THE CHAMP
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
TCM’s Oscar month (and more, since it covers 31 days) continues with a rare prime-time showing of an early award magnet. This sad, still effective drama about an aging boxer and a young kid who idolizes him won Oscars for Wallace Beery, who plays the boxer, and for Frances Marion, who wrote the screenplay for this 1931 film. But check out the kid, too: He’s played by a very young, very charming Jackie Cooper.