Angela Lansbury's and Lee Remick's Christmas Movie I The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)

[@carolcole570]

Interesting fact. I am 79 years old and live in Atlanta. Doctors making house calls was the norm when I was a child. My Primary Care doctor just retired on 11-1-2023. This is December of 2023. Up until the day that she retired, she STILL made house calls when her patients were dying. I find this absolutely amazing. And all of her patients called her by her first name. Awesome lady.❤️

[@brithaddenhadden8383]

but what about the film ?

[@SusanRogersMakingItWork4Me]

I'm nearly 63 and house calls were normal for us too. Weird how like a phone, times have changed. No more party lines☺

[@miche1986]

It's so sad what has happened to the medical system in the U.S.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

The film recalls memories....she is recalling one of hers by association. That is the reason for the Season !​@@brithaddenhadden8383

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

​@@miche1986 Yes, that it is controlled by the insurance profession .

[@karenhansen-zachow4032]

I have always been a fan of work by Angela Lansbury, I still watch 'Murder She Wrote everyday. She was one of the Greats that gave us GREAT SHOWS WITH FAMILY VALUE WE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY TOGETHER. ❤❤❤MISS HER SO VERY MUCH AND COULD NEVER THANK HER ENOUGH FOR ALL THE YEARS OF ENJOYMENT. ❤❤❤

[@raulbaquero5081]

You are absolutely right about Angela, love that woman and every movie she did !!!! 🎄🙏🎄

[@jaccourt9531]

She was great, yet she never wanted to be in show business, she wanted to stay home.

[@SusanCox-pl9qp]

God, if only we could relive Christmas with those we'd lost! What a Christmas gift that would be!!

[@joanneel9708]

WE WILL SOMEDAY, SOON ❤️🙏❤️

[@LibbySlaughter101]

​@@joanneel9708🙏

[@dlbeu2770]

Amen! What a lovely day that will. Be

[@amayastrata4629]

Pretty smelly.

[@dorothysittler8120]

We can see our loved ones if we believe in JESUS and they did too.

[@FemiNelson-sb1em]

Gosh, I so love this movie. It's a remake of the Classic of 30's- 40's....this too shall be a Classic soon enough. The writing is so beautiful & meaningful. Where are these writer's now 😢

[@laruecharles0]

It's a kind of poetry, isn't it?

[@jessicapearson9479]

Ummmm....... it already is a classic 🙄

[@user-ye2ge4zo5lhennypenny]

20 December 2023 I have just come across your Channel and have subscribed! I worked in Retail for 21 years in Australia! The wonderful store was 132 years old! Worked from 1975-1996...received a gold watch! But another Retailer took us over and in a matter of 3 years all our 5 stores closed due mismanagement!! I am 66 now retired my work was my life! I will never forget it! It was just like yesterday!

[@joanneel9708]

I Have Always Loved Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick …Two GREAT ACTRESSES 👏👏👏❤️

[@alicebarton27]

Angela Lansbury didn't get the credit she deserved as an actress.❤

[@brightfaith8403]

Whaaat? Lansbury is one of the few actors/actresses who have received nominations for all EGOT awards - Emmy, Grammy, Academy Award (Oscar), and Tony Awards. Only 18 in the world have gotten all of them.

[@Laura-i2r9r]

Umm Sorry but she most certainly did the get the credit she deserved 10 Fold . She not only won prime time Emmy awards , she won and was nominated for a number of those as well as TONY awards for Broadway live performances , Golden Globes , SAG award Screen actor’s Guild, People’s Choice , as well as a Lifetime Achievement Achievement award for her contributions to motion picture and television . A Star on Hollywood’s Most all of Fame in Beverly Hills . And was Given a Gala at Kennedy Center Honors. Angela Lansbury is also the winner of 2 Oscars for Best actress in a Motion picture. So she has been honoured on multiple occasions Madame .

[@dixiecat666]

As Brit myself , she's a legend along with Dick Vandyke .

[@williamf4544]

I do understand what you mean - She had great acting talent but although she got many award she always seemed to placed on a lower shelf than most of the Hollywood actresses back then because she wasnt pretty enough - She turned all ths around later in her career by proving herself to be one of the best character actresses around

[@tanyad.2180]

​@@williamf4544I think she was a very pretty lady, not in a fleshy way and she was wise and dignified.

[@maryowen1722]

There’s nothing quite like a New England Christmas story!!!❤

[@chriswilson4112]

Never heard of this movie much less seen it. So I did. Thoroughly enjoyable. Funny but the whole time I was watching it, I thought the movie was made in the 70s...around 76ish. Then I found out it was made in 1983. Go figure. Something about these old TV movies, set in New England, in the winter that are so charming.

[@caropapa]

A beautiful and to me a heart warming movie, Angela and Lee amazing actresses, so sad they are not with us anymore

[@maudeboggins9834]

Angela Landsbury was born in 1925 & Lee Remick in 1935, so they were just ten years apart and playing mother & daughter. Both lovely ladies.

[@andreawales1938]

That’s nothing! In “The Manchurian Candidate,” Angela Lansbury, 37, played the mother of Raymond, played by Laurence Harvey, who was 35 during filming! (Their birthdates are almost three years apart, though). It’s all about the acting and the facial structure!

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@andreawales1938 You have reminded me. Elizabeth Taylor born in 1932 was asked to play Joan Collins' mother in Dynasty, Collins was born in 1933. ET said "Heck No!! I am only one year older!!!

[@nikolaik4579]

...and Polly Holliday was 2 years younger than Lee Remick.

[@joycehumphries392]

I remember watching this when I was in my teens with my mother and family. O how I miss my family!! How I miss the Christmases we used to have. It is awful when time takes away your family memories. I so miss my family 😢.

[@gloriapinskerportraits4801]

So do I. But they are a!ways near.

[@mellowyellowmom7631]

I miss our loved ones too, but in heaven we will be together again!

[@patriciamay5521]

We all do....and each year it gets sadder 😢

[@ReetaSingh-k8e]

After crossing the age of fifty, you hear more of sad news, news of loss of dear ones, news of bereavement. This movie on the one hand reminds you of the same painful feeling and on the other hand gives you solace to face the ways of the world. A great movie, indeed .

[@andreawales1938]

Scrapbooking can help reinforce memories and even bring them to the fore. I understand that scrapbooks are very helpful for dementia patients, too.

[@Laura-i2r9r]

What a beautiful & Lovely Christmas movie !! Always loved Lee Remick . Passed too young from Cancer . Dear Angela Lansbury . Thank you this was so charming a Holiday film ♥️♥️💯💯🌟🌟🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻☃️❄️🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Lee Remick--now there's an actress who deserved more good roles!

[@JanieGregoryCOOK]

be sure to watch Hallelujah Trail

[@rolisonpaint3]

she was so beautiful.one ofmy favorite actresses

[@lindaross783]

I watch her twice a month in The Europeans on Tubi. She's great and the whole film. Ivory and Merchant.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

She was more than excellent with Jack Lemmon I The Days of Wine & Roses.

[@karenhansen-zachow4032]

Loved this movie and Lee Rimmek and Angela Lansbury ❤ they were awesome women and has gave us wonderful memories ❤ ♥

[@janiceolds8852]

The greatest gift of all, the gift of love.

[@nativevirginian8344]

I love Polly Holliday as Aunt Min in this. Saw this when it was on tv in 1983. My grandmother died on Dec. 19, this movie has always had a special place in my heart.

[@Sunny25611]

Yes I remember this too. ❤

[@RaptureReadyforJesus-qv2ql]

I am sorry to hear about your grandma❤

[@rosajohnson5212]

December 19 was my oldest late nephew's birthday. We were only three years apart. Since my sister left him with our parents, he was my Michael ( though his name is Kenneth). August 2023, made one year and this is the 2nd Christmas and New Year without him.😢. I thank God for every family member that he gave me and I miss them all. My deepest heartfelt condolences and sympathy to you and your family in your loss of your grandmother.🥹 Grandma's are so special. May God continue to keep you all in His blessed loving care. Wishing all a happy, prosperous and healthy new year!😊❤

[@yvonnesumrow4195]

****🌺 I lost my dad on Dec 20th. Lost a nephew on Dec 25! Christmas is pretty hard some years...✝️🌌🌌🌠***

[@MaritzaAgosto-e1g]

My heart goes Polly Holiday's character , Aunt Min with a long time love of her life ... heartbreaking 💔 .

[@darlenestephens1072]

I love these old movies like they're so emotional and they seemed so real you know I'm kind of makes you look back at your own life and wish you had done things differently

[@kellymetcalf3690]

What a wonderful movie, i love angela and lee..i noticed that the real john boy walton wrote this movie...he was very good at writing down home stories....bravo

[@queenbee3647]

Earl Hamner.

[@kellymetcalf3690]

@@queenbee3647 thats right...

[@shorty7363]

This was a good movie. I'm completely in love with the houses, furniture, and fabrics like the quilts and sweaters! I love old stuff and this movie had everything I've always wanted! They just don't make anything like they used to! I want to live in the past so badly! The present just sucks! Anyway, thank you for the upload and Merry CHRIST-mas(s)!🎄❤️💚✝️⛪🛐🥰

[@peggyjolly2500]

I know exactly what you mean❣️ Me too!!! Merry Christmas, in the now...times are not the same, but the magic remains.....♥️

[@mysterywriter888]

I always loved Lee Remick who I believe died way too soon and the wonderful Angela Lansbury no matter what film she was in. When I saw the cast, I knew I would love it, and I did. I lost my mom 3 years ago after a short illness. I wasn't prepared even though I had her for 71 years. I will remember her every day until I pass myself. I loved my dad but your mother if you are as lucky as I was is someone you are so closely tied to that it hurts physically when they go. I have communicated with her and know she is near, but it still is not the same.

[@bmacdonald3557]

So sorry for your loss. A mother’s love is like no other, and nothing prepares us for such a loss.

[@kayt9576]

An escape dream, to happier memories , basic storyline. Back to happier times .

[@jericox2980]

Lee Rimmek and Angela Lansbury! My two favorite actresses! Wonderful movie! Thank you

[@molliemae6855]

Then you should know it’s Lee REMICK!

[@mukundphanasalkar3887]

Very few people, particularly ladies know how to live gracefully. Dame (I call her that, because in my opinion she WAS one in every sense of the word) Angela Lansbury was one such lady. She lived gracefully, sha aged gracefully, worked till her late eighties, again that too very gracefully...

[@jessicapearson9479]

Even fewer men know how to live morally and honorably!

[@kennethboydsr3966]

Thanks for a heart warming movie !!!!

[@JenniferAdair-lj7ic]

IM 7O AND I LOVE OLD MOVIES MUCH BETTER THAN NEW ONES❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@claudiaf.2236]

For once a meaningful and beautiful film!

[@kaymerry369]

Great movie.To have people love you is most wonderful part of life ml

[@suebaxter301]

wow this is an oldie...wow seeing angela lansbury in a different role especially christmas one, the one i watched her in was mrs. santa clause even that was good

[@alicebarton27]

Two really good actresses 👍😊❤

[@artchem1]

Absolute BRILLIANT FILM! Thanks fir sharing " A Special , Kind of Love ...With US !

[@davidwhite3180]

This is innocent, pure, light uplifting. Reminds me how my life was before I complicated everything.

[@bigd4746]

I have always loved this movie. Thank you for posting it.

[@go2yourself]

I love this movie❤❤ Also remember doctors making house calls growing up😊

[@gloriapinskerportraits4801]

Me too! We had a wonderful doctor.

[@catherineannelockman3805]

So do I...our pediatrician made house calls...I am 69...

[@lorraineniess116]

A Most wonderful movie....Everyone should see this holiday movie... my very favorite !...thank you for posting, Happy Christmas Everyone.

[@lauradsouza1345]

Good movie, thank you, God bless happy Christmas 🙏🎄

[@rosemariebailey638]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful movie , truly touching and inspiring 😊🙏

[@karenreardon5398]

This one's got me tearing up.😢❤

[@chantellucky4565]

❤️ Merry Christmas everyone!!! Blessings to all…🌲🌲🌲 and a happy New Year 2024!! 🎉🎊☘️

[@MaritzaAgosto-e1g]

Angela Lansbury and Lee.Remick were beautiful and outstanding actresses in this splendid Family Christmas film .🎅🤶🧑‍🎄❄️☃️⛄️😇 Polly Holiday as Aunt Min is also outstanding . 🎉❤🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@7peacefrog]

This is a great movie! I love it 💚Thank you for sharing it❄🎄❄

[@winifredgubb7768]

Beautiful story, Wonderful to see the actresses so young

[@peppercat8718]

LOL, "Seems like being 13 is like a fatal disease". So true, such an awkward age to be. At least for a girl, in my experience at least. Thank you for posting this great movie Retrospective-Classic Movies. Merry Christmas, may you and your families have a safe, healthy, and peaceful holiday season.

[@thraciangrapes]

The tween years! Still climbing trees and hating boys. 😅

[@lepapercastle]

I was born in 1993, and while I didn't get to watch old TV movies like these in the 1990s and early 2000s, I did watch shows like The Facts of Life and Hey Arnold!, which carried down many old themes from the past decades. So, I've come to love these old holiday films. They're so warm and nice to look at- a real comfort in a world I don't find very comforting.

[@sozanmarshall2832]

What a lovely film

[@MichaelBaker-r7l]

I have been looking for this movie for years. I love this so much. The scene with Polly Holliday and the Ghost of Christmas Past is priceless. Yes, it makes me cry every time. Three great actresses in one movie. Even the kids were excellent actors.

[@joanneel9708]

Beautiful Movie, Very Moving ❤️

[@lidiapolomskatomes5888]

Pamietam czasy mojego dzieciństwa lata 1960 ,,kiedy do domów przychodzili kolędnicy i tak pęknie śpiewali .Dzisiaj ten obyczaj już nie istnieje .Smutne jak młode pokolenie odeszło daleko od Boga .

[@LibbySlaughter101]

❤

[@fayetigue4983]

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[@fayetigue4983]

​@@LibbySlaughter101 it good movie

[@cristineconnell7803]

We did it a year before covid hit at my friends house! They have a Christmas party every year & always include caroling!❤ The neighborhood loves it too! Have gone out with others too house to house & to a few nursing/retirement homes!

[@crystaldance5731]

What a lovly Christmas story I love Angela Lansbury and lee remmick I always thought she had the most beautiful eyes the children were sweet too thankyou ❤️😊

[@markstevenson6684]

I read all the comments and they vary, of course. Our family has watched this, and many others from the 80s and 90s. Earl Hamner wrote a great story here. Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, and Polly Holliday do a great job with the story. The oddest part that stood out to me all these years was the last dialogue between the character Janet and her recently deceased mom, Aunt Minerva, and dad in the fireplace room. It seemed to give the movie a place of wonder, as if any of us could speak with the dead, but in our minds, of course, we do. We want to have those conversations, but they play out in our minds, like the whole point of the movie was the find the secret place. I will always love this movie, and the story.

[@Sunny25611]

Beautiful movie! Thank you ❤

[@marthajones586]

Thak you for sharing such an AWESOME movie of Love and Joy. Merry Christmas!!!❤❤❤

[@dixiecat666]

How lovely Angela L too ❤ I much prefer viewing older films/ tv Merry Xmas all 🎄

[@adelebaker6227]

Such a good movie!

[@tropicalsun07]

This movie makes me long for my childhood life in a small town too. Wish I can go back with my parents being there…. Many of us, married couple, forget the love that we felt towards each other as the year goes by. Good reminder to remember and cherish each other as we grow older together.

[@lindabassett306]

Excellent. Thanks so much, I appreciate getting to see this again!

[@renasmith4123]

Excellent movie thanks for sharing.

[@tanyad.2180]

Thank you so much for sharing this film. It has touched my heart and mind profoundly. Hope, peace, joy and love to everyone. Happy Christmas

[@marietomkinson5910]

Merry Christmas 🎄 Happy New year 2024❤. MARIE from the UK 🇬🇧❤️

[@rebeccaharrison2968]

I love Angela Lansbury! ❤

[@Sunny25611]

Thank you ❤

[@malgozata1875]

Thank you.

[@tiffanymathis9495]

This is a great movie

[@homemaker345]

Beautiful! ❤😊

[@thraciangrapes]

I saw this movie ages ago, enjoying it again. Thank you. Ironically it's Christmas Day and me sister-in-law's mother died today of covid related pneumonia. This movie brings home everything I feel right now.

[@kathadax]

@therraciangrapes I am sorry for your loss. I hope you may find solace.

[@susanstancliff2937]

Beautiful movie of years gone by.❤🙏🕊🎄

[@vickybrown9266]

What a lovley movie ❤❤❤

[@bonniemott9119]

Enjoyed this movie thank you for putting it on.

[@martinaconradie9536]

Wonderful movie ❤.

[@Carols-hu8vo]

Heart Warming ❤ Merry Christmas ❤

[@charylliss3741]

I absolutely love this movie ❤❤❤

[@doreenyankowski4973]

LOVE THE MOVIE FROM CHRISTMAS!!!❤❤❤❤

[@acooper6956]

Why am i not surprised to see Earl Hamner attached to this movie? It's not the Waltons for sure, but the scenery, music and acting give it the same vibe.

[@RoseSharon7777]

I don't think I'd let that Dr. anywhere near my family again. Nothing seems to be wrong is his standard answer. LOL. 😂😂

[@rebeccaharrison2968]

The family’s house looks like so many I’ve seen in Dubuque, Iowa! Old-fashioned, Victorian, elegant.

[@rosajohnson5212]

I'd forgotten I'd seen this movie. I don't recall when 🧐. At any rate, it's one of the best and I love both Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick. The only thing I didn't like was Michael being dressed as an old lady.😏😌. I thought he was going to be Paul Revere, since he loved that hat and would have been, so much more befitting. Excellent cast!

[@marycounce2836]

I saw this when it first aired and never forgot it. I had always hoped to see it again.

[@DanMessina-n6o]

My favorite Christmas movie by far. So much so that we visited the set locations including Chelsea VT. We walked on that great lawn leading to the church and also walk by the town store. Yes me too I would give anything to live one more Christmas together with mom and dad. The cemetery scene was heart breaking and when her father turns around for the first time by the sleigh. Merry Christmas to everyone I hope we all find that secret place.

[@elisabettacrescenzo6196]

LOVE LOVE THIS MOVIE❤❤❤

[@Cinderdiane]

I love anything Angela Lansbury is in.

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

See this isn’t that long ago and it was still normal for families to live together and care for each other. Now we stick older people in care homes, and anyone with a disability gets locked away too. We have enormous houses, with only a couple of people in them, and even they’re too busy to actually spend any time in the house. That’s one way society has changed for the worse!

[@ceeceeg1377]

Very sad true and also selfish We will all grow old one day and they only thing we will need is love and respect and above all some one just to care life is so short we often wish our lives away instead of living life in the moment and to the full God bless our past loved ones this Christmas 2024 🙏

[@ΧριστίναΜαγουλα-β1ξ]

Lovely movie..❤

[@bettymaugeri7316]

Sweet!

[@sharonnitschneider8699]

I am 82 years old and live in a suburb of Chicago and some family doctors made house calls when I was young too.

[@marymayer2282]

Interesting movie different from The usual Holiday movies that fact that The great Angela langsbury was in it as well as the lovely lee remick was a definite draw well acted and Good script a definite second Time watching again I noticed the actor that played her husband was an actor on a soap opera I used to watch years ago Mart hulswit that played the part of Dr Ed Bauer on the guiding light 🕯️🕯️

[@saracarlson-kringle]

The Co-Executive Producer, Earl Hamner, did 'The Waltons'.

[@sheilacym]

Beautiful….just beautiful 💕

[@lisaangb8193]

What a lovely film, thank you so much !

[@The_Irate_Penguin]

Such a pity, that this lacking TV film might have been Remick's best work in the 1980s, before leaving the business saying "I make movies for grown-ups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again." Sadly, she died young, at least not having to see what Superhero and Fantasy tripe passes for film these days. I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, so it was the blockbusters she starred in, which first introduced me to Remick. All those more action- than art-house films, but with good productions values, from "QB VII", "Telefon", and "Omen", to "Medusa Touch", and "Ike". Only a bit later did I go back and realize that she peaked early, her best work done in the late 50s to mid-60s: "Long Hot Summer", "Anatomy of a Murder", "Days of Wine and Roses".

[@carolcole570]

What an incredibly sad life, for Aunt Mim.

[@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401]

Perhaps not. She had a lovely home,family, and neighbors....and family children who went home eventually. Sounds idyllic...except for one closest friend.

[@carolcole570]

@@sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 The one closest friend who made it all worthwhile. To me, it is incredibly sad. But, then, I am reliving my husband who has been gone for a long long long 49 years. NOW, my excitement thrills me, as I know how very soon we will be called Home.

[@carolcole570]

@@jacqueline8559 My knowledge of Bible prophecy has enabled me for the past 49 years to keep up with what is going on, Jacqueline. I have literally marked off prophecies one by one, and now we are down to the wire for when believers will leave here. My dream is having Jesus taking me into His arms, laughing as He sees my joy and awe…….and then, my peering over His shoulder to see my husband and my parents standing close by, as they wait their turn. My husband will be grinning like a Cheshire Cat at me as he gives me a big Thumbs Up sign ! My adrenaline stays on a “ 10 “ every day as I watch and wait. My eyes are on Israel and on Damascus, as they are the main thrust for believers. Tomorrow I am going to the funeral of one of my bff’s and I can’t grieve because our departure is so close, that it is going to be like a blink of an eye before I see her again. I hope that you and your husband are as ready as I am, Jacqueline. Sooooo exciting !❤️

[@WestVillageCrank]

Remick and Lansbury co-starred in THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958) and then as comically bitter enemies in the Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim musical ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. Alas, the 1964 project closed on Broadway after 9 performances.

[@loisdameworth2962]

Turned out to be good!

[@lindamcshain9507]

So loved movie, all good cast❤❤❤ Sad and Cry 😢😢

[@catherineannelockman3805]

Love anything with Angela Lansbury...especially, murder she wrote...

[@kathyflorcruz552]

Co-excutive producer - Earl Hamner. 🎄

[@robjack2804]

Lovely. Joined at the hip gals, See Anyone Can Whistle.

[@jomcallister7163]

Love it

[@carolineclampett8601]

How beautiful

[@Babecca]

Really loved the move. Enjoyed cast, plot. No complaimts.

[@daringmore6892]

Forty years ago. Very nice ending!