TCM Schedule for Fri, Jan 2, 2026: Bette Davis & Joan Crawford / Flashback Fridays (Citizen Kane)
Davis and Crawford share the daytime lineup; prime time features stories told in flashback.
DAYTIME (EST)
6:00 AM Of Human Bondage (1934)
A medical student falls prey to a waitress.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee
7:30 AM No More Ladies (1935)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
Dir: Edward H. Griffith Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Charles Ruggles
9:00 AM In This Our Life (1942)
A neurotic southerner steals her sister's husband then vies with her for another man.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, George Brent
10:45 AM The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
12:30 PM Now, Voyager (1942)
A repressed spinster is transformed by psychiatry and her love for a married man.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
2:30 PM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
6:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman's ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING
8:00 PM Citizen Kane (1941)
The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
10:15 PM Rashomon (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
12:00 AM Sophie's Choice (1982)
A holocaust survivor and her lover befriend a young writer when he moves into their apartment building.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter Macnicol
2:45 AM The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
5:00 AM Penny Serenade (1941)
A woman on the verge of divorce recalls her heartbreaking attempts to adopt a child.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi