Best Novels Turned into Christmas Movies; #1: A Christmas Carol

 

This movie is #1 for 1 reason. It's so good that it's constantly duplicated, readapted and upgraded. Check out this small list below of movies that have taken Charles Dicken's novella from a ghost story to a classic:

• A Christmas Carol
• Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past
• A Diva's Christmas
• Scrooge
• Scrooged
• Mister McGoo's Christmas Carol
  
•  a longer list here. wow
  

Best Novels Turned Christmas Movies: #2: The Bishop's Wife

Ha! I can't put the two together, although The Preacher's Wife and The Bishop's Wife were both based on Robert Nathan's book. However, I am a die hard Cary Grant fan and when I learned that Penny Marshall was upgrading it with a gospel feel (The Preacher's Wife) I was giddy. Cary Grant's The Bishop Wife is my #2.

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Best Novels Turned into Christmas Movies: #3:The Preacher's Wife

I have this movie in queue in my room right now. The Preacher's Wife, It is the Penny Marshall version Robert Nathan's novel, The Bishop's Wife(The Bobbs-Merrill Co (1928).) I love this movie because Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines and Whitney Houston are in it.

More about the book:
The angelMichael comes to fill a vacancy on the staff of a local bishop. While there he falls in love with the bishop's wife. He offers her a proposition: leave her husband for him. The movie adaptation of the novel is different than the movie.

Best Novels Turned Christmas Movies; #4: The Note

I am a big Angela Hunt fan, so of course the Hallmark Channel's movie adaptation of The Note makes the best novels turned Christmas Movies List. I love that it is also Christian Fiction.

Synopsis: Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder is proud of three things--her immaculate VW Jetta, her status as a strong single woman, and her ability to write fast--until her editor warns that her column is failing. She is given three weeks to change either her approach or her job. 
 

As Peyton considers her future, the unthinkable happens--PanWorld Flight 848, en route from New York to Tampa, bursts into flame and crashes in Tampa Bay. All 261 people aboard are killed. For a week Peyton and her fellow reporters cover the nation's worst air disaster with numbed emotions, then they try to move on. 

Peyton is wondering how to attract readers when a woman approaches and hands her a plastic bag that washed up behind her house. It contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple message-- “T--I love you. All is forgiven. Dad.” Peyton now has the perfect story to attract readers . . . and a tool to uncover lessons about love, forgiveness, and about herself.