TCM Schedule for Friday, April 5, 2024: Gregory Peck / Spencer Tracy / Bette Davis / Billy Wilder
TCM honors the April 5th birthday of three Hollywood icons: Peck, Tracy and Davis.
Primetime: Four films directed by Billy Wilder, including the Noir classic, Double Indemnity, and Wilder's directorial debut, Mauvaise Graine, AKA The Bad Seed from 1934. All times Eastern.
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6:00 AM | The Great Sinner (1949)
A young writer goes to Germany to write about gambling and gamblers, only to become a compulsive gambler himself.
Dir: Robert Siodmak | Cast: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
8:00 AM | Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
10:15 AM | Woman of the Year (1942)
Rival reporters get married only to find their relationship strained when one resents the other's hectic lifestyle.
Dir: George Stevens | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
12:15 PM | Father of the Bride (1950)
A father deals with the emotional pain of his daughter's wedding along with the financial and organizational details.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
2:00 PM | Dark Victory (1939)
A socialite diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor must decide if she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Dir: Edmund Goulding | Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
4:00 PM | Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
6:15 PM | The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler | Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
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8:00 PM | Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
10:00 PM | The Major and the Minor (1942)
A woman disguises herself as a little girl and ends up in a military academy.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
12:00 AM | Mauvaise Graine, AKA The Bad Seed (1934)
A man "borrows" a stranger's car only to fall foul of a gang of car thieves.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
1:30 AM | Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
A British corporal, separated from his unit in WWII, attempts to stop the advance of Field Marshal Rommel while posing as a hotel waiter.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim
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3:30 AM | Rumble Fish (1983)
Absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola | Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane
5:30 AM | Alice in Movieland (1940)
When a beauty queen tries to make it in Hollywood, she learns stardom comes at a price.
Dir: Jean Negulesco | Cast: Joan Leslie, Nana Bryant, Jack Mower