Classic Films
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It's that time again. Post your favorite seasonal films, no holds barred.
Good for multiple viewings:
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)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)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.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)House Without a Christmas Tree
Auggie
(31,061 posts)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)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)"Love Actually", and especially the late, wonderful, Alan Rickman.
Matilda
(6,384 posts)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. Ive 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.