{"id":1768,"date":"2008-12-22T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2008-12-16T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T20:23:56","slug":"holiday-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/holiday-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love Christmas movies but can\u2019t seem to find the right ones on television? Try one of these classic titles, old and new, from the library. Fix a cup of hot chocolate, sit back and relax.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Christmas Carol<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em> \u2013 <\/span>various versions<\/span><\/p>\n

Classic Dickens story about a bitter old man who’s given a chance for redemption when three ghosts come to visit him on Christmas Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Christmas Story<\/a><\/em> \u2013 <\/span><\/strong>Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin<\/span><\/p>\n

Ralphie Parker, a 1940s nine-year-old, pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present- a Red Rider BB gun- in this delightfully funny holiday movie.<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elf<\/a> <\/em>\u2013 <\/span><\/strong>Will Farrell, Bob Newhart<\/span><\/p>\n

A young orphan child mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag and is transported back to the North Pole to be raised as an elf. Years later, Buddy learns he is not really an elf and goes on a journey to New York to find his true identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fred Claus<\/a><\/em> \u2013 <\/span><\/strong>Vince Vaughn, Elizabeth Banks<\/span><\/p>\n

Fred Claus has lived in his little brother’s shadow for most of his life. Fred is in jail and Nicholas has to bail him out on the condition he come to the North Pole and repay his debt.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Miracle on 34th<\/sup> Street<\/a><\/em> \u2013 <\/span><\/strong>Natalie Wood, Maureen O\u2019Hara <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The real Santa is hired by Macy’s to play Santa in the Thanksgiving Day parade, but he has to prove in court that he is who he says he is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holiday Inn<\/a><\/em> \u2013 <\/span><\/strong>Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby<\/span><\/p>\n

Two song and dance men join together and start a hotel that’s open only on holidays<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/a><\/em> – <\/span><\/strong>Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

George <\/span>is saved from a suicide attempt by an angel and is then shown how important he is to the people who love him. A Christmas classic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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White Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/em> \u2013 <\/span>Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney<\/span><\/p>\n

The classic musical about two guys that become a popular song-and-dance team and play at a resort for charity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love Christmas movies but can\u2019t seem to find the right ones on television? Try one of these classic titles, old and new, from the library. Fix a cup of hot chocolate, sit back and relax. Christmas Carol \u2013 various versions Classic Dickens story about a bitter old man who’s given[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[351,3254,85],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","tag-christmas","tag-dvds","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-sw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}