The Night Before Christmas

The read

It runs a compact 26m.

Synopsis

Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.

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Key crew

• Jim PabianDirector
• Clement C. MooreWriter
• Bill TurnbullCreator
• Dick WoellhafScreenplay
• Norman LuboffOriginal Music Composer
• Ken DarbyOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Olan SouleDr. Clement C. Moore (voice)
• Barbara EilerMrs. Moore (voice)
• Hal SmithDr. Sawyer (voice)
• Virginia GreggGretchen (voice)
• Laura Turnbull(voice)
• Shari Turnbull(voice)
• Douglas Crowther(voice)
• Diana LeeSoloist (voice)
• Thurl RavenscroftSoloist (voice)
• Bill ColeSoloist (voice)
• Eleanor GeffertSoloist (voice)
• Julia RinkerSoloist (voice) (as Julie Rinker)

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