Tom Kenny, the celebrated voice of Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants as well as several Cartoon Network hits including The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and the new Camp Lazlo series, serves as this month's guest programmer, joining TCM host Robert Osborne to introduce four of his favorite movies. Formerly a stand-up comic and host of NBC's Friday Night Videos, Kenny has a prodigious list of credits that includes other TV cartoon series, talk shows and sitcoms in addition to such animated feature films as 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and this year's Peter Cottontail: The Movie.

Kenny selects four films featuring bravura performances: Jack Lemmon as a murderous groom in How to Murder Your Wife (1965); Mickey Rooney as a drummer threatened by gangsters in The Strip (1951); Peter Lorre as a surgeon who grafts a killer's hands onto his romantic rival in Mad Love (1935); and Lon Chaney's classic silent portrayal of a brilliant scientist turned long-suffering clown in He Who Gets Slapped (1924).

by Roger Fristoe