TCM Schedule for Wednesday, November 6: Esther Williams/TCM Spotlight: Suspense

Everybody into the pool for a day of Esther Williams movies!

And tonight it's time for the first installment of the Wednesday TCM Spotlight: Suspense.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

1:15 AM Invitation (1952)
A millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.
Dir: Gottfried Reinhardt Cast: Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y


2:45 AM Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Milton Berle, Virginia Mayo, Ruth Roman
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 AM Starlift (1951)
An actress and an air transport crewman fall in love in this star-studded salute to the Korean war.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo
Runtime: 103 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:30 AM Thrill of a Romance (1945)
A soldier returning from World War II finds love with a lady swimmer.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:30 AM Easy to Wed (1946)
In this remake of Libeled Lady, a tough newspaper editor hires a gigolo to compromise a woman suing his paper for libel.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



10:30 AM On an Island with You (1948)
A movie star falls for a handsome naval officer during location shooting in Hawaii.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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12:30 PM Duchess of Idaho (1950)
During a Sun Valley vacation, a woman tries to solve her roommate's romantic problems only to get caught in a love triangle of her own.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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2:15 PM Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
The true story of Annette Kellerman, who as a child in Australia, learns to swim to overcome a potentially crippling physical handicap and develops into a champion.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



4:15 PM Dangerous When Wet (1953)
A family of fitness fanatics sets out to swim the English Channel.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



6:00 PM Easy to Love (1953)
Williams loves her boss from afar and finally wins him over when she starts an affair with another man.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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What's on Tonight: TCM Spotlight: Suspense

8:00 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe - then cannot convince anyone else - that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her...and that something evil will happen every time she sees a dimming of the gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM Niagara (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



11:45 PM A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A college student who is more sinister than he appears tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
Dir: Gerd Oswald Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith
Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



1:30 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:30 AM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter's identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



5:30 AM MGM Parade Show #21 (1955)
Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper perform in a clip from "The Champ," Russ Tamblyn introduces a clip from "The Last Hunt." Hosted by George Murphy.
Dir: null Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Russ Tamblyn
Runtime: 25 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: N