For every Friday from now till Christmas, we’ll be showcasing a few of our picks for some of the best Holiday movies to add to your watchlist this season. So warm up your hot cocoa and get the fireplace roaring.. it’s time to get cozy and watch a holiday flick.
Holiday Inn – NR – 100 min
Music by Irving Berlin, songs by Bing Crosby and dancing by Fred Astaire all add up to a really delightful musical that also just happened to launch the hit ‘White Christmas’.
Genre: Classics, Comedy, Musical & Performing Arts, Romance
Directed By: Mark Sandrich
Written By: Claude Binyon, Elmer Rice
Miracle on 34th Street – NR -96 min
Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy’s toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen O’Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: it’s bad enough that he is laboring under the delusion that he’s the genuine Saint Nick; but when he begins advising customers to shop elsewhere for toys that they can’t find at Macy’s, he’s gone too far!
Genre: Classics, Drama, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Special Interest, Romance
Directed By: George Seaton
Written By: George Seaton
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