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Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Wednesday, March 27: Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds
Pack your bags! It's time for Adventure Abroad. That's TCM's daytime theme. And there are PRE-CODE pics, too!
And tonight the delightful Debbie Reynolds is back as Star of the Month.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
12:45 AM Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Three young dancers vie for a starring role on Broadway.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:15 AM Hit the Deck (1955)
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:15 AM Athena (1954)
A society lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a family of fitness fanatics.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
6:00 AM Red Dust (1932)
A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond
Runtime: 79 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
7:30 AM Bird of Paradise (1932)
An island visitor falls for a Polynesian beauty slated for sacrifice to the gods.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Dolores Del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:00 AM Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The jungle king fights to protect his wife from a greedy ivory hunter.
Dir: Cedric Gibbons Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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11:00 AM King Solomon's Mines (1937)
African explorers enlist an exiled native chief to help them find a legendary treasure.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:30 PM China Seas (1935)
A sea captain caught in a romantic triangle has to fight off modern-day pirates.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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4:00 PM They Met in Bombay (1941)
Rival jewel thieves on the run find love in the Far East.
Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:45 PM Mogambo (1953)
In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman.
Dir: John Ford Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds
8:00 PM Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
A sprightly country girl saves a wealthy bachelor from a plane crash, falls in love with him, and, at the same time, must contend with her wacky relatives who have a penchant for getting in trouble selling moonshine.
Dir: Joseph Pevney Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
9:45 PM The Mating Game (1959)
A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:30 PM The Tender Trap (1955)
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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1:30 AM Bundle of Joy (1956)
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned baby.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
3:30 AM This Happy Feeling (1958)
A young woman finds shelter from a rain storm at the horse-breeding farm of a retired actor one night. She tries to spark an affair with the refined man, to the chagrin of his current flame. But eventually, she finds love in the arms of a much younger man who lives in the estate next door.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Curt Jurgens, John Saxon
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Adaptation Rating: TV-G CC:
5:15 AM Susan Slept Here (1954)
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Dir: Frank Tashlin Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y