FORTY GUNS
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Barbra Stanwyck Month continues on TCM, and the prime-time offerings tonight are from the Fifties. Forty Guns, a frontier saga from 1957 where she plays a tough ranch owner, starts the evening at 8 pm. ET – and also serves as a hint at what would come on TV a decade later, when she starred in The Big Valley. Next, at 9:30 pm. ET, comes 1956’s The Maverick Queen, in which Stanwyck stars as a tough saloonkeeper. (Notice the pattern?) But set your DVRs for 4 a.m. ET, because that’s when a younger Stanwyck stars in 1935’s Annie Oakley, playing the title role in a rarely televised George Stevens film.