TCM Schedule for Thurs, May 7, 2026: Dir. Edmund Goulding / Games, Part 1 (Foul Play, more)

Games in film. Played tonight: Board games checkers, Scrabble, and chess.

That's the theme. Really.

Late night: New York City apartments

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Edmund Goulding (20 March 1891 – 24 December 1959) was a British screenwriter and film director.

Goulding is best remembered for directing cultured dramas such as Love (1927), Grand Hotel (1932) with Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, Dark Victory (1939) with Bette Davis, The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine, and The Razor's Edge (1946) with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power.

He also directed the classic film noir Nightmare Alley (1947) with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and the action drama The Dawn Patrol. He was also a successful songwriter, composer, and producer.

FULL BIO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Goulding

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DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:30 AM Grand Hotel (1932)
A group of very different individuals staying at a Berlin hotel deal with their respective dramas.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford

8:30 AM Riptide (1934)
A chorus girl weds a British lord then falls for an old flame.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Herbert Marshall

10:15 AM A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Marx Brothers help two young opera singers achieve success in America.
Dir: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx

12:00 PM Dark Victory (1939)
A socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable tumor. Will she meet her final days with dignity?
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

2:00 PM 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
A dying woman shares a shipboard romance with a criminal on his way to the gallows.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien

4:00 PM The Constant Nymph (1943)
A composer finds inspiration in his wife's romantic cousin.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith

6:00 PM Of Human Bondage (1946)
A medical student risks his future when he falls for a low-class waitress.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith



PRIME TIME & LATE NIGHT

8:00 PM Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
A Norwegian farmer tries to raise two children in the Midwest.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig

10:00 PM Foul Play (1978)
A librarian becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate the Pope.
Dir: Colin Higgins Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith

12:15 AM No Name on the Bullet (1959)
A gunman out for revenge sets his sights on a small town.
Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans



EARLY MORNING

2:00 AM The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for trysts, only to fall for one of their mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

4:15 AM The Goodbye Girl (1977)
An unemployed dancer and her ten-year-old daughter live with struggling actor.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings