…And Bells on Her Toes

My favourite Christmas movie list looks like this:

(in no particular order)

• It’s a Wonderful Life
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• The Bishop’s Wife
• Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey
• The Little Drummer Boy
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (my absolute favourite — “I’m Mr. Heat Miser, I’m Mr. Sun, I’m Mr. Green Christmas, I’m Mr. 101…“)
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Mickey’s Christmas Carol
• Jack Frost (Rankin Bass)
• Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
• The Story of the First Christmas Snow (loved this despite Angela Landsbury)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas
• The Leprechaun’s Christmas Gold

Can you see a theme here?

• A Christmas Carol (the one with Alistair Sim) – MUST be in Black and White
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version with Natalie Wood) – MUST be in Black and White
• White Christmas (Danny Kaye at his best, and ‘der Bingle’ too!)
• Bad(der) Santa … sorry, but I LOVE this movie.  It’s so messed up!
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the cartoon version with Boris Karloff, not the awful Jim Carey version)
• The Santa Clause (all three are excellent)
• Holiday Inn (another Crosby classic)
• Pretty much anything by Rankin/Bass.  I lived for those stop-motion kids movies when I was young.  My kids are starting to love them too.
• A Muppet Christmas Carol, another classic

And it just wouldn’t be Christmas without …

• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!  Chevy Chase makes my family look absolutely normal…

I’m sure there are many more that I’m forgetting, but anytime any one of these is on, I have to watch them.  I can hear my husband’s eyes rolling up in his head as we speak.  He’s not sentimental like I am.  By the way honey, if any of those ended up in my Christmas stocking, I wouldn’t be upset … afterall I am on vacation for three weeks and have lots of time reserved on the couch!

What’s on your must see Christmas list? (I’d actually really like to know, so drop me a line…)