TCM Schedule for Wednesday, January 21: Robert Osborne's Picks

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

1:15 AM
Great Gatsby, The (1974)
A mysterious tycoon gets mixed up in a former love's tangled life.
Dir: Jack Clayton Cast: Robert Redford , Mia Farrow , Bruce Dern .
C-143 mins, CC,

3:45 AM
Three Comrades (1938)
Three life-long friends share their love for a dying woman against the turbulent backdrop of Germany between the wars.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Robert Taylor , Margaret Sullavan , Franchot Tone .
BW-99 mins, CC,

5:30 AM
Screen Directors Playhouse: Day Is Done (1955)
During the Korean War, a sergeant tries to use a Chinese bugle to inspire his men.
BW-26 mins,

6:00 AM
Mad Genius, The (1931)
A deranged ballet teacher will stop at nothing to keep control of his protegee.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: John Barrymore , Marian Marsh , Charles Butterworth .
BW-81 mins,

7:30 AM
Bright Lights (1931)
An actress fights for happiness when she gives up the stage for marriage.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Dorothy Mackaill , Frank Fay , Noah Beery .
C-69 mins,

8:45 AM
Cabin In The Cotton, The (1932)
A sharecropper fighting for better working conditions succumbs to the boss's seductive daughter.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Richard Barthelmess , Dorothy Jordan , Bette Davis .
BW-78 mins, CC,

10:15 AM
Female (1933)
A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Ruth Chatterton , George Brent , Lois Wilson .
BW-60 mins, CC,

11:15 AM
Boy From Oklahoma, The (1954)
A mild mannered law student doesn't know what he's in for when he gets himself elected sheriff in a frontier town run by an outlaw gang.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Will Rogers Jr. , Nancy Olson , Lon Chaney [Jr.] .
BW-88 mins, CC,

12:45 PM
Playmates (1941)
A bandleader enlists a down-on-his-luck actor to teach him Shakespeare.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Kay Kyser , John Barrymore , Lupe Velez .
BW-95 mins,

2:30 PM
That's Right - You're Wrong (1940)
A band leader has to overcome a film studio head's hatred to make it on the big screen.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Kay Kyser , Adolphe Menjou , May Robson .
BW-94 mins, CC,

4:15 PM
Here We Go Again (1942)
While on their second honeymoon, Fibber McGee and Molly get mixed up with con men.
Dir: Allan Dwan Cast: Edgar Bergen , Fibber McGee and Molly , Harold Peary .
BW-77 mins,

5:45 PM
Night and Day (1946)
Fanciful biography of songwriter Cole Porter, who rose from high society to find success on Tin Pan Alley.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Cary Grant , Alexis Smith , Monty Woolley .
C-128 mins, CC,

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: ROBERT OSBORNE'S PICKS

8:00 PM
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
An ambitious young man wins an heiress's heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Montgomery Clift , Elizabeth Taylor , Shelley Winters .
BW-122 mins, CC,



10:15 PM
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Bette Davis , Charles Boyer , Jeffrey Lynn .
BW-143 mins, CC,



12:45 AM
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)
The Three Musketeers rescue the king's unjustly imprisoned twin.
Dir: James Whale Cast: Louis Hayward , Joan Bennett , Warren William .
BW-112 mins, CC,

2:45 AM
Words And Music (1948)
Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Perry Como , Mickey Rooney , Ann Sothern .
C-121 mins, CC,

5:00 AM
Hills Of Home (1948)
Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Edmund Gwenn , Donald Crisp , Tom Drake .
C-97 mins, CC,