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It isn't December without... (Original Post) CBHagman Dec 2016 OP
We've watched our usual line up NRaleighLiberal Dec 2016 #1
This afternoon Staph Dec 2016 #2
Disney's A Christmas Carol narnian60 Dec 2016 #3
Mine: Auggie Dec 2016 #4
An annual favourite for me: The Bishop's Wife Matilda Dec 2016 #5
And while I'm at it .. Matilda Dec 2016 #6
I always love to watch Shop Around the Corner. Matilda Dec 2016 #7

NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
1. We've watched our usual line up
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 11:58 PM
Dec 2016

It's a Wonderful Life
Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out, kid!)
Little Women
Christmas Memory (Truman Capote short story - the version with Geraldine Page)
Walton's The Homecoming

and one of the most captivating - Raymond Brigg's The Snowman



Staph

(6,245 posts)
2. This afternoon
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 04:39 AM
Dec 2016

the family watched Holiday Inn (1942) and White Christmas (1954).

I hope to later watch Little Women (either the 1933 Katharine Hepburn version or the 1994 Winona Ryder version - accept no substitutes!).

The others you mentioned are on my list, too. Thank heaven for TCM, for we'd never see many of these on commercial television.


Auggie

(31,061 posts)
4. Mine:
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 05:02 PM
Dec 2016

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood

Babes in Toyland (1934)
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

A Christmas Carol (1951)
Alastair Sim

The Silent Partner (1978)
Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer
The first half takes place during Christmas. A ghoulish pick, but I love this movie. Plus I always had a crush on Susannah York.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Boris Karloff, Chuck Jones (Director)

Plummer and Gould in The Silent Partner:




Matilda

(6,384 posts)
5. An annual favourite for me: The Bishop's Wife
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 10:03 PM
Dec 2016

I bought it last week, because without TCM, we won't see it here any more.

One of my favourite scenes:



Matilda

(6,384 posts)
7. I always love to watch Shop Around the Corner.
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 04:17 AM
Dec 2016

I love Frank Morgan any time, and I also enjoy Felix Bressart.

But I always love to watch James Stewart with Margaret Sullavan. He was in love with her, but she married his flatmate Henry Fonda instead. I’ve seen them in three films together, and he was always so tender and gentle with her, because she was always a bit fragile mentally. You really could see that he cared.

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