25 Best Movies of the Holidays - 1- 5 Of 25

During the holidays I would sit with my grandparents and watch all five of these movies with them and grew to love them all in their own special way. The 25 Best Movies has no particular order, only categories. This week its all the best Vintage Christmas Movies. 1 - 5 of 25 Enjoy!

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 Holiday Inn

Rating: NA          Length: 100 mins.               Year: 1942

Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale

Movie Description

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

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It's a Wonderful Life

Rating: NA          Length: 130 mins.               Year: 1946

Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Movie Description

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

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Miracle on 34th Street

Rating: NA          Length: 96 mins.               Year: 1947

Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn

Movie Description

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

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The Bishop's Wife

Rating: NA          Length: 109 mins.               Year: 1947

Cast: Samuel Goldwyn, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

Movie Description

The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems

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White Christmas

Rating: NA          Length: 120 mins.               Year: 1954

Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Movie Description

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.

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-The Crafty Witch