TCM Schedule for Tuesday, May 19: 1950s Musical Comedies/Special Theme: Director Yasujiro Ozu

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

TCM Late Night: Song and Dance

1:30 AM Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
A vaudeville team breaks up when both men fall for the same gorgeous hoofer.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



3:30 AM Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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5:30 AM Come to Dinner (1934)
This short film presents a parody of "Dinner at Eight" (1933), replete with look-alike actors of Lionel Barrymore and Marie Dressler.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Ninon Bunyea, Flavia Arcaro, Herschel Mayall
Runtime: 22 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:

TCM Daytime: 1950s Musical Comedies

6:00 AM The Belle of New York (1952)
A turn-of-the-century playboy courts a Salvation Army girl.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



7:30 AM Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
A playboy finds love while managing a posh hotel in Rome.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



9:30 AM Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Three women join the Navy to find husbands.
Dir: Sidney Lanfield Cast: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:30 AM Duchess of Idaho (1950)
During a Sun Valley vacation, a woman tries to solve her roommate's romantic problems only to get caught in a love triangle of her own.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



1:15 PM For the First Time (1959)
While vacationing in disguise, an opera star falls in love with a deaf girl.
Dir: Rudolph Maté Cast: Mario Lanza, Johanna Von Koczian, Kurt Krasznar
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



3:00 PM Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
An opera star risks disaster when he marries a lovesick fan.
Dir: Melvin Frank Cast: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: N


4:45 PM Small Town Girl (1953)
A sheriff's daughter falls for a playboy arrested for speeding.
Dir: Leslie Kardos Cast: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



6:30 PM Bring Your Smile Along (1955)
A New England schoolteacher goes to New York to become a songwriter.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:

TCM Primetime: Special Theme: Director Yasujiro Ozu

8:00 PM Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
A widow reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Chōko Iida, Hōhi Aoki, Eitarō Ozawa
Runtime: 72 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N



9:30 PM A Hen in the Wind (1948)
The wife of a Japanese soldier during World War II resorts to prostitution to raise money to care for her seriously ill son.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Shūji Sano, Chieko Murata
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:



11:00 PM The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
Portrait of a middle-class, middle-aged marriage gone stale.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kōji Tsuruta
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:



1:00 AM Early Spring (1956)
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Chikage Awashima, Ryō Ikebe, Keiko Kishi
Runtime: 144 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N



3:30 AM Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Two sisters reunite with the mother they thought was dead.
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu Cast: Ineko Arima, Setsuko Hara, Chishū Ryū
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: