TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 22: Joan Blondell/Background Music, Part 2 - with Marty Stuart

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Sultry Joan Blondell rules the daytime. Music swells at evening. Then there's danger in the wee hours of the morning.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

1:15 AM    Three Little Words (1950) Musical biography of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, who surreptitiously helped each other out of jams.    Dir: Richard Thorpe    Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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3:15 AM    A Southern Yankee (1948) A bellboy masquerades as a spy and lands behind enemy lines during the Civil War.    Dir: Edward Sedgwick    Cast: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

5:00 AM    Watch the Birdie (1951) A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.    Dir: Jack Donohue    Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller
    Runtime: 70 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Joan Blondell

6:15 AM    Miss Pinkerton (1932) A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation.    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall
    Runtime: 66 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

7:45 AM    Blondie Johnson (1933) A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
    Runtime: 67 mins    Genre: Crime    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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9:00 AM    Footlight Parade (1933) A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show.    Dir: Lloyd Bacon    Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
    Runtime: 102 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

11:00 AM    Three on a Match (1932) A woman's childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O'Day
    Runtime: 64 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

12:30 PM    Lawyer Man (1933) Success corrupts a smooth-talking lawyer.    Dir: William Dieterle    Cast: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau
    Runtime: 72 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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2:00 PM    The King and the Chorus Girl (1937) While vacationing in New York, a European prince falls for a showgirl.    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Fernand Gravet, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

4:00 PM    Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.    Dir: Mervyn LeRoy    Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon
    Runtime: 96 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

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6:00 PM    Dames (1934) A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.    Dir: Ray Enright    Cast: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler
    Runtime: 90 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: Background Music, Part 2 - with Marty Stuart

8:00 PM    Cabin in the Sky (1943) God and Satan battle for the soul of a wounded gambler.    Dir: Vincente Minnelli    Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne
    Runtime: 98 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

10:00 PM    Festival (1967) A celebration of the origins of rock. Not just the musical performances but also a portrait of a generation in its youth still short-haired and horn-rimmed, sleeping in station wagons, beaches and lawns on their way to shows. This is the 1960s before they were the 1960s, when deep thinkers debated whether folk would beat out rock, and screamed sell-out when Dylan went electric.    Dir: Murray Lerner    Cast: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers
    Runtime: 95 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

12:00 AM    Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)The story of Dean Martin told through interviews and archival footage.    Dir: Tom Donahue    Cast: Jerry Lewis, Bob Newhart, Angie Dickinson
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

TCM Late Night: Foreign Danger

2:00 AM    Missing (1982) A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship. He also must learn to live with his son's and daughter-in-law's leftist passions which brought them there in the first place.    Dir: Costa-Gavras    Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron
    Runtime: 122 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: N

4:15 AM    The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) An Australian reporter and photographer get more than they'd bargained for during an Indonesian revolution.    Dir: Peter Weir    Cast: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y

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