Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity (March 19, 8:00 PM)
We've finally made it through 31 Days of Oscar, which means that we're back to the normal programming block on TCM. There's also a new Star of the Month: Barbara Stanwyck, whom a search of the blog reveals was Star of the Month a dozen years ago, back in December 2012. Stanwyck's movies will be on TCM every Wednesday in prime time, although there are enough movies that they continue into Thursday mornings.
Stanwyck's movies will be present roughly in chronological order, at least in the sense that each night is generally later than the previous Wednesday, although the movies each evening aren't in strict chronological order and there are some exceptions from one week to the next, especially come Thursday morning. This first Wednesday sees films from the beginning of Stanwyck's film career, so the first half of the 1930s, including one of my favorite pre-Codes, Night Nurse, overnight tonight at 2:45 AM.
The second Wednesday is roughly the late 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. This would have been a good time to run Stella Dallas, for which I already used a photo of a poster the last time Stanwyck was Star of the Month. Unfortunately, it sees as though TCM were unable to get the rights to Stella Dallas this time around, as it's not on the schedule. I can, however, recommend comedies like The Lady Eve (March 12, 8:00 PM) or Remember the Night (March 12, 11:45 PM), as well as point out that I've already got a post scheduled for another movie running in the second week of the Stanwyck tribute. More on that on March 12, of course.
March 19 sees movies from the late 1940s and 1950s, and more of a focus on noirish movies than the March 12 lighter focus. Obviously, this is where Double Indemnity fits in, as well as films like Sorry, Wrong Number (March 19, 10:00 PM) and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (March 20, 11:00 AM), from which I have a poster pictured at left. Also worth watching that evening is Stanwyck dueling with George Sanders in Witness to Murder (March 20, 1:30 AM) as well as the fun if mildly silly suspense film Jeopardy (March 20, 4:30 AM).
Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Pidgeon in Executive Suite (March 26, 11:15 PM)
The last Wednesday night is a fair deal of 1950s stuff, with the movies continuing into Thursday morning with a bit of a catch-all for some stuff that TCM didn't have the time to schedule elsewhere or wanted to put together since it's three westerns starting with Annie Oakley (March 27, 6:45 AM). Unfortunately, Forty Guns is not among those westerns. To be fair, however, TCM is showing quite a good number of Stanwyck's films, so one probably shouldn't quibble about missing movies. After all, Stanwyck made a lot of films before decamping to the small screen and The Big Valley.
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