TCM Schedule for Sunday May 18, 2025 - Star of the Month: Mae West

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6:00 AM Up the Sandbox (1972)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-14
A repressed housewife fantasizes about the life she could be living.
Director: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller

7:45 AM The Main Event (1979)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-PG
A bankrupt perfume magnate uses a inept boxer to bring her back to
riches.
Director: Howard Zieff. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand

9:45 AM Fisticuffs (1938)
10m | Short | TV-PG
This specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring.
Director: David Miller. Cast: Sally Payne, Al Morro, Max Baer

10:00 AM Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
1h 23m | Crime | TV-MA
An aging gangster comes out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped.
Director: Jacques Becker. Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll

12:00 PM Nora Prentiss (1947)
1h 51m | Drama | TV-PG
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor's life.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett

2:00 PM A Life of Her Own (1950)
1h 48m | Drama | TV-PG
An innocent small-town girl climbs to the top of the modeling business man by man.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell

4:00 PM Sparkle (1976)
1h 38m | Drama | TV-PG
The three Williams sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s. But their sudden rise to stardom causes problems in their lives.
Director: Sam O'Steen. Cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee

5:45 PM Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-PG
Musical autobiography of Loretta Lynn, who fought poverty and pills to
become a country western star.
Director: Michael Apted. Cast: Tom Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Levon Helm

8:00 PM Every Day's a Holiday (1938)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-PG
At the turn of the century, a con woman finds herself in trouble with the law while dealing with multiple suitors.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland. Cast: Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth

9:30 PM My Little Chickadee (1940)
1h 23m | Comedy | TV-PG
In a small Western town, a wealthy woman cannot decide between her three suitors.
Director: Edward F. Cline. Cast: Mae West, W. C. Fields, Joseph Calleia

11:00 PM The Heat's On (1943)
1h 19m | Comedy | TV-PG
A would-be censor's brother produces a Broadway show with a controversial star.
Director: Gregory Ratoff. Cast: Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton

12:30 AM A Straightforward Boy (1929)
38m | Comedy | TV-G
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu. Cast: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto

1:15 AM I Graduated, But... (1929)
1h 10m | Comedy | TV-G
Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu. Cast: Minoru Takada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Utako Suzuki

2:30 AM Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-14
A high school student and her older lover support themselves through blackmail.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima. Cast: Yûsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga

4:15 AM Boy (1969)
1h 37m | Crime | TV-14
A down-and-out family make their young son fake road accidents in order to blackmail motorists for "hospital fees."
Director: Nagisa Oshima. Cast: Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama