Quick Preview of TCM in December

Time for a preview of December on Turner Classic Movies!

As I write, the schedule is still incomplete, but there's enough information available to make this peek ahead at next month's schedule possible.

The December Star of the Month will be Ingrid Bergman. Over 20 of Bergman's films will be shown on Wednesday evenings.

December's Noir Alley titles are THE UNSUSPECTED (1947), starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, and Audrey Totter, and two later films, CRUEL GUN STORY (1964) and BLAST OF SILENCE (1961).

There will not be a Noir Alley film on Christmas weekend.

Christmas will be celebrated with holiday movies on Saturdays and Sundays in December, followed by a week-long marathon beginning December 19th, running through Christmas Day. Prime time on Christmas will be spent with Doris Day movies.

As has become a frequent TCM tradition, New Year's Eve will be spent with the THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! movies followed by the THIN MAN series. This reverses the 2020 New Year's schedule which started with the THIN MAN films and then switched to THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!

There's a fun TCM Spotlight theme for December, "Met on Set," focusing on romances which began on movie sets. The series kicks off with NO MAN OF HER OWN (1932) starring Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

"Special themes" for December are Ernst Lubitsch and "Fireside Favorites." The Lubitsch lineup is fantastic, including TCM premieres of THE OYSTER PRINCESS (1919), THE DOLL (1919), and THREE WOMEN (1924). The Fireside film schedule is not yet complete.

Additional December themes include Tarzan, snow, winter, knights, widowed parents, and millionaires. Pearl Harbor Day will feature a lineup of World War II films.

Filmmakers receiving multifilm tributes in December include Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and Agnes Moorehead.

I'll have an in-depth look at TCM's December schedule posted here around December 1st.

Update: For more on TCM in December 2021, please visit TCM in December: Highlights and TCM in December: Christmas Movies.

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