TCM Schedule for Sunday, 7/28 -- The Essentials, Jr.: Fred Astaire

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6:00 AM
The Walking Dead (1936)

A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge.
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn.
BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC


7:15 AM
The Painted Veil (1934)

A wife strays, then fights to redeem herself to her husband.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent.
BW-85 mins, TV-G, CC


8:45 AM
A Night in Paradise (1946)

Aesop takes a break from spinning fables to help a king and fall in love.
Dir: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez.
C-84 mins, TV-G, CC


10:15 AM
Boomerang (1947)

A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir: Elia Kazan
Cast: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
BW-88 mins, TV-PG, CC


12:00 PM
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1966)

Madcap musical set in ancient Rome, where a clever slave connives to win his freedom.
Dir: Richard Lester
Cast: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton.
C-97 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

1:45 PM
Room For One More (1952)

A family with three children takes in troubled orphans.
Dir: Norman Taurog
Cast: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle.
BW-95 mins, TV-G

3:30 PM
For Pete's Sake (1974)

A woman goes to outlandish extremes to make her husband rich.
Dir: Peter Yates
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons.
C-90 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format


5:15 PM
West Side Story (1961)

A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love.
Dir: Robert Wise
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn.
C-153 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


TONIGHT AT 8:00
THE ESSENTIALS, JR.: FRED ASTAIRE

8:00 PM
The Band Wagon (1953)

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant.
C-112 mins, TV-G, CC


10:00 PM
Daddy Long Legs (1955)

A tycoon anonymously sponsors a French girl's college education.
Dir: Jean Negulesco
Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore.
C-127 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


12:15 AM
Kiki (1926)

A Parisian dancer vies with a glamorous actress for a producer's heart.
Dir: Clarence Brown
Cast: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor.
BW-97 mins, TV-G


2:00 AM
La Bandida (1963)

Enemies arrested during the Mexican revolution leave prison to find a changed world.
Dir: Roberto Rodriguez
C-105 mins, TV-MA

4:00 AM
The Fugitive (1947)

A revolutionary priest flees a Central American dictatorship.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: Henry Fonda, Pedro Armendariz, J. Carrol Naish.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC