TCM Schedule for Monday March 15 - Bob's Picks

It's happy birthday to George Brent in the daytime; by night, Robert Osborne chooses the slate.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Miss Pinkerton (1932)
A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation. Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Mae Madison. Dir: Lloyd Bacon. BW-66 mins, TV-G

7:15 AM Baby Face (1933)
A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:30 AM Female (1933)
A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Johnny Mack Brown. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-60 mins, TV-G

9:45 AM Keyhole, The (1933)
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame. Cast: Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-69 mins, TV-G

11:00 AM Lilly Turner (1933)
After unwittingly marrying a bigamist, a pregnant woman faces many trials on the road to romance. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-65 mins, TV-PG

12:15 PM Desirable (1934)
An aging actress tries to keep her teen-aged daughter out of the public eye. Cast: Veree Teasdale, Jean Muir, George Brent. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-68 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM Housewife (1934)
Success could spell divorce for an advertising writer. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ann Dvorak. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-69 mins, TV-G

2:45 PM Living On Velvet (1935)
A guilt-ridden pilot finds a new outlook on life when he falls for a society girl. Cast: Kay Francis, George Brent, Warren William. Dir: Frank Borzage. BW-76 mins, TV-G

4:15 PM God's Country And The Woman (1936)
A lady lumberjack falls for one of her workers, not realizing it's a business rival in disguise. Cast: George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane. Dir: William Keighley. C-85 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:41 PM Short Film: Penny A Peep, A (1934) BW-11 mins,

6:00 PM Dark Victory (1939)
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS

7:46 PM Short Film: Camera Speaks, The (1934)
An old cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories. BW-11 mins,

8:00 PM Boom Town (1940)
Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert. Dir: Jack Conway. BW-119 mins, TV-PG, CC

10:15 PM Prince And The Pauper, The (1937)
Rousing adaptation of the Mark Twain tale of a 16th-century prince who trades places with a lookalike peasant. Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Billy and Bobby Mauch. Dir: William Keighley. BW-118 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

12:30 AM Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
A young boy's lookalike lands him in hot water. Cast: Billy Mauch, Bobby Mauch, Frank Craven. Dir: William McGann. BW-63 mins, TV-G

1:38 AM Short Film: Spills For Thrills (1940)
A short paying tribute to Hollywood's stunt men and women with clips of difficult stunts on land and in the air. Cast: Harry Parvey, Allen Pomeroy, Mary Wiggins Dir: DeLeon Anthony BW-19 mins,

2:00 AM Great Lie, The (1941)
Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby. Cast: Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent. Dir: Edmund Goulding. BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:00 AM Great Caruso, The (1951)
The legendary opera singer fights to win his place in society. Cast: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten. Dir: Richard Thorpe. C-109 mins, TV-G, CC