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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 22, 2023 6:07:29 GMT
I'm fond of a Cary Grant Christmas because:
Love this list! Made me think of other Christmas movie repeaters: Barbara Stanwyck in CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT, MEET JOHN DOE, and the previously mentioned REMEMBER THE NIGHT    Bing Crosby in HOLIDAY INN, WHITE CHRISTMAS, GOING MY WAY and THE BELLS OF ST MARY’S     Loretta Young in THE BISHOP’S WIFE and COME TO THE STABLE   …which both also have Elsa Lanchester, who is also in a Halloween-Christmas crossover BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE  Ward Bond in IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE and THREE GODFATHERS   ![]() Margaret O’Brien in MEET ME IN ST LOUIS, OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES, LITTLE WOMEN, and TENTH AVENUE ANGEL     Peter Boyle in 2 90s favorites, THE SANTA CLAUSE and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING   Jimmy Durante in THE GREAT RUPERT and THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER   Speaking of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, I always preferred the play version with Nathan Lane  |
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Post by dianedebuda on Dec 22, 2023 15:40:57 GMT
What are your favorite CHRISTMAS CAROL versions? |
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Post by christine on Dec 22, 2023 23:04:55 GMT
I agree - I like the George C. Scott version of Christmas Carol. I also like the MGM 1938 version with all the Lockharts. Probably because I've been watching that since I was young so it's nice to see it each year. Brings back those childhood memories of Christmas!
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Post by christine on Dec 22, 2023 23:26:38 GMT
Also wanted to make a comment about REMEMBER THE NIGHT 1940 film with Stanwych and MacMurray. I love this movie for all the reasons that everyone else has mentioned - the scene with Sterling Holloway singing is remarkable - but my very, very favorite scene in this movie is when Barbara Stanwyck throws a popover at Fred MacMurray and says, "If you think I couldn't make a popover like this well!"
LOVE THAT!!!
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Post by kims on Dec 22, 2023 23:52:25 GMT
Every year I watch PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT with Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton and Tony Franciosa and the crime of attempt to embezzle Christmas gifts and MR MAGOO's CHRISTMAS CAROL.
I watch almost all of the others mentioned, and sometimes miss a few some years, but the above two are must see for me.
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 0:27:16 GMT
Also wanted to make a comment about REMEMBER THE NIGHT 1940 film with Stanwych and MacMurray. I love this movie for all the reasons that everyone else has mentioned - the scene with Sterling Holloway singing is remarkable - but my very, very favorite scene in this movie is when Barbara Stanwyck throws a popover at Fred MacMurray and says, "If you think I couldn't make a popover like this well!" LOVE THAT!!! Barbara Stanwyck has so many great lines in this movie. “One of these days one of the boys is going to start one of these things differently, and one of us girls is going to drop dead from surprise.” A special mention to the lawyer at the beginning. I love that character! One of my favorite lawyers in ANY movie!  But one of my favorite judges in any movie is in another Christmas movie, Gene Lockhart in MIRACLE ON 34th STREET  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 0:42:33 GMT
MR MAGOO's CHRISTMAS CAROL. This movie has such a great villain song performed by Old Joe and the thieves!  Now I gotta talk about Christmas cartoons and Disney films. We got the classic specials: RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME AGAIN, CHARLIE BROWN FROSTY THE SNOWMAN SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN and the other stop motion specials Disney made a few holiday shorts: PLUTO’S CHRISTMAS TREE SANTA’S WORKSHOP TOY TINKERS DONALD’S SNOW FIGHT Christmas and winter scenes in Disney movies like: FANTASIA — the “Nutcracker” sequence, especially the winter ice skating MELODY TIME — the sequence called “Once Upon a Wintertime” BAMBI — the ice skating sequence THOSE CALLOWAYS — touching Christmas scene where the men make Vera Miles an ermine cape SNOWBALL EXPRESS — movie about creating a ski lodge MIRACLE — the Miracle on Ice hockey team celebrates Christmas with the coach |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 1:09:52 GMT
Another Disney Christmas sequence — the “Las Posadas” segment of THREE CABALLEROS  |
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Post by Swithin on Dec 23, 2023 2:15:34 GMT
My favorite Christmas movie is Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990). No movie shows off New York City during the holiday season better. The script is brilliant, as is the young cast and the music score. There is a scene on Christmas Eve in St. Thomas' Church (Episcopal) on Fifth Avenue. That's the church were, for the only time in my life, I (a non-Christian) took Communion, on Christmas Eve approximately 20 years before Metropolitan was made.   |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 4:23:22 GMT
Right now I’m watching my favorite version of THE NUTCRACKER by the San Francisco Ballet from 2008. It’s set during San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair with the gorgeous costumes and color schemes of that time. And the Chinese dance has a Chinese dragon!  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 9:43:17 GMT
Movies that start at different times of year but end at Christmas: NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS  EDWARD SCISSORHANDS  101 DALMATIANS  Disney’s THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS  Christmas scenes in the middle of a greater timeline: GONE WITH THE WIND  CITIZEN KANE  THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE  THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS  The HARRY POTTER films  Both PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and EMMA  ON MOONLIGHT BAY  SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON  |
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Post by lonesomepolecat on Dec 23, 2023 10:14:28 GMT
My favorite Christmas movie is Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990). No movie shows off New York City during the holiday season better. The script is brilliant, as is the young cast and the music score. There is a scene on Christmas Eve in St. Thomas' Church (Episcopal) on Fifth Avenue. That's the church were, for the only time in my life, I (a non-Christian) took Communion, on Christmas Eve approximately 20 years before Metropolitan was made. Oh yes, Christmas in New York! That could be a whole film festival! Here are a few: MIRACLE ON 34th STREET  A HOLIDAY AFFAIR  ELF  HOME ALONE 2  DIE HARD  FITZWILLY  Damon Runyon stories LEMON DROP KID, THREE WISE GUYS and POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES  O HENRY’S FULL HOUSE  YOU GOT MAIL  GHOSTBUSTERS 2  IT HAPPENED ON 5th AVENUE  |
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 23, 2023 11:32:54 GMT
My favorite Christmas movie is Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990). No movie shows off New York City during the holiday season better. The script is brilliant, as is the young cast and the music score. There is a scene on Christmas Eve in St. Thomas' Church (Episcopal) on Fifth Avenue. That's the church were, for the only time in my life, I (a non-Christian) took Communion, on Christmas Eve approximately 20 years before Metropolitan was made. Oh yes, Christmas in New York! That could be a whole film festival! Here are a few: MIRACLE ON 34th STREET A HOLIDAY AFFAIR ELF HOME ALONE 2 DIE HARD FITZWILLY Damon Runyon stories LEMON DROP KID, THREE WISE GUYS and POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES O HENRY’S FULL HOUSE YOU GOT MAIL GHOSTBUSTERS 2 IT HAPPENED ON 5th AVENUE |
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 23, 2023 11:44:39 GMT
A fun, obscure British Christmas movie is 1962's "Crooks Anonymous" with Julie Christie (my brain always needs a minute or two to reset to normal thinking after I hear the name or see Julie Christie). My comments on it here: "Crooks Anonymous"
It has many Santas
And Julie Christie!
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Post by NoShear on Dec 23, 2023 17:26:37 GMT
A fun, obscure British Christmas movie is 1962's "Crooks Anonymous" with Julie Christie (my brain always needs a minute or two to reset to normal thinking after I hear the name or see Julie Christie). My comments on it here: "Crooks Anonymous"
It has many Santas
And Julie Christie!
I'd been waiting for the next time you posted a Norma Shearer photo with me in mind, Fading Fast, but I will just post here: There should be a "Sigh" response button - the one with the pizza slice avatar. |
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