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WEDNESDAY,  April 1

6:45 AM   The Gay Sisters (1942)    Dir: Irving Rapper   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald
108 mins   A New York aristocrat marries for the money to save the family mansion.

8:45 AM   Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains
90 mins   A gold strike in California triggers a bitter feud between farmers and prospectors.

10:30 AM   The Old Maid (1939)    Dir: Edmund Goulding   Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent
95 mins   An unmarried mother gives her illegitimate child to her cousin.

12:15 PM   Jezebel (1938)    Dir: William Wyler   Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins   Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden's headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness ...

2:15 PM   The Great Lie (1941)    Dir: Edmund Goulding   Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
107 mins   Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby.

4:15 PM   In This Our Life (1942)    Dir: John Huston   Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
97 mins   A neurotic southerner steals her sister's husband then vies with her for another man.

6:00 PM   My Reputation (1946)    Dir: Curtis Bernhardt   Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson
96 mins   A widow generates small-town gossip when she falls in love too soon after her husband's death.

8:00 PM   Love Me or Leave Me (1955)    Dir: Charles Vidor   Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell
122 mins   True story of torch singer Ruth Etting's struggle to escape the gangster who made her a star.

10:15 PM   Calamity Jane (1953)    Dir: David Butler   Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie
101 mins   The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.

12:15 AM   My Dream Is Yours (1949)    Dir: Michael Curtiz   Cast: Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman
101 mins   A talent scout turns a young unknown into a radio singing star.

2:15 AM   Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
111 mins   A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country.

4:15 AM   April in Paris (1952)    Dir: David Butler   Cast: Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
101 mins   A bureaucrat's mistake sends a chorus girl to Paris representing American theatre in place of a star actress.


THURSDAY,  April 2

8:00 PM   Giant (1956)    Dir: George Stevens   Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
201 mins   A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times.

11:30 PM   The Last Picture Show (1971)    Dir: Peter Bogdanovich   Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
118 mins   In a bleak and sleepy 50s Texas town, two high-school seniors, stars on a losing football team, ponder their futures, carry on love affairs with the town sweetheart and an older, married woman respectively, and look for fatherly advice from the ex-cowboy owner of the town's pool hall/cafe and moviehouse. But when the moviehouse ...

1:45 AM   Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)    Dir: Tim McCanlies   Cast: Breckin Meyer, Peter Facinelli, Eddie Mills
97 mins   Four high school friends that grew up together in a tiny Texas town, plan to leave for the big city the day after graduation. Over a week's time, their backstory and present day realities collide to determine how their plans play out.

3:30 AM   Brewster McCloud (1970)    Dir: Robert Altman   Cast: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy
101 mins   A mysterious boy living in the Houston Astrodome dreams of building himself a pair of wings.

5:30 AM   Seven Days in May (1964)    Dir: John Frankenheimer   Cast: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
118 mins   When a military officer discovers a coup is being plotted by one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President of the United States must try to find a way to dismantle it.


FRIDAY,  April 3

8:00 PM   Roger Corman: The Pope of Pop Cinema (2021)    Dir: Bertrand Tessier   Cast: Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Corman
52 mins   The career of maverick producer Roger Corman, covering his heyday as a director touching upon subjects that major studios wouldn't allow that appealed mainly to youth audiences at their local drive-ins.

9:00 PM   A Bucket of Blood (1959)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone
66 mins   A jealous Bohemian wannabe resorts to murder to perpetuate his new-found success as a sculptor.

10:15 PM   The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles
70 mins   A nerdy floral shop assistant invents a carnivorous monster plant that feeds on human blood.

11:30 PM   Teenage Doll (1957)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley
71 mins   A delinquent girls' gang pursues a nice ingenue linked romantically to the male leader of a rival gang, and apparently to the murder of one of their members.

1:00 AM   Five Guns West (1955)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors
78 mins   During the Civil War, the Confederacy pardons five criminals and sends them into Comanche-territory to recover Union-seized Confederate gold and capture a Confederate turncoat.

2:30 AM   The Wasp Woman (1959)    Dir: Roger Corman   Cast: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris
73 mins   A woman takes some bug enzymes in the hope it will give her the secret to eternal youth, but things go wrong at night when she turns into a giant wasp and starts killing people.

4:00 AM   The Beginning or the End (1947)    Dir: Norman Taurog   Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake
112 mins   True story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb.


SATURDAY,  April 4

12:00 PM   Godspell (1973)    Dir: David Greene   Cast: Victor Garber, David Haskell, Lynne Thigpen
103 mins   Contemporary hippies relive the story of Christ's ministry and crucifixion.

8:00 PM   Some Like It Hot (1959)    Dir: Billy Wilder   Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
120 mins   When a pair of bumbling, out-of-work musicians, accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day gangster murders, they disguise themselves as women and join up with a travelling all-womens' band to escape the mobsters after them.

10:15 PM   The Great Race (1965)    Dir: Blake Edwards   Cast: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon
160 mins   Mayhem and double-crossing abound as some zany professional racers go up against each other in a 1908 cross-continental road race from New York to Paris.

1:15 AM   T-Men (1947)    Dir: Anthony Mann   Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins   U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.

3:00 AM   Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)    Dir: Alexa Foreman   Cast: Lee Grant (narrator), Molly Haskell, Leonard Maltin
62 mins   The story of actress Mary Astor's struggle for custody of her daughter as part of a 1936 divorce trial that became a national sensation.

4:15 AM   The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)    Dir: John Cromwell   Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith
101 mins   An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.


SUNDAY,  April 5

10:00 AM   T-Men (1947)    Dir: Anthony Mann   Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins   U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.

8:00 PM   Easter Parade (1948)    Dir: Charles Walters   Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
103 mins   A musical about a Broadway dancer who tries to forget his ex-partner while rising to stardom with his new partner.

10:00 PM   King of Kings (1961)    Dir: Nicholas Ray   Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Robert Ryan
168 mins   Epic retelling of Christ's life and the effects of his teachings on those around him.

1:00 AM   Battling Butler (1926)    Dir: Buster Keaton   Cast: Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Snitz Edwards
77 mins   To win the heart of a mountain girl, a milquetoast pretends to be a boxing champion.

2:30 AM   Blow-Up (1966)    Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni   Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins   A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.

4:30 AM   L'avventura (1960)    Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni   Cast: Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari
145 mins   When a young socialite vanishes, her lover and her best friend search for her. But soon the woman's mysterious disappearance becomes only the background for a striking examination of modern human relationships.


MONDAY,  April 6

8:00 PM   Sophia Loren: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2016)    Dir: Sean Cameron   Cast: Edoardo Ponti, Sophia Loren, Anne McGill Wilson
66 mins   Sophia Loren discusses her career with Robert Osborne and a live audience.

9:15 PM   Two Women (1960)    Dir: Vittorio De Sica   Cast: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown
99 mins   A widow tries to get her daughter to safety in World War II Italy.

11:00 PM   Legend of the Lost (1957)    Dir: Henry Hathaway   Cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi
109 mins   American adventurer Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.

1:00 AM   Operation Crossbow (1965)    Dir: Michael Anderson   Cast: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
118 mins   Allied agents go behind enemy lines to destroy a German missile base.

3:00 AM   Brass Target (1978)    Dir: John Hough   Cast: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy
111 mins   Gold thieves plot to assassinate General Patton in the days following World War II.

5:00 AM   William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy (2024)    Dir: Bertrand Tessier   Cast: William Wyler (archive footage)
53 mins   Documentary on the life and career of famed director William Wyler. An Academy Award-winning director and 14-time Oscar nominee, Wyler was known for shooting multiple takes of a scene before he was satisfied. This documentary takes a deep dive into his extraordinary career, featuring never-before-seen material provided by Wyler's children.


TUESDAY,  April 7

8:00 PM   National Velvet (1944)    Dir: Clarence Brown   Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
125 mins   A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.

10:15 PM   Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)    Dir: Vincente Minnelli   Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins   Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

12:15 AM   Sounder (1972)    Dir: Martin Ritt   Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
105 mins   In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.

2:15 AM   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)    Dir: Stanley Donen   Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
102 mins   The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.

4:15 AM   The Kid (1921)    Dir: Charles Chaplin   Cast: Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
52 mins   In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.