TCM Schedule for Friday, April 19, 2024: A Baby in the Picture / Escapes
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6:00 AM | A Global Affair (1964)
A U.N. official tries to locate the mother of an abandoned baby.
Dir: Jack Arnold | Cast: Bob Hope, Lilo Pulver, Michele Mercier
7:30 AM | Hold That Baby! (1949)
The Bowery Boys discover a lost baby they think is heir to a fortune.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg | Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
9:00 AM | Boy Meets Girl (1938)
Two wacky Hollywood writers drive their boss crazy while trying to help a pregnant waitress.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon | Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Marie Wilson
10:45 AM | Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Three naval cadets discover life is trickier than expected when a baby goes missing.
Dir: Ray Enright | Cast: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan
12:30 PM | Bachelor Mother (1939)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin | Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
2:00 PM | Four Mothers (1941)
Four married sisters face financial problems as motherhood approaches.
Dir: William Keighley | Cast: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert
3:30 PM | 3 Godfathers (1949)
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Dir: John Ford | Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr.
5:30 PM | Father's Little Dividend (1951)
A doting father faces a series of comic trials when his daughter has her first child.
Dir: Vincente Minnell | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
7:00 PM | The Kid (1921)
In this silent comedy, an adoptive father schemes to keep his son.
Dir: Charles Chaplin | Cast: Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
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8:00 PM | The Great Escape (1963)
Fictionalized version of British prisoners' escape from German POW camp during World War II.
Dir: John Sturges | Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
11:00 PM | Escape (1940)
A Nazi officer's mistress helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy | Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt
1:00 AM | Escape from East Berlin (1962)
An East German helps dig a tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall.
Dir: Robert Siodmak | Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer
3:00 AM | Escape from the Iron Curtain (1957)
A mission is planned to bring out a scientist from Hungary.
Dir: Denis Kavanagh | Cast: Theodore Bikel, John Bentley, Donald Gray
4:00 AM | I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
A forger, forced to work for a Nazi spy ring, secretly conspires with the FBI.
Dir: Harold Young | Cast: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian
5:30 AM | MGM Parade Show #8 (1955)
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant perform in a clip from The Philadelphia Story. George Murphy introduces a clip from The Tender Trap.
Cast: George Murphy, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant