TCM Schedule for Wednesday, July 6: Special Theme: Black Independents
Daytime is devoted to a birthday tribute to actress Janet Leigh. To note among the titles: a Christmas in July treat, Holiday Affair, a romantic comedy that in recent years has been added to TCM's roster of holiday classics.
And tonight TCM begins a new series on Black independent film. You'll want to set a reminder for each Wednesday!
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
1:30 AM
Ball of Fire (1942)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-G
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
Director
Howard Hawks
Cast
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
3:30 AM
Tobacco Road (1941)
1h 24m | Comedy | TV-PG
A patriarch of a large rural Southern clan are threatened to be thrown off their land.
Director
John Ford
Cast
Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
5:00 AM
December 7th (1943)
1h 21m | Documentary | TV-PG
After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. fights to survive the early days of World War II.
Director
John Ford
Cast
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews
6:30 AM
The North Star (1943)
1h 45m | War | TV-PG
Ukrainian villagers unite to fight off invading Nazis.
Director
Lewis Milestone
Cast
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston
8:30 AM
Up in Arms (1944)
1h 46m | Musical | TV-G
A hypochondriac's imagined illnesses aren't enough to keep him out of the military.
Director
Elliott Nugent
Cast
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews
10:30 AM
Act of Violence (1949)
1h 22m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-PG
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Cast
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
12:00 PM
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
1h 35m | Crime | TV-PG
The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with a gangster in '20s Kansas City.
Director
Jack Webb
Cast
Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien
1:45 PM
Holiday Affair (1949)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-G
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Director
Don Hartman
Cast
Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
3:30 PM
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
1h 42m | Drama | TV-G
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
Director
Clarence Brown
Cast
Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn
5:15 PM
Just This Once (1952)
1h 30m | Comedy | TV-G
A playboy hands control of his dwindling fortune to a pretty girl.
Director
Don Weis
Cast
Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone
6:45 PM
Confidentially Connie (1953)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
An expectant mother hatches a series of madcap schemes to improve her husband's financial standing.
Director
Edward Buzzell
Cast
Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: SPECIAL THEME: BLACK INDEPENDENTS
8:00 PM
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
Documentary | TV-MA
A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
Director
Francesco Zippel
Cast
Francesco Zippel
10:00 PM
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1921)
58m | Drama | TV-PG
In this silent film, a black heiress fights off the Ku Klux Klan to save her land.
Director
Oscar Micheaux
Cast
Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault
11:15 PM
Souls of Sin (1949)
1h 3m | Drama | TV-G
A femme fatale leads an honest man into crime.
Director
Powell Lindsay
Cast
Savannah Churchill, Jimmy Wright, Billie Allen
12:30 AM
The Flying Ace (1926)
Silent
An aviator investigates a train station robbery while wooing the stationmaster's daughter.
Director
Richard E. Norman
Cast
Boise De Legge, George Colvin, Sam Jordan
1:45 AM
The Blood of Jesus (1941)
1h 8m | Drama | TV-G
A rural black woman lying near death is torn between heaven and hell.
Director
Spencer Williams Jr.
Cast
Spencer Williams, Cathryn Caviness
3:00 AM
Dirty Gertie from Harlem, U.S.A. (1946)
1h | Musical | TV-G
A lady band leader leaves a string of jilted men in her wake.
Director
Spencer Williams
Cast
Francine Everett, Don Wilson, Kathrine Moore
4:15 AM
Bathing Beauty (1944)
1h 41m | Musical | TV-G
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher.
Director
George Sidney
Cast
Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone