Nothing gets you into the Holidays more than the classics!
We have scoured the theatres and local TV channels to bring you your Vintage Holiday Classic Film Roundup!
Dec 17 6.3p - Its A Wonderful Life - James Stewart and Donna reed (1946) at Revue Cinema 7pm - Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) at Royal Cinema 9.3p - Nightmare Before Christmas - Tim Burton (1993) on CTV Dec 18 7pm - Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) at Royal Cinema 8pm - A Christmal Carol - Reginald Owen (1938) on TCM 9.3p - Home Alone Quote-A-Long - Macaulay Caulkin and Joe Pesci (1990) at Bloor Cinema 9.3p - Christmas in Connecticut - Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan (1945) on TCM 1am - Holiday Affair - Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum (1949) on TCM Dec 19 11a - Home Alone - Macaulay Caulkin and Joe Pesci (1990) at Carlton Cinema 1pm - National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase (1988) at TIFF Lightbox 2pm - A Christmas Story - Peter Billingsly (1983) at Revue Cinema 8pm - Gremlins (1984) at Bloor Cinema Dec 20 3.3p - Little Women - Elizabeth Taylor (1949) at TIFF 3.3p - A Muppet Christmas Carol - Michael Caine (1992) at Bloor Cinema 7pm - Sound of Music Sing-A-Long - Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer (1965) on CTV2 7.3p - Dr Seuss: Grinch That Stole Christmas on CBC 8pm - National Lampoons Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase (1988) on CBC Dec 21 7pm - Its A Wonderful Life - James Stewart and Donna Reed (1946) at Cineplex (select theatres) 7pm - Frosty the Snowman (1969) on CBC 8pm - Murdoch Mysteries: A Merry Murdoch Christmas on CBC 8.3p - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase (1989) at Bloor Cinema Dec 22 8pm - A Christmas Story - Peter Billingsly (1983) on CBC 9pm - Scrooged - Bill Murray (1988) at Bloor Cinema Dec 23 3pm - White Christmas - Bing, Clooney, Kaye and Ellen (1954) at Bloor Cinema 5.3p - A Christmas Story - Peter Billingsly (1983) at Bloor Cinema 7pm - Its A Wonderful Life - James Stewart and Donna Reed (1946) at Cineplex (select theatres) 8pm - Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank (1957) on TCM 8pm - Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) on CTV2 8.3p - Die Hard Quote-A-Long - Bruce Willis (1988) at Bloor Cinema Dec 24 5am - Bush Christmas (1947) on TCM 9am - A Christmas Carol - Reginald Owen (1938) on TCM 12.3p - Its A Wonderful Life - James Stewart and Donna Reed (1946) at Cineplex (select theatres) 2pm - Christmas in Connecticut - Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan(1945) on TCM 4pm - Holiday Affair - Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum (1949) on TCM 4pm - A Christmas Story - Peter Billingsly (1984) at Revue Cinema 6pm - Meet in in St Louis - Judy Garland (1944) on TCM 7pm - White Christmas - Bing, Clooney, Kaye and Ellen (1954) on CBC 8pm - Its A Wonderful Life - James Stewart and Donna Reed (1946) on CTV 8pm - The Bishop's Wife - Loretta Young an Cary Grant (1947) on TCM 11.3p - Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) on CTV 11.3p - Scrooge - Alistair Sim (1951) on CBC Dec 25 2.3a - The Shop Around the Corner - Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart (1944) on TCM 4.3a - Little Women - Katherine Hepburn (1949) on TCM 6.3a - Little Women - Katherine Hepburn (1949) on TCM 12.3p - Holiday Affair - Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum (1949) on TCM 2pm - The Man Who Came to Dinner - Bette Davis and Monty Wooley (1941) on TCM 6pm - It Happened on 5th Avenue - Anne harding and Don DeFore (1947) on TCM 8pm - Miracle on 34th Street - Maureen O'Hara and Edmund Gwenn (1947) on CBC Dec 26 7pm - Sound Of Music Sing-A-Long - Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer (1965) at Tiff Bell Lightbox Theatre
My TOP 3!
If you don't have time for all of the above...
do me a personal favour and check out my personal top 3!
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Barbar Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Wooley
When acerbic critic Sheridan Whiteside slips on the front steps of a provincial Ohio businessman's home and breaks his hip, he and his entourage take over the house indefinitely.
White Christmas (1954)
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
Other great notable movies!
(that are not playing publicly this year - as far as we can tell!)
And So They Were Married - Mary Astor and Melvyn Douglas (1936) Remember the Night - Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray (1940) Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire (1942) I'll be Seeing You - Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten and Shirley Temple Never Say Goodbye - Ida Lupino and Errol Flynn (1946)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
A Carol for Another Christmas - Sterling Hayden (1964)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)
When Harry Met Sally - Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal (1989)
Trading Places - Jamie Lee Curtis, Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd (1989)
Edward Scissorhands - Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp (1990)
