This week - best Christmas movies. I was thinking about my favorite
Santa's in these movies over the years. Everyone thinks of Edmund
Gwenn in the original "Miracle on 34th Street"
or Sir Richard Attenborough in the modern "Miracle on 34th Street"
I'll talk more about these movies tomorrow.
My
favorite Santa? You never heard of him. He is Jan Rubes, a
Czechoslovakian who immigrated to Canada after World War II and a
character actor his entire career. He played Santa in "One Magic Christmas", a Disney movie produced in 1985.
He
was amazing in the role helping Gabriel, a cowboy-turned-angel, save
Christmas for a family about to be evicted. It starred Mary
Steenburgen. A real sleeper of a movie that I highly recommend. It's
on iTunes.
Still don't recognize him? OK, here's one you will
remember. He played the Amish patriarch of the family that gave
shelter to Harrison Ford in "Witness" produced the same year.
A lttle Christmas Eve eve trivia.
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