Jay’s 5 Top Christmas Classics
Here are Jay’s 5 top Christmas Classics. These films encompass comedy, drama and singing. They all took place in the ’40s and ’50s when Christmas was a little less commercialized.
Scrooge 1935
78 minutes
Plotline – An old Victorian Miser is shown his life past, present and future by three spirits.
Starring Seymour Hicks.
A Christmas Story 1983
94 minutes
Plot line – It’s 1940, and the only thing Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Rider BB gun.
Starring Peter Billingsley
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
130 minutes
Plotline – An angel shows a compassionate businessman what life would be like if he was never born.
Director Frank Capra
Starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
Miracle on 34th Street 1947
96 minutes
Plotline – When a man claiming to be Santa clause is said to be crazy a young lawyer defends him and learns things about himself
Starring Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara
The Bells of St. Mary 1945
126 minutes
Plotline- Father O’Malley and Sister Mary Benedict work together to have a larger building donated for the kids.
Starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman