TCM Schedule for Thurs, May 28, 2026: Costumes by Adrian / TCM Host Favorites / Late night with Bogart

Adrian Adolph Greenburg (March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959), also known mononymously as Adrian, was an American costume and fashion designer.

Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in Hollywood's Golden Age, he was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian".

Adrian began his career making costumes for Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues before being brought to Hollywood by Rudolph Valentino to work on his films. After creating costumes for Cecil B. DeMille's films, he became the head costume designer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1928 to 1941, where he created wardrobes for several stars, including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, and Norma Shearer.

Adrian was especially celebrated for his sophisticated and dramatic evening gown designs, a talent exemplified in Letty Lynton (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), and The Women (1939). He is perhaps best known today for his work on the Technicolor classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), for which he custom-designed the signature red-sequined ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland, one of the most enduring costume designs in cinema history.





Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_(costume_designer)




DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:15 AM Woman of the Year (1942)
Journalists overcome antagonism to wed, though he resents her hectic lifestyle.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter

8:15 AM Anna Christie (1930)
Eugene O'Neill's classic about a romantic prostitute trying to run away from her past.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion

9:45 AM Rose-Marie (1936)
An opera singer goes undercover in the Canadian wilderness to hunt for her criminal brother.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen

11:45 AM Maytime (1937)
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore

2:00 PM Camille (1937)
A 19th-century kept woman runs off with a young admirer in search of love and happiness.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore

4:00 PM The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell

6:15 PM The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery



PRIME TIME

8:00 PM It Happened One Night (1934)
Among the first and still one of the best Rom-Com road trips put on film. See it.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

Trivia: Swept the Oscars -- Best picture, actor, actress, director, and adapted screen play.

10:00 PM From Here to Eternity (1953)
Drama follows soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor just before Dec 7th 1941.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

12:15 AM Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to town, finding friends and enemies.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo



LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING

2:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Deceit, psychosis, blackmail, murder. Worthy film noir.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith

4:00 AM High Sierra (1941)
An ex-con is hired to lead a group of inexperienced criminals in the robbery of a California resort.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Leslie