~ Our Christmas Movie List ~
It’s A Wonderful Life (2 hr. 15 min.) 1946
Miracle on 34th Street (1 hr. 35 min.) 1947
The Bishop’s Wife (1 hr. 49 min.) 1947
A Christmas Carol (1 hr. 26 min.) 1951
White Christmas (2 hr.) 1954
In the Nick of Time (1 hr. 29 min.) 1991
The Santa Clause (1 hr. 37 min.) 1994
Elf (1 hr. 35 min.) 2003
~ Friends’ Movie Suggestions ~
A Christmas Story (TV’s cleaner version)
The Family Man
Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
Christmas with the Kranks
Sleepless in Seattle
~ Movie Trivia ~
The most popular of the holiday songs written by Irving Berlin for the movie Holiday Inn (1 hr. 41 min.), 1942, turned out to be “White Christmas.” Holiday Inn hotels, started in 1952, are named for the movie.
White Christmas, the romantic musical based on Berlin’s song, was filmed on the same set used by Paramount 12 years earlier for Holiday Inn. White Christmaswas originally planned to reunite Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, his Holiday Inncostar. Fred turned down the role because he was retired and in his place starred Danny Kaye.
Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were considered, alongside Tim Allen who landed the role, for Santa in The Santa Clause.
Buddy’s best quote in Elf is, “I just like to smile! Smiling’s my favorite.”
Top television movies include the longest running TV special airing consecutively since its debut in 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Burl Ives was narrator as voice of Sam the Snowman. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) appeared on CBS more times than The Wizard of Oz. Undersized, scraggly Christmas trees started being called “Charlie Brown trees” after the movie aired.
~ Holiday Fun ~
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” Norman Vincent Peale
Guess the Carols (click here)
Christmas fun (click here)
The Holiday Spot (click here)
Christmas celebrations (click here)
~ Silly Christmas Jokes ~
Why does Santa have 3 gardens?
So he can ho-ho-ho.
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
Claustrophobic.
Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
Because he had low elf-esteem.
~ Funny Christmas Quotes ~
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
P.J. O’Rourke
~ Oatmeal Cookie Recipe ~
2 ½ sticks of margarine
¾ cup brown sugar
½ cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups AP flour
1 tsp each of baking soda, salt, cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
3 cups oatmeal
Beat together margarine and sugars until fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour, baking soda, salt and spices – mix well. Stir in oatmeal. Drop by tablespoons onto a cookie sheet. Bake @ 375 for 8-9 minutes.
WRite wHere I’m supposed to be – Rest in warm thoughts like this one by Hamilton Wright Mabi, “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Love it! I am feeling pretty jolly myself today. Want to go decorate something. Maybe the front porch. Oh and did I tell you I bought paint for the front door today? Keep your fingers crossed.
That means photos are on their way. Can’t wait to see the results.
Even though I’m feeling jolly, decorating still has to wait. It’ll be okay, though. I’ll just leave it up till February.