TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 2: 31 Days of Oscar: 1950s Winners

[CBHagman]

Lots of complicated relationships in today's film roster. What is it about the 1950s?!

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

12:15 am
Laura (1944)
1h 28m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim.
Director
Otto Preminger
Cast
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb

2:00 am
Gaslight (1944)
1h 54m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

4:00 am
Suspicion (1941)
1h 39m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is a murderer.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

5:45 am
The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-PG
Baseball legend Lou Gehrig faces a crippling disease at the height of his success.
Director
Sam Wood
Cast
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth

8:00 am
Room at the Top (1959)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A young accountant claws his way to the top in the boardroom and the bedroom.
Director
Jack Clayton
Cast
Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears

10:00 am
Picnic (1956)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A handsome drifter ignites passions at a small-town Labor Day picnic.
Director
Joshua Logan
Cast
William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field

12:00 pm
Written on the Wind (1957)
1h 32m | Drama | TV-PG
A young woman marries into a corrupt oil family then falls for her husband's best friend.
Director
Douglas Sirk
Cast
Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack

1:45 pm
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
2h 8m | Drama | TV-G
A Spanish dancer becomes an international star but still longs to get her feet in the dirt.
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

4:00 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
La Strada (1954)
1h 55m | Drama | TV-PG
A traveling strongman buys a peasant girl to be his wife and co-star.
Director
Federico Fellini
Cast
Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: 31 DAYS OF OSCAR: 1950s Winners

8:00 pm
Gigi (1958)
1h 56m | Musical | TV-G
The story of an illegitimate waif in late 1800s Paris who is pushed by her grandmother and aunt to become a courtesan.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Cast
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan

10:15 pm
The King and I (1956)
2h 13m | Musical | TV-G
A schoolteacher goes to Siam to teach the King's children.
Director
Walter Lang
Cast
Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno

12:45 am
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
2h 2m | Musical | TV-PG
True story of torch singer Ruth Etting's struggle to escape the gangster who made her a star.
Director
Charles Vidor
Cast
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell

3:00 am
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Director
Stanley Donen
Cast
Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

5:00 am
The Red Balloon (1956)
35m | Adventure | TV-G
A boy discovers his new balloon has a mind of its own.
Director
Albert Lamorisse
Cast
Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse

5:45 am
Limelight (1952)
2h 18m | Romance | TV-G
A broken-down comic sacrifices everything to give a young dancer a shot at the big time.
Director
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I love Suspicion

One of my rainy, cold, afternoon cuddle up with a cocktail movies.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I have seen the film several times but

when I Googled it I learned that the ending was changed. They filmed one ending where Joan Fontaine did drink the milk which was poisoned. But before she died she was able to write about it in a letter and she mailed the letter before she died.