TCM Schedule for Sunday, December 16 -- CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE

[Longhorn]

4:00am Captain Blood (1935)
After being unjustly sentenced to prison, a doctor escapes and becomes a notorious pirate.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-119 mins, TV-G

6:00am Hills Of Home (1948)
Lassie helps a Scottish doctor deal with his patients' problems.
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Janet Leigh. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-97 mins, TV-G

7:38am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Fishing Feats (1951)
BW-10 mins

8:00am Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, George Sanders. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-120 mins, TV-PG

10:15am Portrait of Jennie (1948)
An artist discovers his gift when he falls for a beautiful ghost.
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore. Dir: William Dieterle. BW-86 mins, TV-PG

11:57am Short Film: From The Vaults: Jimmy Fund - A Visit With Debbie Reynolds (1959)
BW-3 mins

12:00pm Susan Slept Here (1954)
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Cast: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis. Dir: Frank Tashlin. C-98 mins, TV-PG

2:00pm Bishop's Wife, The (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven. Dir: Henry Koster. BW-109 mins, TV-G

4:00pm Suspicion (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Nigel Bruce. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. BW-100 mins, TV-PG

5:46pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: City Of Brigham Young (1944)
C-10 mins

6:00pm American in Paris, An (1951)
An American artist finds love in Paris but almost loses it to conflicting loyalties.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-114 mins, TV-PG

What's On Tonight: TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE

8:00pm Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-113 mins, TV-G

10:00pm Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
A small-town boy tries to juggle two girlfriends at once.
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland. Dir: George B. Seitz. BW-91 mins, TV-G

11:35pm Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Three On A Rope (1938)
BW-10 mins

12:00am Earth (1930)
In this silent film, farmers in the Ukraine defy a wealthy landowner to buy their own tractor.
Cast: Semyon Svashenko. Stepan Shkurat, Mikola Nademsky. Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko. BW-71 mins, TV-PG

1:15am Plow That Broke the Plains, The (1936)
Documentary cameras delve into the causes of the Depression's dust bowl.
Dir: Pare Lorentz. BW-25 mins, TV-G

1:44am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)
C-7 mins

2:00am Kameradschaft (1931)
German miners defy international prejudice to rescue French miners trapped beneath their countries' borders.
Cast: Ernst Busch, Andree Ducret, Helena Manson. Dir: G.W. Pabst. BW-86 mins, TV-14

3:30am Black Fury (1935)
A coal worker gets mixed up in the mob's efforts to infiltrate his union.
Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-94 mins, TV-G

[Longhorn]

1. A whole lot of Cary Grant Sunday and Monday!

I could just swoon! ;)

[Matilda]

5. "The Bishop's Wife" is my favourite Chrisitmas viewing.

If TCM don't show it, I have it on tape. Nobody else in my family cares
for it - no taste at all.

I also indulge myself by watching "Love Actually" (I never need much
excuse to watch Alan Rickman in anything), but that's something that
everybody watches with me.

[Longhorn]

6. Oh, I forgot we watched that, too!

My daughters came to help me decorate my Christmas tree and one of them brought it. I didn't think of it as a Christmas movie at first but, of course, it mostly takes place at Christmas. It's hard not to watch that one over and over! :) I like Alan Rickman, too, as well as Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant, which is a reason I can also watch Sense & Sensibility over and over. And then there's Liam Neeson and Colin Firth -- what a bunch of hunks in one movie! :D

[lavenderdiva]

2. boy, what a great line-up today!

SO many great films to enjoy today!! I have been surprised at the lack of 'play' some of the great Christmas classics are receiving this season. I know 'What a Wonderful Life' was on NBC (I think) Friday night, but I haven't seen any of the others anywhere, even on cable. I find this surprising, as there are so many wonderful ones to choose from! I'm glad to see 'The Bishop's Wife' and 'Meet Me In St. Louis' both being shown today.... :hi:

[Longhorn]

3. Maybe they're saving the best for last! :)

Fortunately, I own all my favorite Christmas movies on VHS or DVD so I see them every year. So far this year, I've only seen Holiday Inn. But I have a lot of grading to do by Wednesday so I expect to be watching the others while I'm doing that. :D

We're in Houston (well, Spring) this weekend for my mother's 75th birthday party and will head to Georgetown this evening for Christmas with my in-laws since all of my children are in town. Then my oldest daughter returns to Denver tomorrow and my son returns to California. My twins and their husbands, who live in Austin, will spend the night Christmas Eve and we'll watch some Christmas movies then, too. I've raised them right! ;) :hi:

[lavenderdiva]

4. you sure have raised them right!

Mr. lavenderdiva cringes and winces whenever one of my much-loved Christmas movie DVD's comes out of its box. He is doing much better this year than last, and actually watched 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' and 'Holiday Inn' WITH me!