TCM in March: Barbara Stanwyck

Turner Classic Movies is celebrating Barbara Stanwyck as the star of the month for March, 2025, with 46 of her films showing on Wednesdays. Also this month on TCM see tributes to Shelley Winters, Alfred Hitchcock, Yul Brynner and more stars.

Here are the top movie star tributes on TCM in March 2025:

March 5, 12, 19 and 26: Barbara Stanwyck
March 4: John Garfield
March 6: Shelley Winters
March 11: Buster Keaton
March 12: Alfred Hitchcock
March 14: Ann Miller
March 15: Harry Belafonte
March 16: Judd Hirsch 90th
March 17: Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 18: Edward Everett Horton
March 20: Yul Brynner
March 23: Deanna Durbin
March 25: Edith Head

TCM Star of the Month Barbara Stanwyck

Highlights of TCM’s Barbara Stanwyck series include the classic films Sorry Wrong Number, Double Indemnity, and Christmas in Connecticut. Here is the schedule:

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 5 STAR OF THE MONTH: BARBARA STANWYCK

8:00pm EST Baby Face (1933) 1 hr 30 mins|drama|TV-PG. A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Director Alfred E. Green, Cast Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook.
9:30pm EST Ladies of Leisure (1930). 1 hr 45 mins|romance|TV-PG. A wealthy artist faces family pressure when he falls for a model with a past. Director Frank Capra, Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman.
11:15pm EST The Miracle Woman (1931) 1 hr 45 mins|drama|TV-PG. A phony faith healer fights the temptation to go straight when she falls for a blind man. Director Frank Capra, Cast Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy.
1:00am EST Forbidden (1932). 1 hr 30 mins|drama|TV-G. On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man. Director Frank R. Capra Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy.
2:45am EST Night Nurse (1931) 1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-G. A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets. Director William A. Wellman Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
4:00am EST The Purchase Price (1932) 1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-PG. A night-club singer on the lam becomes a farmer’s mail-order bride. Director William A. Wellman Cast Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot.
5:15am EST So Big (1932) 1 hr 30 mins|drama|TV-G. A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son. Director William A. Wellman Cast Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore.
6:45am EST Illicit (1931) 1 hr 30 mins|drama|TV-G. Young free-thinkers turn conventionally jealous when they marry. Director Archie Mayo Cast Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Charles Butterworth.
8:15am EST Ladies They Talk About (1933)1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-G. A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison. Director Howard Bretherton, William Keighley Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Preston S. Foster, Lyle Talbot.
9:30am EST Gambling Lady (1934)1 hr 15 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer. Director Archie Mayo Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Joel Mccrea, Pat O’brien.
10:45am EST Ever in My Heart (1933) 1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-PG. During World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy. Director Archie Mayo Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy.
12:00pm EST The Woman in Red (1935) 1 hr 15 mins|romance|TV-PG. A professional horsewoman fights prejudice when she marries into society. Director Robert Florey Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Genevieve Tobin.
1:15pm EST His Brother’s Wife (1936)1 hr 30 mins|romance|TV-PG. A man helps his brother skip town, then steals his girlfriend. Director W. Van Dyke Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt.

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12 STAR OF THE MONTH: BARBARA STANWYCK

8:00pm EDT The Lady Eve (1941) 1 hr 45 mins|comedy|TV-PG. A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him. Director Preston Sturges Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
9:45pm EDT Ball of Fire (1942) 2 hrs|comedy|TV-G. A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend. Director Howard Hawks Cast Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka.
11:45pm EDT Remember the Night (1940) 1 hr 45 mins|comedy|TV-G. An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas. Director Mitchell Leisen Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Macmurray, Beulah Bondi.
1:30am EDT Meet John Doe (1941) 2 hrs 15 mins|drama|TV-G. A reporter’s fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business. Director Frank Capra Cast Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold.
3:45am EDT The Bride Walks Out (1936) 1 hr 30 mins|comedy|TV-G. A model weds a struggling engineer then has her own struggles with domesticity. Director Leigh Jason Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young.
5:15am EDT Breakfast for Two (1937) 1 hr 15 mins|comedy|TV-G. A Texas heiress competes with a gold digger for the love of a playboy. Director Alfred Santell Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell.
6:30am EDT The Secret Bride (1934) 1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-PG. A district attorney secretly marries the daughter of a man he’s trying to convict. Director William Dieterle Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Warren William, Glenda Farrell.
7:45am EDT Lady of Burlesque (1943) 1 hr 45 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. A star dancer and comedian team to investigate murders. Director William A. Wellman Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’shea, Iris Adrian.
9:30am EDT The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 1 hr 30 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-G. A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation. Director Leigh Jason Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
11:00am EDT Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 2 hrs|comedy|TV-G. A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero. Director Peter Godfrey Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 19 STAR OF THE MONTH: BARBARA STANWYCK

8:00pm EDT Double Indemnity (1944) 2 hrs|crime|TV-PG. An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death. Director Billy Wilder Cast Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Robinson.
10:00pm EDT Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). 1 hr 45 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder. Director Anatole Litvak Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards.
11:45pm EDT No Man of Her Own (1950) 1 hr 45 mins|drama. Helen Ferguson, pregnant, penniless and dumped by her boyfriend Steve Morley, takes the identity of the pregnant Patrice Harkness, when she and her husband are killed in a train crash. Director Mitchell Leisen Cast Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl.
1:30am EDT Witness to Murder (1954) 1 hr 30 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. Director Roy Rowland Cast Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
3:00am EDT Cry Wolf (1947) 1 hr 30 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family. Director Peter Godfrey Cast Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks.
4:30am EDT Jeopardy (1953) 1 hr 15 mins|drama|TV-PG. A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning. Director John Sturges Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker,
5:45am EDT The Man with a Cloak (1951) 1 hr 30 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. A mystery man tries to help a young innocent escape a murderous housekeeper. Director Fletcher Markle Cast Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern.
7:15am EDT Clash by Night (1952) 2 hrs|romance|TV-PG. An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend. Director Fritz Lang Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan.
9:15am EDT The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) 1 hr 45 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-G. A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer. Director Peter Godfrey Cast Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith.
11:00am EDT The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 2 hrs|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love. Director Lewis Milestone Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
1:00pm EDT Crime of Passion (1957) 1 hr 30 mins|suspense/mystery|TV-PG. An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success. Director Gerd Oswald Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr.

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 26 STAR OF THE MONTH: BARBARA STANWYCK

8:00 PM All I Desire (1953)
9:30 PM There’s Always Tomorrow (1956)
11:15 PM Executive Suite (1954)
1:15 AM East Side, West Side (1949)
3:15 AM These Wilder Years (1956)
5:00 AM To Please a Lady (1950)
6:45 AM Annie Oakley (1935)
8:30 AM The Moonlighter (1953)
10:00 AM Trooper Hook (1957)

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Below are trailers for Double Indemnity (showing Mar. 19 on TCM), Sorry Wrong Number (Mar. 19) and Christmas in Connecticut (Mar. 12).

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