TCM Schedule for Wednesday, September 15: First Day of Hispanic Heritage Month
Daytime's devoted to singing star Gordon MacRae, and at night TCM celebrates the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month with a special roster of films featuring Hispanic actors.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
2:00 am
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Director
Don Weis
Cast
Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
3:30 am
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
1h 40m | Drama | TV-G
A cocky American student runs into trouble when he transfers to the famed British college....
Director
Jack Conway
Cast
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan
5:30 am
MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in a clip from Ziegfeld Follies.
Director
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Cast
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6:00 am
About Face (1952)
1h 34m | Musical | TV-G
Two military school cadets discover their best friend is married.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson
8:00 am
Backfire (1950)
1h 31m | Crime | TV-PG
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Director
Vincent Sherman
Cast
Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo
10:00 am
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
1h 44m | Musical | TV-G
Against her widowed father's wishes, a vaudeville star's daughter takes to the stage.
Director
David Butler
Cast
June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton
12:00 pm
Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
Three sailors on leave back a Broadway hit.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson
2:00 pm
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
1h 35m | Musical | TV-G
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy next door in the years before World War I.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, "Smiling" Jack Smith
4:00 pm
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
1h 42m | Musical | TV-PG
A small-town girl's love life goes ballistic when her sweetheart returns from World War I....
Director
David Butler
Cast
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames
6:00 pm
The Desert Song (1953)
1h 50m | Musical | TV-G
A French professor secretly leads a band of desert freedom fighters.
Director
Bruce Humberstone
Cast
Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae, Steve Cochran
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8:00 pm
Back to Bataan (1945)
1h 37m | War | TV-PG
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Cast
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi
10:00 pm
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-G
A man's infatuation with a gold-digging beauty continues after his marriage.
Director
Raoul Walsh
Cast
James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland, Rita Hayworth
12:00 am
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-G
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Director
Clarence Brown
Cast
David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
2:00 am
Susan and God (1940)
1h 55m | Comedy | TV-PG
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.
Director
George Cukor
Cast
Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Ruth Hussey
4:00 am
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Tycoon (1947)
2h 8m | Adventure | TV-PG
While building a tunnel through the Andes, an engineer falls in love...
Director
Richard Wallace
Cast
John Wayne, Laraine Day, Sir Cedric Hardwicke