TCM Schedule for Thursday, June 13, 2024: Baseball / From Film to Broadway (Billy Elliot, Sunset Boulevard, & more)

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Evening theme: TCM celebrates the 77th Tony Awards, scheduled for June 16, 2024, with three films that have spawned Broadway plays: Sunset Boulevard, Billy Elliot and The Band's Visit.

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6:00 AM | The Great American Pastime (1956)
Misunderstandings arise between an attractive widow, a little league coach, and his wife.
Dir: Herman Hoffman | Cast: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller

7:30 AM | Ladies' Day (1943)
To save their team, baseball players try to get their star pitcher married to the right woman.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins | Cast: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly

8:45 AM | Death on the Diamond (1934)
A rookie pitcher tries to stop someone from killing the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dir: Edward Sedgwick | Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton

10:00 AM | Fireman, Save My Child (1932)
A small-town ball player moves to the big leagues.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon | Cast: Joe E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp, Lilian Bond

11:30 AM | Alibi Ike (1935)
A brash baseball star gets mixed up with gamblers and a pretty young girl.
Dir: Ray Enright | Cast: Joe E. Brown, Olivia De Havilland, Ruth Donnelly

1:00 PM | Speedy (1928)
A young man helps his girlfriend save the family trolley business.
Dir: Ted Wilde | Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff

2:30 PM | The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
A childlike oaf becomes the greatest star in baseball.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth | Cast: William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford

4:30 PM | The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Jackie Robinson plays himself in this true story of the man who broke MLB's color barrier.
Dir: Alfred E. Green | Cast: Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson

6:00 PM | The Stratton Story (1949)
True story of Monty Stratton, who fought to continue his baseball career after losing a leg.
Dir: Sam Wood | Cast: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan


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8:00 PM | Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim

10:00 PM | Billy Elliot (2000) TCM PREMIERE
A boy becomes torn between his love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Dir: Stephen Daldry | Cast: Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven

12:00 AM | The Band's Visit (2007)
An Egyptian police band gets lost in Israel.
Dir: Eran Kolirin | Cast: Sasson Gabay, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri

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2:00 AM | Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two male musicians disguise themselves as women after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

4:15 AM | An American in Paris (1951)
A struggling American artist in post-war Paris finds love.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant