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One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching all of the my favorite Christmas Classic Movies. There are a lot of Christmas movies to pick from but the old Black & Whites are most of the time the best!
If you are wanting something to watch, try one of these classics they are all wonderful Classics and would even make for a great family night or date night curled up in front of the TV.
12 Christmas Classic Movies
White Christmas
(1954)
After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
Free on Netflix
Rent for $2.99 on Amazon
Christmas in Connecticut
(1945)
A magazine columnist totally devoid of any homemaking skills has created a pretend world in her columns. Her boss invites himself and a recently returned war hero over for Christmas, so she quickly tries to create her pretend world.
Rent for $2 on Amazon
It Happened on 5th Avenue
(1947)
Each Christmas, an industrial tycoon and his family travel from New York City to Florida to spend the holiday season in the sun, and while they are gone, a philosophical homeless man takes up residence in the millionaire’s Fifth Avenue mansion. Letting himself in through a hole in the fence, he puts on designer clothes, smokes expensive cigars, eats gourmet food, and opens up the townhouse to his homeless friends so that they, too, can share in the holiday spirit. When the real homeowner’s daughter returns to NYC early and discovers the house has been taken over, the homeless haven is in danger of disappearing forever. However, the warmhearted nature of the homeless intruders reinvigorates the unhappy wealthy family, and everyone succumbs to the true spirit of Christmas.
Rent for $2.99 on Amazon
Holiday Inn
(1942)
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in the sensational musical comedy Holiday Inn. Crosby plays a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival in love. Follow the two talented pals as they find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
Free with Amazon Prime
Rent for $2.99 on Amazon
The Bishop’s Wife
(1947)
Cary Grant stars as an angel come to earth in answer to the prayers of a struggling young bishop. Set during Christmas time.
Buy for $9.99
Shop Around the Corner
(1940)
Oscar-winner James Stewart is a Budapest store clerk who finds himself feuding with his co-worker, only to unknowingly fall in love with her.
Rent for $2.99
It’s a Wonderful Life
(1946)
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it’s Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?
Buy for $7.99
Babes in Toyland
(1934)
A Laurel and Hardy classic, enjoy a fantasy world of timeless characters and magical moments where nothing goes right for the toy makers.
Free with Amazon Prime
Rent for $2.99
Miracle on 34th Street
(1955)
A department-store Kris Kringle, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real deal.
Free with Amazon Prime
Rent for $1.99
A Christmas Carol
(1938)
An adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve when he is visited by ghosts from Christmases past, present and future.
Rent for $2.99
Holiday Affair
(1949)
The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed.
Rent for $2.99
Desk Set
(1957)
Two strong personalities, played by Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn, clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department. Set at Christmas time, this is a holiday story, romance, and comedy all rolled into one.
Free with Netflix
Rent starting at $2.99
