Film Festival: Christmas classics In the Good Old Summertime is named for the old song from 1902. It’s actually a Christmas story, with Judy Garland and Van Johnson competing at the music store where they work, while they are getting to know each other as pen pals. The story begins in Chicago in the early…
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Lisa’s Home Bijou: The Muppet Christmas Carol
Film Festival: Christmas classics The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) is a great version of the Dickens’ Christmas ghost story of Scrooge and Tiny Tim. This faithful adaptation uses the Muppets cast to great effect with Michael Caine as a very believable Scrooge. The Charles Dickens novella was published in 1843 and is given credit for…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: The Bishop’s Wife
Film Festival: Christmas classics The Bishop’s Wife (1947) takes us back to an old-fashioned Christmas with snowball fights, choirs singing, tinsel on the tree, and an angel coming to answer prayers. The angel is a very dapper looking Cary Grant, sent to help the Bishop, David Niven, figure out what he really needs to be…
28 Christmas movies for happy holidays
Do you love Christmas movies and watch them over and over? I was recently challenged to make a list of my top ten favorite classic films, a task I find close to impossible. But it became clear that Christmas movies are at the top of the list. Every year I watch the same films over…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Holiday Inn
Film Festival: The Holidays One of America’s most-beloved Christmas songs is White Christmas. Written by Irving Berlin during World War II, it served as a reminder of home and hearth for many GIs. Bing Crosby introduces the song in the musical, Holiday Inn (1942), a film that is about a lot more than just Christmas….