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Classic Films
Related: About this forumTCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 5: Mad About Musicals

Take a peek! It's musicals, musicals, musicals!
Tuesday, June 5th, 2018
1:45 AM
LESLIE HOWARD: THE MAN WHO GAVE A DAMN ( 2016)
BW- 87 mins, CC,
3:30 AM
PETRIFIED FOREST, THE ( 1936)
An escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo Cast: Leslie Howard , Bette Davis , Genevieve Tobin .
BW- 82 mins, CC,
5:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD WITHOUT MAKE-UP ( 1966)
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars.
BW- 50 mins, CC,
6:00 AM
GOING HOLLYWOOD ( 1933)
A girl poses as a French maid to catch a singing star.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Marion Davies , Bing Crosby , Fifi D'Orsay .
BW- 78 mins, CC,
7:30 AM
FOOTLIGHT PARADE ( 1933)
A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: James Cagney , Joan Blondell , Ruby Keeler .
BW- 103 mins, CC,
9:30 AM
DAMES ( 1934)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead in a scandalous Broadway show.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joan Blondell , Dick Powell , Ruby Keeler .
BW- 91 mins, CC,
11:07 AM
SCRIPT GIRL ( 1937)
In this comedic short, a woman looking for work at a movie studio misconstrues the job title of "script girl" for "strip girl."
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Eugene Sigaloff , Jackson Halliday , Claire Carleton .
BW- 21 mins,
11:30 AM
GREAT ZIEGFELD, THE ( 1936)
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: William Powell , Myrna Loy , Luise Rainer .
C- 176 mins, CC,

2:30 PM
STRIKE ME PINK ( 1936)
An assertiveness course gets a shy guy mixed up with racketeers at an amusement park.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Eddie Cantor , Ethel Merman , Sally Eilers .
BW- 100 mins, CC,
4:15 PM
BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936 ( 1936)
A Broadway columnist tries to use an innocent dancer to frame a producer.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Jack Benny , Eleanor Powell , Robert Taylor .
BW- 101 mins, CC,
6:00 PM
BORN TO DANCE ( 1936)
A sailor on leave helps a young dancer make it to the top on Broadway.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Eleanor Powell , James Stewart , Virginia Bruce .
BW- 106 mins, CC,
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: MAD ABOUT MUSICALS
8:00 PM
BROADWAY MELODY, THE ( 1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page , Bessie Love , Charles King .
BW- 100 mins, CC,
9:53 PM
42ND. STREET SPECIAL, THE ( 1933)
This promotional short, part of Warner Bros. studios publicity campaign for "42nd Street" (1933), presents the send-off for a 7-car train assembled in conjunction with the film.
BW- 6 mins,
10:00 PM
42ND STREET ( 1933)
The definitive backstage musical, complete with the dazzling newcomer who goes on for the injured star.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon Cast: Warner Baxter , Bebe Daniels , George Brent .
BW- 89 mins, CC,

11:45 PM
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 ( 1933)
Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Warren William , Joan Blondell , Aline MacMahon .
BW- 98 mins, CC,
1:33 AM
OPENING NIGHT ( 1931)
This short film satirizes theatrical opening nights. Vitaphone Release 1138.
Dir: Roy Mack Cast: Dorothy Sands , Thomas E Jackson , Helyn Eby-Rock .
BW- 7 mins,
1:45 AM
LOVE PARADE, THE ( 1929)
A count finds his marriage to a queen less than satisfying.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast: Maurice Chevalier , Jeanette MacDonald , Lupino Lane .
BW- 109 mins,
3:45 AM
HALLELUJAH ( 1929)
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Daniel L. Haynes , Nina Mae McKinney , William E. Fountaine .
BW- 100 mins, CC,
5:27 AM
NIGHT IN A DORMITORY, A ( 1929)
In this short film, a schoolgirl relates to her dormitory sisters her adventures in a nightclub.
Dir: Harry Delmar Cast: Eddie Elkins , Ruth Hamilton , Si Willis .
BW- 22 mins,
