TCM Schedule for Tuesday, September 7: Musical Orphans

TCM's daytime schedule is devoted to a birthday tribute to director Elia Kazan, but in evening the orphans take over. Bring on Annie, Oliver, Lili, and all the other kids in search of a happy ending.

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

1:30 am
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
2h | War | TV-14
Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion.
Director
Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast
Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

3:45 am
Bugsy (1991)
2h 15m | Crime | TV-MA
The famed gangster running the mobs in Los Angeles tries to turn Las Vegas into a vacation paradise.
Director
Barry Levinson
Cast
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

6:15 am
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
2h 2m | Drama | TV-PG
A fading Southern belle tries to build a new life with her sister in New Orleans.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

8:30 am
East of Eden (1955)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who compete for their father's approval and a young woman's love.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey



10:30 am
Baby Doll (1956)
1h 54m | Drama | TV-14
In Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, failing middle-aged cotton gin owner Archie Lee Meighan is married to the 19-year-old Baby Doll.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach



12:30 pm
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
2h 6m | Drama | TV-PG
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa



2:45 pm
America America (1963)
2h 57m | Drama | TV-PG
Stavros Topouzoglow, a young Greek living under the oppression of the Turks in the 1890s, decides to emigrate to America.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Harry Davis

5:45 pm
The Arrangement (1969)
2h 7m | Drama | TV-14
A successful Madison Avenue executive suffers a mid-life breakdown.
Director
Elia Kazan
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MUSICAL ORPHANS

8:00 pm
Annie (1982)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-PG
An orphan attracts the attention of a Wall Street tycoon and a con artist.
Director
John Huston
Cast
Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn



10:15 pm
Curly Top (1935)
1h 15m | Musical | TV-G
A wealthy man adopts two orphaned sisters.
Director
Irving Cummings
Cast
Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson

11:45 pm
Oliver! (1968)
2h 33m | Musical | TV-PG
Musical version of the Dickens classic about an orphan taken in by a band of boy thieves.
Director
Carol Reed
Cast
Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed



2:30 am
Big City (1948)
1h 43m | Crime | TV-G
Three bachelors adopt an orphan, then fight over custody when each falls in love.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas

4:15 am
Lili (1953)
1h 21m | Musical | TV-G
A French orphan gets a job with a carnival puppet show.
Director
Charles Walters
Cast
Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont



6:00 am
Prairie Law (1940)
59m | Western | TV-G
Cattlemen and farmers go to war over water rights.
Director
David Howard
Cast
George O'Brien, Virginia Hale, Dick Hogan