Woot! I’m awake! Sort of! I will be making myself coffee in the middle this for sure.
Miracle on 34th Street! Make sure you get the original good black and white version, not that 90s nonsense. It’s on HBOMax if you have it, or you can rent it on youtube.
At 8am I will put up a “and PLAY” comment and we will go along from there. CHRISTMASSY!
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And PLAY
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Here!
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WESTERN ELECTRIC, WOOOO!!!! (My great great uncle worked for them)
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Is it just me, or do New York streets look cleaner in black and white?
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I love this scene of the window decorating. Art that should be more appreciated in everyday life, tbh. Some are works of art.
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That bears is wonderful!!
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Macy’s! Before it became a household name, mostly thanks to this movie.
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And then it bought of Marshall Fields in Chicago, BOOOO!!!
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Maureen Ohara! Woot! In black and white so we can’t see her red hair, sigh,
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So I was watching Tim Allen’s The Santa Clause with the 7 year old last week, and right now I’m thinking oh – similar plot there.
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Genevieve, have you figured out who the nice man with the beard is? When my sister and I saw this movie the first time (ages 3 and 5), we figured it out immediately.
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You can only pck one: Maureen Ohara’s hat or her coat? I think I’d go hat.
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Hat as well! The sparkle ins so on point for the season.
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And it’s so simple and practical too! This is not a woman who wears fussy silly things.
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the coat has Crazy huge shoulders!
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Your typical Finnish Santa once he gets some mulled wine!!
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OH the children must will be dissapointed – yeah what ever Santa, you know you always wanted to be in that parade.
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He’s SANTA! He has no personal desires beyond pleasing children!
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And shaming drunkards
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Well sure
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Natalie Wood!!! I absolutely adore her! One of my favourite child actresses turned serious actress.
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Natalie Wood is soo good!!!!! Freaky mature.
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Read her biography by Suzanne Finstad! I highly recommend it.
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Natalie Wood’s nose is adorable!! I want to “boop” it!
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Oh look, in the old days working women could do it all, by having MAIDS!
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And enormous apartments!!!!
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Why is John Payne so into Maureen Ohara? I mean, she has great clothes but what else is there?
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I don’t like him.
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He has a PIPE!!! I love John Payne!!!
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A young man taking an unusual interest in a little girl without even knowing that the parents were divorced… well I wouldn’t let him anywhere near my kids.
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YES!!!! And in this movie, it’s absolutely meaningless.
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You know how she shushed her daughter away from the piano – that is me with my 13 year old – Anytime I start a conversation with an adult, or answer the phone he gets on the keyboard.
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Awwwwwww!! This is so adorable.
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Macy’s is EVIL!!!!!
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Woooooo!! Anti-commercialisation message! So refreshing.
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the young man who plays Santa at the Y, who carries his own padding, is a relatively lean teen by my town’s standards. The combination of poverty and culture makes for very wide teenagers!
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I was thinking that too! But also, that the actor has such a sweet look
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THELMA RITTER!!!!!
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It’s a communist movie – it is anti-commercialism. Ah, how refreshing.
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Communism, at Christmas! What would Jesus think? Oh wait….
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Oh! This just happened to me in real life!!!! That’s why I was thinking of this movie. I ordered something from a local toy store and the told me they were out of stock, but happened to know another local store had just got it in stock and sent me there. So nice!
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THE SECRETARY’S GLASSES! Where can I buy them?
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I can’t believe Natalie Wood got 6th billing, she is absolutely the co-lead of the movie.
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I notice that Santa isn’t telling the parents he’s bringing the toys, he is telling the parents where to get them.
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He’s a modern Santa! The explanation I grew up with was that Santa is there for people who wouldn’t have toys otherwise.
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He is a good samaritan by helping other stories and thus helping the parents get the children what they want. Saves time! Also the more fanciful presents are his doing in the end, anyway.
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PSYCHOLOGY
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Okay, Natalie Wood is awesome!
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She is so good at everything!! I recommend the movie ‘Gypsy’ or ‘Splendor in the Grass’ to see her wonderful adult work.
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She is not fantastic in West Side Story.
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Yeah, that is why I didn’t mention it.
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OH! The scene that makes my father cry!
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Mom is asking neighbor to respect her wishes, but really, the neighbor shouldn’t be left alone with her daugher!
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This is making me cry! This Dutch Girl is just heartwarming. 🙂
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They only get a 10% employee discount at Macy’s – ooooh, that company is grinchy.
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John Payne may raise alarm bells, but isn’t Santa perfect with the kids? He is so interested in everything in their lives!!!!! Without being creepy about it.
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I like the Santa, – he won me over by expecting the parents to by the gifts for their kids.
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Did we all catch how all the men in suits immediately stood up when Maureen walked in and then sat down whens he sat? Olden Times!!!
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I suspect in 1250 England they were bemoaning the fact that life wasn’t as slow and good as in 1200.
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Trust me, this kind of complaining of the “modern times” and “youths” have been going on since ancient times. It will never go away!
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Ooo, Dr. Brooks is handsome! Maybe she should go with him instead of pedo John Payne?
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YES!
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They psychologists are crazy, that is what I figured out watching my psychology professors in college.
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Is this why yuo refuse to marry Jug from Dear Zindagi?
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No I refuse to marry him because he abandoned his kid.
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Oh, that too
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When I was teaching Sunday School, we did improv acting games like this a few times. Kids are SO GOOD at them!!!! They just immediately fall right into it.
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Ooo John Payne is so tall!
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Boy, you don’t ask much, do you Natalie?
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But it IS a lovely apartment! She doesn’t know what she has.
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She wants a swing in the backyard. I imagine they aren’t walking to parks daily, and she doesn’t know how to play with other kids. She can swing and play by herself. A swing would be good for her. However, they could set one up inside too – but that would be unusual and mom wouldn’t go for that.
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Mom would go for it if a pyschologist told her it would be mentally healthy.
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Well the reality of having to go into the city to work everyday could interfere. Also it isn’t like she would arrange child care for her child or anything like that.
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Oh, indoor swing, not house. Hmmm. would she?
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Neighbor is SO MEDDLING!!! I’m all down for manipulating people you know, but manipulating people you hardly know!! However he was rather effeminate when saying he was going to get the meat so I like him better if I think of him as gay. A gay man who likes kids, and isn’t try to bed the single mom is much more acceptable to me.
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Here’s the real mystery, why does he have twin beds? What adult person has twin beds?
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The apartment came furnished! Single men don’t buy furniture!
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Notice neither of them have stores in Chicago? Because Fields and Carsons were holding the line! None of that New York trash here! Until the 2000s. Sigh.
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Hmmm, Macy’s is still around and Gymbol (sp?) isn’t!
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I love that Natalie chews gum in bed every night. It’s not hygenic or anything, but it’s so kiddy!
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I was thinking it was her one youthful attribute.
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