Tonight’s edition of TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is a tribute to Joan Crawford, presenting a variety of her non-Mildred Pierce features displaying the range of Crawford from floozy to big actress to hard working woman. Starting at 6am (already passed by the time this posts), with Tod Browning’s silent horror movie The Unknown, TCM presents a full on day of Joan Crawford films to revel in.

At 3:30pm, TCM presents one of Old Hollywood’s triumphs, The Women. Featuring 130 speaking roles, not a single man is seen on the screen. This is an all-women masterpiece of women going through the trials and tribulations of surviving in a man’s world. How do you deal with it when your husband is stepping out on you, and he’s the one making the bacon? Who do you attack? The Women is a portrait of a different time yet many of the issues still ring true.

TCM closes out the day with Trog, Joan Crawford’s final film. A PG-rated science-fiction film about Joan Crawford discovering a troglodyte and attempting to train him to behave. A very low budget feature, Trog is considered to be a curiosity at best, where Crawford’s dignified acting style is a complete mismatch with Trog‘s b-movie sensibilities. The tone deafness of the movie is only matched by how strange and boring it is. It’s truly something to witness.