TCM Schedule for Monday February 22 - 31 Days of Oscar

Here are today's connections:

Frank Morgan (The Stratton Story -> The White Cliffs of Dover)
Alan Marshall (The White Clifs of Dover -> Night Must Fall)
Robert Montgomery (Night Must Fall -> The Divorcee)
Mary Doran (The Divorcee -> THe Broadway Melody)
Charles King (The Broadway Melody -> The Hollywood Revue)
Buster Keaton (The Hollywood Revue -> Sunset Boulevard))
Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Boulevard -> Five Graves to Cairo)
Anne Baxter (Five Graves to Cairo -> The Fighting Sullivans)
Ward Bond (The Fighting Sullivans -> It Happened One Night)
Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night -> THe Egg & I)
Marjorie Main (THe Egg & I -> Naughty Marietta)
Harold Huber (Naughty Marietta -> Going Places)

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Stratton Story, The (1949)
True story of Monty Stratton, the baseball star who fought to continue his career after losing a leg. Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan. Dir: Sam Wood. BW-107 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 AM White Cliffs Of Dover, The (1944)
An American woman with a British husband fights to keep her family together through two world wars. Cast: Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Roddy McDowall. Dir: Clarence Brown. BW-126 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:15 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty. Dir: Richard Thorpe. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

12:15 PM Divorcee, The (1930)
The double standard destroys a liberal couple's marriage. Cast: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-82 mins, TV-G, CC

1:38 PM Short Film: La Cucaracha (1934) C-20 mins,

2:00 PM Broadway Melody, The (1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act. Cast: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC

3:42 PM Short Film: Swing High (1932)
Pete Smith introduces us to the trapeze family The Flying Codonas. Cast: Pete Smith BW-10 mins,

4:00 PM Hollywood Revue, The (1929)
Sketches and songs give MGM's silent stars a chance to show their stuff in talking pictures. Cast: Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford. Dir: Charles Riesner. C-118 mins, TV-G

6:00 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star. Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:00 PM Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
A British corporal goes undercover to infiltrate Field Marshall Rommel's command. Cast: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:45 PM Fighting Sullivans, The (1944)
During WWII, five brothers enlist in the Navy and are assigned to serve on the same ship. Cast: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-111 mins, TV-G, CC

11:45 PM It Happened One Night (1934)
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

1:45 AM Egg And I, The (1947)
Newlywed city slickers decide to give country life a try as chicken farmers. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main. Dir: Chester Erskine. BW-108 mins, TV-G, CC

3:45 AM Naughty Marietta (1935)
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with an Indian scout. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan. Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. BW-104 mins, TV-G, CC

5:30 AM Going Places (1938)
A sporting-goods salesman poses as a jockey to stimulate sales. Cast: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagan. Dir: Ray Enright. BW-84 mins, TV-G