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TCM Morning & Afternoon Movies: Ladies on Horseback
TCM, beginning at 5:30 a.m.
The ladies take the reins this morning and afternoon on Turner Classic Movies, with an eight-film lineup of Westerns and memorable movies of other types featuring women on horses: 1952’s Montana Belle (pictured), led by Jane Russell as outlaw Belle Starr; Westward the Women (1951), with Denise Darcel and Hope Emerson; Gypsy Colt (1954), a Lassie-like story of a girl and her horse starring Donna Corcoran; Wine, Women and Horses
(1937), with Ann Sheridan; The Story of Seabiscuit (1949), a dramatization of the legendary racehorse’s life starring Shirley Temple; Annie Oakley (1935), headlined by Barbara Stanwyck as the famous titular sharpshooter; Blood on the Moon (1948), a Western film noir co-starring Barbara Bel Geddes; and Annie Get Your Gun (1950), another movie loosely based on Oakley’s life, with Golden Globe nominee Betty Hutton portraying her in this famed musical comedy.