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A Hollywood Christmas

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Jane Seymour does an outstanding job of introducing scenes from the brightest and best of Hollywood Christmas films. There are the real classics "Miracle on 34th Street" (the original, of course), "White Christmas", and "It's a Wonderful Life." The excerpts from seven versions of "A Christmas Carol" let you compare the various actors who played Scrooge. The best in my book is the 1951 version featuring Alister Sim. More recent highlights include "Home Alone," and "The Santa Claus." It's a nice review of the way that Hollywood treats Christmas and should be part of everyone's Christmas DVD collection.

I rented this from Netflix and after watching it started trying to find it online to buy it. Obviously, it isn't being sold anymore except used (and costs too much!). This is an interesting documentary showing most of the major Hollywood Christmas movies and concentrates basically on the older ones since that is when the classic Christmas movies were made. I watched "Christmas in Connecticut" after seeing it on this and loved it! What I think is funny is I don't really care for "White Christmas" finding it smaltzy and this says is is the most popular Christmas classic movie...but it's not my favorite! I also ordered the "LemonDrop Kid" not even knowing about it until watching this! I really enjoyed watching this review of the movies made!

Any person who loves Christmas movies will like this documentary. The only problem is that it will eventually become out-dated. But if you like classic films and the old Rankin & Bass cartoons shown on TV every year then this is a DVD to watch.