 pm
Love Affair (1939)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-G
Near-tragic misunderstandings threaten a shipboard romance.
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE STUDIO SYSTEM

8:00 pm
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-G
After curvaceous show girls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw finish their nightclub act, blond...
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn



9:45 pm
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
1h 33m | Action | TV-G
In the early 1800s, when Diego Vega, one of the best swordsmen in all of Spain, is unexpec...
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Ga...

11:30 pm
Down Argentine Way (1940)
1h 29m | Musical | TV-G
Young Ricardo Quintano voyages from Argentina to New York to sell some of his father's pri...
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda

1:15 am
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
1h 44m | Romance | TV-G
In London at the turn of the century, young widow Lucy Muir tells her late husband's mothe...
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best



3:15 am
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-PG
After a broadcast from his radio station in a small Connecticut town, Hank Martin, a suppl...
Director: David Butler
Cast: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson

5:00 am
Little Princess, The (1939)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-G
When her father is reported dead in war, his daughter fights harsh conditions at her board...
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, I...