Quick Preview of TCM in March

It's time for a quick advance peek at the March schedule on Turner Classic Movies!

As previously shared here, this year's 31 Days of Oscar festival will run through March 10th, the day of the Academy Awards ceremony. The regular TCM schedule resumes on March 11th.

The March Star of the Month will be Debbie Reynolds. TCM will utilize a format they've used a couple times in years past and celebrate her over the course of a single week, March 25th-29th, instead of weekly.

Similarly, the March Spotlight will focus on Working Women from March 11th to 15th. Each evening will feature a different movie decade, beginning with a number of pre-Codes on March 11th.

Noir Alley returns on the weekend of March 16th and 17th with LE SAMOURAI (1967), followed the next two weekends by WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950) and PUSHOVER (1954).

The other regular franchises, Musical Matinee, Silent Sunday Nights, and TCM Imports, also return the weekend of the 16th-17th.

Programming themes in March will include 1950s Westerns, tunnels, London, adventures, and romantic melodramas, to name a few.

St. Patrick's Day programming will include the TCM premiere of FAR AND AWAY (1992) starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, directed by Ron Howard.

And as usual, Easter Sunday will include a showing of EASTER PARADE (1948) starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.

There will be memorial tributes to Norman Jewison and Ryan O'Neal next month. Additional filmmakers receiving multifilm tributes in March include Raoul Walsh, Betty Compson, Errol Flynn, Cornel Wilde, Freddie Bartholomew, and Tony Curtis.

There will also be a wonderful primetime evening with a pair of films costarring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr, KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1950) and THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1952).

I'll have more details posted here around March 11th! In the meantime, enjoy the next few weeks and 31 Days of Oscar.

Update: For more on TCM in March 2024, please visit my post TCM in March: Highlights.

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