TCM Schedule for Tuesday, December 22: TCM Classic Christmas Marathon Continues!

[CBHagman]

Looking for movies with a holiday theme or at least a holiday scene? You've come to the right place.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

12:00 AM
Good Sam (1948)
1h 53m | Comedy | TV-G
Inspired by Reverend Daniels' Sunday sermon on charity and goodness, compulsive do-gooder ...
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund ...

2:15 AM
The Blue Bird (1940)
1h 28m | Fantasy | TV-G
After Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl trap a rare bird in the royal forest, Mytyl selfishly r...
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce

3:45 AM
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
2h 4m | Drama | TV-MA
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW ...
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Cast: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto

6:00 AM
And So They Were Married (1936)
1h 14m | Comedy | TV-G
Just before Christmas, widower Stephen Blake arrives at the gala opening of Snowcrest Lodg...
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Edith Fellows

7:15 AM
Cover Up (1949)
1h 25m | Mystery | 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

8:45 AM
Never Say Goodbye (1946)
1h 37m | Comedy | TV-PG
A husband tries to win back his wife before she can divorce him.
Director: James V. Kern
Cast: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Lucile Watson

10:30 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 de...
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Warner Anderson

12:15 PM
Come to the Stable (1949)
1h 34m | Comedy | TV-G
One winter's night, two French nuns, Sisters Margaret and Scolastica, come to the small Ne...
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe

2:00 PM
Lady in the Lake (1947)
1h 43m | Drama | TV-PG
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detecti...
Director: Robert Montgomery
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan

3:45 PM
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
1h 46m | Comedy | TV-PG
The life of Henry Orient, a New York concert pianist with more ego than talent, becomes co...
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker

5:45 PM
The Lion in Winter (1968)
2h 14m | Drama | TV-14
In 1183, King Henry II of England summons his estranged wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom h...
Director: Anthony Harvey
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow

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8:00 PM
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
1h 41m | Comedy | TV-G
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up fa...
Director: Peter Godfrey
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstree...

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10:00 PM
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-PG
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music ...
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall

12:00 AM
Holiday Affair (1949)
1h 27m | Comedy | 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

1:45 AM
Night at the Movies, A: Merry Christmas! (2011)
58m | Documentary | TV-PG
Star interviews and film clips trace the history of Christmas movies.
Director: null
Cast: Margaret O'Brien, Michael Patrick Hearn, Chevy Cha...

3:00 AM
Bachelor Mother (1939)
1h 20m | Comedy | TV-G
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Director: Garson Kanin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn

4:30 AM
Bundle of Joy (1956)
1h 38m | Comedy | TV-PG
A recently fired shop girl is mistaken for a single mother when she finds an abandoned bab...
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou

[Staph]

1. Oh! A Lion in Winter!

The wickedest Christmas movie ever made.

John: A knife! He's got a knife!

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.

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2. One of THE most quotable movies of all time.

Henry, to no one in particular: "What shall we hang, the holly or each other?"

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Eleanor, to Henry: "I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!"

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Eleanor, reminiscing: "I made Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure, and I damn near died of windburn, but the troops were dazzled."