Free! Printable Daily Turner Classic Movies December 2024 Schedule Plus Star of the Month!
It’s fitting that Turner Classic Movies will be celebrating an actor born with the name Joseph Yule Jr. during Christmastime. Of course, the millions who have been entertained by the incredible body of work that this man put out during his close to 90-year career know him a lot better by his professional name of Mickey Rooney. Each Thursday this month, the beloved star will be celebrated with daylong marathons of his memorable films, and that still won’t even begin to come close to showing the nearly 300 movies in which he appeared. Just looking for the full month calendar? Scroll to bottom to download.
TCM Star Of The Month: Mickey Rooney — December 2024 Schedule (All Times Eastern)
Thursday, Dec. 5 – Begins at 6am
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Today’s lineup runs 25 hours and features several films that Rooney made in the 1930s, starting with one of his earliest roles, an uncredited bit part in the gangster drama The Beast of the City (1932) when he was just 12 years old. Several other earlier works take up the first part of the day, then later on come some of Rooney’s more significant roles in more major titles that helped him along on his road to stardom, including the sports drama Down the Stretch (1936); the Shakespeare adaptation A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), where he played Puck; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939), with Rooney as the title character; the comedy/drama Ah, Wilderness! (1935); and plenty more.
Thursday, Dec. 12 – Begins at 6am
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Featuring a number of his best remembered films from the late 1930s and 1940s, during which he was consistently among the biggest box office draws, if not the biggest. The lineup begins with Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), led by Rooney’s fellow child star Freddie Bartholomew, followed by Captains Courageous (1937), the Best Picture Oscar-nominated drama led by Best Actor winner Spencer Tracy. Other notable highlights today include the beloved horse-racing drama National Velvet (1944), costarring Elizabeth Taylor and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Anne Revere; The Human Comedy (1943), a comedy/drama that earned Rooney a Best Actor Oscar nomination; the Best Picture-nominated drama Boys Town (1938), led by Best Actor winner Spencer Tracy, and its 1941 sequel, Men of Boys Town; Young Tom Edison (1940), with Rooney playing the famous inventor early in his life; and more.
Thursday, Dec. 19 – Begins at 6am
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Today features a wide range of titles from the 1950s to ’70s, and also some character types and film genres that may seem unexpected for the star but definitely show his acting range. One good example of that leads off today’s lineup: the film noir Quicksand (1950), which finds Rooney playing against type as a garage mechanic who descends into a life of crime. Other highlights today include another film noir, The Strip (1951); King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961, aka The Big Bankroll), a crime biopic led by David Janssen as the titular mobster; The Black Stallion (1979), the family drama that earned Rooney his fourth and last Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor; several musicals featuring the famous onscreen pairings of Rooney and Judy Garland: Babes in Arms (1939), which earned Rooney his first Oscar nod (for Best Actor), Strike Up the Band (1940), Babes on Broadway (1941), Girl Crazy (1943) and Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937), the first Rooney/Garland collaboration; and more.
Thursday, Dec. 26 – Begins at 6am
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You knew TCM couldn’t let a Rooney celebration go by without showing at least one of the movies featuring his most famous role as Andy Hardy, right? Well, today you get all 16 of the films in that franchise, in order, beginning with the first title, 1937’s A Family Affair, to the final installment, 1958’s Andy Hardy Comes Home. A few of the titles in between re-teamed Rooney with costar Judy Garland as Betsy Booth, before Garland took off as a major star in her own right: Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), which also features Lana Turner in an early role, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) and Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941).
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