TCM Schedule for Monday August 4, 2025 - Summer Under the Stars: Howard Keel

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
1h 30m | Western | TV-PG
Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.
Director: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel

8:00 AM Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
1h 21m | Western | TV-G
A real cowboy signs on to impersonate a faded western star for public appearances.
Director: Norman Panama. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel

9:30 AM Texas Carnival (1951)
1h 17m | Comedy | TV-G
A penniless carnival worker runs up a mountain of debts when he's mistaken for a millionaire.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel

11:00 AM Pagan Love Song (1950)
1h 16m | Musical | TV-G
An American tourist romances a Tahitian beauty.
Director: Robert Alton. Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell

12:30 PM Fast Company (1953)
1h 7m | Musical | TV-G
The heiress to a racing stable uncovers underhanded dealings.
Director: John Sturges. Cast: Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Marjorie Main

2:00 PM Lovely to Look At (1952)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
All-star remake of Roberta, with three Broadway producers inheriting a Parisian fashion house.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel

4:00 PM Kiss Me Kate (1953)
1h 51m | Musical | TV-G
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," but off-stage the production is rife with ex-lovers' quarrels and gangsters looking for kickbacks.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

6:00 PM Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
1h 47m | Musical | TV-G
Fanciful musical biography of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern

8:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1h 43m | Musical | TV-G
The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Director: Stanley Donen. Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn

10:00 PM Show Boat (1951)
1h 48m | Musical | TV-G
Riverboat entertainers find love, laughs and hardships as they sail along "Old Man River."
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel

12:00 AM Calamity Jane (1953)
1h 41m | Musical | TV-G
The Wild West heroine helps bring a star attraction to Deadwood and finds love.
Director: David Butler. Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie

2:00 AM Rose Marie (1954)
1h 55m | Musical | TV-G
A trapper's daughter is torn between the Mountie who wants to civilize her and a dashing prospector.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas

4:00 AM Jupiter's Darling (1955)
1h 36m | Musical | TV-G
A beautiful Roman mounts a romantic campaign to halt Hannibal's invasion of the empire.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Marge Champion