TCM Schedule for Friday, January 5, 2024 - Movies on Ice / NYC Relationships

[Auggie]

James Stewart and Lew Ayers in The Ice Follies of 1939

6:15 AM | Snow Birds (1932)
This showcases various winter sports, from tobogganing to ski-jumping.
Dir: Jules White | Cast: Pete Smith
Runtime: 10 mins | Genre: Short

6:30 AM | Melody Cruise (1933)
A playboy finds true love during an ocean cruise.
Dir: Mark Sandrich | Cast: Charles Ruggles, Phil Harris, Helen Mack
Runtime: 76 mins | Genre: Musical

8:00 AM | King of Hockey (1936)
A hockey star goes blind and has to fight for a new life.
Dir: Noel Smith | Cast: Dick Purcell, Anne Nagel, Marie Wilson
Runtime: 57 mins | Genre: Drama

9:00 AM | It's a Pleasure! (1945)
A disgraced hockey player takes up figure skating and falls for the show's star.
Dir: William A. Seiter | Cast: Sonja Henie, Michael O'Shea, Marie McDonald
Runtime: 90 mins | Genre: Musical

10:45 AM | Ice Antics (1939)
This short film looks at the popular sport of ice skating.
Dir: David Miller | Cast: Pat Merifield, Phyllis Thompson, Sparky Bourque
Runtime: 9 mins | Genre: Short

11:00 AM | The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
An ice-skating team breaks up when both partners fall for the same girl.
Dir: Reinhold Schunzel | Cast: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres
Runtime: 83 mins | Genre: Musical

12:30 PM | Ice Aces (1948)
This provides a behind-the-scenes look of the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites.
Dir: David Barclay | Cast: Bernie Lyman, Johnny Flanagan, Larry Jackson
Runtime: 8 mins | Genre: Short

12:45 PM | Silver Skates (1943)
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Dir: Leslie Goodwins | Cast: Kenny Baker, Patricia Morison, Belita
Runtime: 75 mins | Genre: Musical

2:15 PM | Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owners business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle | Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
Runtime: 100 mins | Genre: Suspense/Mystery

4:15 PM | The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard | Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
Runtime: 67 mins | Genre: Crime/Film-Noir

6:00 PM | Ice Castles (1978)
A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater.
Dir: Donald Wrye | Cast: Robby Benson, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Colleen Dewhurst, David Huffman
Runtime: 109 mins | Genre: Drama

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8:00 PM | Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance's brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison | Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
Runtime: 102 mins | Genre: Comedy

10:00 PM | The Apartment (1960)
An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
Dir: Billy Wilder | Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred Macmurray
Runtime: 125 mins | Genre: Comedy

12:15 AM | Crossing Delancey (1988)
Romantic drama about a single New York City woman and her quest to find the right man, but then a matchmaker introduces the upscale intellectual to a pickle salesman.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver | Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Jeroen Krabbe
Runtime: 97 mins | Genre: Romance

2:00 AM | Sunday in New York (1963)
A prim 22-year-old virgin, Eileen Tyler, considers premarital sex when she travels from Albany to visit her womanizing brother in New York City, and although engaged to another man, flirts with a stranger she meets on a bus.
Dir: Peter Tewksbury | Cast: Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Runtime: 105 mins | Genre: Comedy

4:00 AM | The Clock (1945)
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli | Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Runtime: 90 mins | Genre: Romance

[CBHagman]

1. Damn.

This schedule does beat all. I am speechless at the ice-themed movies.

And The Apartment, Crossing Delancey, and Moonstruck all in one evening?

[Auggie]

2. Was hoping to see Sun Valley Serenade in the line-up ...

but I suppose one Sonja Hennie film is enough.

[ificandream]

3. Thank you, Auggie.