1. A Christmas Story:
The movie’s writer was inspired to create the leg lamp by an illuminated Nehi Soda advertisement
2. Home Alone:
3. Miracle on 34th Street:
The 1947 movie was released in May because the studio head, Darryl F. Zanuck, insisted more people went to the movies in the summer.
4. The Shop Around the Corner:
This 1940 holiday black-and-white film, featuring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, inspired another movie — 58 years later. You’ve Got Mail, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQIjcZLLsug ) starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. A big difference between the two? The original is set in Hungary, and the later one in New York.
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas:
Linus’ iconic speech about the true meaning of Christmas was almost cut when the animated movie’s producers and creator Charles Schultz clashed over the inclusion of religion. Schultz wanted the one-minute-long speech left in, but the producers thought it would limit its audience and drive away advertisers.
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:
Mae Questel, who plays Aunt Bethany ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCBvFYGwd0g ), who wraps up her cat and makes the famous Jell-O mould, was also the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. Christmas Vacation was her last movie.
7. White Christmas:
Irving Berlin, the man who wrote the song of the same title,
hated the holiday — for good reason. In the early hours of Dec. 25, 1928, his first son, Irving Jr., was discovered dead in his crib.
8. Scrooged:
David Letterman’s Canadian musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, is leading a group of street carolers in the movie that Bill Murray’s character insults. The carolers include Miles Davis, saxophone player David Sanborn, and jazz guitarist Larry Carlton.
9. It’s a Wonderful Life:
The scene in which Jimmy Stewart’s character is considering suicide on a bridge, he’s sweating.
It might have been from acting in the moment, but it could also have been from the California summer heat wave he was working in while on a set.
10. Elf:
Ming Ming the elf from the beginning of the movie is Peter Billingsley, the actor who played Ralphie in ‘A Christmas Story.’
The movie’s writer was inspired to create the leg lamp by an illuminated Nehi Soda advertisement
2. Home Alone:
The ‘evil’ furnace McCauley Culkin’s character is scared of in the movie was lit up and animated by two people with fishing line and flashlights
3. Miracle on 34th Street:
The 1947 movie was released in May because the studio head, Darryl F. Zanuck, insisted more people went to the movies in the summer.
4. The Shop Around the Corner:
This 1940 holiday black-and-white film, featuring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, inspired another movie — 58 years later. You’ve Got Mail, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQIjcZLLsug ) starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. A big difference between the two? The original is set in Hungary, and the later one in New York.
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas:
Linus’ iconic speech about the true meaning of Christmas was almost cut when the animated movie’s producers and creator Charles Schultz clashed over the inclusion of religion. Schultz wanted the one-minute-long speech left in, but the producers thought it would limit its audience and drive away advertisers.
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation:
Mae Questel, who plays Aunt Bethany ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCBvFYGwd0g ), who wraps up her cat and makes the famous Jell-O mould, was also the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. Christmas Vacation was her last movie.
7. White Christmas:
Irving Berlin, the man who wrote the song of the same title,
hated the holiday — for good reason. In the early hours of Dec. 25, 1928, his first son, Irving Jr., was discovered dead in his crib.
8. Scrooged:
David Letterman’s Canadian musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, is leading a group of street carolers in the movie that Bill Murray’s character insults. The carolers include Miles Davis, saxophone player David Sanborn, and jazz guitarist Larry Carlton.
9. It’s a Wonderful Life:
The scene in which Jimmy Stewart’s character is considering suicide on a bridge, he’s sweating.
10. Elf:
Ming Ming the elf from the beginning of the movie is Peter Billingsley, the actor who played Ralphie in ‘A Christmas Story.’
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