What's your favorite Christmas movie?

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I'm sure everyone has a favorite movie they watch each year during the holidays. I think I'm in good company when I say that my favorite is It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. This moving came out in 1946 and has survived the test of time!

It's become a tradition in our family that we break out the movie every year. We've watched it so often that we quote lines from the movie all year. See if you can recall who said the following lines -

"Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin? "
"Quiet everybody! Quiet, quiet. Now get this, it's from London." (some woman off screen says OH!)
"Zuzu's petals, zuzu's petals!"
"Teacher says, every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."
"Hey, Brainless, don't you know where coconuts come from?"
"This is a very interesting situation!"
" You like every boy."and "What's wrong with that?"
" That's it. Out you two pixies go - through the door, or out the window."

The list goes on and on. We even have a game with trivia from the movie. I think Frank Cappra is a genius. Every time we watch the movie, we notice something new. There are so many little neuances. My husband noticed this year that you hear a dog and then a cat in the scene where George Bailey is having dinner with his Dad before he goes to the dance, but you never see them. There's just so much attention to detail ... and each detail seems to have a reason. If you like It's a Wonderful Life and you haven't seen it, you should watch You Can't Take it With You. It has many of the same actors as It's a Wonderful Life and is also by Frank Capra. Lionell Barrymore (Old Man Potter) plays an easy going rebel who is head of a household of happy misfits, but much younger as this movie came out in 1938.

When I watched It's a Wonderful Life this year, I saw it with different eyes. So much of the movie is about people trying to get financing for their homes and working out how to stay in them. You also see the collapse of the banking institutions and how greed for money and power played a part in the misfortune of so many hardworking people. Sure sounds familiar these days.
If you are a Jimmy Stewart fan, as I am, here are some of the his movies I've seen and liked .....

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940
The Philadelphia Story, 1940
Harvey, 1950
Bend in the River, 1952
The Glen Miller Story, 1954
The Man from Laramie, 1955
Rear Window, 1954
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962
Mr. Hobbs takes a Vacation, 1962

There's so many ... I have a count of 79 total movies. I've seen a few I wouldn't want to sit through again, but mostly I like my Jimmy!