CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS

Favorite Holiday Films

What's your favorite holiday/ seasonal movie? Does it include a cherished tradition with family? What made it special for you?

I have three favourite Holiday movies—2 for Christmas, 1 for Halloween.





Halloween: “It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”


I don't believe in Santa, but I believe in the Great Pumpkin and Krampus.


Throughout every October, I walk around reciting





“Every Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin arises from his Pumpkin Patch,


and flies across the sky,


bringing presents to good little girls and boys.”





Unfortunately, he has yet to deliver mine.





For Christmas, it's two antiques:





Christmas in Connecticut (1945)





and





Miracle on 34th Street (1947)





Christmas in Connecticut has three of my favorite things:





Winter


Snow (in abundance)


Barbara Stanwyck (my all time favorite actress)





The original Miracle on 34th Street I love, but don't know why. Maybe because I don't like It's A Wonderful Life. Miracle  gives me all those warm interior feelings other more normal folks find with Wonderful Life.