TCM Schedule for Tuesday, July 29: Musicals/Star of the Month: Ladies of the '80s

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

2:15 AM    CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion (2018) An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.    Dir: Jenni Gold    Cast: Ben Affleck, Jane Seymour, Bryan Cranston
    Runtime: 97 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y


4:00 AM    The Liquidator (1966)A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England's Prince Phillip.    Dir: Jack Cardiff    Cast: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John
    Runtime: 104 mins    Genre: Suspense/Mystery    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Musicals

6:00 AM    Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.    Dir: George Sidney    Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
    Runtime: 107 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



8:00 AM    Coquette (1929) A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.    Dir: Sam Taylor    Cast: Mary Pickford, John Mack Brown, Matt Moore
    Runtime: 75 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-PG    CC: Y

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9:30 AM    This Is the Army (1943) A song-and-dance man's son stages a big show starring World War II soldiers.    Dir: Michael Curtiz    Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
    Runtime: 115 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



11:45 AM    That's Entertainment! III (1994) This third installment in the series features previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage, musical outtakes, and three-strip color negative restorations.    Dir: Bud Friedgen    Cast: Carmen Miranda, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse
    Runtime: 113 mins    Genre: Documentary    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



2:00 PM    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
    Runtime: 100 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



3:45 PM    Easter Parade (1948) A musical about a Broadway dancer who tries to forget his ex-partner while rising to stardom with his new partner.    Dir: Charles Walters    Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
    Runtime: 103 mins    Genre: Musical    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



5:30 PM    Carefree (1938) When lovely singer Amanda Cooper has trouble accepting the marriage proposals of her beau, Stephen Arden, he calls upon his psychiatrist friend Dr. Tony Flagg to analyze her. Though Tony initially tries to maintain a typical doctor/patient relationship, it's not long before he's falling for Amanda. After a session of hypnosis, ...    Dir: Mark Sandrich    Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
    Runtime: 80 mins    Genre: Comedy    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y



7:00 PM    The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950) A collection of MGM previews with an introduction by Lionel Barrymore.    Dir: Herman Hoffman    Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Dore Schary, Ira Heymann
    Runtime: 57 mins    Genre: Short    Rating: TV-G    CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: Star of the Month: Ladies of the '80s

8:00 PM    The Color Purple (1985) From 1909 to 1949, Celie, a Southern Black woman, gradually gains self-respect as she strives to educate herself and to find love - despite an abusive spouse and a society biased against her race and her sex.    Dir: Steven Spielberg    Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery
    Runtime: 154 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y



10:45 PM    Places in the Heart (1984) After her sheriff husband is killed, a Texas woman tries to make ends meet for her family during the depression by raising cotton and taking in boarders, one of whom is a blind man.    Dir: Robert Benton    Cast: Sally Field, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
    Runtime: 111 mins    Genre: Drama    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



12:45 AM    Out of Africa (1985) True life story of Karen Blixen, a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds happiness with an adventurer.    Dir: Sydney Pollack    Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Runtime: 162 mins    Genre: Romance    Rating: TV-14    CC: Y



3:45 AM    Heart Beat (1980) Dramatization of the life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.    Dir: John Byrum    Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard
    Runtime: 110 mins    Genre: Biography    Rating: TV-MA    CC: Y