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Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) Lyrics

Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) Lyrics

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Song lyrics to Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas)

“Mele Kalikimaka” (pronounced [ˈmɛlɛ kəˌlitiˈmɐkə]) is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning “Merry Christmas”. One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 and it has been covered by many artists. The song is present in the films L.A. Confidential, Catch Me If You Can and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) Lyrics
Song lyrics to Candy Kisses

Candy Kisses

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Song lyrics to Candy Kisses

“Candy Kisses” is a 1949 song written and first recorded by American country crooner George Morgan. “Candy Kisses” was George Morgan’s debut release on the charts and was his only #1 on the Best Selling Folk charts, where it stayed for three weeks.Candy Kisses

Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez

Come to the Stable

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Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis of Come to the Stable

In Come to the Stable, a pair of French nuns fulfill their promise to God.  By moving to New England to found a children’s hospital. A pleasingly warm movie based on a story by Clare Boothe Luce.

Come to the Stable
Neptune's Daughter (1949) starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Red Skelton, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn

Neptune’s Daughter

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Neptune’s Daughter (1949) starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, Red Skelton, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn

Neptune’s Daughter is a laugh out loud funny romantic musical comedy, which I enjoyed immensely.   Although the movie stars the beautiful (and aquatic) Esther Williams and the dashing Ricardo Montalban (one of my favorite actors), the movie comes to life when Red Skelton is onscreen.

Neptune’s Daughter
Holiday Affair (1949), starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

Holiday Affair

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Holiday Affair (1949), starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey

Synopsis of Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair deals with a romantic triangle between a lovely — and lonely — war widow, her lawyer boyfriend, and a dreamer that she meets while working. Also involved is her young son, and the memory of her husband keeping her from moving on in life.

Holiday Affair
Isle of the Dead (1949) starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew

Isle of the Dead

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Isle of the Dead (1949) starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew

Synopsis of Isle of the Dead

In Isle of the Dead, a group of disparate characters is quarantined on a Greek island during the Balkan Wars of 1912.  Septicemic plague causes the quarantine, and the group’s only hope is for the hot, dry sirocco winds to kill the fleas that cause it.  In addition, one of them suspects another of being the supernatural vorvolaka.

Isle of the Dead
The Hasty Heart (1949) starring Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal - Warner Brothers most raved-about hit since "Johnny Belinda"

The Hasty Heart

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The Hasty Heart (1949) starring Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal

Synopsis of The Hasty Heart

 In The Hasty Heart, a group of Allied soldiers are recovering in a hospital of Burma, when a dour Scot is added to their ranks. The Scot is dying, unknown to himself.  Can the soldiers and nurse reach out to him?

The Hasty Heart
Sorrowful Jones (1949), starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball

Sorrowful Jones

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Sorrowful Jones (1949), starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball

Synopsis

New York bookie Sorrowful Jones takes a bet on Dreamy Joe from rotten gambler Orville Smith who leaves his young daughter, Martha, behind as collateral. When Orville overhears the horserace is fixed, he is killed by one of gangster Big Steve goons …

Sorrowful Jones
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) starring Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Gleason

Miss Grant Takes Richmond [Lucille Ball]

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Miss Grant Takes Richmond  (1949) starring  Lucille Ball, William Holden, James Gleason

Miss Grant Takes Richmond  begins at a secretarial school. The grave-looking Charles Lane is overseeing his class, including Ellen Grant, played by the lovely  Lucille Ball.   Most of the class is performing well, but not Lucille Ball’s character. She demonstrates this to the audience in a battle with an old-style typewriter — and losing.   It’s a quiet  slapstick routine, and sets her character for the audience. Effectively, she’s playing her Lucy Ricardo character from  I Love Lucy  (before she met Ricky).   Hard working, diligent, intelligent, but accident prone — and cooking up a scheme to “help” other people.  

At home that evening, she’s practicing her typing, in hopes of graduating from secretarial school the next day.   She’s living with her aunt and uncle — the uncle is a Judge, and someone highly respected in the community.   Likewise, her boyfriend is assistant District Attorney.

Miss Grant Takes Richmond [Lucille Ball]
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