TCM Schedule for Monday March 6, 2023 - 31 Days of Oscar: Pre-Code

Daytime has Hollywood commenting on itself: night is full of pre-code goodies.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 am What Price Hollywood? (1932)
1h 28m | Drama | TV-G
A drunken director whose career is fading helps a waitress become a Hollywood star.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton

7:30 am A Star Is Born (1937)
1h 51m | Romance | TV-G
A fading matinee idol marries the young beginner he's shepherded to stardom.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou

9:30 am The Oscar (1966)
1h 59m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous actor fights his way to the top, destroying everyone in his path.
Director: Russell Rouse. Cast: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle

11:45 am Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Director: Robert Mulligan. Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford

2:00 pm The Star Profile Image (1953)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A faded film star fights to hold on to her past glamour despite failing finances.
Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood

3:45 pm The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll

6:00 pm 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

8:00 pm The Divorcee (1930)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-G
The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel

9:30 pm The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
1h 14m | Drama | TV-G
A woman takes to the streets to provide for her illegitimate son.
Director: Edgar Selwyn. Cast: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton

11:00 pm She Done Him Wrong (1933)
1h 6m | Comedy | TV-G
A saloon singer fights off smugglers, an escaped con and a Salvation Army officer out to reform her.
Director: Lowell Sherman. Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore

12:15 am Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast; Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline Macmahon

2:15 am A Free Soul (1931)
1h 31m | Drama | TV-G
A hard-drinking lawyer's daughter falls for one of his underworld clients.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore

4:00 am Anna Christie (1930)
1h 14m | Drama | TV-PG
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion