Blonde Venus (1932) Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore.  She is a nightclub singer who marries a scientist, and has a son.  Hubby gets sick and has to have expensive treatment in another country.  Wife goes back to singing to pay for it but eventually becomes the mistress of a millionaire in exchange for the money.  When husband is cured and returns he discovers her infidelity and tries to take son and divorce her.  She takes child and runs away sinking lower and lower in singing in worse and worse dives.  Eventually husband finds them again and in an improbable end to the story they are reunited.  6/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022698/combined

My Dream Is Yours (1949)  Doris Day, Jack Carson, Lee Bowman, Eve Arden.  One of the few films where Jack gets the girl in the end.  He plays his usual brash character but with a sweet side. Doris is Doris - sunny and bright.  7/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041671/combined

The Egyptian (1954) Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Gene Tierney, Victor Mature.  In ancient Egypt the story of the physician Sinuhe, Pharoah Akhnaton and warrior Horemheb.  Rather sloiw and plodding, but production values are first rate.  7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046949/combined

ENCORES:

Flying Down To Rio (1933) Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Raymund, Delores del Rio.  First pairing of the dancing stars.  "Orchids In The Moonlight" and 'The Carioca" are dance highlights.  8/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024025/combined

The Gay Divorcee (1934) Second pairing of Astaire and Rogers.  The Continental and Night And Day the big numbers.  9/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025164/combined

Miracle On 34th St. (1947) Edmund Guenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood.  Great annual Christmas fantasy.  10/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039628/combined

Key Largo (1948)  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, Clair Trevor.  Last pairing of Bogie and Bacall.  Trevor won Oscar for support for her performance.  Great atmosphere as a hurricane sweeps in on the hotel where gangsters are holed up holding the owner and others hostage while they await money to take to Cuba.  9/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040506/combined

Mr, 880 (1950) Edmund Guenn, Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire. Based on a real case of the Secret Service about a old man who prints dollar bills and the many years it takes to find him. Charming feel good story for the holidays.  8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/combined

Desk Set (1957) Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Joan Blondell, Gig Young.  The threat of a computer taking over the reseaarch department at a broadcasting company, leads to the women being very unhappy.  The company Christmas party is the fun part of the film.  9/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/combined

Advise And Consent (1962) Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pigeon, Gene Tierney.  Based on a Best Selling novel, the story of getting the nominee for Secretary Of State confirmed, is not as innovative as it was back then. 7/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055728/combined

Donovans Reef (1963) John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin, Dorothy Lamour, Cesar Ramero, Jack Warden.  Directed by John Ford.  A tropical island at Christmastime. Filmed at Kaua'a, Hawaii, the cinematography is spectacular.  Lamour singing Silent Night in her low contralto at the islanders Christmas play, as a rainstorm descends, and the church has holes in the roof, is a highlight. Poor Father Cluzeot. And Marvin playing with his present of a choo-choo train. like a little kid, is delightful.  8/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057007/combined

Die Hard (1988) Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman.  First of the series.   NYC cop John McClane is visiting California and his wife, at her office during a holiday party, when very bad guys show up to rob the place.  Yipeekiyay, Mother f----rs.  As the limo driver says "if this is the way they celebrate Christmas, I GOTTA be here for New Years!"   9/10    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/combined