TCM Schedule for Sunday May 11, 2025 - Star of the Month: Mae West

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(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
1h 28m | Drama | TV-PG
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Director: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

7:30 AM Gypsy (1962)
2h 29m | Musical | TV-PG
During New York's vaudeville days a tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars. After a long, seedy struggle, the shy "Gypsy" becomes a hit and then tries to turn her back on the mother who got her there.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden

10:00 AM The Killers (1946)
1h 45m | Crime | TV-14
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer's beneficiary.
Director: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien

12:00 PM Bachelor Mother (1939)
1h 29m | Comedy | TV-G
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Director: Garson Kanin. Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn

1:30 PM Sounder (1972)
1h 45m | Drama | TV-PG
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.
Director: Martin Ritt. Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks

3:30 PM I Remember Mama (1948)
2h 14m | Drama | TV-G
Norwegian immigrants face the trials of family life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka

6:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
1h 53m | Drama | TV-PG
A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

8:00 PM Belle of the Nineties (1934)
1h 13m | Comedy | TV-PG
A cabaret entertainer shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Mae West, Roger Pryor, John Mack Brown

9:30 PM Klondike Annie (1936)
1h 18m | Comedy | TV-PG
Carlton Rose, a kept woman known as "the Frisco Doll," escapes to Alaska after accidentally killing her paramour in self-defense.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed

11:00 PM Go West Young Man (1936)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-PG
A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
Director: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott

12:30 AM Mary, Queen of Tots (1925)
20m | Comedy | TV-G
In this early Our Gang comedy, a neglected little girl desperately needs friends and finds them in a group of neighborhood children.
Director: Robert F. McGowan. Cast: Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon

1:00 AM A Lady of Chance (1928)
1h 19m | Silent | TV-G
In this silent film, a female con artist lures men to her apartment so she can blackmail them.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Norma Shearer, Lowell Sherman, Gwen Lee

2:30 AM Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
1h 17m | Adventure | T-14
A medieval girl struggles to grow up in a world of eccentrics, monsters and temptation.
Director: Jaromil Jireš. Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva

4:15 AM The Joke (1969)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-14
In the 1950's, a student is expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
Director: Jaromil Jireš. Cast: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar