All Wrapped Up With A Bow

Beautiful presents come all wrapped up with a bow. Who wouldn't want to find one of these lovelies under the tree?

Clara Bow in a bow - how cute

Only Garbo's beauty could trump this bow!

Lovely Laura La Plante maximizes the bow look
by wearing them at her collar and wrists

Joan Bennett looks stunning in a basic black bow

Somewhere there is a bow in Liz's bonnet

Stripes and a bow!
Joan Blondell just couldn't be any cuter!

Ann Sheridan dares you to undo this bow.

Now, here are the bows 

(and beaus) I'd like to untie!

Slowly I unwrap......

Charlie looks so dapper in his bow tie

Yes, Gary, you too will soon be unwrapped

Gene - don't look so serious.
Bows and polka dots are for the light-hearted!

Ah, a perfect continental bow.

What a perfectly wonderful time under the tree!

DREAMING OF...THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

Isn't this just the most perfect Christmas movie? It has it all - great cast, great story, great direction and charm to spare. However, I must admit that there is one aspect of the film that  repeatedly tiptoes into my dreams...

And that is that Jimmy Stewart is impossibly adorable and romantic here.

Now, Margaret Sullavan is pretty adorable herself (I just love her voice). But, if I were Klara, I would have snagged Jimmy on day one. one of that cat and mouse stuff for me.

If that didn't work, I would have been more than thrilled to have an impromptu Viennese dinner with him and would NOT have sat with my back to him!

I would have totally dressed for the occasion when he visited me in my sick bed (I'm thinking Harlow here, girls).

And I would NOT have even thought of getting him that music box as a gift!

But, thanks to Ernst Lubitsch, alls well that ends well. Klara finally gets her man.

But, in my dreams, this is how it would have started, not ended!

Merry Christmas and may all the stars, both movie and otherwise, shine brightly for you this season!