TCM Schedule for Sunday September 28, 2025 - Orphan Musicals

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Athena (1954)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
A society lawyer falls in love with the daughter of a family of fitness fanatics.
Director: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Virginia Gibson

7:45 AM Basketball Headliners (1956)
15m | Short | TV-G
This short shows highlights from several basketball games at two postseason tournaments in 1956.
Cast: Ray Dieringer, Nelson Osa, Braddie Stahl, Jim Heeren

8:15 AM Tall Story (1960)
1h 31m | Comedy | TV-PG
Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.
Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston

10:00 AM Berlin Express (1948)
1h 26m | Suspense | TV-PG
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Director: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin

11:45 AM The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
1h 58m | Drama | TV-PG
An unscrupulous movie producer uses everyone around him in his climb to the top.
Director: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon

2:00 PM The Star (1953)
1h 29m | Drama | TV-PG
A faded film star fights to hold on to her past glamour despite failing finances.
Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood

3:45 PM Les Girls (1957)
1h 54m | Musical | TV-PG
Three showgirls recall different versions of their time together touring Europe.
Director: George Cukor. Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall

5:45 PM The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
2h 2m | Romance | TV-PG
Three episodes follow a rare, yellow Rolls-Royce as it passes through the lives of three different owners.
Director: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine

8:00 PM Annie (1982)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-PG
An orphan attracts the attention of a Wall Street tycoon and a con artist.
Director: John Huston. Cast: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn

10:15 PM The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
2h 7m | Musical | TV-G
An impoverished orphan dreams of attending the royal ball.
Director: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Gemma Craven, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans

12:30 AM Too Wise Wives (1921)
1h 20m | Drama | TV-PG
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Director: Lois Weber. Cast: Louis Calhern, Claire Windsor, Phillips Smalley

2:15 AM World on a Wire (1973)
3h 32m | Science Fiction | TV-MA
A cybernetics engineer uncovers a conspiracy in a corporation specializing in virtual reality.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast: Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben