But for anyone wanting true classic Christmas movies in every sense of the word, the golden age of cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s ... and features exceptional 1940s period fare.

Holiday movies of the 1940s are among my favorites ... telling the public that rationing was to be taken seriously. Each Christmas season during those years, Hollywood studios released stories ...

Rather the movie opens on a broken-down car surrounded by trash, with the establishing shot panning past a rickety fence to a regular middle-class home (well, regular in 1940, anyway) cramped ...

And then there's Christmas and ... But in the late 1940s and 1950s, as TV sets became more commonplace, studios were searching for reasons to get people back into movie theaters.So one studio ...