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.
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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!
