TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 18: This Was Hollywood
The Women Make Film series continues into the morning hours, followed by a roster of movies (of varied genres) starring Black actors, and at night TCM embarks on a fascinating new theme. Find out more on that at the link:
https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/020844?source=HTM
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:30 AM
Shag: The Movie (1989)
1h 40m | Comedy
The adventures of four young women in South Carolina in 1963.
Director: Zelda Barron
Cast: Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish
2:30 AM
The Day I Became A Woman (2000)
1h 18m | Drama | TV-G
The stories of three Iranian women living on the island of Kish. Hava spends her last day ...
Director: Marzieh Meshkini
Cast: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou S...
4:00 AM
Lourdes (2009)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-PG
Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her i...
Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann
5:45 AM
Found Memories (2012)
1h 38m | Drama | TV-PG
Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, sh...
Director: Julia Murat
Cast: Sonia Guedes, Lisa E. Favero, Luiz Serra
7:30 AM
Orlando (1992)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-MA
The ageless Orlando is born as a boy into an aristocratic family in Elizabethan England. A...
Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
9:15 AM
Yentl (1983)
2h 14m | Romance | TV-14
A young Eastern European woman, circa 1904, disguises herself as a boy in order to pursue ...
Director: Barbra Streisand
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
12:00 PM
Carmen Jones (1954)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
A sultry factory worker seduces a young soldier then dumps him for another man.
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
2:00 PM
Take a Giant Step (1959)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-PG
A troubled black teenager tries to find his place in a white world.
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee
4:00 PM
A Patch of Blue (1965)
1h 45m | Romance | TV-PG
A young blind white woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of ...
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
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6:00 PM
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
1h 48m | Comedy | TV-PG
The daughter of a well-to-do white family comes home from a vacation to announce her inten...
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THIS WAS HOLLYWOOD
8:00 PM
Body and Soul (1947)
1h 45m | Sports | TV-PG
In New York City, Charley Davis, the middleweight champion of the world, wakes up from a n...
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne...
10:00 PM
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
1h 28m | Drama | TV-G
An invalid matriarch manipulates her entire family.
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter
11:45 PM
Stormy Weather (1943)
1h 17m | Drama | TV-G
A relationship blossoms between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress.
Director: Andrew Stone
Cast: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
1:15 AM
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
A vaudeville team breaks up when both men fall for the same gorgeous hoofer.
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
3:15 AM
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-G
A vaudevillian and his bride go to Paris and set trends as famous ballroom dancers.
Director: H. C. Potter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver
5:00 AM
AFI's Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Spielberg-Williams (2011)
52m | Documentary | TV-PG
The composer and the director discuss their work.
Director: No Director Available
Cast: Steven Spielberg, John Williams, David O. Russell