TCM Schedule for Tuesday, February 24: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 12 - Historical Figures/Remakes

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Find the Barrymore triple score (Ethel, John, and Lionel) in today's schedule!

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

31 Days of Oscar, Day 11 - Dogs (continued)

1:15 AM Umberto D. (1952)
A retiree copes with the realities of old age.
Dir: Vittorio De Sica Cast: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


3:00 AM Sounder (1972)
In 1933 Louisiana, a family of African American sharecroppers endure racism and injustice when their father is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 12 - Historical Figures

5:00 AM Disraeli (1929)
The noted British statesman plays matchmaker for a pair of young lovers.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: George Arliss, Joan Bennett, Florence Arliss
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:30 AM Viva Villa! (1934)
Rousing biography of the bandit chief who led the battle for Mexican independence.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:30 AM Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
True story of the mad monk who plotted to rule Russia.
Dir: Richard Boleslavsky Cast: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:45 AM The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
The famed English monarch suffers through five of his six disastrous marriages.
Dir: Alexander Korda Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:30 PM Marie Antoinette (1938)
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
Runtime: 157 mins Genre: Biography Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:15 PM Julius Caesar (1953)
Cassius and Brutus lead the conspirators who murder Caesar, but are themselves routed by Mark Antony.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Runtime: 121 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:20 PM Greetings Bait (1943)
A fisherman lowers his line into the water with the Wacky Worm as bait. The Wacky Worm puts on a bathing cap and goes to the bottom to coax fish into grabbing the bait and getting hooked on the fishing line.
Dir: Friz Freleng Cast: Mel Blanc
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-Y7 CC: Y


5:30 PM Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt is vacationing with his family at their estate on Campobello Island on the Maine/New Brunswick border. During their stay, the 39-year-old Roosevelt comes down with a fever and sudden paralysis that is eventually diagnosed as polio. With the help of his wife, Eleanor, and his close friend and political consultant Louis Howe, FDR battles his newfound disability.
Dir: Vincent J. Donehue Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn
Runtime: 143 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

TCM Primetime: 31 Days of Oscar, Day 12 - Remakes

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she sees a dimming of the gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 PM Imitation of Life (1959)
A successful actress with a distant only daughter sets up housekeeping with a black housekeeper whose own daughter has disowned any connection to her race.
Dir: Douglas Sirk Cast: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:15 AM The Magnificent Seven (1960)
A group of seven tough gunslingers are hired by a Mexican village to put a stop to the vicious bandit and his gang who have been pillaging it for years.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen
Runtime: 126 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:30 AM A Star Is Born (1976)
A fast-rising singer tries to put a has-been rocker back on top.
Dir: Frank R. Pierson Cast: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

5:00 AM Show Boat (1951)
Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
Runtime: 108 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y