TCM Schedule for Monday December 23, 2024 - Christmas Marathon

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(all times Eastern)

6:15 AM Compliments of the Season (1930)
13m | Drama | TV-G
In this film, a criminal attempting to go straight stops a young lady on Christmas eve from committing suicide. Vitaphone Release 1094-1095.
Director: Arthur Hurley. Cast: Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane, Pat O'Brien

6:30 AM The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
1h 44m | Musical | TV-G
Against her widowed father's wishes, a vaudeville star's daughter takes to the stage.
Director: David Butler. Cast: June Haver, Gordon MacRae, James Barton

8:30 AM I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
1h 10m | Crime | TV-PG
A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to find the genuine killer.
Director: William Nigh. Cast: Don Castle, Elyse Knox, Regis Toomey

10:00 AM My Reputation (1946)
1h 36m | Romance | TV-PG
A widow generates small-town gossip when she falls in love too soon after her husband's death.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson

12:00 PM The Man I Love (1947)
1h 36m | Drama | TV-G
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King

2:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
1h 35m | Comedy | TV-PG
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford

4:00 PM Backfire (1950)
1h 31m | Crime | TV-PG
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Director: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien

6:00 PM Period of Adjustment (1962)
1h 52m | Comedy | TV-PG
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Director: George Roy Hill. Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton

8:00 PM Holiday Affair (1949)
1h 27m | Romance | TV-G
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Director: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

9:45 PM Desk Set (1957)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-G
An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
Director: Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young

11:45 PM Meet John Doe (1941)
2h 3m | Drama | TV-G
A reporter's fraudulent story turns a tramp into a national hero and makes him a pawn of big business.
Director: Frank Capra. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold

2:00 AM The Thin Man (1934)
1h 31m | Suspense | TV-G
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Director: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan

3:45 AM Cover Up (1949)
1h 25m | Suspense | TV-14
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton

5:15 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
1h 25m | Drama | TV-G
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara

[CBHagman]

1. What a schedule!

Good variety and creative choices.

Larcency, Inc. was a nice surprise when I first caught it on TCM.