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By STEWART SMITH Entertainment Writer Welcome back one and all as I continue my examination of the works of director Billy Wilder, this week taking on his classic noir "Double Indemnity." If you're just joining us, my "Catching Up On" column is a chance for me to write about the films and directors that I've yet to have much exposure to.

Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications is running a video online on the making of WGN Channel 9's holiday special "Bozo, Gar & Ray." It's almost too meta, as a making-of documentary about a making-of documentary about three fondly remembered local TV series: "Bozo's Circus," "Garfield Goose" and "Ray Rayner & Friends." Yet it's nonetheless ...

What's your favorite Christmas movie? Bet you said "It's a Wonderful Life," or "Miracle on 34th Street," or one of the umpteen versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Although I have a soft spot for the original "Miracle on 34th Street," my favorite Christmas movie is more obscure - at least until now.

It's going to be a very special holiday for movie fans this year as Turner Classic Movies presents the rarely seen gem Remember the Night during a December packed with holiday favorites.

Three-Cornered Moon , Maid of Salem , I Met Him in Paris , No Time For Love , The Egg and I and Ernst Lubitsch's Bluebeard's Eighth Wife .

"My Three Sons" cast: Fred MacMurray, left, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston and William Demarest.

Three-Cornered Moon 1933 // 77 Minutes // Not Rated I Met Him In Paris 1937 // 86 Minutes // Not Rated Maid Of Salem 1937 // 85 Minutes // Not Rated Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938 // 85 Minutes // Not Rated No Time For Love 1943 // 87 Minutes // Not Rated The Egg And I 1947 // 108 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Universal Reviewed by Appellate Judge ...

This movie has an intriguing premise - a reclusive self-help guru turns out to be as much of a seeker as his fans - and two talented actors , yet it was never released in local theaters, probably because it feels almost as lost as its central character.

I got the opportunity recently to spend time with two of America's most-talked-about dads: Jon Gosselin, of the "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" television show, and Richard Heene, the man behind the recent so-called Balloon Boy Hoax.

J.C. Loophole of the Shelf passed on the interesting news that TCM has started a program where they will be providing Universal movies on demand .

This year, Warner began to release a series of smaller films direct to the audience via the Warner Archive .

Mae Brunken wanted a home with a past. And in a plot with an only-in- Hollywood ending, the interior designer and set decorator found her period piece -- one with a film noir pedigree.

Double Indemnity goes down as the first and only time the words "insurance salesman" and "interesting" have been used in the same sentence.

Some dialogue from "Too Many Husbands" , as Melvyn Douglas and Fred MacMurray get on each others' nerves: Melvyn Douglas: All right, spell "Pithecanthropus erectus." Fred MacMurray: Why? Melvyn Douglas: Because I say you can't. Jean Arthur: Is that right? Melvyn Douglas: Yes.

The exchange took place a lifetime ago. But Peter Horton can rewind right to it with the speed and precision of a DVR.

THE TEXAS RANGERS is an entertaining Western starring Fred MacMurray. MacMurray, Jack Oakie, and Lloyd Nolan play a trio of outlaws who split up during a gunfight.

EW Home // DVD // Reviews // Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vols 1 & 2 WISE CRACKS Fred MacMurray, Jean Arthur, and Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands Everett Collection By Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column In the 1930s and '40s, stars like Cary Grant and Katharine ...

BISEXUAL,feisty,foul-mouthed,chain-smoking, alcoholic ... Barbara Stanwyck was the living embodiment of the characters she played and the adage that dynamite comes in small packages.

For Erik and Ivana Gonzalez, the design of their kitchen - and every other room in the house - was truly a family affair.

ONE of the most beautiful movies ever made in classic Technicolor, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" arrives on DVD today in a gorgeous restoration of this backwoods melodrama starring Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray and Sylvia Sidney.