TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 9: 70 Years Ago - Films Released in 1955/Star of the Month: Merle Oberon

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Art Deco - Part 1 (continued)

12:00 AM Metropolis (1926)
A city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Runtime: 148 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-PG CC: N


2:45 AM Five and Ten (1931)
A dime-store heiress elopes with a married man.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:30 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: 70 Years Ago - Films Released in 1955

6:00 AM The Glass Slipper (1955)
Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

7:45 AM Kismet (1955)
In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

9:45 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

11:30 AM The Sea Chase (1955)
A German officer is given command of a freighter during World War II due to his anti-Nazi views. He is sent to patrol the South Pacific, but is entangled in a web between a beautiful spy whom he loves and a British Naval frigate on his trail.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:30 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
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:45 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer's story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer's cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer's family.
Dir: Charles Laughton Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:30 PM Oklahoma! (1955)
Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: Star of the Month: Merle Oberon

8:00 PM These Three (1936)
Scandal destroys the lives of two small-town schoolteachers.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC:

9:45 PM Over the Moon (1939)
A surprise inheritance breaks up a once-impoverished noblewoman and a doctor.
Dir: Thornton Freeland Cast: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:15 PM Affectionately Yours (1941)
A foreign correspondent hurries home to stop his wife from getting a divorce.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:00 AM Lydia (1941)
An unmarried woman stages a reunion with former suitors to recapture the romance of her past.
Dir: Julien Duvivier Cast: Merle Oberon, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal
Runtime: 99 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Late Night: French Dramas

3:00 AM Un carnet de bal (1937)
Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended at age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates. Also known by the English title "Life Dances On."
Dir: Julien Duvivier Cast: Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: N

5:15 AM A Day in the Country (1946)
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn where they are staying. Written and directed by Jean Renoir in 1936 but not edited and released until 1946. Also known by the French title "Une Partie de Campagne."
Dir: Jean Renoir Cast: Sylvia Bataille, Jeanne Marken, Georges D'Arnoux
Runtime: 41 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N