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Wow! I can’t believe we’re already at the end of the year! Pretty soon we’ll all have to re-teach ourselves the proper date. However, before we move into 2019, we have one more month…<\/p>\n

While I was finding the mystery movies that will be shown on the Turner Classic Movies channel, I went ahead and also annotated the Christmas movies. There really is nothing like watching an old (Golden) Hollywood Christmas movie. I hope some of you try to fit a few of them into your December television-viewing time.<\/p>\n

I noticed that TCM will again show the Thin Man movies on New Year’s Eve. Some of you have written that you watch them every December 31st.<\/p>\n

Also, I want to mention that all three of the Hildegarde Withers movies (based on Stuart Palmer’s Cozy Mystery series) that star Edna May Oliver will be shown this month, as well as one that featured another actress.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your December movie viewing!<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday – December 1<\/h3>\n

7:08 AM
\nTHE PENGUIN POOL MURDER (1932)<\/strong>
\nA feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
\nDir: \u00a0George Archainbaud Cast: \u00a0Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong.
\n*****This mystery movie is based on Stuart Palmer<\/a>‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series. Edna May Oliver starred as Hildegarde in three of the movies, which are all airing this month.*****<\/p>\n

BW- 65 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:00 AM
\nTHE PETRIFIED FOREST (1936)<\/strong>
\nAn escaped convict holds the customers at a remote desert cantina hostage.
\nDir: \u00a0Archie L. Mayo Cast: \u00a0Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:45 PM
\nTHE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947)<\/strong>
\nAn angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
\nDir: \u00a0Henry Koster Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 109 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nCRACK-UP (1946)<\/strong>
\nAn art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
\nDir: \u00a0Irving Reis Cast: \u00a0Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:00 PM
\nMAGNUM FORCE (1973)<\/strong>
\nA maverick San Francisco police detective hunts down a band of vigilante cops.
\nDir: \u00a0Ted Post Cast: \u00a0Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan.
\nC- 122 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday – December 2<\/h3>\n

3:30 AM
\nIT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)<\/strong>
\nTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
\nDir: \u00a0Roy Del Ruth Cast: \u00a0Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:30 AM
\nA CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)<\/strong>
\nIn this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
\nDir: \u00a0Edwin L. Marin Cast: \u00a0Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 69 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nCRACK-UP (1946)<\/strong>
\nAn art critic risks his reputation and his life to track down a forgery racket.
\nDir: \u00a0Irving Reis Cast: \u00a0Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\n

8:45 AM
\nADAM’S RIB (1949)<\/strong>
\nHusband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
\nDir: \u00a0George Cukor Cast: \u00a0Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
\n*****This is a very good Judy Holliday<\/a> non-mystery movie.*****
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:45 AM
\nTHE CATERED AFFAIR (1956)<\/strong>
\nA working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
\n*****I love this non-mystery movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Richard Brooks Cast: \u00a0Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
\nBW- 94 mins, CC<\/p>\n

12:30 PM
\nBELLS ARE RINGING (1960)<\/strong>
\nAn answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients’ lives.
\nDir: \u00a0Vincente Minnelli Cast: \u00a0Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark.
\n*****You can’t go wrong watching a Judy Holliday<\/a> movie! This is a non-mystery movie.*****
\nC- 126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

2:45 PM
\nCHARADE (1963)<\/strong>
\nA beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
\nDir: \u00a0Stanley Donen Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
\nC- 113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)<\/strong>
\nFeuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
\nDir: \u00a0Ernst Lubitsch Cast: \u00a0Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nHOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)<\/strong>
\nA young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
\nDir: \u00a0Don Hartman Cast: \u00a0Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday – December 3<\/h3>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Michael Curtiz Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
\nBW- 73 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:30 PM
\nTHE DRAGON MURDER CASE (1934)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: \u00a0Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot.
\nBW- 67 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:45 PM
\nTHE CASINO MURDER CASE (1935)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Edwin L. Marin Cast: \u00a0Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook.
\nBW- 83 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:15 PM
\nTHE BISHOP MURDER CASE (1930)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance investigates a series of murders inspired by Mother Goose rhymes.
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Nick Grind\u00e9 Cast: \u00a0Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:00 PM
\nTHE GARDEN MURDER CASE (1936)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Edwin L. Marin Cast: \u00a0Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume.
\nBW- 61 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday – December 4<\/h3>\n

12:15 AM
\nCALLING PHILO VANCE (1939)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
\n*****Based on S.S. Van Dine<\/a>‘s Philo Vance Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0William Clemens Cast: \u00a0James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill.
\nBW- 62 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday – December 5<\/h3>\n

4:45 AM
\nFOLLOW ME QUIETLY (1949)<\/strong>
\nPolice track a mysterious killer nicknamed “The Judge.”
\nDir: \u00a0Richard O. Fleischer Cast: \u00a0William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey.
\nBW- 60 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:00 AM
\nTHE TATTOOED STRANGER (1950)<\/strong>
\nDetectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
\nDir: \u00a0Edward J. Montagne Cast: \u00a0John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella.
\nBW- 64 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:15 AM
\nMYSTERY STREET (1950)<\/strong>
\nCriminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
\nDir: \u00a0John Sturges Cast: \u00a0Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:15 AM
\nWHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)<\/strong>
\nReporters compete to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: \u00a0Fritz Lang Cast: \u00a0Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

12:00 PM
\nSCENE OF THE CRIME (1949)<\/strong>
\nA detective tries to solve a policeman’s murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Roy Rowland Cast: \u00a0Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria De Haven.
\nBW- 94 mins, CC<\/p>\n

1:45 PM
\nTHE NAKED CITY (1948)<\/strong>
\nA step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
\nDir: \u00a0Jules Dassin Cast: \u00a0Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart.
\nBW- 96 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:30 PM
\nTHE BIG COMBO, THE (1955)<\/strong>
\nA police detective tries to convict a mob boss by going to the man’s girlfriend.
\nDir: \u00a0Joseph Lewis Cast: \u00a0Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy.
\nBW- 84 mins<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday – December 8<\/h3>\n

7:08 AM
\nMURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD (1934)<\/strong>
\nA schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer<\/a>‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0George Archainbaud Cast: \u00a0James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
\nBW- 72 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nTHE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942)<\/strong>
\nAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0William Keighley Cast: \u00a0Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
\nBW- 113 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nTOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)<\/strong>
\nA married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
\nDir: \u00a0Byron Haskin Cast: \u00a0Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea.
\nBW- 101 mins<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday – December 9<\/h3>\n

5:15 AM
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)<\/strong>
\nA homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. I think it’s probably my very favorite.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Peter Godfrey Cast: \u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nTOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949)<\/strong>
\nA married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
\nDir: \u00a0Byron Haskin Cast: \u00a0Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea.
\nBW- 101 mins<\/p>\n

9:00 AM
\nOUT OF THE PAST (1947)<\/strong>
\nA private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
\nDir: \u00a0Jacques Tourneur Cast: \u00a0Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nIT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)<\/strong>
\nTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Roy Del Ruth Cast: \u00a0Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:15 PM
\nO. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE (1952)<\/strong>
\nFive stories reveal O. Henry’s gift for the surprise ending.
\nDir: \u00a0Henry Koster Cast: \u00a0John Steinbeck, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 118 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday – December 10<\/h3>\n

3:00 AM
\nWHISTLING IN THE DARK (1933)<\/strong>
\nA mystery writer’s plan for the perfect murder greatly interests a mobster.
\nDir: \u00a0Elliott Nugent Cast: \u00a0Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold.
\nBW- 79 mins,<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nDAY OF RECKONING (1933)<\/strong>
\nA man’s nagging wife drives him to crime.
\nDir: \u00a0Charles Brabin Cast: \u00a0Richard Dix, Madge Evans, Conway Tearle.
\nBW- 69 mins<\/p>\n

11:15 AM
\nMURDER IN THE PRIVATE CAR (1934)<\/strong>
\nA speeding train becomes the setting for murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Harry Beaumont Cast: \u00a0Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle.
\nBW- 63 mins, CC<\/p>\n

12:30 PM
\nTHE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE (1933)<\/strong>
\nWhen his ex-wife is murdered, a hard-living lawyer defends the chief suspect.
\nDir: \u00a0George B. Seitz Cast: \u00a0Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon.
\nBW- 75 mins<\/p>\n

7:15 PM
\nPATHS OF GLORY (1958)<\/strong>
\nA military lawyer comes to question the status quo when he defends three men accused of cowardice.
\nDir: \u00a0Stanley Kubrick Cast: \u00a0Fred Bell, John Stein, Harold Benedict.
\nBW- 88 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday – December 11<\/h3>\n

1:45 PM
\nSUPER SLEUTH (1937)<\/strong>
\nA movie detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
\nDir: \u00a0Ben Stoloff Cast: \u00a0Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli.
\nBW- 70 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Thursday – December 13<\/h3>\n

5:00 AM
\nTHE PROWLER (1951)<\/strong>
\nA policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Joseph Losey Cast: \u00a0Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell.
\nBW- 93 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday – December 14<\/h3>\n

10:00 AM
\nTHE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)<\/strong>
\nA big game hunter decides to stalk human prey.
\nDir: \u00a0Ernest B. Schoedsack Cast: \u00a0Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong.
\nBW- 63 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday – December 15<\/h3>\n

7:08 AM
\nMURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)<\/strong>
\nA schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer<\/a>‘s Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Lloyd Corrigan Cast: \u00a0Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane.
\nBW- 74 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 AM
\nHOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)<\/strong>
\nA young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
\nDir: \u00a0Don Hartman Cast: \u00a0Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday – December 16<\/h3>\n

12:30 AM
\nMIDNIGHT LACE (1960)<\/strong>
\nA young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
\nDir: \u00a0David Miller Cast: \u00a0Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
\nC- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:00 AM
\nTHE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)<\/strong>
\nFeuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Ernst Lubitsch Cast: \u00a0Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:00 PM
\nTHE THIRD MAN (1949)<\/strong>
\nA man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
\nDir: \u00a0Carol Reed Cast: \u00a0Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles.
\nBW- 105 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday – December 17<\/h3>\n

7:00 AM
\nTHE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)<\/strong>
\nA gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
\nDir: \u00a0John Huston Cast: \u00a0Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 AM
\nKANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952)<\/strong>
\nTo commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues’ identities secret from each other.
\nDir: \u00a0Phil Karlson Cast: \u00a0John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nLADY ON A TRAIN (1945)<\/strong>
\nA young woman enlists a mystery writer to help her solve a murder when the corpse vanishes.
\nDir: \u00a0Charles David Cast: \u00a0Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce.
\nBW- 94 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nLADY IN THE LAKE (1947)<\/strong>
\nPhilip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
\nDir: \u00a0Robert Montgomery Cast: \u00a0Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
\nBW- 103 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday – December 18<\/h3>\n

12:45 AM
\nCOVER-UP (1949)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
\nDir: \u00a0Alfred E. Green Cast: \u00a0William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton.
\nBW- 83 mins<\/p>\n

2:15 AM
\nBACKFIRE (1950)<\/strong>
\nA veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
\nDir: \u00a0Vincent Sherman Cast: \u00a0Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday – December 19<\/h3>\n

5:45 AM
\nTHE NITWITS (1935)<\/strong>
\nTwo cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: \u00a0George Stevens Cast: \u00a0Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating.
\nBW- 82 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:00 AM
\nTHE KEYHOLE (1933)<\/strong>
\nA private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he’s been hired to frame.
\nDir: \u00a0Michael Curtiz Cast: \u00a0Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell.
\nBW- 69 mins<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Thursday – December 20<\/h3>\n

6:30 PM
\nYOU NEVER CAN TELL (1951)<\/strong>
\nPoisoned after inheriting its master’s estate, a dog comes back to Earth to find its killer.
\nDir: \u00a0Lou Breslow Cast: \u00a0Dick Powell, Peggy Dow, Joyce Holden.
\nBW- 78 mins<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Friday – December 21<\/h3>\n

4:30 AM
\nTEN LITTLE INDIANS (1966)<\/strong>
\nParty guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
\n*****This is based on an Agatha Christie<\/a> mystery.*****
\nDir: \u00a0George Pollock Cast: \u00a0Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
\nC- 90 mins, CC, Letterbox Format<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday – December 22<\/h3>\n

5:00 PM
\nREMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940)<\/strong>
\nAn assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. It is one of my very favorite Christmas movies.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Mitchell Leisen Cast: \u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
\nBW- 94 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)<\/strong>
\nA homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\n*****This is a terrific non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Peter Godfrey Cast: \u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday – December 23<\/h3>\n

12:45 AM
\nA CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (1964)<\/strong>
\nThree ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: \u00a0Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara.
\nBW- 86 mins<\/p>\n

3:00 AM
\nSCROOGE (1935)<\/strong>
\nThe legendary miser searches his past, present and future to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Henry Edwards Cast: \u00a0Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Maurice Evans.
\nBW- 78 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nBEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)<\/strong>
\nA widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
\nDir: \u00a0Harry Horner Cast: \u00a0Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes.
\nBW- 77 mins, CC<\/p>\n

8:45 AM
\nO. HENRY’S FULL HOUSE (1952)<\/strong>
\nFive stories reveal O. Henry’s gift for the surprise ending.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Henry Koster Cast: \u00a0John Steinbeck, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe.
\nBW- 118 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE HOLLY AND THE IVY (1952)<\/strong>
\nA minister’s family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0George More O’Ferrall Cast: \u00a0Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton.
\nBW- 83 mins<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nA CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951)<\/strong>
\nGhosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Brian Desmond-Hurst Cast: \u00a0Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday – December 24<\/h3>\n

4:30 AM
\nLITTLE WOMEN (1933)<\/strong>
\nThe four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
\n*****This is a non-mystery movie and probably the best Little Women movie >>> anyway that’s my opinion…*****
\nDir: \u00a0George Cukor Cast: \u00a0Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:30 AM
\nTHE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)<\/strong>
\nFeuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Ernst Lubitsch Cast: \u00a0Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:15 AM
\nHOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)<\/strong>
\nA young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Don Hartman Cast: \u00a0Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
\nBW- 87 mins, CC<\/p>\n

1:00 PM
\nCHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)<\/strong>
\nA homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie. It is my very favorite Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Peter Godfrey Cast: \u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947)<\/strong>
\nAn angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Henry Koster Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
\nBW- 109 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nA CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)<\/strong>
\nIn this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Edwin L. Marin Cast: \u00a0Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
\nBW- 69 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Tuesday – December 25<\/h3>\n

12:30 PM
\nTHE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942)<\/strong>
\nAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0William Keighley Cast: \u00a0Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
\nBW- 113 mins, CC<\/p>\n

2:45 PM
\nIT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)<\/strong>
\nTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
\n*****This is a non-mystery Christmas movie.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Roy Del Ruth Cast: \u00a0Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles.
\nBW- 115 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Wednesday – December 26<\/h3>\n

4:45 AM
\nARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)<\/strong>
\nA young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
\nDir: \u00a0Frank Capra Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
\nBW- 118 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 AM
\nSUSPICION (1941)<\/strong>
\nA wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

2:30 PM
\nNORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)<\/strong>
\nAn advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
\nDir: \u00a0Alfred Hitchcock Cast: \u00a0Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
\nC- 136 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Thursday – December 27<\/h3>\n

5:00 PM
\nMURDER, MY SWEET (1944)<\/strong>
\nDetective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Edward Dmytryk Cast: \u00a0Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
\nBW- 95 mins, CC<\/p>\n

6:45 PM
\nTHE PITFALL (1948)<\/strong>
\nA married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
\nDir: \u00a0Andre DeToth Cast: \u00a0Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\n

10:30 PM
\nTHE TALL TARGET (1951)<\/strong>
\nA detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
\nDir: \u00a0Anthony Mann Cast: \u00a0Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
\nBW- 78 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Saturday – December 29<\/h3>\n

3:30 AM
\nTHE MAD MISS MANTON (1938)<\/strong>
\nA daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: \u00a0Leigh Jason Cast: \u00a0Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
\nBW- 80 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:07 AM
\nMURDER ON A BRIDLE PATH (1936)<\/strong>
\nSchoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
\n*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s<\/a> Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series.*****
\nDir: \u00a0Edward Killy Cast: \u00a0James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer.
\nBW- 66 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:00 PM
\nKEEPER OF THE FLAME (1943)<\/strong>
\nA reporter digs into the secret life of a recently deceased political hero.
\nDir: \u00a0George Cukor Cast: \u00a0Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf.
\nBW- 101 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:00 PM
\nDOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir: \u00a0Billy Wilder Cast: \u00a0Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\n

<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Sunday – December 20<\/h3>\n

7:00 AM
\nDOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)<\/strong>
\nAn insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
\nDir: \u00a0Billy Wilder Cast: \u00a0Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
\nBW- 108 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:00 PM
\nTHE MALTESE FALCON (1941)<\/strong>
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: \u00a0John Huston Cast: \u00a0Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

Monday – December 31<\/h3>\n

4:00 AM
\nI LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)<\/strong>
\nA solid married man discovers he’s forgotten a past existence as a con artist.
\nDir: \u00a0W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh.
\nBW- 99 mins, CC<\/p>\n

5:45 AM
\nTHE THIN MAN (1934)<\/strong>
\nA husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
\nDir: \u00a0W. S. Van Dyke Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
\nBW- 91 mins, CC<\/p>\n

7:30 AM
\nAFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)<\/strong>
\nMarried sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
\nDir: \u00a0W. S. Van Dyke Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
\nBW- 112 mins, CC<\/p>\n

9:30 AM
\nANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)<\/strong>
\nNot even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
\nDir: \u00a0W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
\nBW- 103 mins, CC<\/p>\n

11:30 AM
\nSHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941)<\/strong>
\nHigh society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
\nDir: \u00a0Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson.
\nBW- 97 mins, CC<\/p>\n

1:15 PM
\nTHE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945)<\/strong>
\nOn a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
\nDir: \u00a0Richard Thorpe Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson.
\nBW- 100 mins, CC<\/p>\n

3:15 PM
\nSONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947)<\/strong>
\nSociety sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
\nDir: \u00a0Edward Buzzell Cast: \u00a0William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn.
\nBW- 86 mins, CC<\/p>\n

***** ***** ***** *****\u00a0***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n

For those of you who are interested, I have two lists on my Cozy Mystery site that include a lot of great Christmas movie titles:<\/p>\n

Christmas : Favorite Classic Holiday Movies: Old, Black & White\u2026 and a Few In Color\u00a0(not mysteries)<\/a><\/p>\n

Christmas : Favorite Holiday Movies \u2013 More Recent, In Color\u00a0(not mysteries)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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