Turner Classic Movies in Dec.

For Christmas with humor and no mawkishness I recommend the following on TCM this coming month:

Remember the Night.(Dec.5)  It is directed by Mitch Leisen and written by the brilliant Preston Sturges.  DA Fred MacMuray takes shoplifter Barbara Stanwyck home to Indiana and then, when her mother throws her out as "no good" he takes her to his own home.
Shop Around the Corner. (Dec. 11) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, it's a charming and moving story about shop employees at holiday time.
Meet Me in St. Louis.(Dec. 5)  Vincente Minnelli's wonderful musical, highlighted by Judy Garland's rendition of the (ironic) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
John Ford's Three Godfathers.(Dec. 25)  This is the third (and best) film version of this story of three Western outlaws as the three wise men.  It has typically beautiful exterior shots, not of Ford's usual Monument Valley location.
An Affair to Remember. (Dec. 8) Leo's McCarey's remake of Love Affair (on Turner Dec. 15), with an older Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant and their last chance for love.

Also in December:

McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (Dec. 8) an unusual and unflinching view of growing older together.

Three extraordinary and uncompromising films about the dark side of America:  Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (Dec.2), Samuel Fuller's The Naked Kiss and Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place.(both Dec. 3)

Three fine, funny and poignant silent films:  Chaplin's City Lights and The Kid (both Dec. 17); Buster Keaton's magnificent The Cameraman (Dec 14).

A charming chamber musical, Don Weis's I Love Melvin.(Dec.4)

Raoul Walsh's great, intensive war film Objective Burma.(Dec.9)

And several films by Otto Preminger, the favorite of mine being Advise and Consent, one of the best films about the compromises of politics, filmed in elegant long takes in widescreen black-and-white.(Dec. 5)