TCM Schedule for Fri, Sept 12, 2025: Musical Biographies/Interracial Romance (Part 2)

DAYTIME: (EST)

6:45 AM | Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Bio of composer Jerome Kern's rise to the top on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Dir: Richard Whorf | Cast: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland

9:15 AM | Words and Music (1948)
Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.
Dir: Norman Taurog | Cast: June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland

11:30 AM | Three Little Words (1950)
Biography of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, who helped each other out of jams.
Dir: Richard Thorpe | Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen

1:15 PM | Deep in My Heart (1954)
Story of Sigmund Romberg who became one of Broadway's most prolific creators in the 1920s.
Dir: Stanley Donen | Cast: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel

3:30 PM | Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star.
Dir: David Butler | Cast: June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae

5:30 PM | Gypsy (1962)
A tough stage mother tries to get her daughters to become stars.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy | Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden


PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING (P) Jungle Fever (1991)

8:00 PM | One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
A white divorcee's marriage to a black man could cost her custody of her daughter.
Dir: Larry Peerc | Cast: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan

10:00 PM | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The daughter of a white family comes home to announce her intentions of marrying a black physician.
Dir: Stanley Kramer | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

12:00 AM | Jungle Fever (1991) TCM Premier
Romance between a married African-American and an Italian-American woman causes repercussions.

2:15 AM | All Night Long (1963)
A jazz band's leader thinks his wife is unfaithful.
Dir: Basil Dearden | Cast: Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair

4:00 AM | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Romance charts the unlikely affair between a German cleaning woman and an Arab man half her age.
Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Irm Hermann