TCM Schedule for Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 - Musical RomComs / Hollywood Black
Prime time: Hollywood Black with Donald Bogle.
Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning black history in film and on television. He is an instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and at the University of Pennsylvania. Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bogle
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6:00 AM | Holiday in Mexico (1946)
An ambassador's daughter falls for a famous musician.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, José Iturbi
8:15 AM | This Time for Keeps (1947)
A famous singer's son falls for a swimming star.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Lauritz Melchior
10:15 AM | On an Island with You (1948)
A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban
12:15 PM | Luxury Liner (1948)
The daughter of a ship's captain becomes a sea-going cupid.
Dir: Richard Whorf | Cast: George Brent, Jane Powell, Lauritz Melchior
2:15 PM | A Date with Judy (1948)
A teenager thinks her grandfather is involved with a fiery Latin singer.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor
4:15 PM | Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer.
Dir: Edward Buzzell | Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban
6:00 PM | Bathing Beauty (1944)
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
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8:00 PM | Carmen Jones (1954)
A sultry factory worker seduces a young soldier and then dumps him for another man.
Dir: Otto Preminger | Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey
10:00 PM | Sidewalk Stories (1989)
A street artist befriends an orphaned girl and in turn becomes one of the city's homeless.
Dir: Charles Lane | Cast: Nicole Alysia, Darnell Williams, Trula Hoosier
12:00 AM | Lost Boundaries (1949)
A black family tries to build a new life by passing as white.
Dir: Alfred L. Werker | Cast: Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas
2:00 AM | The Emperor Jones (1933)
A Caribbean dictator looks back on the path that led to his downfall.
Dir: Dudley Murphy | Cast: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank Wilson
3:30 AM | The Mighty Quinn (1989)
A police officer attempts to clear the name of a childhood friend associated with a murder.
Dir: Carl Schenkel | Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, Mimi Rogers
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5:30 AM | MGM Parade Show #19 (1955)
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly perform in the Ziegfeld Follies. George Murphy introduces a clip from Ransom.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, George Murphy