One of my favorite movie directors, Preston Sturges, will be featured on Turner Classic Movies tonight. I just realized this or I’d have warned you earlier.

At 8 Eastern / 7 Central, be sure and catch “The Lady Eve,” with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, a very funny movie about a con artist and her prey.

At 10 Eastern / 9 Central, it’s one of my all-time favorites, “Sullivan’s Travels,” with Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. McCrea is a movie director, tired of fluffy musical comedies, who poses as a bum so that he can research his next project, a dreary, “Grapes of Wrath”-style message movie. (The title of that fictitious movie, Coen Brothers fans, is “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, and that’s where Joel and Ethan got the title for their real-life movie.)

At midnight Eastern / 11 Central, it’s “The Palm Beach Story,” with Claudette Colbert and McCrea, which I’ve never seen all the way through. The parts I’ve seen are quite funny.

At 2 a.m. Eastern / 1 a.m. Central is one of the funniest movies ever made by anyone, “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek,” with Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken. You must, must, must see this movie. Tape or TiVo it tonight and watch it later, with a big bowl of popcorn.