I Dream of Christmas

May all your Christmas wishes come true with just a nod of your head!

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The Parent Trap (1961)
Is there a Baby Boomer male who didn’t have a crush on Hayley Mills back in the early 60’s? If there was, he probably never saw her in her magnum opus, The Parent Trap. The…
The TV That Time Forgot: Occasional Wife (1966-67)
Maybe it was just slightly ahead of its time, but Occasional Wife deserved more than the single season on NBC that it got. Michael Callen starred as skirt-chasing junior executive Peter Christopher. He loved his…
Ski Party (1965)
Beach Party movies, why limit them to summer? That must have been the thinking among the brain trust at American International Pictures. Apparently, nobody in the room said, “Because most of the drive-ins in America…
The Alvin Show (1961)
Who knew that an entire show biz franchise would grow out of what should have been a one-off novelty record? In the spring of 1958, singer and composer Ross Bagdasarian wrote and recorded a cute…
Alice Kramden, I Presume?
All true fans know that 328 Chauncey St., Apartment 3-A is the Brooklyn address that Ralph Kramden and his wife, Alice, lived at in The Honeymooners. That was bad news for Shurleen Conway. She REALLY lived…
7 Facts You Never Knew About "White Christmas"
Before A Christmas Story, before the Grinch and Charlie Brown, most Baby Boomers’ holiday tradition was watching the movie White Christmas, the 1954 musical starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. We…