You''''re invited!! Christmas Movie time!!

[door knob solitaire]

Ok Mara is in charge of the music...I''ve got the classic movie reels. This is what I will be showing, please come.

1. It''s A Wonderful Life (1947) (my ultimate favorite movie of all time...)

2. Meet John Doe (1941)

3. Christmas In Connecticut (1945)

4. The Bishops Wife (1947)

5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

6. A Christmas Story (1983)

Need to have a correct chair count...let me know which movies you''ll be watching...and if there are any you would like the management to add to the list...we are open to all suggestions.

Anyone available to make popcorn balls? Snacks? If so, chime in and tell us what you''ll be bringing!

Party time!! Yippee! DKS

 

[movie zombie]

for me, no holiday movie list is complete without: WE''RE NO ANGELS made in 1955 and stars Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Leo G. Carroll, and Basil Rathbone.

peace, movie zombie

 

[crafftygrrl]

You forgot Babes in Toyland (Laurel and Hardy) and the animated version of Gulliver''s Travels.

When I was a kid, we used to set up a "tent" with pillows and blankets under a card table. We would open a section of the tent to watch the TV. My Mom would provide cookies and Jiffy Pop. It''s one of my favorite memories from childhood.

 

[AndyRosse]

What about Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? As a kid, I always HAD to watch them when they were shown on ABC, NBC, CBS...one of those channels

.

 

[Kaleigh]

I agree Rascal, those are classics in my book. Oh and one of my childhood favs is a Charlie Brown christmas. Got to love that!!! Guess I''m a kid at heart.

 

[MissGotRocks]

Wouldn''t be complete without Christmas Vacation and the Grinch! I''ll bring the fudge!

 

[mrssalvo]

Holiday Inn
White Christmas


They're not Christmas movies but we watch them anyway..the sound of music and singing in the rain..

 

[AGBF]

"Amahl and the Night Visitors" (which used to be shown on television once a year for Christmas)!

Deb

 

[Kaleigh]

DKS I never heard of Meet John Doe (1941), can you give a brief summary???

 

[door knob solitaire]

Meet John Doe:

ga Ga ga Ga Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Another great Frank Capra. The movie has a great poignant meaning as It''s A Wonderful life. You get the snow fall...and tears too. Humor, angst, suspense...all good stuff.

Gary Cooper is an injured baseball player down on his luck. Babs is a journalist. Throw in a scheme to keep her job...and Frank Capras "community" involvment...and viola. You come away maybe a tad bit better...warm and toasty too...a Classic.

Check your local library for availiablity.

Oh yeah Rudolph...Clarisse...Cornealus...just wouldn''t be Christmas without them! Oh and Burl sings a song for us...Silver and Gold...Silver and Gold...

The other ones I don''t know of...(of course CB and Frosty...but the other movies I don''t know...I will have them at the party!!)

 

[Kaleigh]

That sounds like a great movie, thanks for the summary. I have some catching up to do. Maybe movie zombie has some flicks we haven''t considered as she is our resident film expert???

 

[AGBF]

Oh my gosh! "Desk Set" with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey! That is hysterical...and you may even learn all the names of Santa''s reindeer by the end of the movie!

Deb

 

[movie zombie]

Date: 11/20/2005 11:57:20 PM
Author: kaleigh
That sounds like a great movie, thanks for the summary. I have some catching up to do. Maybe movie zombie has some flicks we haven''t considered as she is our resident film expert???

well, not a real expert, just a movie fan....see 2nd entry to this thread.... the movie was remade not too long ago and i refused to go see it because ''they'' changed it so much. the original 1955 movie is corny, improbable, and full of christmas spirit.....

peace, movie zombie

 

[Lorelei]

It''s a Wonderful Life is always my favourite Christmas movie, I also enjoy the Little Women''s - either one with Kate Hepburn or June Allyson, and of course Home Alone, the first movie, I love the music and the snow scenes, we rarely have any here for Christmas....sniff...

 

[AGBF]

Well...this is a little off-topic, but I remember some very evocative scenes from movies that one would not want to sit down and watch with the family for spiritual enrichment. Since I truly love Christmas, and since I always associated it with snow and being bundled up when I was a child, certain scenes stay with me.

One of the most evocative for me is in, "The Godfather". A couple, I think it was Tom Hagen and his wife, are seen in the snow facing one of the old New York City department stores. Maybe Best''s? I think that that is when Tom is kidnapped.

Another one is a street scene (with, "Christmas Dream" by Perry Como playing in the background) is a street scene with Christmas lights and snow in, "The Odessa File".

Does anyone else have any favorite Christmas scenes from non-Christmas movies?

Deb

 

[Erin]

Does anyone else have any favorite Christmas scenes from non-Christmas movies?

The Little Princess - Shirley Temple


Poor little orphan locked in the attic still gets Christmas presents and is not sure from where

 

[noobie]

A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens classic. Scrooge is my hero

..... at the end when he hands out the gifts

 

[Mara]

I''m a sucker for Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on ABC from when I was little. I love all the claymation and am so glad they didn''t update it yet!

 

[Kaleigh]

Oh I adore that Shirley Temple movie. I love it when she finally finds her dad in the hospital and he is calling her Sarah, sarah and she runs up to him and says I found you daddy, I found you. OMG where is the kleenex???

 

[portoar]

We always watch March of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes in Toyland) w/ Laurel & Hardy, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and on Christmas Eve, A Christmas Carol, the old classic version. We don''t have A Charlie Brown Christmas on DVD, but if we run across it on TV we watch that too.

Here''s a chance to own a "pathetic" Christmas Tree just like Charlie Brown''s:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/09/replica_of_charlie_b.html

My husband actually wanted to get this . . .

 

[Kaleigh]

Too funny.