Wednesday, December 24th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
Bachelor Mother (1939)
An unmarried store clerk (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother.
All Mine to Give (1957)
An orphan (Rex Thompson) raised by Scottish pioneers (Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell) in Wisconsin seeks homes for his five younger siblings on Christmas.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.
Holiday Affair (1949)
A war widow (Janet Leigh) has a 6-year-old son, and two men (Robert Mitchum, Wendell Corey) who want to marry her for Christmas.
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The publisher (Sydney Greenstreet) of a women's magazine has his best columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) play holiday host to a Navy hero (Dennis Morgan).
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
A suave angel (Cary Grant) saves a woman (Loretta Young) and her Episcopal husband (David Niven) from spiritual doubt and marital woe.
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Engaged to others, two cruise-ship passengers (Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr) plan to reunite six months later atop the Empire State Building.
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Soapy believes that getting arrested and thrown into a warm jail cell is the best solution to being homeless in cold weather; fugitives Sam and Bill kidnap a child for a ransom; Della and Jim seek to buy each other Christmas gifts.
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
Three tycoons play Cupid for a couple (Richard Carlson, Jean Parker) on Christmas Eve, then guide them from the hereafter.
Star in the Night (1945)
The owner of a motel helps a couple on Christmas Eve.
Boys Town (1938)
Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) reforms a pool shark (Mickey Rooney) at his Omaha, Neb., home for wayward boys.
The Great Rupert (1950)
Rupert, a dancing squirrel, is left to fend for himself on the streets after his master turns bankrupt; unsuited for the hard life, Rupert devises a scheme to raise his master's family from poverty.