A mute janitor (Jackie Gleason) befriends a Paris streetwalker (Katherine Kath) and her daughter, but a mob misunderstands him.

A Brooklyn chorus girl (Rita Hayworth) wins a contest, leaves her boyfriend (Gene Kelly) and joins a Broadway show.

An actor (Gene Kelly) woos a Caribbean islander (Judy Garland) by posing as the pirate (Walter Slezak) of her dreams.

A New England farmer (Judy Garland) lets a dancer's (Gene Kelly) troupe use her barn in exchange for help with the chores.

An American soldier (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after World War II to paint and falls in love with a French beauty (Leslie Caron).

Ballet dancer Petrov (Fred Astaire) woos a musical star (Ginger Rogers) at sea and in New York, despite rumors of their marriage.

Time-and-motion-study pioneers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy) run their brood of 12 efficiently.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

An heir (Louis Jourdan) finds that he wants to marry the teen (Leslie Caron) groomed to be his mistress in Gay '90s Paris.

A carnival barker (Gordon MacRae) finds a wife (Shirley Jones), dies in a robbery, and gets to return to Earth for one day to guide his teenage daughter.

A returning GI (Dennis O'Keefe) inherits a fortune but must spend $1 million in 60 days to get it.

A young English widow (Irene Dunne) goes to 1862 Siam with her son to tutor the king's (Rex Harrison) harem and 67 children.

An expatriate Russian general (Yul Brynner) grooms a refugee (Ingrid Bergman) to pose as the lost daughter of Czar Nicholas II.

An English miss (Helena Bonham-Carter) tours 1907 Florence, Italy, with her cousin (Maggie Smith) and meets a soulmate (Julian Sands).

Leaving her weak son (John Heard) and his wife in 1947 Houston, an elderly widow (Geraldine Page) takes the bus home.

An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane Fonda) in New England.

A Southern writer (Peter MacNicol) lives in Brooklyn with an Auschwitz survivor (Meryl Streep) and her mad lover (Kevin Kline).

In 1940s New York, a man (Hugh Grant) goes to extreme lengths to make sure his wife (Meryl Streep) never finds out that she's an awful opera singer.

Forced to tutor students at a school, a young delinquent (Shane West) falls for a minister's (Peter Coyote) daughter (Mandy Moore).

A returning GI (Dennis O'Keefe) inherits a fortune but must spend $1 million in 60 days to get it.

A Los Angeles police detective (Van Johnson) hunts killer bookies, as his wife (Arlene Dahl) urges him to quit.

A meek cashier (Edward G. Robinson) embezzles for a woman (Joan Bennett) who plays him for a patsy with her low-life boyfriend (Dan Duryea).

A rich widow (Lynn Bari) pays a fake medium (Turhan Bey) to contact her late husband, who, it turns out, is still alive.

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.

In London's seamy underworld, a dishonest wrestling promoter finds himself a marked man after crossing a crime kingpin.

A man (Jack Palance) falls in love with his sister-in-law (Barbara Lang) while planning his twin brother's prison escape.

A boozing Atlanta millionaire's (Barry Sullivan) wicked wife (Joan Crawford) acts charming to people at their mansion.

A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run.

An escaped convict (Dennis O'Keefe) flees with his moll (Claire Trevor) and a social worker (Marsha Hunt) he loves.

A newsman (James Cagney) is framed for manslaughter, then sent to prison, where he meets a gangster (George Raft) who helps him.

A New York art-forgery expert (Pat O'Brien) becomes the dazed victim of a plot to drive him out of his mind.

Merchant seamen (Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter) on a tramp freighter drink, dodge U-boats and rescue a shanghaied Swede (John Wayne) in the early days of World War II.

Short movies.

Two French nuns (Loretta Young, Celeste Holm) in New England raise funds for a children's hospital in a town called Bethlehem.

Book of Genesis stories include Adam (Michael Parks) and Eve, Abraham (George C. Scott), and the Tower of Babel.

In the night Mary is visited by a messenger from God who gives her two messages: firstly that she is to bear the Son of God and secondly that she is to visit her mother's sister in Bethlehem.

Jesus returns from a journey to be baptized by John the Baptist; Jesus speaks to the masses and declares he is the Son of God.

The red robe worn by Christ links a Roman tribune (Richard Burton), his Christian lover (Jean Simmons) and a Greek slave (Victor Mature).

A Greek slave (Victor Mature) entrusted with Christ's robe must play gladiator for Emperor Caligula and Messalina.

Two French nuns (Loretta Young, Celeste Holm) in New England raise funds for a children's hospital in a town called Bethlehem.

A young woman (Debbie Reynolds) tries to enter 1890s Denver society but goes to Europe after her husband (Harve Presnell) strikes gold.

An elf warns an Arctic oil-station family (Jaclyn Smith, Paul Le Mat) that Christmas Eve drilling could destroy Santa's (Art Carney) toy factory.

Blondie's (Penny Singleton) chance to be a star throws Dagwood (Arthur Lake) and the household into confusion.

Rupert, a dancing squirrel, is left to fend for himself on the streets after his master turns bankrupt; unsuited for the hard life, Rupert devises a scheme to raise his master's family from poverty.

Two Ohio sisters (Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett) move to Greenwich Village, where one finds a publisher (Jack Lemmon) and the other one finds men.

An American's (Rod Taylor) work with his secretary in London leaves his wife (Doris Day) open to a Continental charmer.

A suave stranger (Cary Grant) helps a chic widow (Audrey Hepburn) stalked by four men looking for loot in Paris.

A librarian hears a sour note when a charming rogue convinces Iowa townspeople to start a boys marching band.

A carnival barker (Gordon MacRae) finds a wife (Shirley Jones), dies in a robbery, and gets to return to Earth for one day to guide his teenage daughter.

Iowans take their son (Dick Haymes), daughter (Jeanne Crain), prize boar and mincemeat to the state fair.

A Mountie (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (Margaret Lockwood) adopt a little girl (Shirley Temple) orphaned by an Indian attack.

Short movies.

The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

A weekly half-hour series offering practical tips on greening your lifestyle.

A weekly half-hour series offering practical tips on greening your lifestyle.

Spotlights new movies and DVDs.

Spotlights new movies and DVDs.

Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) rescue Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry), Tom-Tom and other Mother Goose characters from Toyland miser Barnaby.

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) meets the spirits of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

She (Angela Lansbury) is stranded in 1910 New York City while testing a new route for Mr. Claus (Charles Durning).

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

A gambler (Glenn Ford) falls for a social worker (Evelyn Keyes) in a settlement house where he hides from gangsters.

A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run.

An English mystery writer (Bette Davis) kills her husband, then tries to kill a man (Gary Merrill) posing as her husband.

A newsman (James Cagney) is framed for manslaughter, then sent to prison, where he meets a gangster (George Raft) who helps him.

Framed for murder, a veteran cop (Burt Reynolds) serves time before clearing his name and seeking the true killer.

Short movies.

A young woman (Debbie Reynolds) tries to enter 1890s Denver society but goes to Europe after her husband (Harve Presnell) strikes gold.

Soapy believes that getting arrested and thrown into a warm jail cell is the best solution to being homeless in cold weather; fugitives Sam and Bill kidnap a child for a ransom; Della and Jim seek to buy each other Christmas gifts.

Time-and-motion-study pioneers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy) run their brood of 12 efficiently.

A student veterinarian (William Holden) on the GI Bill helps his wife (Jeanne Crain) turn an old professor's (Edmund Gwenn) attic into a home.

Two Ohio sisters (Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett) move to Greenwich Village, where one finds a publisher (Jack Lemmon) and the other one finds men.

A college coed (Patricia Marshall) tempts a football hero (Peter Lawford), but a student librarian (June Allyson) wins him.

A mail-order bride (Judy Garland) stops in a frontier gambler's (John Hodiak) town to work as a waitress.

An actor (Gene Kelly) woos a Caribbean islander (Judy Garland) by posing as the pirate (Walter Slezak) of her dreams.

A sultry plant worker (Dorothy Dandridge) drives a wartime soldier (Harry Belafonte) to murder in Jacksonville, Fla.

A professor (Clifton Webb) who used to be a screen swashbuckler sues his former leading lady (Ginger Rogers) for putting their films on TV.

A circulation-hungry newspaper brings a terminally ill Vermont woman to New York as a publicity stunt.

A naughty little girl (Shirley Temple) dreams she and her brother are sent by a fairy to find the bluebird of happiness.

An orphan (Shirley Temple) attaches herself to an American playboy (Robert Young) and his sweetheart (Alice Faye) in Shanghai.

After Rebecca is mistakenly rejected at an audition for a radio advertising campaign, her stepfather takes her upstate.

An American girl (Shirley Temple) charms hostile natives and a Highland soldier (Victor McLaglen) in colonial India.

An aunt takes a Swiss orphan (Shirley Temple) from the girl's grandfather (Jean Hersholt) in the Swiss Alps and puts her to work in Frankfurt as companion to a disabled child.

A millionaire, his niece (Judith Allen) and a pilot (James Dunn) love a little orphan (Shirley Temple) who sings "On the Good Ship Lollipop.".

A poor but proud girl searches army hospitals for her father, reported dead in the Boer War. With her father missing in action, the Victorian child is sent to a harsh boarding school. She escapes the school to find her father.

A Mountie (Randolph Scott) and his sweetheart (Margaret Lockwood) adopt a little girl (Shirley Temple) orphaned by an Indian attack.

An orphan (Shirley Temple) lives with a lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee) until a truant officer takes her away.

A Park Avenue millionaire (John Boles) adopts a frisky orphan (Shirley Temple) and her teenage sister (Rochelle Hudson).

An American girl (Shirley Temple) charms hostile natives and a Highland soldier (Victor McLaglen) in colonial India.

An American playboy (Fred Astaire) falls in love with the grateful French orphan (Leslie Caron) he anonymously put through college.

Rupert, a dancing squirrel, is left to fend for himself on the streets after his master turns bankrupt; unsuited for the hard life, Rupert devises a scheme to raise his master's family from poverty.

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) meets the spirits of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

A New Hampshire scrooge (Henry Winkler) changes his ways in a Depression-era version of the Dickens classic.

An elf warns an Arctic oil-station family (Jaclyn Smith, Paul Le Mat) that Christmas Eve drilling could destroy Santa's (Art Carney) toy factory.

She (Angela Lansbury) is stranded in 1910 New York City while testing a new route for Mr. Claus (Charles Durning).

A grumpy, high-powered business executive (Steven Weber) learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Holiday hardship in 1897 prompts an Irish immigrant's (Richard Thomas) daughter to ask the New York Sun a question.

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) meets the spirits of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

She (Angela Lansbury) is stranded in 1910 New York City while testing a new route for Mr. Claus (Charles Durning).

An elf warns an Arctic oil-station family (Jaclyn Smith, Paul Le Mat) that Christmas Eve drilling could destroy Santa's (Art Carney) toy factory.

Detective Philo Vance sifts through clues and comes up with seven possible suspects in the murder of a sportsman.

Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) and her husband (Kirk Douglas), who saw her kill her aunt, fear a childhood friend (Van Heflin) saw her too.

A detective finds a promoter (Victor Mature) hiding out with the sister (Betty Grable) of a slain actress client (Carole Landis).

An auto racer (Brian Donlevy) helps his friend (Robert Kent) battle gangsters extorting a taxi company.

A Chicago newsman (James Stewart) digs up the story of a scrubwoman's son (Richard Conte) framed for murder.

A newsman (James Cagney) is framed for manslaughter, then sent to prison, where he meets a gangster (George Raft) who helps him.

A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run.

A gambler (Glenn Ford) falls for a social worker (Evelyn Keyes) in a settlement house where he hides from gangsters.