TCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 18: Star of the Month: George Brent/Hollywood Humanitarians - Part 1

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Star of the Month: George Brent (continued)

12:15 AM Housewife (1934)
Success could spell divorce for an advertising writer.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


1:30 AM The Painted Veil (1934)
A woman is lovelessly married to a famous doctor, but is having an affair with a young politician. However, when her husband goes to China to help combat an epidemic, she chooses to go with him rather than to stay behind with her lover.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:00 AM The Right to Live (1935)
A crippled war hero's death turns out to be murder.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Peggy Wood
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:


4:15 AM The Purchase Price (1932)
A night-club singer on the lam becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


5:30 AM Lilly Turner (1933)
After unwittingly marrying a bigamist, a pregnant woman faces many trials on the road to romance.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:45 AM They Call It Sin (1932)
An innocent young chorus girl fights the advances of her lecherous producer.
Dir: Thornton Freeland Cast: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



8:00 AM Week-End Marriage (1932)
When her husband loses his job, a woman risks her marriage to become the breadwinner.
Dir: Thornton Freeland Cast: Loretta Young, Norman Foster, Aline MacMahon
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



9:15 AM The Crash (1932)
The stock market crash costs a faithless wife her fortune.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


10:15 AM Miss Pinkerton (1932)
A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall
Runtime: 66 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:30 AM Desirable (1934)
An aging actress tries to keep her teen-aged daughter out of the public eye.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Jean Muir, George Brent, Verree Teasdale
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:45 PM Stranded (1935)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Kay Francis, George Brent, Patricia Ellis
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:00 PM Living on Velvet (1935)
A guilt-ridden pilot finds a new outlook on life when he falls for a society girl.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Kay Francis, Warren William, George Brent
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y



3:30 PM 42nd Street (1933)
When revered Broadway director Julian Marsh falls on hard times with both his health and his finances, he helms an ambitious musical as a final production before his retirement. His lead actress, Dorothy Brock, is torn between two loves, the show's wealthy backer Abner Dillon and the earnest but penniless actor Pat Denning, while aspiring young performer Peggy Sawyer waits in the wings, hoping for her big break.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



5:15 PM Female (1933)
A female CEO who's used to buying love meets her match in an independent young executive.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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6:30 PM Baby Face (1933)
Lily Powers's dreary life in Pennsylvania takes a sudden turn when her father is killed in an accident. Unmoved by her father's death, Lily, along with friend Chico, jumps on a freight train and seduces a worker to avoid being arrested. Now in New York City, Lily uses her beauty and sexual prowess to seduce a string of successful men as she works her way to the top.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



TCM Primetime: Hollywood Humanitarians - Part 1

Names of Hollywood humanitarians are bolded in the cast lists below.

8:00 PM National Velvet (1944)
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:15 PM The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:45 PM The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
The town sheriff and a madame team up to stop a television evangelist from shutting down the local whorehouse, the famed "Chicken Ranch."
Dir: Colin Higgins Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC:



2:00 AM The Feminine Touch (1941)
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



4:00 AM Green Mansions (1959)
A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
Dir: Mel Ferrer Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y