TCM Schedule for Mar 7, 2025: Horse Racing / Movie Mix-ups

[Auggie]

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5:00 AM | All-American Co-Ed (1941)
A college boy dresses as a girl to infiltrate a women's college.

6:00 AM | Sporting Blood (1931)
A horse passes through a series of owners on the road to the Kentucky Derby.
Dir: Charles Brabin | Cast: Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans

7:30 AM | Glory (1956)
A young woman's devotion to her racehorse creates romantic problems.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood

9:15 AM | The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
Fictionalized account of the legendary racehorse's training and triumphs.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon Mccallister

11:00 AM | International Velvet (1979)
A former racing champ helps turn a delinquent girl into an Olympic rider.
Dir: Bryan Forbes | Cast: Tatum O'Neal, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman

1:15 PM | Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)
A jockey trains a blind horse for the Grand National.
Dir: William McGan | Cast: Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Gantry The Blind Horse

2:30 PM | The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
A young boy's talent for picking winning race horses threatens his life.
Dir: Anthony Pelissier | Cast: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire

4:15 PM | Saratoga (1937)
A horse breeder's daughter falls for a bookie.
Dir: Jack Conway | Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore

6:00 PM | A Day at the Races (1937)
A group tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Maureen O'Sullivan, Allan Jones


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8:00 PM | North by Northwest (1959)
An ad executive, in a case of mistaken identity, is embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

10:30 PM | Lover Come Back (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann | Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall

12:30 AM | Being There (1979)
Political pundits mistake an illiterate gardener for a media genius and turn him into a national hero.
Dir: Hal Ashby | Cast: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

2:45 AM | Purple Noon (1961)
The talented Mr. Tom Ripley is a mimic, moocher, forger, criminal improviser -- and even more.
Dir: René Clément | Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt

5:00 AM | Top Hat (1935)
A woman believes that an enamored dancer is her best friend's husband.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton

Top Hat is the definitive Fred & Ginger film. If you were only to see one, this would be it. -- Auggie