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Star of the Month: John Garfield

TCM, beginning at 7 p.m.

Famed actor John Garfield is back in an evening featuring eight more of his memorable dramatic performances. The night begins with Humoresque (pictured) (1946), a melodrama costarring Joan Crawford and plenty of classical music and popular standards. Also among tonight’s lineup are Saturday’s Children (1940),

costarring Ann Shirley and Claude Rains; Garfield’s first film, the 1938 Lane sisters vehicle Four Daughters, directed by Michael Curtiz and featuring a Garfield performance that earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination; that film’s first sequel, Four Wives (1939); Daughters Courageous (1939), which reteamed Garfield with the Lane sisters and director Curtiz (but is unrelated to the Four Daughters series); Tortilla Flat (1942), an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel also starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr; the film noir Castle on the Hudson (1940); and Dust Be My Destiny (1939).