12 Days of Christmas Movies: Remember the Night

by Julian Spivey
It’s the most wonderful time of the year where we all gather as families (though, unless they’re already in your bubble we don’t recommend that this year), decorate the house and tree with Christmas lights and ornaments and sit down in front of our television screens with a nice hot cup of cocoa to watch some of our many favorite Christmas movies. This year The Word is celebrating 12 Days of Christmas Movies with our favorites to watch around the happiest time of the year. I hope you enjoy these as much as we do and if you haven’t seen them be sure to seek them out. 

Photo: Paramount Pictures

There are Christmas classics that folks like to bring out every year around the Holidays and then there are hidden gems that not enough people know about … one of those hidden gems is “Remember the Night” from 1940. It’s a cute little romantic-comedy featuring one of my absolutely favorite movie pairings of all-time Barbara Stanwyck, as a shoplifter, and Fred MacMurray, as the prosecutor trying to put her away, but doesn’t have the heart to see her spend Christmas in jail, so in one of those “only in the movies” plots he offers to take her to her home, which is on his way to his own, for Christmas. Stanwyck and MacMurray have such a brilliant chemistry between the two, that would come out to its greatest performance a few years later in Billy Wilder’s wickedly fantastic film noir “Double Indemnity.”
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Directed by Mitchell Leisen from a script by the great Preston Sturges “Remember the Night” is the kind of lovely Christmas romance that makes you want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and warm cup of cocoa. 

"Remember the Night" is streaming on Peacock