TCM Schedule for Tuesday, April 1: Birthday Tribute: Debbie Reynolds/April Fools
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
12:00 AM The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
A widower with a six year-old boy has a hard time finding a new wife/stepmother that meets his son's approval.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:15 AM The Music Man (1962)
A con man, masquerading as a music professor, convinces a small town to form a brass band as a way for him to pocket some money.
Dir: Morton DaCosta Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard
Runtime: 151 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
5:00 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president's wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
7:00 AM MGM Parade Show #25 (1955)
Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones perform in a clip from "The Firefly"; Dan Dailey introduces a clip from "Meet Me in Las Vegas." Hosted by George Murphy.
Dir: null Cast: George Murphy, Jeanette MacDonald, Dan Dailey
Runtime: 29 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y
TCM Daytime: Birthday Tribute: Debbie Reynolds
7:30 AM I Love Melvin (1953)
A photographer's assistant promises to turn a chorus girl into a cover girl.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
9:00 AM Athena (1954)
A society lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a family of fitness fanatics.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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10:45 AM The Singing Nun (1966)
Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.
Dir: Henry Koster Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
12:30 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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2:15 PM The Mating Game (1959)
A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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4:00 PM The Tender Trap (1955)
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y
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6:00 PM Singin' in the Rain (1952)
A silent-screen swashbuckler finds love while trying to adjust to the coming of sound.
Dir: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y
TCM Prime Time: April Fools
8:00 PM It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of greedy clowns tear up the countryside in search of buried treasure.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar
Runtime: 192 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
11:00 PM The Producers (1967)
A Broadway producer decides to get rich by creating the biggest flop of his career.
Dir: Mel Brooks Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-14 CC: Y
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12:45 AM Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
Dir: Norman McLeod Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Runtime: 77 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
2:15 AM Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A straight-laced paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to a free-spirited heiress. In the course of retrieving the bone he falls for the heiress and many subsequent mishaps ensue.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y
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4:00 AM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
A gag-filled comedy which revolves around a film projectionist, unjustly accused of stealing a watch, who dreams of being a great detective.
Dir: Buster Keaton Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane
Runtime: 51 mins Genre: Silent Rating: TV-G CC: N
5:00 AM Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y