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Auggie

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Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:29 PM 3 hrs ago

TCM Schedule for Thursday & Friday, June 4 & 5, 2026

TCM Schedule for Thurs, June 4, 2026: Rosalind Russell / Singing the Blues

Birthday tribute to Rosalind Russell, born on June 4th, 1907


DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
A 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

8:00 AM The Feminine Touch (1941)
An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Rosalind Russell, Don Ameche, Kay Francis

9:45 AM Roughly Speaking (1945)
A man's wild moneymaking schemes leave his wife to raise their family alone.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton

11:45 AM A Majority of One (1961)
A Jewish widow falls in love with a Japanese businessman.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton

2:30 PM The Women (1939)
A married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell

4:45 PM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes

6:30 PM Fast and Loose (1939)
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane investigate the killing of a noted collector.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen



PRIME TIME, LATE NIGHT, EARLY MORNING

8:00 PM St. Louis Blues (1958)
Musical biopic about the life of legendary bluesman W.C. Handy.
Dir: Allen Reisner Cast: Nat 'King' Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway

10:00 PM The Blues Brothers (1980)
Two musicians reunite their old band to save the Catholic home where they were raised.
Dir: John Landis Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd

12:30 AM Leadbelly (1976)
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter.
Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair

2:45 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
Members of a jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf

4:15 AM Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
A jazz band's leader gets mixed up with a gangster in '20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien



TCM Schedule for Fri, June 5, 2026: Musical Bios / Special Theme: Summer of Darkness (Film Noir)

Three classic Film Noir efforts in prime time, followed by two Neo-Noir. Daytime: Musicals biographies.



DAYTIME (listings EST)

6:00 AM A Lady's Morals (1930)
Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.
Dir: Sidney Franklin Cast: Grace Moore, Reginald Denny, Wallace Beery

7:30 AM Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
Musical biography of Marilyn Miller, who overcame heartache to become a Broadway star.
Dir: David Butler Cast: June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae

9:30 AM Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Bio of Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

11:30 AM The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
A vaudevillian and his bride go to Paris and set trends as famous ballroom dancers.
Dir: H. C. Potter Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver

1:15 PM Words and Music (1948)
Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland

3:30 PM Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
True story of composer Jerome Kern's rise to the top on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Dir: Richard Whorf Cast: June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland

6:00 PM Three Little Words (1950)
Lighthearted story of songwriting team Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen



PRIME TIME: FILM NOIR

8:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private eye is swept up in the hunt for a priceless statuette after his partner is murdered.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet

10:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client's death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

12:00 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker using a dead man's identity is blackmailed by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake



LATE NIGHT: NEO-NOIR

1:30 AM The Long Good Friday (1980)
A gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Dir: John Mackenzie Cast: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman

3:30 AM Mona Lisa (1986)
An ex-con is hired to drive a call girl from customer to customer.
Dir: Neil Jordan Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
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TCM Schedule for Thursday & Friday, June 4 & 5, 2026 (Original Post) Auggie 3 hrs ago OP
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