Thursday, December 25th TV listings for Turner Classic Movies USA
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.
Little Women (1933)
Four sisters in Massachusetts forge unbreakable family ties in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's story.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Runyonesque Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) turns Apple Annie (Bette Davis) into a Manhattan dowager in director Frank Capra's remake of his 1933 Lady for a Day.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
A critic (Monty Woolley) breaks his hip in someone's home and stays there, in charge, until it mends.
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
The more co-workers (Judy Garland, Van Johnson) fight in a Chicago music store, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A British airman escapes death by mistake and resists the messenger who keeps summoning him to the beyond.
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
The Pittsburgh Pirates' manager (Paul Douglas) sees hope after a newswoman (Janet Leigh) reports a girl saw angels on their side.
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
A bomber pilot (Spencer Tracy) goes to heaven and becomes guardian angel to another pilot (Van Johnson) courting his old girlfriend (Irene Dunne).
Heaven Only Knows (1947)
An angel (Robert Cummings) descends to Earth to unite a soulless man (Brian Donlevy) with a woman.
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
A sleeping trumpet player dreams that he is a heaven-sent angel whose mystical horn will signal Armageddon.
Time Bandits (1981)
Cosmic dwarfs take a boy on an odyssey featuring Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon, King Agamemnon (Sean Connery).
Night and Day (1946)
Ivy League songwriter Cole Porter (Cary Grant) joins World War I, marries a rich British nurse (Alexis Smith) and returns to Broadway.