1. I love Christmas movies. I start watching at end of October to get them all in. My first is usually Bell, Book and Candle, as it was this year.
2. Meet Me in St Louis is also a favorite and I watch it early in the season because it has that great Hallowe’en scene. I agree with you that it’s busy but I love the teeny details of period life, like light fixture with electricity and gas light.
3. Christmas in Connecticut is a gem. I usually save it til December, but now I may have to watch it tonight. I have many faves on DVD so I can watch whenever
4. I try to catch some newer movies every year also. We watched a gem, The Holiday, with Historians at the Movies this week. I gave up another, though, called 12 days of Santa or some such. It was sort of a cross between Its a Wonderful Life and Groundhogs Day. It was just long.
5. We’ve also already watched Muppet Christmas Carol and Rudolph w/ grandkids
6. I love Bluey. I hope you included Christmas Swim
7. I watched Desk Set on election night. It distracted me from…., well, you know
I second Desk Set as a holiday gem. When you said pre-1945 I immediately thought of Holiday Inn. Blackface (unsurprising for the time) aside, it far surpasses White Christmas for me because of that more progressive acceptance of showbiz folks being nontraditional.
1. I love Christmas movies. I start watching at end of October to get them all in. My first is usually Bell, Book and Candle, as it was this year.
2. Meet Me in St Louis is also a favorite and I watch it early in the season because it has that great Hallowe’en scene. I agree with you that it’s busy but I love the teeny details of period life, like light fixture with electricity and gas light.
3. Christmas in Connecticut is a gem. I usually save it til December, but now I may have to watch it tonight. I have many faves on DVD so I can watch whenever
4. I try to catch some newer movies every year also. We watched a gem, The Holiday, with Historians at the Movies this week. I gave up another, though, called 12 days of Santa or some such. It was sort of a cross between Its a Wonderful Life and Groundhogs Day. It was just long.
5. We’ve also already watched Muppet Christmas Carol and Rudolph w/ grandkids
6. I love Bluey. I hope you included Christmas Swim
7. I watched Desk Set on election night. It distracted me from…., well, you know
I second Desk Set as a holiday gem. When you said pre-1945 I immediately thought of Holiday Inn. Blackface (unsurprising for the time) aside, it far surpasses White Christmas for me because of that more progressive acceptance of showbiz folks being nontraditional.