TCM Schedule for Monday January 5, 2026 - Sammy Cahn Part 1

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Daytime features movies about big bets.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Times Square Lady (1935)
1h 8m | Drama | TV-G
A gambler's assistant helps the boss's daughter fight off a crooked lawyer.
Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce, Pinky Tomlin

7:15 AM Lady Luck (1947)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-PG
A woman from a family of gamblers marries one and tries to reform him.
Director: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan

9:00 AM Married Bachelor (1941)
1h 21m | Comedy | TV-G
A married gambler has to pose as a bachelor to pay off his debts.
Director: Edward Buzzell. Cast: Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart

10:30 AM A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
1h 1m | Comedy | TV-G
A gambler sells his body to science to pay his debts.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat

11:45 AM The Big Gamble (1932)
1h 1m | COmedy | TV-G
A gambler fakes his death so he can pay off his creditors with the insurance money.
Director: Fred Niblo. Cast: Bill Boyd, James Gleason, Warner Oland

1:00 PM Three Bites of the Apple (1967)
1h 45m | Comedy | TV-PG
A meek tour guide wins a fortune in a Riviera casino and chooses to invest it in Switzerland rather than taking it back to England where the cash would be heavily taxed. He is watched all the while by a scheming gold-digger and her ex-husband who end up chasing the hapless guide all over Europe.
Director: Alvin Ganzer. Cast: David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes

2:45 PM Sky Full of Moon (1952)
1h 13m | Comedy | TV-PG
An innocent cowboy stumbles upon a fortune and a glamorous girlfriend in Las Vegas.
Director: Norman Foster. Cast: Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn

4:00 PM Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
1h 52m | Musical | TV-G
A ballerina becomes a gambler's lucky charm.
Director: Roy Rowland. Cast: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead

6:00 PM It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
A pair of broke, smalltime pilots go to the Seattle World's Fair to try to win some money, but find romance instead.
Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Elvis Presley, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood

8:00 PM Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
1h 42m | Romance | TV-G
A trio of American women living in Rome drop coins in the famous Trevi fountain wishing that their love lives will improve. Soon enough, romance is in the air for all three.
Director: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters

10:00 PM Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
2h 3m | Musical | TV-PG
A Chicago gangster stumbles into philanthropic work during a gang war.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.

12:15 AM The Tender Trap (1955)
1h 51m | Comedy | TV-PG
A swinging bachelor finds love when he meets a girl immune to his line.
Director: Charles Walters. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne

2:15 AM Anchors Aweigh (1945)
2h 23m | Musical | TV-G
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Director: George Sidney. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly

4:45 AM It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
1h 45m | Musical | TV-G
A returning GI and his friends try to make it in the music business.
Director: Richard Whorf. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford

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