TCM Schedule for Tuesday, January 4: Movie Accents: Americans Playing Brits/Brits Playing Americans

In daytime TCM showcases Star of the Month Kay Francis.

In prime time it opens a special theme for Tuesdays in the month of January: Movie Accents, and it all opens with Americans Playing Brits and Brits Playing Americans.

Discuss.

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

12:30 am
First Lady (1937)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-G
A U.S. president's granddaughter fights a femme fatale to groom her husband for the White House.
Director
Stanley Logan
Cast
Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise

2:00 am
It's a Date (1940)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
Mother-and-daughter singers vie for the same man and the same stage part.
Director
William A. Seiter
Cast
Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon

4:00 am
Comet over Broadway (1938)
1h 9m | Drama | TV-G
A stage star's rampant ambition leads to murder.
Director
Busby Berkeley
Cast
Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel

5:15 am
Always in My Heart (1942)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-G
A convict returns home to find his family has forgotten him.
Director
Jo Graham
Cast
Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Gloria Warren

7:00 am
The Feminine Touch (1941)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-G
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Director
Major W. S. Van Dyke II
Cast
Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis

8:45 am
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
1h 5m | Comedy | TV-G
A divorcee can't stop meddling in her ex-husband's affairs.
Director
Alfred E. Green
Cast
Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin

10:00 am
Play Girl (1940)
1h 17m | Drama | TV-PG
An aging gold digger takes a young woman under her wing.
Director
Frank Woodruff
Cast
Kay Francis, James Ellison, Mildred Coles

11:30 am
Secrets of an Actress (1938)
1h 11m | Romance | TV-G
A leading lady falls for a married architect who's invested in her play.
Director
William Keighley
Cast
Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter

12:45 pm
Women Are Like That (1938)
1h 18m | Romance | TV-G
Years after their break-up, a couple finds each other all over again.
Director
Stanley Logan
Cast
Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien, Ralph Forbes

2:15 pm
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
1h 17m | Drama | TV-G
A veteran lady captain fights off competition.
Director
Lewis Seiler
Cast
Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman



3:45 pm
Johnny Belinda (1948)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
A small-town doctor helps a deaf farm girl learn to communicate.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Cast
Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford

5:30 pm
Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
56m | Drama | TV-G
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Director
George Amy
Cast
Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland

6:30 pm
A Kiss in the Dark (1949)
1h 28m | Comedy | TV-PG
A concert pianist inherits an apartment house full of loony tenants.
Director
Delmer Daves
Cast
David Niven, Jane Wyman, Victor Moore

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8:00 pm
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-MA
A filmmaker documents the history of Spinal Tap, the world's loudest rock band.
Director
Rob Reiner
Cast
Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean



9:45 pm
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
1h 32m | Adaptation | TV-14
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old "singleton" Bridget decides it's time to take control of her life and start keeping a diary.
Director
Sharon Maguire
Cast
Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones



12:00 am
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
1h 33m | Comedy | TV-PG
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

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1:45 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

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4:00 am
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
1h 42m | Comedy | TV-G
A wimpish bookkeeper with a passion for sea life slips off a pier and comes back as a fish...
Director
Arthur Lubin
Cast
Don Knotts, Carole Cook, Jack Weston

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