Tag: classic Christmas musicals

Serpentorslair Staff · December 18, 2025

When Bing Crosby Saved Christmas with Song-and-Dance Numbers

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 Serpentorslair StaffBing Crosby Christmas movie, classic Christmas musicals, Danny Kaye White Christmas, Irving Berlin White Christmas, nostalgic holiday movies, old Hollywood Christmas films, Technicolor Christmas classics, traditional Christmas musicals, White Christmas 1954, White Christmas movie review0 comment

There are Christmas movies that feel cozy, and then there are Christmas movies that feel like an event. White Christmas (1954) is firmly in that second category. This is the kind of film that doesn’t just play in the background—it announces itself. Big songs. Big smiles. Big Technicolor sets. And right at the center of it all is Bing Crosby, crooning his way through the holidays like he personally invented December. If Christmas ever needed saving by pure musical charm, this movie was more than happy to step in and…

A Trip to Toyland That’s Equal Parts Magic and ’60s Weirdness

December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 Serpentorslair Staff1960s Disney films, Annette Funicello Toyland, Babes in Toyland 1961, Babes in Toyland review, classic Christmas musicals, Disney Christmas movies, nostalgic holiday movies, Ray Bolger Barnaby, Toyland movie review0 comment

A Colorful, Quirky Look Back at Babes in Toyland (1961) There are Christmas movies that make perfect sense… and then there’s Babes in Toyland (1961), a film that proudly refuses to behave, conform, or even pretend to live in the same corner of logic as any other holiday classic. And that’s exactly why I love revisiting it. You don’t watch Babes in Toyland because you’re craving traditional Christmas comfort. You watch it because you want to take a Technicolor tumble down the peppermint-scented rabbit hole that only early-’60s Disney could…