TCM Schedule for Thurs, Jan 16, 2025: Farm Life / Debbie Allen

Deborah Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

She has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award (winning five), and two Tony Awards. She has also won a Golden Globe Award.

In the film Fame (1980), Allen played the role of Lydia Grant. Though the film role was relatively small role, Lydia became a central figure in the television adaptation, which ran from 1982 to 1987. For this role in 1983, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography. She was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Allen has a supporting role in the comedy-drama film Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, which has its TCM premiere tonight.

Full bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Allen




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6:00 AM | Gallant Bess (1946)
A soldier takes the Army horse that saved his life back to the farm.
Dir: Andrew Marton | Cast: Marshall Thompson, George Tobias, Clem Bevans

8:00 AM | The Purchase Price (1932)
A night-club singer on the lam becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
Dir: William A. Wellman | Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot

9:30 AM | The Sheepman (1958)
A tough sheep farmer battles the local cattle baron for land and a beautiful woman.
Dir: George Marshall | Cast: Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Nielsen

11:00 AM | The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
A farmer's daughter falls in love with a man who fought against her family in the Civil War.
Dir: Roy Rowland | Cast: Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh

1:00 PM | When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
A wealthy playboy gives up partying to help a Nevada farm girl make her ranch a success.
Dir: Alvin Ganzer | Cast: Connie Francis, Harve Presnell, Herman's Hermits

3:00 PM | Silver Dollar (1932)
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Dir: Alfred E. Green | Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline Macmahon

4:30 PM | Hide-Out (1934)
Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke | Cast: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold

6:00 PM | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seven brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Dir: Stanley Donen | Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn


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8:00 PM | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) TCM PREMIERE
A comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
Dir: Richard Pryor | Cast: Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans

9:45 PM | Ragtime (1981)
A black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family in early 1900s NYC.
Dir: Milos Forman | Cast: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Debbie Allen

12:45 AM | Fame (1980)
Gifted students at New York's School of Performing Arts prepare for careers in show business.
Dir: Alan Parker | Cast: Irene Cara, Debbie Allen, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri


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3:15 AM | Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field