TCM Schedule for Tuesday, March 26: Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds

Oh, you sweethearts. First we have a daytime theme of Young Love (which is complicated, folks), and tonight we have cinematic sweetheart Debbie Reynolds in her Star of the Month turn.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

12:00 AM Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Two sisters find romance during a turn-of-the-century family vacation.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Louis Calhern
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:45 AM Mr. Imperium (1951)
An exiled king and a film star try to rekindle a romance from the past.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main
Runtime: 87 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


3:30 AM The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
Against her widowed father's wishes, a vaudeville star's daughter takes to the stage.
Dir: David Butler Cast: June Haver, Gordon Macrae, James Barton
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


5:30 AM Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Three women join the Navy to find husbands.
Dir: Sidney Lanfield Cast: Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y


7:30 AM Romeo and Juliet (1937)
Shakespeare's classic tale of young lovers from feuding families.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

9:45 AM Green Mansions (1959)
A young adventurer falls in love with a mystical woman in the South American jungle.
Dir: Mel Ferrer Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



11:45 AM Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
College students on spring break turn Palm Springs into a disaster area.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



1:30 PM The Young Lovers (1964)
College students suffer all the heartaches of first love.
Dir: Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Cast: Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Nick Adams
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-14 CC: Y


3:30 PM A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Runtime: 130 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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5:45 PM Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Set in the 1920s, two Midwest teenagers fall in love, are frightened by their physical desires and struggle to navigate their feelings of sexual repression.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Runtime: 124 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



What's on Tonight: Star of the Month: Debbie Reynolds

8:00 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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9:45 PM The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
A lovesick teenager searches for romance at college.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
Runtime: 74 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y



11:15 PM I Love Melvin (1953)
A photographer's assistant promises to turn a chorus girl into a cover girl.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



12:45 AM Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Three young dancers vie for a starring role on Broadway.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 81 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y



2:15 AM Hit the Deck (1955)
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
Dir: Roy Rowland Cast: Jane Powell, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds
Runtime: 112 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:15 AM Athena (1954)
A society lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a family of fitness fanatics.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson
Runtime: 96 mins Genre: Musical Rating: TV-G CC: Y