TCM Schedule for Tuesday, August 19: Summer Under the Stars: Hedy Lamarr
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
2:00 AM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:15 AM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
Runtime: 63 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:30 AM Hot Tip (1935)
A racing fan's predictions go wrong and land his friends in debt.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason
Runtime: 70 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:
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6:00 AM Lady of the Tropics (1939)
An American playboy in Saigon has to fight to get his Eurasian wife out of the country.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y
8:00 AM Boom Town (1940)
Friends become rivals when they strike-it-rich in oil.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
10:00 AM Comrade X (1940)
An American warms up an icy Russian streetcar conductor.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka
Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
12:00 PM I Take This Woman (1940)
A tenement doctor's marriage to a European refugee threatens his practice.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:00 PM The Heavenly Body (1943)
An astronomer's neglected wife takes up astrology and a handsome astrologer.
Dir: Alexander Hall Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
4:00 PM The Conspirators (1944)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Dir: Jean Negulesco Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
6:00 PM The Strange Woman (1946)
An unscrupulous 19th-century woman will stop at nothing to control the men in her life.
Dir: Edgar Ulmer Cast: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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8:00 PM Samson and Delilah (1949)
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Dir: Cecil B. DeMille Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:
10:15 PM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:00 AM The Female Animal (1958)
A Hollywood star's adopted daughter falls in love with the star's live-in boyfriend.
Dir: Harry Keller Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: N
1:30 AM Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y
3:30 AM H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
A stuffy businessman livens things up by having a fling.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y