TCM Schedule for Monday May 5, 2025 - Rogers and Hammerstein

Daytime celebrates Cinco de Mayo with a bunch of Mexican Spitfire movies.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Viva Villa! (1934)
1h 55m | Western | TV-PG
Rousing biography of the bandit chief who led the battle for Mexican independence.
Director: Jack Conway. Cast: Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray

8:00 AM Sombrero (1953)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-PG
Three sets of lovers are caught between feuding Mexican villages.
Director: Norman Foster. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman

9:45 AM The Girl from Mexico (1939)
1h 9m | Comedy | TV-G
An ad man tours Mexico trying to cast a new radio show.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Donald Woods, Leon Errol

11:00 AM Mexican Spitfire (1940)
1h 7m | Comedy | TV-G
A businessman's aunt enlists his ex-wife to break up his marriage to a temperamental Latina.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods

12:15 PM Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
1h 16m | Comedy | TV-G
To punish her inattentive husband, a Latin bombshell pretends to want a divorce .
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods

1:45 PM The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
1h 6m | Comedy | TV-G
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers

3:00 PM Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
1h 12m | Comedy | TV-G
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers

4:15 PM Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
1h 15m | Comedy | TV-G
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife investigate a haunted house.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy" Rogers

5:30 PM Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
A temperamental Latina and her family get caught in the search for a rare art treasure.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed

6:45 PM Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)
1h 3m | Comedy | TV-G
A husband mistakenly believes his hot Latin wife is pregnant.
Director: Leslie Goodwins. Cast: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed

8:00 PM Oklahoma! (1955)
2h 28m | Musical | TV-PG
Film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about the early settlers on the Oklahoma plain.
Director: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson

10:30 PM Carousel (1956)
2h 8m | Musical | TV-G
A dramatic love story unfolds between a rough-talking, macho carousel barker, and a young, innocent mill worker.
Director: Henry King. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell

12:45 AM South Pacific (1958)
2h 38m | Musical | TV-G
Two stories set side by side about love and loss set in the wartime tropics. Adaptation of the 1949 stage play.
Director: Joshua Logan. Cast: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr

3:30 AM Flower Drum Song (1961)
2h 13m | Musical | TV-G
A refugee travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride.
Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Juanita Hall