Quick Preview of TCM in December

It's time for an advance peek at the December schedule for Turner Classic Movies!

TCM's draft schedule is still a work in progress, with numerous blank spots on the schedule, but there's enough information currently available to put together this preview.

The December Star of the Month will be Cary Grant. His films will be shown on all five Friday evenings in December.

During this year's Christmas movie marathon, which takes place from December 17th through Christmas Day, the Grant films shown on December 22nd will feature Christmas sequences. There's a blank space that evening, and I'm hopeful TCM might be able to license THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)!

As has sometimes been the case in years past, Christmas evening will be spent with the films of Alfred Hitchcock. TCM's plans for New Year's Eve have not yet been announced.

Noir Alley December titles will be BLACK ANGEL (1946), I WOULDN'T BE IN YOUR SHOES (1948), and BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952). The first two titles are TCM premieres; BLACK ANGEL is a particular favorite of mine.

BEWARE, MY LOVELY is set during the Christmas season.  Noir Alley will then take the last two weekends of the year off for Christmas and New Year's.

The December TCM Spotlight will focus on "The Essence of Cool." Some of the titles in the series are REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955), BULLITT (1968), and OCEAN'S 11 (1960).

Daytime December programming themes will include invisibility, travel, British films, pirates, animals, jungle adventures, and movies based on books by Booth Tarkington.

Pearl Harbor Day will, as usual, feature World War II films.

Filmmakers honored with multifilm tributes in December will include Douglas Sirk, Mercedes McCambridge, Lena Horne, George Stevens, and the Barrymore family.

There will also be an evening of memorial tributes on December 28th.

Gloria Grahame is coming up next as the November Star of the Month!  I'll have more details on TCM's December schedule posted here at the end of November, including my annual post listing every Christmas title to be shown that month.

Update: For more on TCM in December 2023, please visit TCM in December: Christmas Movies, TCM Star of the Month: Cary Grant, and TCM in December: Highlights.

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