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Disney Was in Distress During the Late 1940s. Then ‘Cinderella’ Came to the Rescue and Saved the Company From Financial Disaster

But with the 1940s came World War II and workers’ strikes, and Disney lost its foreign markets, most of its box office sales ...

What Happened to the Cast of White Christmas?

White Christmas' became a beloved holiday film when it was released in 1954. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and ...

The Funniest Christmas Movie Is Also the Most Honest About Why the Holidays Are So Hard

Why 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' marks the high point of Chevy Chase and John Hughes' collaboration, the purest ...
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Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics

White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later ...