TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 24: Short Attention Span Theater/The Gilded Age

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

1:30 AM Professional Sweetheart (1933)
A radio star's pure image leads to a fake engagement to a hayseed.
Dir: William A. Seiter Cast: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, Zasu Pitts
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:00 AM The Broadway Melody (1929)
Love and success break up a vaudeville sister act.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


4:45 AM Our Betters (1933)
An American heiress marries into the British nobility.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Constance Bennett, Violet Kemble-Cooper, Phoebe Foster
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Daytime: Short Attention Span Theater

6:15 AM Ex-Lady (1933)
A female artist is torn between her belief in free love and the constraints of romance.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Frank McHugh
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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7:30 AM The Girl from Missouri (1934)
A gold-digging chorus girl tries to keep her virtue while searching for a rich husband.
Dir: Jack Conway Cast: Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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8:45 AM Employees' Entrance (1933)
An unscrupulous department store manager stops at nothing to get what he wants.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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10:00 AM One Way Passage (1932)
An ocean voyage leads to romance for a dying heiress and a condemned criminal.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:15 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

12:30 PM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y

1:45 PM Alibi Ike (1935)
A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia De Havilland, Ruth Donnelly
Runtime: 73 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

3:00 PM The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 PM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:30 PM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

6:45 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man's identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
Runtime: 68 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

TCM Prime Time: The Gilded Age

8:00 PM The Age of Innocence (1993)
In the stifled world of New York high society during the 1870s, an aristocratic lawyer struggles with his growing passion for his fiancee's beautiful cousin, an expatriate countess who has abandoned her marriage.
Dir: Martin Scorsese Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Runtime: 133 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:30 PM The House of Mirth (2000)
In 1908, Lily Bart is a ravishing New York socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm attract unwelcome interest and jealousy. Torn between her heart and her head, Lily risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Dir: Terence Davies Cast: Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son's efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:45 AM The Valley of Decision (1945)
An Irish housemaid's romance with the boss's son is complicated by labor disputes in the Pittsburgh mills.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

5:00 AM Life with Father (1947)
A financier from New York rules his numerous family members, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousness of a bookkeeper.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor
Runtime: 118 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y