Happy Warren William Day to you and yours.

Holy crap, I don’t know how I forgot to tell you about this, but today is Warren William Day on TCM and you’re already missing some of his best movies! I’ll wait while you run immediately to your DVR to record the following films. (All times shown are central.) I won’t bother to list the movies shown earlier this morning because that would be stupid.

• The Mouthpiece (1932) with Aline MacMahon; 8:45 a.m.
• Skyscraper Souls (1932) with Maureen O’Sullivan; 10:15 a.m.
• Three on a Match (1932) with Joan Blondell; 12 p.m.
• The Match King  (1932) with Glenda Farrell and Lily Damita; 1:15 p.m.  
• The Mind Reader (1933) with Constance Cummings; 2:45 p.m.
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) with Joan Blondell; 4 p.m.
• Times Square Playboy (1936) with June Travis; 5:45 p.m.
• Lady for a Day (1933) with May Robson; 7 p.m.
• Cleopatra (1934) with Claudette Colbert; 8:45 p.m. (Warning: CRAPPY MOVIE.)
• Employees’ Entrance (1933) with Loretta Young; 10:45 p.m.
• The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) with Mary Astor; 12:15 a.m. (Warren William plays Perry Mason in this one.)
• The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) with Rita Hayworth; 1:45 a.m.
• Arséne Lupin Returns (1938) with Melvyn Douglas; 3 a.m.

Warren William, in case you’re unfamiliar with him, was known as the “king of pre-Code” and had some really juicy, racy roles. His dumbest film — still worth seeing, if only for comic relief — had to be Cleopatra, Cecil B. DeMille’s over-budget Roman toga-fest featuring bad costumes and idiotic slang dialog that sounds like everybody’s in a booth at a New York coffee shop. One of my favorites is Arséne Lupin Returns because Melvyn Douglas co-stars and (as everybody knows) I love Melvyn Douglas.

Thank you for reading this.