imoldfashioned said:"Remember the Night (1940) with Barbara and Fred MacMurray. He plays a D.A. prosecuting Barbara for shoplifting (if you see the bracelet she pinches, you can’t blame her) who ends up taking her home for an old-fashioned Christmas."
One of my all time favorite films, that. The credits on this are stellar; Preston Sturges wrote it, Mitchell Leisen directed and the supporting cast is fantastic--Beulah Bondi, Sterling Holloway, Elizabeth Patterson.
My favorite bits are the scene when Stanwyck asks what MacMurray would do if he were starving, Holloway and Stanwyck singing "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day", Stanwyck meeting her mother and MacMurray getting her out of there--all great. Stanwyck is so wonderful--I'd watch that woman read the phone book.
(And you're so right about that bracelet! Stanwyck has some very nice outfits in this movie, and the house in Indiana is a dream)
Patrick Stewart's TV version was lame!
Oh man, it was the day AFTER Thanksgiving that I miss....monster movies ALL day! Starting with King Kong, and usually ending with Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster! I miss those days!dhermann1 said:For years, decades, one of the stations in New York used to celebrate Thanksgiving by broadcasting "King Kong". It became a Turkeyday necessity for a whole generation of New Yorkers. [huh]
killertomata said:But my favorite Yuletidey movie is Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck.
The cool thing is, if you bought the DVD in a set from Target last year, it features this awesome little short film called A Star in the Night. Yes, I'm Pagan but I love the spirit of the story of Christ's birth, and the whole wise men, angel, 'no room at the inn' theme in A Star in the Night always leaves me with a tear or two in my eyes, it's so touching. Nativity stories and stories related to it always get to me. Especially- omg- Disney's Small One. Forget it! I cry through practically that whole thing! That one isn't a nativity story but it ends up related.