Movie Marathon In My Immediate Future

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Don't we all have certain movies we like to see during the holidays? I have several vintage holiday movies that I like to watch. I decided that I am going to watch them all in one day, probably tomorrow. (Can you believe it will be Christmas Eve?) I am going to list here the ones I enjoy watching each year and plan on having in the marathon: 1) The Christmas Carol is an oldy but goody. You know the Charles Dickson story. It has been done and redone but the one I enjoy most is the 1938 version with Reginal Owen as Scrooge. 2) The Shop Around the Corner is one I found about three or four years ago on TCM. It has James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as coworkers in a Budapest gift shop. They are both writing to people they met answering a lonely-hearts ad. It's a great romance. A sort of love/hate thing. Enjoyable and go back for it each year now. 3) It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a sweet and rather sentimental movie about a hobo who moves into a New York mansion each winter while its owner is vacationing down south. He lets some folks move in and it is a sweet tale of the interaction between these folks. Love it. Have to see it each year. 4) Christmas in Connecticut has Barbara Stanwyck and a host of others including a favorite of mine, S.Z Sakall, who is a rolly polly character actor that always adds a bit of mirth and charm to anything he is in. He is a real favorite of mine. It is the story of a columnist who has lied about her cooking expertise and when her boss insists on being her guest for Christmas she has to move fast to come up with a home, a baby, a husband, and a cook. 5) White Christmas is one I may not even watch all the way through. I've seen it so many times I know it by heart. But the last half hour or so is some footage I have to see each year. 6) The Bishop's Wife has Loretta Young, Cary Grant and David Niven in and is such a charming and wonderful movie I recommend it to each and every one of you. Cary plays Dudley, an angel who comes to help the bishop and falls for his wife. It is a really sentimental, feel-good movie I love to see each year. I also watched A Christmas Affair with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. She is a secret shopper and gets him fired because he doesn't report her when he finds her to be a secret shopper. She has a son and he wants a train for Christmas and oh, what a mess comes of it all. I will also watch Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It used to be shown on TCM but, for the last few years, it hasn't been. I delved into it and found the reason why. It seems that there is a scene where Bing has his face painted black to portray a black man. Needless to say, the TCM channel decided to not show it anymore. I bought the CD and continue to watch it. I can overlook this one scene and enjoy this lovely movie. I usually watch it New Year's Eve or day. Oh, and can't forget The Grinch Who Stole Christmas with Jim Carey. Do you have certain ones you enjoy seeing each year? Picture from Google