TCM Schedule for Monday October 7, 2024 - Hispanic Heritge: Immigrants and the American Experience

Daytime has a birthday tribute to MGM house director Robert Z. Leonard.

(all times Eastern)

7:00 AM MGM Parade Show #20 (1955)
25m | Documentary | TV-G
Esther Williams performs in a clip from "Ziegfeld Follies"; Donna Reed introduces a clip from "Ransom." Hosted by George Murphy.
Cast: Esther Williams, Donna Reed, George Murphy

7:30 AM The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
2h | Musical | TV-G
A frontierswoman shelters a notorious outlaw.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Walter Pidgeon

9:45 AM Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
2h 11m | Musical | TV-G
Three showgirls in the Ziegfeld Follies face romantic trials on their way to the top.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr

12:00 PM Grounds for Marriage (1950)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-G
An opera singer and her ex-husband find that their romance refuses to die with their marriage.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Van Johnson, Kathryn Grayson, Paula Raymond

1:45 PM Maytime (1937)
2h 12m | Musical | TV-G
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore

4:00 PM Too Young to Kiss (1951)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-G
A grown woman poses as a child prodigy to advance her career as a concert pianist.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young

6:00 PM Strange Interlude (1932)
1h 50m | Drama | TV-PG
A doctor's daughter defies convention in her fight for love and her child.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland

8:00 PM Alambrista! (1977)
1h 37m | Drama | TV-14
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Director: Robert M. Young. Cast: Domingo Arubriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillin

10:00 PM El Norte (1984)
1h 30m | Drama | TV-MA
The story of two Central American political refugees who flee the coffee fields of Guatemala when their father is killed and their mother is arrested by the military.
Director: Gregory Nava. Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gomez Cruz

12:30 AM My Man and I (1952)
1h 39m | Drama | TV-PG
A Mexican-American laborer fights for his dignity.
Director: William A. Wellman. Cast: Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Wendell Corey

2:15 AM The Ring (1952)
1h 19m | Drama | TV-PG
A young American of Mexican decent in East Los Angeles, California uses the boxing ring to make a better life for himself and his family.
Director: Kurt Neumann. Cast: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios

4:00 AM The Badlanders (1958)
1h 25m | Western | TV-PG
Western outlaws join forces for a daring gold robbery in this remake of The Asphalt Jungle.
Director: Delmer Daves. Cast: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado