It's Not You, It's Me--Breakup Classics on TCM on Monday Nights in February

Irene Dunne, Skippy, and
Cary Grant from The Awful
Truth

February is the month of St. Valentine's Day. Given that fact, it might seem odd that Turner Classic Movies is dedicating Monday nights during the month to movies about break-ups. It might not seem so odd when one considers that there are those who don't particularly appreciate St. Valentine's Day because they are single or they have broken up with their sweetheart, not to mention there are many out there who simply enjoy a good movie about the dissolution of a relationship. Regardless, TCM has a particularly fine line-up of movies centred on break-ups.

The movies on  It's Not You It's Me--Breakup Classics are each devoted to a different category. There are Pre-Code Heartbreakers, such as The Divorcee (1930) starring Norma Shearer.  Knowing Me, Knowing You, to which  The Way We Were (1973) belongs. Teenage Tearjerkers, of which Splendour in the Grass (1961) is one, The best known of the movies in  Slow Burns, is the classic Casablanca (1942). And then there is Divorce Remorse, which includes The Awful Truth (1937).

TCM is showing some truly great films for It's Not Me, It's You--Breakup Classics. If you have not seen The Divorcee, by all means you should. And while I do not consider Brief Encounter to be romantic the way many classic film buffs do, it is a very fine film. I also have to recommend Casablanca, which is one of my top five films of all time. February 28 may well be the best night of It's Not Me, It's You--Breakup Classics, featuring as it does The Awful Truth, Divorce American Style, and Adam's Rib.

Below is a schedule of the films airing on Monday nights as part of It's Not Me, It's You--Break Up Classics. All times are Central.

Monday, February 7
7:00 PM The Divorcee (1930)
8:30 PM Goodbye Again (1933)
9:45 Forsaking All Others (1934)
11:15 PM Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
12:30 AM  That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
2:00 AM And So They Were Married (1936)

Monday, February 14
7:00 PM The Way We Were (1973)
9:15 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
10:45 PM Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
1:00 AM Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Monday, February 21
7:00 PM Splendour in the Grass (1961)
9:30 PM A Summer Place (1959)
11:45 PM Casablanca (1942)
1:45 AM Love on the Run (1979)
3:30 AM Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

Monday, February 27
7:00 PM The Awful Truth (1937)
9:00 PM Blume in Love (1973)
11:15 PM Divorce American Style (1967)
1:15 AM Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
3:15 AM Adam's Rib (1949)