TCM Schedule for Sunday, December 23 -- Tonight on TCM: Christmas Double Feature

[Bolo Boffin]

6:30 AM
The Great Rupert (1950)

A squirrel becomes the guardian angel for an impoverished family.
Dir: Irving Pichel
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake.
BW-88 mins, TV-G, CC


8:00 AM
Little Women (1933)

The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
BW-116 mins, TV-G, CC


10:00 AM
All Mine to Give (1957)

Pioneer children fight to build a new family after their parents die.
Dir: Allen Reisner
Cast: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson.
C-102 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format


12:00 PM
Bundle Of Joy (1956)

A shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Norman Taurog
Cast: Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou.
C-98 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


1:43 PM
The Greatest Gift (1942)

A French monastary takes in a juggler to care for whille they prepare gifts to offer to Our Lady.
Dir: Harold Daniels
Cast: Edmund Gwenn
BW-11 mins


2:00 PM
Period Of Adjustment (1962)

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Dir: George Roy Hill
Cast: Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


4:00 PM
3 Godfathers (1948)

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Dir: John Ford
Cast: John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz, Harry Carey Jr..
C-106 mins, TV-G, CC


6:00 PM
Fitzwilly (1967)

When an aging philanthropist goes broke, her butler robs from the rich so she can give to the poor.
Dir: Delbert Mann
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans.
C-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format


7:49 PM
Miracle At Lourdes (1939)
BW-11 mins


TONIGHT ON TCM
CHRISTMAS DOUBLE FEATURE

8:00 PM
The Bishop's Wife (1947)

An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster
Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC


10:00 PM
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC


12:00 AM
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

In this silent film, Joan of Arc braves the threat of torture to stand fast for her beliefs.
Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Antonin Artaud.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG


1:37 AM
Carnival In Paris (1937)
BW-22 mins


2:00 AM
Grand Illusion (1937)

French POWs fight to escape their German captors during World War I.
Dir: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG


4:00 AM
Hell's Heroes (1930)

Three cowboys risk their lives to get an abandoned baby to civilization.
Dir: William Wyler
Cast: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler.
BW-68 mins, TV-PG, CC


5:10 AM
Heroes At Leisure (1939)
BW-10 mins


5:30 AM
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger.
BW-84 mins, TV-G

[CBHagman]

1. I'll have to find a way to see "The Greatest Gift."

I've encountered other versions of that story, but not this particular short.

As for The Bishop's Wife, it's an unmissable holiday classic.