It's the first Wednesday of December so I hope you realize what sort of movies I'll be writing about for this month. Of course there are certain movies that I HAVE to watch every year and I'll let you know which ones in a minute, but I figured since the point of this post is to watch movies I've always heard of and never seen...and that includes holiday movies! When I was searching to find older Christmas movies, I found out that there were a lot I had never seen or even heard of! So let's begin!
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| Klara and Alfred ignoring each other before work (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Starring: Margret Sullivan, and James Stewart (Who I will talk about more later!)
The Matuschek and Co shop employees are like a close nit family. One day a young woman walks into the shop desperate for a job. Despite the fact that business was slow and there were no openings in the shop, Klara Novak, the young woman, sells a music cigarette box and wows Mr. Matuschek. But Miss Novak and Alfred Kralik, Matuschek and Co's top salesman, can't stand each other. In the meantime Kralik becomes penpals with a woman and ends up falling in love with her. And because Miss Novak can't stand Kralik, she really can't be bothered with getting to know him. But she is also distracted because she is just smitten with a man she became penpals with...wait a minute...
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| Elizabeth Lane trying to pretend like she can cook in Christmas in Connecticut (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan
Elizabeth Lane has pretended to be the perfect housewife for her column in a food magazine. When a sailor asks to spend Christmas with her and her family on their farm, she has to act fast to keep him, her boss and everyone else fooled. Can she pull it all off or will she lose her job because of her big secret?
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| All of the people staying in the O'Connor mansion on New Years Eve (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Starring: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, and Charles Ruggles
Every winter, homeless man Aloysius T. McKeever moves into wealthy man Michael O'Connor's town house in New York, while he spends the winter in another home. McKeever meets Jim Bullock who was just evicted from his apartment because of a new building Michael O'Connor is going to be building. McKeever feels bad for Bullock and invites him to stay with him in the empty mansion. One night Bullock and McKeever find a young woman, Trudy, taking a few different outfits and jackets, she pretends like she just needs an outfit for an interview because the gentlemen clearly don't know who she is. They feel bad and invite her to stay with them. In the meantime, O'Connor got a call from his daughter's school telling him that she was missing class, so he went back up to New York to find her. After Trudy's interview, her and Bullock run into some old friends of his as they are trying to get an apartment for their families. The building does not allow children and pets so they are declined and have no where to go, so Bullock invites them to the mansion. One day after Trudy is leaving work she runs into her father: Michael O'Connor. He tries to take her to their home on 5th Ave, but she knows there are many people living there that he doesn't know about. What is he going to do when he finds out how many people are living in his home? And what sort of plan do the rest of the guys have to get jobs and homes of their own?
*Side note: McKeever looks just like Jack Black, I actually thought it was him at first!*
*Winner this month!*
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| Wallace and Davis with the Haynes sisters in White Christmas (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney
After WWII, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis become a top song and dance act. Before leaving Florida for New York, they watch the Haynes sisters' perform. The boys end up following the sisters to Vermont where they run into their former commander running the Inn the girls are going to be performing at next. They realize the commander misses being in the army so they come up with a plan to make it the best Christmas for their commander.
*Runner up this month!*
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| George Baily and his family on Christmas in It's a Wonderful Life (Photo Credit: Google Images) |
It's a Wonderful Life (James Stewart from the Shop Around the Corner is in this too!)
A Year Without Santa Clause
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Santa Clause
Elf
Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Carol
What are your favorite movies to watch to get you in the holiday spirit?
Quote of the Week: "Teacher says: 'Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.'"
Last Weeks Answer: Enchanted by Taylor Swift
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