TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 28: Ernst Lubitsch - Part III

Our daytime theme is '50s Musicals, and there are dance numbers that are absolutely not to be missed!

Tonight's your last opportunity in 2021 to spend some quality time enjoying the films of Ernst Lubitsch. Expect the kind of love triangles that would give the Hays Office fits.

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

1:30 am
Across 110th Street (1972)
1h 42m | Action | TV-MA
Three stick-up men disguised as cops raid a mob pay-off meeting in Harlem.
Director
Barry Shear
Cast
Frank Adu, Frank Arno, Joe Attles

3:30 am
Watermelon Man (1970)
1h 40m | Comedy | TV-MA
A bigoted man comes to see the many sides of racism.
Director
Melvin Van Peebles
Cast
Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine

5:30 am
The Group (1966)
2h 30m | Drama | TV-14
Eight friends from a women's college fight for happiness during the Great Depression.
Director
Sidney Lumet
Cast
Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman

8:15 am
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-14
A young French couple is separated by the war in Algiers.
Director
Jacques Demy
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

10:00 am
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Director
Gene Kelly
Cast
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds



12:00 pm
Calamity Jane (1953)
1h 41m | Musical | TV-G
The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
Director
David Butler
Cast
Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie

2:00 pm
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-G
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew."
Director
George Sidney
Cast
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller



4:00 pm
Silk Stockings (1957)
1h 57m | Musical | TV-G
A straitlaced Soviet agent is seduced by the charm of Paris and a high-stepping film producer.
Director
Rouben Mamoulian
Cast
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige



6:00 pm
Les Girls (1957)
1h 54m | Musical | TV-PG
Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: ERNST LUBITSCH - PART III

8:00 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

9:45 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



11:30 pm
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A misfired flirtation lands a young lieutenant married to a princess instead of the one he loves.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins



1:15 am
One Hour with You (1932)
1h 20m | Musical | TV-G
Both members of a married couple fight the temptation to stray.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald

2:45 am
The Merry Widow (1934)
1h 39m | Musical | TV-PG
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton



4:30 am
The Merry Widow (1952)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Director
Curtis Bernhardt
Cast
Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel