TCM Schedule for Tuesday, August 31: Summer Under the Stars: Fredric March

And TCM wraps up Summer Under the Stars for another year! There's plenty to enjoy on this final day, from the enduring relevant Oscar-winner The Best Years of Our Lives to the pre-Code Lubitsch classic Design for Living.

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

12:15 am
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
2h 6m | Musical | TV-G
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

3:00 am
The West Point Story (1950)
1h 47m | Musical | TV-PG
A Broadway producer tries to put on a show at the legendary military academy.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day

5:00 am
James Cagney: Top Of The World (1992)
1h | Documentary | TV-G
Michael J. Fox hosts film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage that trace superstar James Cagney's career.
Director
Carl H Lindahl
Cast
Michael J. Fox, Jack Lemmon, Burt Kennedy

6:00 am
Nothing Sacred (1937)
1h 15m | Comedy | TV-PG
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.
Director
William A. Wellman
Cast
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger

7:30 am
Smilin' Through (1932)
1h 37m | Romance | TV-G
A young woman falls in love with the son of an old family enemy.
Director
Sidney Franklin
Cast
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard

9:30 am
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
1h 49m | Romance | TV-G
An invalid poetess defies her father's wishes to marry a dashing young poet.
Director
Sidney Franklin
Cast
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton

11:30 am
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
2h 10m | Drama | TV-G
Twain moves from Mississippi riverboats to the Gold Rush to literary immortality.
Director
Irving Rapper
Cast
Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp

2:00 pm
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-G
A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century.
Director
Irving Rapper
Cast
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi

4:00 pm
Anna Karenina (1935)
1h 35m | Romance | TV-14
On a trip to St. Petersburg, Anna Karenina, neglected wife of the famed Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin, meets Count Vronsky, who is smitten with her.
Director
Clarence Brown
Cast
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew



6:00 pm
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
1h 30m | Horror/Science-Fiction | TV-PG
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Cast
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: FREDRIC MARCH

8:00 pm
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
2h 52m | Drama | TV-PG
Upon returning to small-town America, three World War II veterans have difficulty readjusting to civilian life.
Director
William Wyler
Cast
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews



11:00 pm
Design for Living (1933)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
An independent woman can't chose between the two men she loves.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins



12:45 am
I Married a Witch (1942)
1h 16m | Comedy | TV-G
A 300-year-old witch wreaks havoc when she falls in love with a young politician.
Director
Rene Clair
Cast
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley



2:15 am
A Star Is Born (1937)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-G
When a young actress arrives in Hollywood with hopes of stardom, a chance encounter provides an older actor changes her life.
Director
William A. Wellman
Cast
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou



4:15 am
There Goes My Heart (1938)
1h 21m | Comedy | TV-G
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Director
Norman Z. McLeod
Cast
Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly

6:00 am
Time Out for Lessons (1939)
10m | Short | TV-G
A boy learns the importance of keeping up with his school grades.
Director
Bud Murray
Cast
Janice Hood, Joe Geil, Priscilla Montgomery