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For me no question it's:

  1. A Christmas Carol
  2. Scrooge 1970 (yes it's different)
  3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (shocked? then you really don't know me)
  4. Fitzwilly (Good luck with that one)

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quoththeraven Grand Master

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1. It's a Wonderful Life

2. Elf

3. The Santa Clause

 

I'm not as big on Christmas movies as I am on Christmas TV specials like Mr. Magoo's A Christmas Carol. Since that's my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol, I've never watched any of the others. Nor have I watched Miracle on 34th Street or the like.

 

I'm just waiting for someone to name Die Hard.

Gar1eth Grand Master

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1. It's a Wonderful Life

2. Elf

3. The Santa Clause

 

I'm not as big on Christmas movies as I am on Christmas TV specials like Mr. Magoo's A Christmas Carol. Since that's my favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol, I've never watched any of the others. Nor have I watched Miracle ion 34th Street or the like.

 

I'm just waiting for someone to name Die Hard.

 

Never seen Miracle On 34th Street? Have you hidden in caves all these years?:eek: Also to have never seen Alistair Sim in the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol is really missing a classic!!! You actually should see them at the least for the point of having common cultural references with the majority of us.

 

By the way those along with It's A Wonderful Life are my top three Christmas movies and in that order. My fourth is the original The Bishop's Wife with Loretta Young. My Fifth would probably be Home Alone.

 

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The first two I thought of as favorites are It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol (the 1938 version, with Reginald Owen as Scrooge).

 

Another is the less well known Remember the Night (1940), a film written by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. (Beulah Bondi, who plays Jimmy Stewart's mother in It's a Wonderful Life, is MacMurray's mother in Remember the Night.) Stanwyck is a thief. MacMurray is a prosecuting attorney with a soft spot. The film is both funny and tender. Preston Sturges said of it, "Love reformed her and corrupted him," and added that the movie "had quite a lot of schmaltz, a good dose of schmerz and just enough schmutz to make it box office."

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Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Cuddles Sakall. Hands down the best Christmas movie ever. Also, love Holiday Inn, Going My Way, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (both the 1938 MGM and 1951 with Alastair Sim).

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I love Holiday inn as well.

 

Although not really a "movie," I grew up watching Frosty the Snowman. Brings back fond memories of my childhood and family. We used to sit around the TV set and sing the theme song at the top of our lungs (in a heavy Spanish accent of course!). Today, if I ever hear the tune, I break into deep baritone...tends to elicit really freaky looks from bystanders. :)

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Christmas in Connecticut starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Cuddles Sakall. Hands down the best Christmas movie ever. Also, love Holiday Inn, Going My Way, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (both the 1938 MGM and 1951 with Alastair Sim).

You pegged ALL of mine lol!! (Cuddles - "vat is catastrophe is good thing?" ;)) But perhaps MY fave NO ONE has mentioned yet which is ALSO a Stanwyck film which is largely forgotton since the team's classic (Stanwyck and MacMurray) Double Indemnity overshadows it, is "REMEMBER THE NIGHT". He's a NY DA she's a tough hardened career 5th Ave shoplifter he's had locked up over the Holidays awating trial he's persuaded by her lawyer to get her released for the holidays and she's pissed cause JAIL was her only warm bed and meals she's homeless so since he's driving to his family farm he offers to drive her to her estranged mother's she hasnt been home in 2o years the mother is awful she doesn't want her there so he takes her home with him to spend xmas with his loving cookie-baking mother and aunt it's a real home that she never had she's transformed and well, watch the movie if you can :)

* The mother and aunt are Buleah Bondi (the mother in Its Wondrfl Life" and Elizabeth Patterson (Lucy's neighbor Mrs. Trumbal) doesn't get any better :rolleyes:

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You pegged ALL of mine lol!! (Cuddles - "vat is catastrophe is good thing?" ;)) But perhaps MY fave NO ONE has mentioned yet which is ALSO a Stanwyck film which is largely forgotton since the team's classic (Stanwyck and MacMurray) Double Indemnity overshadows it, is "REMEMBER THE NIGHT". He's a NY DA she's a tough hardened career 5th Ave shoplifter he's had locked up over the Holidays awating trial he's persuaded by her lawyer to get her released for the holidays and she's pissed cause JAIL was her only warm bed and meals she's homeless so since he's driving to his family farm he offers to drive her to her estranged mother's she hasnt been home in 2o years the mother is awful she doesn't want her there so he takes her home with him to spend xmas with his loving cookie-baking mother and aunt it's a real home that she never had she's transformed and well, watch the movie if you can :)

1. The Bishop'sWife

2. Remember the Night

3. A Christmas Story

Gar1eth Grand Master

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Anyone can google it Gman.

 

But has anyone seen it?

 

I didn't need to google it. I've seen it. But it's been a long time. I didn't remember it being a Christmas movie. I'm pretty sure I saw it away from Christmas. I remember he was something like a butler or chauffeur working for an elderly lady.

 

Late Entry-I had just woken up when I made my earlier picks. I need to add White Christmas to my list.

 

Gman

Gar1eth Grand Master

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Wizard Of Oz ( I know not really a Christmas movie, but when I was a little kid it was always on TV the night after Christmas.)

 

Are you sure about this? I remember it being shown for several years around Thanksgiving not Christmas.

 

Gman

quoththeraven Grand Master

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Are you sure about this? I remember it being shown for several years around Thanksgiving not Christmas.

 

Gman

 

And I thought it was shown around Easter! Clearly, it was broadcast around some holiday, but maybe it wasn't the same one every year?

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