Movies I Watched in December

Carefree

My apologies for the slightly late post. I decided to start off the new decade with a bad cold... I don’t like to get on the ol’ household desktop when I’m sick and there are a few things I can’t do on my iPad in order to have my posts ready for publishing. Look for my end-of-year movie stats post later this week!

This month I didn’t rewatch as many Christmas movies as I usually do. I feel like I watched a more unusual assortment of films than normal. If you follow my blog Facebook page (linked on the side of my blog), you’ll know I took advantage of Bette Davis being November’s Star of the Month on TCM and took tons of screenshots of her hats to be used in another Bette’s Hats and Reviews post sometime this year. Speaking of Bette, I read ‘I’d Love to Kiss You...’ Conversations with Bette Davis by Whitney Stine, which I absolutely loved and highly recommend. I also started Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe by Robert Matzen.

* indicates a rewatch

1. Sherlock, Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton
2. The Millionaire (1931) - George Arliss 
3. Imitation of Life (1934) - Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
4. Carefree (1938) - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
5. Private Detective (1939) - Jane Wyman, Gloria Dickson
6. Murder in the Big House (1942) - Van Johnson & Faye Emerson 
7. Crime by Night (1944) - Jerome Cowen & Jane Wyman, Faye Emerson, Eleanor Parker 
8. God is My Co-Pilot (1945) - Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Dane Clark
9. *Christmas in Connecticut (1945) - Barbara Stanwyck & Dennis Morgan, S.Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Sydney Greenstreet
10. Cornered (1945) - Dick Powell, Walter Slezak 
11. Yolanda and the Thief (1945) - Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick
12. The Stork Club (1945) - Betty Hutton, Barry FitzGerald 
13. *June Bride (1948) - Bette Davis & Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter, Mary Wickes
14. Sitting Pretty (1948) - Robert Young & Maureen O’Hara, Clifton Webb
15. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke 
16. Where Danger Lives (1950) - Robert Mitchum & Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O’Sullivan
17. The Star (1952) - Bette Davis & Sterling Haydn, Natalie Wood
18. *White Christmas (1954) - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen, Mary Wickes
19. *Sissi (1955-German) - Romy Schneider, Magda Schneider 
20. Wuthering Heights (1958-TV Movie) - Richard Burton & Rosemary Harris
21. *Imitation of Life (1959) - Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee
22. McHale’s Navy (1964) - Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Gavin MacLeod 
23. *Home Alone (1990) - Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy
24. Christmas Getaway (2017-Hallmark) - Travis Van Winkle & Bridget Regan 
25. Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019) - Maggie Lawson (Psych)

Least Favorite Film: I couldn’t see the appeal of the Mr. Belvedere character as portrayed by Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty. 

Favorite Film: Don’t really have a favorite this month (hard to compete with those Christmas movies!). The only time I watch a Hallmark movie is when Maggie Lawson (Psych) is in it, but when I saw that Christmas Getaway starred two actors from The Last Ship I had to check it out. The fact that they knew one another prior to filming greatly helped their chemistry, which has been lacking in the three Lawson films I’ve watched. It’s one I would definitely watch again.

Sitting Pretty