TCM Schedule for Monday December 28 - TCM SPOTLIGHT; FRANK CAPRA

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This month's salute to Frank Capra winds to a close, featuring 2 early movies (Broadway Bill, Lady for a Day) and their later remakes (Riding High, Pocketful of Miracles)

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM Roughly Speaking (1945)
A man's wild moneymaking schemes leave his wife to raise their family. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-117 mins, TV-G, CC

8:00 AM Designing Woman (1957)
A sportswriter and a fashion designer have a lot of adjusting to do when they marry in haste. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-118 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

10:00 AM Four Wives (1939)
Three married women play matchmaker for their widowed sister. Cast: Claude Rains, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 PM Merry Widow, The (1952)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country. Cast: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel. Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. C-105 mins, TV-G, CC

1:46 PM Short Film: Great Lady Has An Interview (Lana Turner - 1954) (1954) BW-8 mins,

2:00 PM Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak. Dir: Leo McCarey. BW-115 mins, TV-G, CC

4:00 PM Opposite Sex, The (1956)
In this musical remake of The Women, a happily married singer lets her catty friends convince her to file for divorce. Cast: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray. Dir: David Miller. C-117 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father, The (1963)
A young boy plays matchmaker for his widowed father. Cast: Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-119 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS

8:00 PM Broadway Bill (1934)
An heiress and her brother-in-law defy her father by going into horse racing. Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC

9:46 PM Short Film: Myrna Loy (1962) BW-4 mins,

10:00 PM Riding High (1950)
An heiress and her sister's fiancee defy her family to race horses. Cast: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC

12:00 AM Lady For A Day (1933)
A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter. Cast: May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-96 mins, TV-G

1:45 AM Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
A good-hearted gangster turns an old apple seller into a society matron so she can impress her daughter. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange. Dir: Frank Capra. C-137 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

4:15 AM Matinee Idol (1928)
While marooned in the country, a Broadway star auditions incognito for the local little theatre. Cast: Johnnie Walker, Bessie Love, Lionel Belmore. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-57 mins, TV-G

5:15 AM Rain or Shine (1930)
A young woman inherits her father's financially troubled circus. Cast: Joe Cook, Joan Peers, Louise Fazenda. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-88 mins, TV-G