TCM Schedule for Monday August 19, 2024 - Summer Under the Stars: John Gilbert

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM The Show (1927)
1h 16m | Silent | TV-14
In this silent film, a sideshow dancer secretly loves the show's amoral barker.
Director: Tod Browning. Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore

7:30 AM Downstairs (1932)
1h 15m | Drama | TV-G
An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society.
Director: Monta Bell. Cast: John Gilbert, Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce

9:00 AM Way For A Sailor (1930)
1h 23m | Musical | TV-G
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Director: Sam Wood. Cast: John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Jim Tully

10:30 AM Gentleman's Fate (1931)
1h 30m | Crime | TV-PG
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams

12:15 PM Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
1h 29m | Silent | TV-PG
A notorious womanizer falls for the woman he has bet he can trick into marriage.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'arcy

2:00 PM The Merry Widow (1925)
2h 17m | Silent | TV-PG
In this silent film, a European nobleman courts the wealthy American widow he once loved to save his bankrupt homeland.
Director: Erich Von Stroheim. Cast: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'arcy

4:30 PM Queen Christina (1933)
1h 37m | Romace | TV-G
Young Christina ascends to the Swedish throne a at age 5.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith

6:15 PM A Woman of Affairs (1928)
1h 30m | Silent | TV-PG
Prejudice keeps a free spirit from the man she loves, triggering a series of tragedies.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone

8:00 PM Love (1927)
1h 22m | Silent | TV-G
In this updated, silent adaptation of Anna Karenina, a married woman sacrifices everything for the love of a military officer.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, George Fawcett

9:30 PM Flesh and the Devil (1926)
1h 37m | Silent | TV-PG
In this film, a femme fatale comes between childhood friends.
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson

11:30 PM The Big Parade (1925)
2h 22m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a young innocent enlists for World War I service but soon learns the horrors of war.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth

2:15 AM La Boheme (1926)
1h 33m | Epic | TV-G
In this silent film, a starving artist falls in love with a sickly seamstress in 19th-century Paris.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée

4:00 AM The Cossacks (1928)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-G
A young Cossack is branded a coward when he opposes the slaughter of the Turks.
Director: George Hill. Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence