TCM Schedule for Monday May 10, 2021 - Star of the Month: Movie Roberts

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In daytime it's Fred Astaire's birthday, while there's more movie Roberts at night.

(all times Eastern)

6:13 am La Chambre (1972)
14m | Documentary, Foreign, Short
Film shows the filmmaker lying on a bed eating an apple.
Director: Chantal Akerman.

6:30 am Carefree (1938)
1h 23m | Comedy
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with his friend.
Director: Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy

8:00 am Roberta (1935)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A football player inherits a chic Paris fashion house.
Director: William A. Seiter. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

10:00 am A Damsel in Distress (1937)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-G
An American dancer on vacation in England falls for a sheltered noblewoman.
Director: George Stevens. Cast: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen

11:45 am The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
1h 33m | Drama | TV-G
A vaudevillian and his bride go to Paris and set trends as famous ballroom dancers.
Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver

1:30 pm Second Chorus (1940)
1h 23m | Comedy | TV-G
Two composers vie for their lady manager's heart as they head for Broadway.
Director: H. C. Potter. Cast: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw

3:00 pm The Sky's the Limit (1943)
1h 29m | Comedy | TV-G
A pilot on leave falls for a pretty news photographer.
Director: Edward H. Griffith. Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley

4:45 pm Three Little Words (1950)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-G
Musical biography of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, who surreptitiously helped each other out of jams.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-ellen

6:30 pm The Belle of New York (1952)
1h 22m | Comedy | TV-G
A turn-of-the-century playboy courts a Salvation Army girl.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Fred Astaire, Vera-ellen, Marjorie Main

8:00 pm Waterloo Bridge (1940)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
A ballerina turns to prostitution when her fiance is reportedly killed during World War I.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson

10:00 pm Marie Antoinette (1938)
2h 40m | Romance | TV-G
Lavish biography of the French queen who "let them eat cake".
Director: W. S. Van Dyke Ii. Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley

12:45 am H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
2h | Romance | TV-PG
A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling.
Director: King Vidor. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey.

3:00 am Princess O'Rourke (1943)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-G
A flying ace's romance with a princess creates diplomatic problems.
Director: Norman Krasna. Cast: Olivia De Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

4:45 am I Married a Witch (1942)
1h 16m | Comedy | TV-G
A 300-year-old witch wreaks havoc when she falls in love with a young politician.
Director: René Clair. Cast: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley