Be Grateful For These Great Thanksgiving Movies

AARP:

There's only one time when it's OK to combine the words "Movie" and "Turkey" -- and that's when you're talking about great Thanksgiving movies. Here's my list of favorite films (in no particular order) in which the fourth Thursday in November plays a featured role.

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[Shaun Kardinal]

03:35 AM on 11/24/2011

why the Manhattan screenshot?

[Jerry Pritikin]

02:31 PM on 11/22/2011

Ahhh, the good old days. During the WWll war years, in 1943 we started a Thanksgiving tradition that lasted for many years. My Dad would bring home a fresh turkey (frozen were not be available for many,many years)) and Dad clean it the night before...(it was not a pretty site). Remember, back then nothing came in a box, everything was made from scratch. By morning our apartment at 644 W. Roscoe began to smell heavenly. Company came by noon, My Dad's partner and his family. They sat around the front room and the kids where given money (about 25 cents each and told not to buy candy because it would ruin our appetite) to walked to the neighborhood movie house. It was the Vogue Theater on Broadway(long gone) in Chicago, about 4 blocks away. As if it was yesterday I remember the double feature... "Guadalcanal Diary" a war movie with Bill Bendix and "Lassie Comes Home" in color with Roddy McDowell and a kid names Elizabeth Taylor. When we got out of the theater, it was beginning to snow. We got home just as my mom was getting the dinning room table ready for our feast. We did not realize how fortunate we were compared to the rest of the world. Later, after mom served her home made pie dessert, we listen to the news on the radio and then our company went home. Ahh the good old days!