CATCH A CLASSIC
Have a merry classic Christmas with a day full of beloved holiday-related films on MOVIES! and Turner Classic Movies.
Christmas MOVIES!
MOVIES!, beginning at 5 a.m.
The lineup on MOVIES! begins early with O. Henry’s Full House (1952), an anthology of O. Henry short story adaptations, including his famous Christmas tale, “The Gift of the Magi.” The lineup continues with the Rat Pack flick Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964); Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991), with Richard Thomas, Edward Asner and Charles Bronson; The Night They Saved Christmas (1984), starring
Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney; Mrs. Santa Claus (1996), featuring Angela Lansbury in the title role; Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), the famed Judy Garland musical; 1951’s A Christmas Carol (pictured), led by Alastair Sim as Scrooge; An American Christmas Carol (1979), starring Henry Winkler; A Christmas Memory (1997), with Patty Duke; The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve (2004), led by Steven Weber and Molly Shannon; and Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (1987), with John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Kim Delaney.
Christmas Marathon Concludes
TCM, beginning at 5:30 a.m.
TCM‘s weeklong Christmas movie marathon wraps up today with a lineup featuring Bachelor Mother (1939), All Mine to Give (1957), Never Say Goodbye (1946), Holiday Affair (1949), The Apartment (1960), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) and In the Good Old Summertime (1949). The day concludes with the James Stewart-led Hitchcock classics Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and Rope (1948).