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Christmas Movies

An American Christmas Carol

1979, 100 minutes, Henry Winkler, David Wayne.
Winkler plays Scrooge in a version of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol". It is set in the Great Depression in a New England town.
****


It's a Wonderful Life

1946, 129 minutes, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers.
Wonderful story of Stewart's character, who works hard all his life in a small town. He makes one major mistake and plans to suicide. Clarence, the guardian angel arrives to show Stewart that his life was indeed a valuable one and had contributed so much towards other people's happiness and success. It concludes on Christmas day. Delightful.
*****
Really like this one have watched every year for as long as I can remember have it on vhs one year the channel that had it did not do ads during it :)

The Man in the Santa Claus suit

1979, 100 minutes, Fred Astaire, Gary Burghoff, John Byner, Bert Convy, Nanette Fabray, Harold Gould.
Fred Astaire plays seven different characters affecting the life of different people.
***


Miracle on 34th Street

1947, 96 minutes, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood.
Gwenn, playing Kris Kringle works in Macy's who faces a child (Wood) who does not believe. He then goes to trial to prove he is Santa.
*****
Have this one too same channel same thing no ads

Miracle on 34th Street

1994, 113 minutes, Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J T Walsh, Mara Wilson.
Attenborough, playing Kris Kringle works in Macy's who faces a child (Wilson) who does not believe. He then goes to trial to prove he is Santa.

Have this one on dvd did not realize what I had till I got it home

Scrooge

1970, 118 minutes, Albert Finney, Alec Guiness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Lawrence Naismith, Michael Medwin, David Collings.
Entertaining musical version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Finney is Scrooge and Guiness is Marley's ghost.
***

White Christmas

1954, 120 minutes, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger,Mary Wickes.
Kaye and Crosby play war-time buddies who sing, dance and fall in love with Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney. Good soundtrack.
***
Have this one

The Bishop's Wife

1947, 108 minutes, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper.
Cary Grant plays and angel who comes to earth and helps the Bishop (Niven) and his wife (Young) raise money for a new church.
****
Have seen this one once

Christmas in Conneticut

1945, 101 minutes, Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.K.Sakall, Robert Shane, Una O'Connor.
Stanwyck is a magazine writer who is an expert homemaker, who has to entertain a war veteran (Morgan) and her boss (Greenstreet).

Like this one need to find a dvd of it...

A Christmas Story

1983, 98 minutes, Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, Tedde Moore.
Movie about growing up the 1940s. Billingsley plays the young boy and we discover the simple yearnings, like wanting to own a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
****

A Christmas Carol

1951, 86 minutes, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley,Clifford Mollison.
Sim is outstanding as Scrooge. It is an excellent portrayal of Charle Dickens' famous Christmas classic.
****
This is the movie one channel I use to get plays every year on Xmas eve

All I Want for Christmas

1991, 92 minutes, Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Kevin Nealon, Thora Birch, Leslie Nielsen, Lauren Bacall.
Two kids (Randall and Birch) try to get their divorced parents back together again for the Christmas holidays.
**

Santa Claus

1985, 112 minutes, Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Burgess Meredith, Judy Cornwell, Jeffrey Kramer, Christian Fitzpatrick, Carrie Kei Heim.
Interesting story behind Santa's North Pole operation, workshop, reindeers and elves.

OTHER MOVIES

- A Christmas Wish,

Mrs Santa Claus, (Saw once)

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,

Christmas Vacation,

A Christmas Carol (1984 & 1999)

The Christmas Star,

Dear Santa,

The Muppet Christmas Carol,

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Saw ,many times)

The Grinch,

Ernest Saves Christmas.

The Christmas Box,

One Magic Christmas,

Christmas Child,

I'll be home for Christmas

Christmas Unwrapped - History of Christmas,

Christmas with the Kranks,

An All Dogs Christmas Carol,

An Angel for Christmas,

Arthur's Perfect Christmas,

How the Toys Saved Christmas.

A Charlie Brown Christmas,

Claymation Christmas,

Dora the Explorer - Christmas,

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas,

It's a Very Merry Christmas Movie

- Sonic Christmas Blast,

Elmo Saves Christmas,

Thomas' Christmas Wonderland,

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Where is march of the wooden soldiers ????