Classic films I'll be watching this Christmas season
Welcome to day two of the 12 days of Blogmas!
Every year I always see these lists circulating about "Christmas movies that don't suck" or "non-Christmas Christmas movies" for people who tire of the same old films year after year. And while we all know that Die Hard is actually the ultimate Christmas movie, it does get a little boring in the Christmas movie department because they play the same old movies every single year on television*.
*Unless we are talking about those cheesy made-for-tv movies that Lifetime and Freeform bust out rapid fire every year. Don't judge me because I'm living for it.
As a classic film fan, I feel like I never run out of movies to watch because they made so many great movies back then. And that luckily applies to Christmas movies too. Don't get me wrong — I love It's Wonderful Life just like everyone else but I try to shake things up with a different list every year.
Here are the classic film Christmas movies I plan to watch this year:
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Barbara Stanwyck plays a food writer whose readers (and employer) think she lives on a farm with her husband and child... only she's single, lives in New York and can't cook to save her life. But when her editor invites a fan of hers over for Christmas, she has to think fast to keep up the charade.
Remember the Night (1940)
Barbara Stanwyck is so great, I included two of her films this year. In Remember the Night she plays a shoplifter who is to spend Christmas in jail when her trial is postponed. Her prosecutor feels sorry for her and posts her bail. But when he finds out she has nowhere to go for Christmas, he offers to take her to see her mother on his way out of town.
The Thin Man (1934)
William Powell and Myrna Loy play a couple who travel to New York for Christmas. Once they arrive, Powell's character, a recently retired detective, is convinced to take another case by a former client's daughter.
I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)
Two social outcasts played by Ginger Rogers and Joseph Cotton meet on a train while heading home for the holidays. She's just been convicted of manslaughter and he's a victim of shell shock but of course they don't tell each other that, do they?
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
James "Jimmy" Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play coworkers who despise each other. But it gets complicated when he realizes she's the girl he's been corresponding anonymously with via letters.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
When a popular radio personality, played by Monty Woolley, slips and injures himself outside the Stanleys house, he and his assistant (Bette Davis) take up residence there during the holidays. The turn of events flips everyone's lives upside down.