FramingThe Apartmentduring the holidays (The office Christmas party!
The melancholy New Year’s Eve celebrations!)
AsEW’s critic explains, “Love conquers all inThe Apartment.”
John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’; Vera-Allen, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Bing Crosby in ‘White Christmas’; The cast of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.Credit:Hulton Archive/Getty; Paramount/Getty Images; RKO Radio Pictures/Getty
Rogers is shopworker Polly Parrish, who gets mistakenly identified as the mother of an abandoned baby.
An angel named Dudley (Grant) shows up to set things right again.
Honestly, it’s tough to find a Christmas movie more charming than this one.
Alastair Sim in ‘A Christmas Carol,’ 1951.Everett Collection
But in fact, she’s anything but.
She’s just a really good writer.
The pair meet at a department store (a popular setting in many of these holiday movies!)
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in ‘The Apartment’.Everett Collection
In fact, he truly believes he’s Santa himself!
Edmund Gwenn won anOscarfor the role he was born to play, Kris Kringle.
And there’s no better movie for putting you in a holiday mindset than the 1947 hit."
Ginger Rogers and David Niven in ‘Bachelor Mother’.Everett Collection
And they sure beat yuletide small talk."
Where to watchWhite Christmas: Amazon Prime Video
(From left to right) Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young in ‘The Bishop’s Wife’.Everett Collection
Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan in ‘Christmas in Connecticut’.Everett Collection
Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum in ‘Holiday Affair,’ 1949.Everett Collection
(From left to right) Spring Byington, Tom Tully, Joseph Cotten, and Ginger Rogers in ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’.United Artists/Getty
Gale Storm and Don DeFore in ‘It Happened on 5th Avenue’.Everett Collection
The cast of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’.RKO Radio Pictures/Getty
(From left to right) Monty Woolley, John Ridgely, Grant Mitchell, and Billie Burke in ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’.Everett Collection
Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’.Everett Collection
(From left to right) Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper, and Barbara Stanwyck in ‘Meet John Doe’.Everett Collection
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in ‘The Shop Around the Corner’.Everett Collection
Myrna Loy and William Powell in ‘The Thin Man’.Everett Collection
The cast of ‘White Christmas’.Paramount/Getty
