TCM Schedule for Monday Monday 16 - TCM Spotlight: Late Roy Del Ruth

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Veteran studio director is spotlighted tonight with some of his later work.

(all times Eastern)

7:15 AM Big City (1948)
Three bachelors adopt an orphan, then fight over custody when each falls in love.
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Preston, Danny Thomas. Dir: Norman Taurog.
BW-103 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

9:00 AM Words and Music (1948)
Songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart search for love while rising to the top. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Janet Leigh, Tom Drake. Dir: Norman Taurog.
C-121 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

11:15 AM Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Mistaken identity complicates a polo player's romance with a bathing suit designer. Cast: Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Red Skelton. Dir: Edward Buzzell. C-93 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

1:00 PM On the Town (1949)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City. Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Vera-Ellen. Dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. C-98 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
A beautiful woman takes over a turn-of-the-century baseball team.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams. Dir: Busby Berkeley.
C-93 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

4:30 PM My Sister Eileen (1955)
Two sisters from Ohio, one pretty, one witty, plot to take New York City by storm. Cast: Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon. Dir: Richard Quine.
C-107 mins, TV-G, CC,

6:30 PM Shadow on the Wall (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother's murder.
Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau. Dir: Pat Jackson.
BW-84 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM On Moonlight Bay (1951)
A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.
Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames. Dir: Roy Del Ruth.
C-95 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

9:45 PM Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
Three sailors on leave back a Broadway hit. Cast: Jane Powell, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. C-95 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM Starlift (1951)
An actress and an air transport crewman fall in love in this star-studded salute to the Korean war. Cast: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-103 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 AM Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron's plans to crash high society. Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-86 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 AM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler's revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta. Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Raymond Burr. Dir: Roy Del Ruth.
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

4:30 AM Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
A vaudeville clown neglects his family while fighting for stardom. Cast: Milton Berle, Bert Lahr, Virginia Mayo. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-116 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

[CBHagman]

1. Mayo this time out too!

Wednesday features films directed by Archie Mayo, and tonight TCM offers films featuring Virginia Mayo.