We're going to be busy this Christmas season. This is the list of movies we're planning to watch (including six versions of A Christmas Carol).
- White Christmas (Irving Berlin)
- The Bells of St. Mary's (Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman)
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Fred Astaire)
- A Christmas Story (leg lamp, anyone?)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (original TV version)
- The Star of Christmas (Veggietales)
- The Muppets Christmas Carol
- A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart)
- Scrooge (Albert Finney)
- Scrooge (1951, Alastair Sim)
- A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
- A Christmas Carol (Focus on the Family Radio Theater)
- The True Christmas Story (Zondervan)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Nutcracker (American Ballet Theater)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Boris Karloff)
- The Year Without A Santa Claus (Mickey Rooney)
- The Toy That Saved Christmas (Veggietales)
- Jiminy Cricket's Christmas (Walt Disney)
- A Disney Christmas Gift (Walt Disney)
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
I just calculated and that's more than one a day until The Day. I don't think we'll make it.
If you have any questions (like why is Bells of St. Mary's on the list), feel free to write. Some of them I hope to be at work for (all the Disney ones). I think National Lampoon is the TV version so we'll be able to show that to the children. The best Christmas Carol is actually a radio version. And why are we watching A Christmas Story? Because we live 8.1 miles from the Christmas Story House and because we live in Cleveland!
And this doesn't include the 7.8 hours of Christmas music we've collected on iTunes.
