What is your favorite Christmas movie?
We just saw "Miracle on 34th Street" (the old one with Maureen O'Hara).
Hubby saw the Alistair Sims "A Christmas Carol" a couple of nights ago.
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and bringing up a close third is the George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol." To me, it's the adaptation that's closest to Dickens' original story. But I love Christmas AND Christmas movies, from "Gremlins" to "Home Alone" and everything in between. 
And Baby Geniuses. 
silly, but classics...... 
LOVE that movie although it's poignant now seeing John Ritter and Bernie Mac 
It was an all girls' school. 
i don't know why they feel they have to keep remaking movies - that one's a classic. 
She was also in "The Ghost And Mrs. Muir" as Gene Tierney's daughter and I saw her in "Father Was a Fullback" - not as good a movie, but she played Maureen O'Hara's daughter in that as well. She was great in everything she did.
And I do try to catch "It's a Wonderful Life." It's too bad that since NBC bought the rights to it that it's only shown once or twice a season. 
"Laura" is probably my favorite - and awhile back when TCM had a marathon of her movies one weekend, I watched most of them.
I also got so I liked Dana Andrews - the police detective who fell in love with her portrait. I made a point of watching movies he was in after that. And Clifton Webb is as creepy as they come in that movie. It was an excellent cast!
There was an older one, 1938 with Reginald Owen. But the 1951 version is the one I grew up seeing. It is a very classy version.
Trailer:
As a veteran of the hunt for Tickle Me Elmo, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and various game machines, this movie always makes me laugh. With Elmo and one of the game machines, store manager insisted armed security guard escort me to my car. My son was terrified of Tickle Me Elmo. Wouldn’t stop crying on Christmas until he watched me lock him in the car trunk and promise to never bring him back. I am laughing to this day. Son is 22. Knows one of those boxes under the tree for him will have Elmo in it. 
My favorite character is Max, the dog. 
And Max is a believable pup, LOL, he's enthusiastic about everything he does...
I always had books as a kid. When I was very little, my mother didn't drive, so we'd go to the market with my aunt and every week she'd buy me a new Golden Book (if you remember those). I had quite a library.
I'd almost forgotten! My mother had read those as a kid, as well! My parents were always big on books and stories. My brother (younger) had to have a story every night and it always had to be the same one - for weeks at a time! My mother got so she knew it by heart - and I heard it enough times that I still remember the words.
He was supposed to have been Laura's love interest, he played kind of a "hunk," LOL. It must have been an early appearance for him...
Books were important when I was a kid, more than TV. When I was 6-9 we lived on the side of a mountain and because of the location, we only got one channel! So it was whatever was on - or nothing. Nobody could imagine that today. 
Just might be Steve Martin's best movie. Includes all the usual sentimental bullshit, but throws in some antics by Madeline Kahn as Mrs Munchnik. Nice cameo by Jon Stewart from his early years. Rita Wilson (yeah, that RW, as in Tom Hanks's long standing wife 
as the romantic target.
Check it out.
