TCM Schedule for Monday October 18, 2021 - Big Country

Daytime celebrates Miriam Hopkins' birthday; more country stars acting in prime time.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am Virginia City (1940)
2h 1m | Western | TV-G
A rebel spy poses as a wild West dance hall girl.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott

8:15 am The Old Maid (1939)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-PG
An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent

10:00 am Old Acquaintance (1943)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young

12:00 pm Lady with Red Hair (1940)
1h 21m | Drama | TV-G
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Director: Kurt Bernhardt. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley

1:30 pm Wise Girl (1937)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
A rich girl plays poor to win over a Greenwich Village artist.
Director: Leigh Jason. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel

3:00 pm Men Are Not Gods (1937)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-G
A secretary to an eccentric drama critic is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of a Shakespearean actor and falls in love with him.
Director: Walter Reisch. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw

4:30 pm Trouble in Paradise (1932)
1h 21m | Comedy | TV-G
A love triangle ignites trouble between two jewel thieves and their intended victim.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall

6:00 pm The Heiress (1949)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A plain young woman's wealth makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Director: William Wyler. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson

8:00 pm Tender Mercies (1983)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-14
An alcoholic country star stranded in a small town finds love.
Director: Bruce Beresford. Cast: Robert Duvall, Betty Buckley, Tess Harper

9:45 pm Payday (1972)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-14
Pills, pot, booze, beer and groupies roll by during thirty-six bumpy hours of a third-rate country singer's entourage.
Director: Daryl Duke. Cast: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Michael C Gwynne

11:45 pm The Thing Called Love (1993)
1h 56m | Music
A young country singer tries to make it in Nashville.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Sandra Bullock

2:00 am Outlaw Blues (1977)
1h 41m | Drama | TV-PG
Suspected of murdering the country-western star who stole his song, an ex-convict takes it...
Director: Richard Heffron. Cast: Peter Fonda, Johnny Crawford, Susan Saint James

4:00 am Hollywood Barn Dance (1947)
1h 12m | Musical | TV-G
A country-western band tries to raise money to rebuild their small-town church.
Director: Bernard B. Ray. Cast: Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Short, Leon Short