TCM Schedule for Sunday, December 19

[lavenderdiva]

19 Sunday



6:30 AM Top Hat (1935)
A woman thinks the man who loves her is her best friend's husband. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Dir: Mark Sandrich. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC, DVS

8:15 AM Merrily We Live (1938)
A society matron's habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants leads to romance for her daughter. Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke. Dir: Norman Z. McLeod. BW-95 mins, TV-G

10:00 AM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South. Cast: Don DeFore, Victor Moore, Gale Storm. Dir: Roy Del Ruth. BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM Scrooge (1970)
A miser faces the ghosts of his past on Christmas Eve. Cast: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More. Dir: Ronald Neame. C-113 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

2:00 PM Auntie Mame (1958)
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne. Dir: Morton Da Costa. C-143 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:30 PM The Major and the Minor (1942)
A woman disguises herself as a little girl and ends up in a military academy. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Diana Lynn. Dir: Billy Wilder. BW-100 mins, TV-G, CC

6:15 PM The Mating Game (1959)
A tax agent falls for a farm girl whose father he's investigating. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, Paul Douglas. Dir: George Marshall. C-97 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

8:00 PM Grease (1978)
A prim Australian exchange student falls for a high-school gang leader. Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing. Dir: Randal Kleiser. C-110 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM A Summer Place (1959)
An adulterous couple discovers that their children are sexually involved. Cast: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee. Dir: Delmer Daves. C-130 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

12:15 AM The King of Kings (1927)
In this silent film, Cecil B. DeMille directs an epic retelling of the life of Christ. Cast: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence. Dir: Cecil B. DeMille. BW-157 mins, TV-G

3:00 AM Orpheus (1949)
A poet follows his dead wife into the underworld, only to fall in love with Death. Cast: Jean Marais, Francois Perier, Maria Casares. Dir: Jean Cocteau. BW-95 mins, TV-PG

4:45 AM A Matter of Life and Death (1947)
An injured aviator argues in celestial court for the chance to go on living. Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote. Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. C-104 mins, TV-PG, CC

[CBHagman]

1. That has to be the strangest movie schedule on the planet!

A Summer Place and King of Kings? :shrug: Got to love TCM.

[lavenderdiva]

2. I agree-

I couldn't even figure out HOW in the world the two highlighted films of the evening, 'Grease' and 'A Summer Place' would be related! And then they lead into 'King of Kings'?? Weird! I do wish TCM would bring back the 'What's On Tonight' headline, because that did give some insight into what they were thinking with the evening's line-up. But they didn't ask me when they got rid of it! :hi:

[CBHagman]

3. That has made me make more use of their site.

Generally I click on This Month when I get to the site, so that I can figure out which themes they're employing. Sometimes I look up the birthday of whichever star seems to be well represented in the movie line-up, but frankly that is by no means a sure thing, as they'll feature someone without an overt reason.