TCM Schedule for Monday April 1, 2024 - MGM 100th Anniversary

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Every Monday this month spotlights MGM at 100; today daytime has films from the 1920's, while at night the 30's are featured.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
2h 23m | Silent | TV-G
A rebellious Israelite prince out for vengeance crosses paths with the Messiah.
Director: Fred Niblo. Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy

8:30 AM 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

11:15 AM The Unholy Three (1925)
1h 26m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.
Director: Tod Browning. Cast: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore

1:00 PM The Cameraman (1928)
1h 10m | Silent | TV-G
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a movie queen.
Director: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin

2:30 PM The Crowd (1928)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-G
In this silent film, an office worker deals with the simple joys and tragedies of married life.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach

4:15 PM The Broadway Melody (1929)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Director: Harry Beaumont. Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King

6:00 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

8:00 PM Grand Hotel (1932)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
The lives of the denizens of the Grand Hotel intertwine: a lonely ballerina, a noble thief, an ambitious stenographer, a dying man on a last fling and a ruthless industrialist.
Director: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford

10:00 PM MGM: When the Lion Roars Part 1: The Lion Roars (1992)
2h 0m | Documentary | TV-PG
Patrick Stewart takes viewers through the history of Hollywood's greatest film studio, MGM, from its formation in 1924 through the death of its greatest production genius, Irving J. Thalberg.
Director: Frank Martin. Cast: Patrick Stewart, Lew Ayres, Freddie Bartholomew

12:15 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
1h 53m | Comedy | TV-PG
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery

2:15 AM 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

3:45 AM Bombshell (1933)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-G
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Director: Victor Fleming. Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan

5:30 AM The Thin Man (1934)
1h 20m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-G
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan