TCM Schedule for Fri, July 4, 2025: Independence Day -- Americana & Music

DAYTIME: (EST)

6:00 AM | 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

8:00 AM | Girl Crazy (1943)
A womanizing playboy finds true love when he's sent to a desert college.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton

10:00 AM | Calamity Jane (1953)
The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie

12:00 PM | The Harvey Girls (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger

2:00 PM | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seven brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Dir: Stanley Donen | Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

4:00 PM | Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Singing, dancing, baseball, Kelly, Sinatra -- what's not to like?
Dir: Busby Berkeley | Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams

6:00 PM | Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Pop idol travels to Ohio for a "farewell" TV performance before being drafted.
Dir: George Sidney | Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life story of dancing vaudevillian George M. Cohan.
Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

10:30 PM | 1776 (1972)
The founding fathers struggle to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Dir: Peter H. Hunt | Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard

1:30 AM | Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
A young couple fights off Indian attacks to start a farm in the Mohawk Valley.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver

3:30 AM | The Scarlet Coat (1955)
An American officer deserts to the British to unmask a traitor during the War of Independence.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders

5:15 AM | MGM Parade Show #28 (1955)
Captains Courageous; an interview with Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet).
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew