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'The Desk Set' is a fine choice, but I'm partial to the Christmas
costume party in Paris at the end of 'Everyone Says I Love You'
where all the guests come dressed as the Marx Brothers. Even if
the party starts to fizzle, you're still in Paris! On a more modest scale--and this is not at all what you had in mind,
I realize--is the exchange of Christmas presents in 'Remember the
Night', with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck and his relatives.
This has the same bittersweet heightened emotion of Christmas
celebrations in times of danger, as in WW2 combat pictures, like
'Story of G.I. Joe'. And then there's 'Black Narcissus', where the drunken David Farrar
and the bejewelled Sabu lurch into the chapel to join the scandalized
nuns and bellow out Christmas hymns. (Of course, 'Die Hard' is wall-to-wall Christmas party, but...). |
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I'll be getting to "Remember the Night", "The Shop Around the Corner",
"Stalag 17", "Trading Places" and "A Tree Goes in Brooklyn" when we get
closer to the holidays. I watch these in December on a more regular basis
than more traditional holiday movies, anyway. But Kate, Spence and "Desk Set" are always a good place to start |
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