TCM Schedule for Monday April 7, 2025 - Star of the Month: Red Skelton

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April is National Poetry Month, so daytime has films about poets and poetry.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Orpheus (1950)
1h 35m | Romance | TV-PG
A poet follows his dead wife into the underworld, only to fall in love with Death.
Director: Jean Cocteau. Cast: Jean Marais, Marie Déa, Francois Perier

7:45 AM Poet and Peasant Overture (1954)
9m | Short | TV-G
The MGM Symphony Orchestra performs the Poet and Peasant Overture in this short film.
Cast: Alfred Wallenstein, John McSweeney Jr., Robert Planck, Douglas Shearer

8:00 AM Kismet (1955)
1h 53m | Musical | TV-G
In this Arabian Nights musical, the "king of the beggars" infiltrates high society when his daughter is wooed by a handsome prince.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray

10:00 AM Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
1h 52m | Drama | TV-PG
A swordsman and poet helps another man woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon. Cast: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince

12:00 PM The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
1h 45m | Romance | TV-G
Poet Elizabeth Barrett defies her tyrannical father for the love of Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin. Cast: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers

2:00 PM Gordon Parks: Moments Without Proper Names (1988)
1h | Documentary | TV-PG
A self-portrait of the life and career of photographer, writer, director and composer Gordon Parks.
Director: Gordon Parks. Cast: Roscoe Lee Browne, Gordon Parks, Joe Seneca

3:00 PM Three Men on a Horse (1936)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-G
Gangsters kidnap a timid poet with a knack for picking winning horses.
Director: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee

4:30 PM It's a Wonderful World (1939)
1h 26m | Comedy | TV-G
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee

6:00 PM A Fine Madness (1966)
1h 44m | Comedy | TV-PG
Offbeat tale about a poet, suffering from writer's block, who grows to despise women and eventually ends up going mad.
Director: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg

8:00 PM Whistling in the Dark (1941)
1h 17m | Comedy | TV-G
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford

9:30 PM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
A radio detective's southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft

11:00 PM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
1h 27m | Comedy | TV-G
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers

12:45 AM Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
1h 25m | Comedy | TV-G
A Brooklyn showgirl launches a stage act with a hick comic.
Director: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey

2:30 AM Panama Hattie (1942)
1h 19m | Musical | TV-G
A nightclub owner in Panama takes on Nazi spies.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, "Rags" Ragland

4:00 AM Having Wonderful Time (1938)
1h 11m | Comedy | TV-G
A New York girl finds love at a summer resort.
Director: Alfred Santell. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Peggy Conklin

5:15 AM The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
1h 18m | Drama | TV-G
An ice skater sues a young doctor for malpractice.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day

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1. I love Red Skelton! That was always our family TV time

Before we kids had to go to bed.

My aunt and uncle knew him. Said he was a charmer and could be ornery as cat dirt. They started corresponding with him when they both had sons who were very sick and who eventually passed from leukemia.