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Sun Mar 3, 2024, 12:02 PM Mar 2024

TCM Schedule for Friday, March 8, 2024: 31 Days of Oscar - Best Picture

---- DAYTIME (EDT) ----

6:15 AM | Our Town (1940)
Small town lovers search for happiness.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott

7:45 AM | The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
True story of the French scientist's battle to establish modern medical methods.
Dir: William Dieterle | Cast: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise

9:15 AM | Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Dir: Jean Negulesco | Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford

11:00 AM | The Yearling (1946)
A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm.
Dir: Clarence Brownv | Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.

1:15 PM | Father of the Bride (1950)
Father deals with the emotional pain and financial and organizational trouble of arranging his daughter's wedding.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor

3:00 PM | The Music Man (1962)
A traveling con artist targets the residents of a small town by posing as a boys' band leader.
Dir: Morton Dacosta | Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett

5:45 PM | Mister Roberts (1955)
A naval officer longing for active duty clashes with his vainglorious captain.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon

---- PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT ----

8:00 PM | Rain Man (1988)
Story of an abrasve, selfish young man and his efforts to acquire an inheritance tied to his autistic savant brother.
Dir: Barry Levinson | Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

10:30 PM | Annie Hall (1977)
A comedian tries to understand the reasons for a failed relationship.
Dir: Woody Allen | Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts

12:15 AM | The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred Macmurray

2:30 AM | Gigi (1958)
A rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may result in romance.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan

4:30 AM | The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The larger-than-life career of stage genius Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is celebrated in a musical biography.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard | Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer

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