TCM Schedule for Wednesday, April 27th: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

1:15 AM Night Into Morning (1951)
After a fire kills his family, a college professor sinks into alcoholism.
Cast: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Davis. Dir: Fletcher Markle.
BW-86 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

2:45 AM A Life of Her Own (1950)
An innocent small-town girl climbs to the top of the modeling business man by man.
Cast: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell. Dir: George Cukor.
BW-109 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

4:45 AM The Man Who Played God (1932)
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Cast: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming. Dir: John G. Adolfi.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

6:15 AM Strangers May Kiss (1931)
A sophisticated woman risks her marriage for love of a ruthless schemer.
Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton. Dir: George Fitzmaurice.
BW-81 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format



7:45 AM Just A Gigolo (1931)
To escape gold diggers, a British lord pretends to be a gigolo.
Cast: William Haines, C. Aubrey Smith, Lilian Bond. Dir: Jack Conway.
BW-66 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

9:30 AM The Inspector General (1949)
A perpetual student is mistaken for a government official in a small Eastern European village.
Cast: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Henry Koster.
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:15 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, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM The Private Life Of Henry VIII (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Alexander Korda.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM Rembrandt (1936)
The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester. Dir: Alexander Korda.
BW-84 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

4:15 PM The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
A deformed bell ringer rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke. Dir: William Dieterle.
BW-117 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

6:15 PM Captain Kidd (1945)
An infamous pirate tries to double cross the King of England.
Cast: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, John Carradine. Dir: Rowland V. Lee.
BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL WAR

7:38 PM LINCOLN IN THE WHITE HOUSE (1939)
C-21 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Abraham Lincoln (1930)
In this biography the simple backwoods boy rises to become one of America's most beloved presidents.
Cast: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond. Dir: D.W. Griffith.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

9:45 PM Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
Cast: Van Heflin, Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore. Dir: William Dieterle.
BW-103 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

11:45 PM Drango (1957)
A Union officer faces hostility when he's sent to rebuild a ruined southern town.
Cast: Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru, Julie London. Dir: Hall Bartlett, Jules Bricken.
BW-93 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
A farmer's daughter falls in love with a man who fought against her family in the Civil War.
Cast: Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh. Dir: Roy Rowland.
BW-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

3:30 AM Count Three and Pray (1955)
A Westerner turns preacher to overcome his shady past.
Cast: Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey. Dir: George Sherman.
C-102 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

5:15 AM Now Playing May (2011) (2011)
BW-18 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

5:42 AM L.B.MAYER CEREMONIES (1950)
Louis B. Mayer accepts an award for his contribution to the motion picture industry. This MGM promotional short highlights some of the more spectacular works that MGM has produced under Mayer's leadership.
C-15 mins, CC, Letterbox Format