emwriterdude Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Anybody know any great Christmas movies TCM is showing until December 25th? Besides A Christmas Story, and Holiday Inn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveoldmovies04 Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Some of my favorite christmas ones that TCM is showing are Holiday inn Meet me in St. Louis Shop around the corner In the good old summer time Since you went away Little women Going my way there are a few others but I have to go.. -phoebe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Also Christmas in Connecticut and The Bishops Wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Also forgot, the 1938 version of "A Christmas Carol" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garboloygrant Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I haven't checked the schedule yet, but I was wondering if TCM will show "A Christmas Story". God that movie is hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicsfan1119 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Yes....check the schedule. TCM has shown "A Christmas Story" and will repeat it later this month. :)ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I'm glad to see that Christmas in Connecticut is being shown this year. Incidentally, the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol is far superior to the 1938 MGM version. It's too bad TCM doesn't show the 1951 version. Ariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 TCM isn't showing the 1951 version of 'Christmas Carol'? Absolutely, sagebrush522, there is no other. tcmprogrammer, hello? Why not? In addition, since you're showing 'Tootsie', why don't you show 'One Magic Christmas'(1985), one of the most delightful Christmas movies ever produced? Most stations (well, most stations are idiots) don't show it anymore. So? How about it? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 The 51' version is great, I recently bought it on DVD and it looks really good, they have two versions of the film one in Black and White, the other redone in color. After I watched it the first time in B/W I checked it out in color and I just don't think I could watch it that way, it just didn't look right. TCM probably doesn't show it because they don't have the rights to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrtbsh Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 that's correct, we don't have the rights to it; we license hundreds of movies outside of the Turner library each year, but that leaves thousands that we don't acquire it would be nice to have a few more Christmas movies in our lineup I've never seen "One Magic Christmas" - maybe I will try to rent it this year I still really like "Tootsie," though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 LOL, sorry tcmprogrammer, I'm just being a SA and constantly using 'Tootsie' as an example of a movie which doesn't (in my mind) compute when I think 'TCM'! Oh, you are in for a treat -- 'One Magic Christmas' was schmaltzy and delightful and corny and all the rest of it, but I liked it, a lot, anyway!! Since you are here, can I ask (I didn't buy it, as I said I was going to do, it was $44.00 (($44.!!)) on Amazon), if you know when you're going to run 'The Time Of Their Lives' with Abbott and Costello again?? OT, and in line with why I love TCM (okay, I'm grovelling now) I just saw a 'B' movie with Errol Flynn as an amateur detective and it was deeeelightful! I also saw a similar movie with Robert Taylor. Now, I haven't previously liked either actor in any of their 'pretty boy' movies, so this was further validation that TCM is the best thing since indoor plumbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Oh, and tcmprogrammer, if you're still here, can I ask you what this was, that I got in my email?...... "L-Soft list server at (ema3lsv01) TBS, Inc (1.8e) Subscription probe for TCM-NEWSLETTER - please ignore" Thanks. If you go over to 'Information Please', a couple of other people have gotten it as well. It looks like a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Stoney, I have the A & C movie "The Time of Their Lives", on the Best of A&C Vol 2. You'll get 8 A&C movies for around twenty bucks. It's well worth it. I have thirty six movies of theirs from the three volumes available, you should be able to find them at any store. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrodor1 Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Actually, fwiw ... "One Magic Christmas" is scheduled to air nationally on a TCM-competitor station named the Hallmark_Channel on Monday, Dec. 6, 2004 at 9pm. Stars: Harry Dean Stanton and Mary Steenburgen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveoldmovies04 Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 this is a little off topic but I am watching my VHS version of miracle on 34th street (the old one with maureen O hara) and the coloring is awful.. its been colorized right? I was just wondering if any one knew. I think it was originally in black & white, maybe i'm wrong.. -phoebe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Yes it should be in the original Black and White. A lot of the colorized movies just don't look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgm80s Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 ha my math is terrible, earlier I said I had 36 A&C movies, that should be twenty four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeanddaisy666 Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 loveoldmovies, yes, 'Miracle on 34th St.' was colorized by Ted Turner, apparently when he was on a bender. Horrific, obscene, disgraceful, idiotic idea. I think he's come to his senses. Wonderful movie, Natalie Wood was adorable, and of course it resonates in black and white. Ted, put away your crayons, there's a good boy. Pete, thanks for the info on 'Time Of Their Lives'. It just GALLS me that I missed it (I was THIS close) on TCM, and I will stubbornly wait until they show it again rather than buy it. I have an old copy from who knows where, but it is not complete. Isn't it a delightful movie??? I'll do like Blanche DuBois, and wait on the kindness of strangers, in this case tcmprogrammer, to program it for me again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveoldmovies04 Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 Haha, I thought it was colorized, it looks awful I wish I could see it in black and white. Natalie wood is so cute in that movie and Soo YOung! thanks for the info, -phoebe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealfuster Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 that the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol" is superior to the Hollywood 1938 version. That one is just a wee bit too cute for my tastes. And no one back in the day, or even since has been able to beat Alastair Sim as Ebenezer, with Kathleen Harrison, and of course Michael Hordern and the unbelievable Ernest Thesiger, make it a classic which stands the test of time. Even the great Albert Finney could not make one forget Sim in the role, though I will say he was great reprising Redgrave's role in the classic, "The Browning Version". I like "Christmas in Connecticut" and try to watch it every year, and also Jean Shepherd's "A Christmas Story". Interestingly [at least to me] I was at a book signing some years ago, where a lady got up and remarked on how she loved the wholesome representation of the family in that story, and how nice it was to see such good family values in a book and on film...and Jean Shepherd said that it was based on his own parents and family, and that the parents were not happy together at all, later got divorced, and that the reader lady had obviously missed the whole point of the book. She sat down quite quickly after that..... I wish TCM would show the off the wall Christmas film called "Christmas Holiday" with Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. It is like listening to one of those Rhino "Bummed Out Christmas" albums, and is a real downer and taken from an exceptional book by esteemed author, Somerset Maugham. Don't let some lame review on the Net, by anyone who does not get the film, deter you from seeing this movie. It is marvelous, with Gene Kelly playing a complete mama's boy and loser, his mother being played by the exceptional Gale Sondergaard, and Deanna Durbin playing a grown up part, with direction by noir expert Robert Siodmak, and script by Herman Mankiewicz. Very strange plot lines...with an offbeat angle for Christmas, and a dour downbeat ending. Read the book first, if you get a chance. It was a bomb in 1944, Kelly probably did not like looking like a con man, but these elements make it a real noir seasonal gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakotamork Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 One of my favorites is "The Man Who Came to Dinner." It is going to be on 12/23 @ 9:30pm. I would suggest watching it! Merry Christmas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayresorchids Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 Remember the Night, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. VERY romantic and warm-homey-Christmas atmospheric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bggalaxy Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 ditto! on Remember the Night. This has been one of my favorite films since I found it about 10 years ago. What helps make this a great holiday film along with Stanwyck & MacMurray is Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson and Sterling Holloway. The spirit of Christmas at MacMurray's family farm reminds me of our family Christmas'. Happy Holiday's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviejoe79 Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 I LOVE Christmas movies, and I'm happy to see that TCM is showing some great ones on Christmas Eve. After our traditional "Italian" fish dinner on Christmas Eve, I look forward to watching TCM and the classic Christmas movies. "Christmas in Connecticut" is one of my all time favorites. It's such a feel good Christmas movie, with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan in top form, along with a top-notch supporting cast, including Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sackall, Reginald Gardiner, and Una O'Conner. And the whole story and setting is perfect for the holidays. The farm that they go to in Connecticut is like a Christmas dream. It's gonna play on Dec. 24th and everyone should watch it. Another Christmas movie that I like to watch every year is "White Christmas" which is such a gem of a musical, and unfortunately the only great "movie role" that the incredible Rosemary Clooney ever had. I also love "National Lampoon's Chirstmas Vacation" which never fails to make me laugh. Especially when Mae Questal as Aunt Bethany says the Pledge of Allegience as the prayer. I also love "The Man Who Came to Dinner" - Monty Wooley is awesome - I can't imagine another actor who could've done that role so well. And Mary Wickes is hilarious as the nurse - especially when she tells him off. The whole cast is great - and it's especially nice to see Bette Davis in it, even though I'm sure she knew that Wooley would steal the whole movie, since it centers around him. Another favorite one is "Meet Me in St. Louis" - I don't really think of this as a Christmas movie, but it does have a great Christmas sequence, and it introduced the classic song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." And I love "A Christmas Story" - It's such a great representation of what Christmas is for a kid. And I love how it's a comedy but it's still such an old fashioned look at Christmas - the whole setting and time period is done very well. And I love the part when the father gets the lamp - "Fragile" - it must be Italian! And of course the classic "Holiday Inn" is one I never get tired of. I actually like the fact that it visits all of the holidays. And how great is it to see the legends Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby together in the same movie! I also never tire of "Miracle on 34th Street." Natalie Wood is awesome - she's so poised and perfect in that movie - she was such a great talent. And Maureen O'Hara and John Payne were great too. And I think that Edmund Gwenn was the PERFECT Santa. I also like the fact that they filmed real footage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to use in the movie. And it's always nice to see William Frawley, in his pre "I Love Lucy" days - he was a great character actor. And even though we don't really talk about new movies, a funny Christmas one I recently watched was "Friday After Next" with Ice Cube and Mike Epps. It's the third movie in the "Friday" series of movies, and this one all takes place on Christmas Eve, and it's hilarious. I've never seen "Remember the Night" but I'd like to - it sounds good. Will TCM be playing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bggalaxy Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 I have not seen Remember the Night on TCM yet. I not sure which studio made it. I hope they can get a hold of it and show it - Stanwyck and MacMurray are at there best in it. As far as more current Christmas films go, The Ref has become a holiday favorite at our house. Leary, Davis and Spacey are as funny as he11. Glynis Johns is perfect as the mother/mother-in-law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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