Illeana Douglas returns to TCM with Funny Ladies

The past two Octobers have seen Illeana co-host a "Pioneering Women" spotlight on TCM. There are only so many pioneers in any field, so I suppose it's only natural that this month's spotlight is a bit different, focusing on comediennes in the movies. For each of the four Thursday nights, Douglas will be sitting down with Carol Burnett, who herself shows up on TCM from time to time having narrated a Star of the Month piece on Lucille Ball that's one of the better Star of the Month Profiles TCM runs.

The movies are in rough chronological order, in that each Thursday moves forward in time from the previous week, although within each Thursday night the movies aren't in strict chronological order. This first Thursday sees films from the silent era through the 1930s.

A lot of the movies will be familiar to regular TCM watchers, although there are a few that rarely show up. Tonight, for example, kicks off at 8:00 PM with Mae West's I'm No Angel, which has certainly been shown a couple of times, but being a Paramount controlled by Universal, it doesn't show up thta often. At midnight, College Swing with Gracie Allen is apparently a TCM premiere.