TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 30: The Dream Factory/Shirley MacLaine

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TCM sends April out with music, noir, romance, and more. And there's even a Robert Montgomery sighting, and what a sighting it is!

Tonight's devoted to the indefatigable Shirley MacLaine, who just celebrated nine decades in this life.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

12:30 AM Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Arthur sells sheet music and fantasizes about a world that should behave according to the lyrics of the songs he sells. Eileen fantasizes about love. In their minds, these two share a romance, singing and dancing to the popular music of the 1930s. In reality, the affair between the married Arthur and the innocent Eileen destroys them both.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

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2:30 AM Fame (1980)
Five outstandingly gifted students at New York's High School of Performing Arts are followed as they prepare for careers in show business. A budding singer, two actors, a dancer and a musician polish their crafts as they struggle to excel academically in the demanding school.
Dir: Alan Parker Cast: Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri
Runtime: 134 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

5:00 AM Diner (1982)
A group of friends who hang out in a Baltimore diner face the problems of growing up.
Dir: Barry Levinson Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Ellen Barkin, Kevin Bacon
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

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7:00 AM Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Dick Cavett narrates this documentary about the MGM auction and the studio's glorious history.
Dir: Mark Woods Cast: Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury, Joan Leslie
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


8:00 AM The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
A kidnapped gangster turns his captors into a crack band of crooks.
Dir: Ken Annakin Cast: Vittorio De Sica, Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 AM Until They Sail (1957)
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for Allied sailors en route to World War II.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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11:45 AM Ivanhoe (1952)
King Richard the Lion Hearted is being held for ransom by the King of Austria, and his evil brother, John, conspires to take the throne. But while Robin of Locksley fights as Robin Hood, another man, Ivanhoe, risks everything for his king - and for the honor of Rebecca, the woman he loves.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Epic Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:45 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:45 PM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman's household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:45 PM Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
A behind-the-scenes epic that explores the effects of the Hollywood dream machine on a spirited young singer and actress from the time of her discovery at age 15 through her triumphs and defeats.
Dir: Robert Mulligan Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford
Runtime: 128 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: Shirley MacLaine

8:00 PM Sweet Charity (1969)
A taxi dancer's faith in love leads her to one bad match after another.
Dir: Bob Fosse Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 149 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:45 PM Irma La Douce (1963)
A Parisian policeman gives up everything for the love of a free-living prostitute.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi
Runtime: 142 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

1:15 AM The Children's Hour (1961)
When an unruly young girl spreads the rumor that the co-headmistresses at her private, all-girls school are engaging in a lesbian relationship, the townsfolk remove their daughters from the school and charge up a scandal.
Dir: William Wyler Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:15 AM The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Runtime: 125 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y