Christmas Movies

Tonight we watched "It's a wonderful Life", I haven't seen it in years but I thought I would remember everything..........I didn't, it was like watching a brand new movie. It WAS in black and white before that theme became a nostalgic tribute or artsy-fartsy.

I like that movie. Most of the classic black-and-white movies have been colorized. I'd rather watch them in their original black and white versions. I have quite a few old black and white movies, usually find them on Amazon.

Can’t imagine that movie being made in color. It would be senseless to fiddle with success, not that doing that bastardization would stop them.

Speaking of Its a Wonderful Life, here’s a piece of trivia for those who indulge in sharing trivia. What two minor characters in the movie “might have” become very important namesake characters in the well-known PBS series Sesame Street?

I'm going to have to check that, I used to be pretty good with Trivia (especially the old old old stuff) but I don't recall the names of the characters. I'll be back.

Yup. Do that.

Zu-Zu said, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”

I took this Bert-Ernie trivia info as gospel until earlier I read where it indicated it might be a coincidence.

The two characters were the taxi driver (played by actor Frank Faylen), the actor who played Dobie Gillis’s dad) and the cop (actor Ward Bond of WagonTrain fame). These were bit characters Bert and Ernie in the movie.

{I’m doing this from memory. Let’s see how I did?}

Did you notice the guy that opens the swimming pool for them to fall in is the one that played Alfalfa in the little Rascals?