TCM Schedule for Wednesday, August 19th: Summer Under the Stars: Red Skelton

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009.

12:30 AM Green Berets, The (1968)
After vigorous training, two Army detachments see service in Vietnam. Cast: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton. Dir: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg. C-142 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

3:00 AM Three Faces West (1940)
A refugee must choose between the man she loves and the man who helped her father escape the Third Reich. Cast: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn. Dir: Bernard Vorhaus. BW-79 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 AM Baby Face (1933)
A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins, TV-PG, CC

6:00 AM Having Wonderful Time (1938)
A New York girl finds love at a summer resort. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lucille Ball. Dir: Alfred Santell. BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC

7:15 AM Ship Ahoy (1942)
A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines. Cast: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr. Dir: Edward Buzzell. BW-95 mins, TV-G, CC

9:00 AM I Dood It (1943)
A tailor nurses an unrequited crush on a stage star. Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Lena Horne. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. BW-103 mins, TV-G, CC



10:45 AM Du Barry Was A Lady (1943)
A night club employee dreams he's Louis XV, and the star he idolizes is his lady love. Cast: Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC

12:30 PM Show-Off, The (1946)
A man's loud-mouthed bumbling almost ruins his new wife's family. Cast: Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell, Marjorie Main. Dir: Harry Beaumont. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

2:00 PM Southern Yankee, A (1948)
A bellboy masquerades as a spy and lands behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:36 PM Short Film: Camera Caught It, The (1954)
BW-9 mins,

3:45 PM Watch The Birdie (1950)
A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks. Cast: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller. Dir: Jack Donohue. BW-71 mins, TV-G, CC

5:00 PM Yellow Cab Man, The (1950)
An inventor's unbreakable glass attracts the attention of businessmen and gangsters. Cast: Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Slezak. Dir: Jack Donohue. BW-84 mins, TV-G

6:30 PM Excuse My Dust (1951)
An inventor's new automobile could put his girlfriend's livery stable out of business. Cast: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey. Dir: Roy Rowland. BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

What's On Tonight: SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: RED SKELTON

8:00 PM Whistling In The Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Conrad Veidt. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

9:30 PM Whistling In Dixie (1942)
A radio detective's southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

10:48 PM Short Film: Dixieland (1934)
C-87 mins,

11:00 PM Fuller Brush Man, The (1948)
A bumbling salesman gets mixed up in murder. Cast: Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-92 mins, TV-PG



12:45 AM Bathing Beauty (1944)
A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher. Cast: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone. Dir: George Sidney. C-101 mins, TV-G, CC

2:30 AM Whistling In Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, "Rags" Ragland. Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 AM Clown, The (1953)
In this remake of The Champ, a drunken clown tries to make a comeback so he can keep his son. Cast: Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Tim Considine. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

5:32 AM Short Film: Clown Princes (1939)
BW-10 mins,