TCM Schedule for Monday March 1 - 31 DAYS OF OSCAR

Today's connections:

Van Heflin (Madame Bovary -> Possessed)
Peter Miles (Possessed -> Quo Vadis)
Norman Woodland (Quo Vadis -> Richard III)
Claire Bloom (Richard III -> The Brothers Karamazov)
Yul Brynner (The Brothers Karamazov -> Morituri)
Robert J. Wilke (Morituri -> Days of Heaven)
Sam Shepard (Days of Heaven -> Frances)
Jessica Lange (Frances -> Tootsie)
Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie -> Little Big Man)

(all times Eastern)


7:30 AM Madame Bovary (1949)
A romantic country girl sacrifices her marriage when she thinks she's found true love. Cast: Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, James Mason. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:30 AM Possessed (1947)
A married woman's passion for a former love drives her mad. Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:30 AM Qvo Vadis (1951)
A Roman commander falls for a Christian slave girl as Nero intensifies persecution of the new religion. Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. C-175 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:30 PM Richard III (1955)
A hunchbacked madman plots to make himself king of England. Cast: Sir Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Claire Bloom. Dir: Sir Laurence Olivier. C-158 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:09 PM Short Film: Man Without A Country, The (1937) BW-21 mins,

5:30 PM Brothers Karamazov, The (1958)
In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father. Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, William Shatner. Dir: Richard Brooks. C-146 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:00 PM Morituri (1965)
The English blackmail a German expatriate into a Nazi rubber shipment. Cast: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin. Dir: Bernhard Wicki. BW-123 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format

10:15 PM Days Of Heaven (1978)
Young lovers pose as brother and sister to survive on the American frontier during the early 20th century. Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard. Dir: Terrence Malick. C-94 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 PM Frances (1982)
Actress Frances Farmer's mind snaps under the pressures of Hollywood life and a domineering mother. Cast: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley. Dir: Graeme Clifford. C-140 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

2:30 AM Tootsie (1982)
An unemployed actor masquerades as a woman to win a soap-opera role. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr. Dir: Sydney Pollack. C-116 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM Little Big Man (1970)
An American pioneer raised by Indians ends up fighting alongside General Custer. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George. Dir: Arthur Penn. C-140 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format