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DECEMBER Holiday Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Pearl Harbor Day, commemorates the Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack began at dawn December 7, 1941. It crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and caused the U.S. to enter World War II. During the attack at Pearl Harbor, over 2,400 American serviceman and 68 civilians were killed. Five of the eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, and virtually all ships were damaged. On Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, U.S. flags are to be flown at half staff. On December 8, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in a speech to Congress it was “..a day that will live in infamy”.●

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Go Caroling Day Go Caroling Day is a wonderful, rewarding, and memory filled day. By far more popular decades ago, Christmas holiday caroling is a great opportunity to enjoy the holiday and appreciate its meaning. Christmas caroling remains popular in many area and among many groups. Scouts and youth groups often partake in this special musical event. Even family parties and business parties sometimes produce an impromptu caroling event. It may take a little planning to make your Christmas Caroling happen. For example, scout groups frequently go caroling to nursing homes and senior citizen centers. A phone call to the facility management to arrange a date and time is a must. Transportation to/ from the facility also must be arranged. And, afterwards, a caroling event is often topped off with hot chocolate and cookies.

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National Fruitcake Day National Fruitcake Day celebrates the rock hard, fruit filled holiday cake. While fruitcake was popular in the 40’s and 50’s, we are not sure if anyone has ever eaten this weighty, gooey, sugar laden cake. Scientists have been unable to penetrate deeply into a fruitcake, and therefore, have failed to uncover its exact composition. Its density has also hampered their ability to use carbon dating to identify the age of a fruitcake. Unconfirmed rumors suggest that some fruitcake are hundreds of years old. It is very appropriate for National Fruitcake Day to be celebrated shortly after Christmas. Once the holidays are over, it’s time to get rid of your fruitcake. Giving a fruitcake is a Christmas tradition for many. It is also believed that recipients will re-wrap the fruitcake and give it to someone else. Who knows how many years, or decades, a fruitcake has been passed along? Ultimately, the trick is to make sure you give away the fruitcake before the holiday season is through. Otherwise, you get the joy of storing it, until the next fruitcake-giving season. On National Fruitcake Day, those with a sweet tooth can celebrate by eating a slice or two. Otherwise, we suggest you use this day to give your fruitcake to someone....anyone.●

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National Ice Cream Day When you get the urge for a snack on a hot, humid summer night, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? That’s right....Ice Cream! Therefore, it’s only fitting that ice cream be given it’s own special day. On this day, we hope you enjoy an ice cream cone, a sundae, or a milk shake. Set the diet aside and splurge a little...have one of each! In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month. He also established National Ice Cream Day as the third Sunday in the month. Ice cream is nutritious. A little heavy on the sugar and calories, ice cream is otherwise good for you. Its base ingredient is milk, which is loaded with healthy vitamins and minerals. Did you know? Charles E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri is credited with inventing the ice cream cone. On July 23, 1904 at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, he filled a pastry cone with two scoops of ice cream to make the first ice cream cone. There is some controversy over this claim. Italo Marchiony of New York City filed a patent for the ice cream cone months before the fair opened.

And, he was selling lemon ice in cones as early as 1896. About Ice Cream Day in December: There is also a celebration of Ice Cream Day on December 13th. We found no factual information about this day. We suspect that it evolved from some local event.

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2014 Absolutely Christmas Holiday Ah! Christmas, the biggest holiday of the year. Christmas has both a strong religious and traditional meaning. It has a certain feel, all to itself, that you usually do not feel at any other time of the year. It creates within us, a sense of kindness and concern for fellow man. At no other time are we more generous and giving.

It creates a sense of family and belonging. Everyone comes home for the Christmas holiday. It is a time of family and giving. It is truely a time that comes but once a year. Christmas is celebrated in most countries around the world! And so, we invite you to ride along. Join us in celebration of the magic, the wonder and the spirit of this holiday season. From all of us at Holiday Insights, we wish you a peaceful and prosperous Christmas holiday season, and a prosperous New Year! We’ve been good this year and we know you have been too! So, we hope Santa’s bag is stuffed full of goodies for all of us.

Let there be peace and good will this Christmas.

Did you Know? Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” on December 19, 1843.● New Years Eve, 2014 and Day 2015 New Year’s Eve is when all the fun and festivities are. We see out the old year and ring in the new. While it is often thought of as a time to drink and be merry, many people take it as an opportunity to eat and be merry. Drinking is not as much a part of the event as it was decades ago, if only because of tougher drunk driving laws.

New Years’ Day on the other hand, is a time to relax and enjoy the start of a bright and promising new year....a new beginning.

It is a time to be with family. After all, you haven’t seen your mother in law since last year. So, enjoy everything about New Year’s....it only comes once a year. To many Americans, the ball dropping at Times Square in New York City signals the start of the new year in this country. The ball was first dropped in 1908.

New Years Trivia: Did you know that a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Millions of people do. It’s easy to make resolutions, yet much harder to accomplish them.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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From the Editor’s Desk Dear friends, I don’t know if the following inspirational short Christmas story is true, but whether or not it actually happened, it’s a wonderfully inspiring story for people of any faith. In this season of love, may we all remember the beautiful love of a small child. I wish you a meaningful and love-filled Christmas season and new year ahead.

May your days be filled with love, joy, growth, and inspiration.

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Christmas Eve, a year ago. The Wal-Mart in Cleburne, Texas, was jammed, hectic. Dozens of people were waiting in long lines at checkout counters to purchase small appliances, jewelry, toys and clothing that would be next-morning treasures under someone’s tree.

The woman standing in cashier Jeffrey Kandt’s line seemed to be living on the edge of subsistence.

Her clothes were worn; her hands were those of a person who’d worked hard for what she had. She held a single item in her arms as she patiently waited to move to the front of the line. Her son would get the one present he had asked for: a Sony PlayStation2. She had saved all year for this; with tax, the total would be close to $220.

As Kandt scanned the game player’s bar code into his register, the woman panicked. Where was her money? It wasn’t where she remembered putting it earlier in the day. Her fear became palpable to the customers in line behind her as she started to cry.

Why my line? Kandt thought as he watched the frantic woman search through her clothes. He was going to have to call his manager to void the sale and return the game player to a locked shelf. He’d have to shut down his checkout line and wait for her to come from another part of the crowded store--not

something that any store manager or cashier wants on Christmas Eve, not with people waiting and the clock ticking down to closing time. I’m going to be late for church, Kandt thought.

And then an amazing thing happened. At the back of the line, a man took out his wallet, pulled out $100 and passed it forward. As the cash moved up the line, a twenty-dollar bill was added here, a ten-dollar bill there. Someone threw in a bunch of ones dug from the bottom of a jeans pocket.

When the collection finally reached the register, Kandt counted $220.

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t. Nicholas was a Bishop who lived in the fourth century AD in a place called Myra in Asia Minor (now called Turkey). He was a very rich man because his parents died when he was young and left him a lot of money.

He was also a very kind man and had a reputation for helping the poor and giving secret gifts to people who needed it. There are several legends about St. Nicholas, although we don’t know if any of them are true!

The most famous story about St. Nicholas tells how the custom of hanging up stockings to get presents in first started! It goes like this: There was a poor man who had three daughters. He was so poor, he did not have enough money for a dowry, so his daughters couldn’t get married. (A dowry is a sum of money paid to the bridegroom by the brides parents on the wedding day. This still happens in some countries, even today.) One night, Nicholas secretly dropped a bag of gold down the chimney and into the house (This meant that the oldest daughter was then able to be married.). The bag fell into a stocking that had been hung by the fire to dry! This was repeated later with the second daughter. Finally, determined to discover the person who had given him the money, the father secretly hid by the fire every evening until he caught Nicholas dropping in a bag of gold. Nicholas begged the man to not tell anyone what he had done, because he did not want to bring attention to himself. But soon the news got out and when anyone received a secret gift, it was thought that maybe it was from Nicholas.

Because of his kindness Nicholas was made a Saint.

St. Nicholas is not only the saint of children but also of sailors! One story tells of him helping some sailors that were caught in a dreadful storm off the coast of Turkey. The storm was raging around them and all the men were terrified that their ship would sink beneath the giant waves. They prayed to St. Nicholas to help them.

Suddenly, he was standing on the deck before them. He ordered the sea to be calm, the storm died away, and they were able to sail their ship safely to port.

St. Nicholas was exiled from Myra and later put in prison during the persecution by the Emperor Diocletian. No one is really knows when he died, but it was on

6th December in either 345 or 352 AD. In 1087, his bones were stolen from Turkey by some Italian merchant sailors. The bones are now kept in the Church named after him in the Italian port of Bari. On St. Nicholas feast day (6th December), the sailors of Bari still carry his statue from the Cathedral out to sea, so that he can bless the waters and so give them safe voyages throughout the year.

You can find out lots about St Nicholas at the St. Nicholas Center.

How St. Nicholas Became Santa Claus In the 16th Century in Europe, the stories and traditions about St. Nicholas had become very unpopular.

But someone had to deliver presents to children at Christmas, so in the UK, he became ‘Father Christmas’, a character from old children’s stories; in France, he was then known as ‘Père Nöel’; in Germany, the ‘Christ Kind’. In the early USA his name was ‘Kris Kringle’.

Later, Dutch settlers in the USA took the old stories of St. Nicholas with them and Kris Kringle became ‘Sinterklaas’ or as we now say ‘Santa Claus’!

Many countries, especially ones in Europe, celebrate St. Nicholas’ Day on 6th December. In Holland and some other European Countries, children leave clogs or shoes out to be filled with presents. They also believe that if they leave some hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas’s horse, they will be left some sweets.

St. Nicholas became popular again in the Victorian era when writers, poets and artists rediscovered the old stories.

In 1823 the famous poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ or ‘T’was the Night before Christmas’, was published. Dr Clement Clarke Moore later claimed that he had written it for his children. However, some scholars now believe that it was actually written by Henry Livingston, Jr., who was a distant relative of Dr Moore’s wife. The poem describes eight reindeer and gives them their names. They became really well known in the song ‘Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer’, written in 1949. Do you know all eight names? Click on Rudolph’s nose to find out!● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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inamagic President Beth Roose Editor Fina Florez Graphic Designer Fina Florez Contributing Writers & Photographers: Beth Roose Jim O’ Brien CeMe Photography & Design Address: 22777 Franz Rd, Suite 4212 Katy, Texas 77449

We are accepting images and stories for our February Edition. We are looking for anything that pertains to Ground Hog Day, Love, Presidents Day, Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year. In addition, we know it is the Westminster Dog Show.. so anything Dogs will do. I have had many requests to observe National Breakfast Day... so with that said.. anything breakfast....all images submitted must relate to any of these general themes.. We need pictures that are 300DPI and are to be 8.5x11. Deadline for these submissions is Jan 6th.

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Top 10 Most Popular Films For Christmas Day 1. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) As a young girl, I looked forward to Charlie Brown as the official kickoff to December. This simple animated show manages to cram in about 100 life lessons into 1/2 hour. Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang decides to stage a play with -- guess who -- as its director. Lucy angles for a gift from the piano-playing Schroeder, while Charlie’s younger sister Sally makes up her own list for Santa (“All I want is what’s coming to me.

All I want is my fair share!”). Snoopy goes uber-commercial, decorating his doghouse to the hilt.

MM comments: The day Charles Schultz died I happened to be shopping at a downtown mall. A TV crew caught me on the way out and asked for my opinion. I couldn’t think of what to say, but my spontaneous dance moves made the evening news!

Which Peanuts character is your favorite dancer?

2. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964) The primitive claymation may be cheesy by today’s animation standards, but to me that makes it all the more precious.

Gotta love the pairing of a misfit reindeer (Rudolph) with a misfit elf (Hermey, who aspires to be a dentist). And of course there’s redemption all around at the end, especially for Rudolph, who not only gets the girl (Clarice) but goes down in history for guiding Santa’s sleigh. Burl Ives is the narrator/snowman singing the classics, “Silver and Gold” and “Holly, Jolly Christmas.”

MM comments: I remember when this was sponsored by Norelco. Couldn’t tell you who sponsors it now!

3. Scrooged (1988)Bill Murray at his best (then again, when isn’t he?) as modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge/ TV executive Frank Cross. Hates Christmas. Visited by three ghosts, transforms to nice guy -- the plot’s familiar, but Murray makes it unique.

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MM comments: Carol Kane is hysterical as the Ghost of Christmas Present!

4. White Christmas (1954) Mean, green Mr. Grinch plots to stop Christmas from coming to Whoville. He steals everything that’s not nailed down.

Guess what? It comes anyway.

Dr. Seuss adds the whimsy while Boris Karloff narrates in his deep, insidious voice.

MM comments: Favorite scene is when the Grinch taps the candy cane from the fingers of the sleeping baby Whos. How low can you go?

5. White Christmas (1954) Is this a comedy? A love story?

A musical? A tribute to WWII soliders? Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, successful entertainers, hook up with sister act Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. They head north to a Vermont Inn, which turns out to be run by General Waverly, who happened to be BC and DK’s commanding officer. Great singing, dancing, romancing, and a happy, snowy ending.

MM comments: I start bawling as soon as they hit the inn and don’t stop till RC puts the white knight into Bingo’s sack.

6. A Christmas Story (1983) Christmas as seen through the bespectacled eyes of Ralphie, an 8-year-old midwestern boy.

Let’s just say Ralphie has quite the imagination. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, given his wacky (but endearing) family. There’s real love and affection underneath the constant comedic happenings, as Ralphie tries to convince his parents to get him a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.

MM comments: For those who might romanticize Christmas in a snowy climate, consider this lesson. Ralphie’s friend

Watching holiday movies is as much a part of Christmas tradition as tree trimming, cookie baking and shopping.

And with Netflix, DVDs and Tivo, you don’t have to wait for your favorites to air or choose between watching and caroling!

Flick finds out the hard way that tongues do stick to freezing metal.

7. Elf (2003) Bar none, the funniest Will Ferrell movie ever. Ferrell plays Buddy, a normal-sized human raised among elves. Buddy sets off for New York City to find his real dad, a very reluctant James Caan. Buddy is the quintessential overgrown kid in a candycane shop. As he bumps up against the wonders and the realities of non-elf life, his wide-eyed enthusiasm is contagious (to everyone but Caan, that is). More than a just a feel-good movie, it’s about tolerance and acceptance.

MM comments: My husband’s favorite scene is when Buddy jumps into the family Christmas tree. Must be a guy thing. Me, I like his four sugar-based food groups -- now that’s my kind of diet!

8. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) This little-known gem is my personal favorite. Could it be because the heroine is a magazine writer? Barbara Stanwyck writes a food/lifestyle column for Smart Housekeeping under the pen name Elizabeth Lane (imagine Martha Stewart circa 1945). No one’s the wiser that she’s not really married and doesn’t live on a farm in Connecticut -- until her boss (Sydney Greenstreet) and a WWII Navy hero (Dennis Morgan) invite themselves for Christmas. A delightful romp ensues.

MM comments: The ends definitely justify the means ...and getting there is a lot of fun.

9. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) It’s always a toss-up whether to watch this one or A Christmas Carole closest to Christmas. I usually prefer them in this order.

What can I say about this Frank Capra classic? It is a wonderful film. How can you go wrong with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed as George and Mary Bailey .. plus an angel named Clarence? Running out of holiday cheer? Feeling like 2008 is a little too much like 1929? Stick this into the DVD player and you’ll soon get over yourself and into the spirit!

MM comments: Shows that true acts of heroism usually go uncelebrated, but certainly not unrewarded.

10. A Christmas Carol (1951) If you don’t know this Dickens tale, I bet you at least know the famous lines, “Bah, humbug” and “God bless us, everyone!”

A miserly, mean old Englishman named Scrooge (whose name has become synonymous with miserly and mean) hates Christmas and everything associated with it. On Christmas Eve he’s visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.

MM comments: There are color, b/w and animated versions to choose from. For my money, the 1951 version, with Alastair Simm as Scrooge, is the best. Others may prefer the 1938 original with Reginald Owen or later versions with George C. Scott (1984) or Kelsey Grammer (2004).●

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n New York City’s Fifth Avenue, the “richest avenue in the world,” a tour bus announcer points out the boarded-up townhouse of “industrial wizard” Michael O’Connor, the world’s second richest man. As the bus passes, a middle-aged drifter and his dog Sam enter the O’Connor house through a loose board in the fence and a manhole, and spend the night.

Meanwhile, O’Connor evicts the tenants of one of his city apartment houses in order to erect an eighty story building. One of his tenants, Jim Bullock, an out-of-work veteran, refuses to leave. He is eventually thrown out, and while sleeping on a park bench, meets the drifter, Aloysious T. McKeever, or “Mac.” Mac invites Jim to stay with him at O’Connor’s townhouse, which he has occupied for the last three winters while O’Connor resides in Virginia, and Jim assumes that Mac is O’Connor.

Currently, O’Connor is preparing to buy Camp Kilson, a deserted army camp outside Manhattan, in order to build a massive air cargo network.

He receives word that his daughter Trudy has run away from her finishing school. When Trudy arrives at the townhouse, Jim concludes that she is a thief, but lets her stay. Trudy quickly falls in love with Jim, and is determined to keep her identity a secret so that he won’t love her for her money. When the night patrol arrives to check the house, Mac makes everyone hide and finally confesses to Jim and Trudy that he is an interloper. Later, Jim meets two friends from the service, Hank and Whitey, and their wives and children, who are living in a car due to the postwar housing shortage, and invites them to stay at the townhouse, too. With Mac’s help, Jim, Whitey and Hank are inspired to design a model to renovate vacant army barracks into housing projects, and decide to bid on Camp Kilson. Soon O’Connor

arrives in New York and finds Trudy leaving for her new job at a music shop. Although he orders her back to school, she insists that she has spent her life being lonely and now wants Jim. O’Connor wants to meet Jim and reluctantly agrees to pose as a drifter, after which Trudy and Jim convince Mac to let O’Connor become another “guest” at the mansion. It is not long before O’Connor is fed up with his house guests and threatens to call the police. Trudy sends for her mother, however, who years before reluctantly divorced O’Connor because business was his first priority. Mary and O’Connor rekindle their love for each other, and on Christmas Eve, Mac encourages them to marry, unaware of their true relationship. When Mary finds out that O’Connor outbid Jim on Camp Kilson, and tried to give him a job in Bolivia, to take him away from Trudy, however, she determines to leave him. After Trudy also scolds him, O’Connor lets Jim buy the camp. On New Year’s Eve, the house-guests all celebrate the contract, and prepare to leave the townhouse. Although Trudy and Jim and Mary and O’Connor offer Mac a room, he assures them he has a place to stay, O’Connor’s house in Virginia, then says goodbye. O’Connor tells Mary that next November, Mac will be coming through the front door.● Cast & Crew Roy Del Ruth: Director Don DeFore: Jim Bullock Ann Harding: Mary O’Connor Charlie Ruggles: Michael J. O’Connor Victor Moore: Aloysious T. McKeever Gale Storm: Trudy O’Connor Grant Mitchell: Farrow Edward Brophy: Felton Alan Hale Jr.: Whitey Dorothea Kent: Margie Edward Ryan Jr.: Hank Cathy Carter: Alice Dorothea Kent: Margie cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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n Christmas Eve, 1945, prayers are heard in heaven for George Bailey of Bedford Falls, New York. To help George, Clarence Oddbody, an angel who has not yet earned his wings, is being sent to earth to keep the despairing George from killing himself on this crucial night. To prepare him for his task, Clarence is shown George’s life: As a child, George stops his younger brother Harry from drowning in an icy pond, then catches a bad cold and loses his hearing in one ear. Weeks later, George goes back to work at his after school job in Mr. Gower’s drugstore and prevents Gower, who has gotten drunk after learning that his son has died of influenza, from accidentally dispensing arsenic-filled capsules to a sick child. George promises the remorseful Gower never to tell anyone about the incident and he never does. In 1928, as a grown young man, George, who has always dreamed of travel to exotic places, is about to leave on a world tour with money he has saved since high school. That night, at his younger brother Harry’s high school graduation party, he becomes attracted to Mary Hatch, a girl who has secretly loved him since childhood. After a Charleston contest that results in an unscheduled splash into the school’s swimming pool, they discuss their different ideas for the future until George’s Uncle Billy comes for him with the news that his father has had a stroke. After Mr. Bailey’s death, George’s trip is canceled, but he still plans to leave for college until he learns that the board of directors of his father’s financially tenuous building and loan society will not keep it open unless George manages it. Fearing that Mr. Potter, the town’s richest and meanest man, will then have financial control of the town, George agrees to stay. Four years later, when Harry returns from college, financed by his brother, George again looks forward to leaving the stifling atmosphere of Bedford Falls and letting Harry run the business. However, when he learns that Harry has just married Ruth Dakin, whose father has offered Harry a good job, he again sacrifices his future to ensure Harry’s. That night, George wanders over to Mary’s house.

Though he is adamant that he never intends to marry, he realizes that he loves her. Soon they are married, but as they leave for their honeymoon, a run on the bank convinces George to check on the building and loan. Because the bank has called in their loan, they have no money, only the honeymoon cash that Mary offers. Through George’s persuasive words, most of the anxious customers settle for a minimum of cash, and they end the day with two dollars left. That night, Ernie the cab driver and Bert the cop show George his new “home,” an abandoned mansion that Mary had wished for the night of the graduation dance. As the years pass, George continues to help the people of Bedford Falls avoid Potter’s financial stranglehold as Mary rears their four children. On the day before Christmas, after the end of World War II, the 4-F George elatedly shows his friends news articles about Harry, who

became a Medal-of-Honor-winning flier, while Uncle Billy makes an $8,000 deposit at the bank. Distracted by an exchange with Potter, Billy accidentally puts his deposit envelope inside Potter’s newspaper, and Potter does not give it back when he finds it. Later, after Billy reveals the loss to George, they vainly search, while a bank examiner waits. Now on the verge of hysteria over the possibility of bankruptcy and a prison term for embezzlement, George goes home, angry and sullen. He yells at everyone except their youngest child Zuzu, who has caught a cold on the way home from school. He screams at Zuzu’s teacher on the telephone, then leaves after a confrontation with Mary. He desperately goes to Potter to borrow the money against the building and loan, or even his life insurance, but Potter dismisses him, taunting him that he is worth more dead than alive. At a tavern run by his friend, Mr. Martini, George is socked by Mr. Welch, the teacher’s husband. Now on the verge of suicide, George is about to jump off a bridge when Clarence comes to earth and intervenes by jumping in himself. George saves him, and as they dry out in the tollhouse, Clarence tells George that he is his guardian angel. George is unbelieving, but when he says he wishes that he had never been born, Clarence grants his wish. Revisiting Martini’s and other places in town, George is not recognized by anyone and discovers that everything has changed. Harry drowned and Gower went to jail for poisoning the sick child. The town was renamed Pottersville and is full of vice and poverty. When George finally makes Clarence show him Mary, he discovers that she is a lonely, unmarried librarian. Finally, unable to face what might have been, George begs to live again and discovers that his wish is granted when Bert finds him back at the bridge. At home, an elated George is soon greeted by Mary, who has brought their friends and relatives, all of whom have contributed money to help him out. Harry arrives and offers a toast to his “big brother George, the richest man in town.” As a bell on the Christmas tree rings, Zuzu says that every time a bell rings an angel receives his wings, and George knows that this time it was Clarence.● Cast & Crew Frank Capra: Director James Stewart: George Bailey Donna Reed: Mary Hatch [Bailey] Lionel Barrymore: Mr. Potter Thomas Mitchell: Uncle Billy Henry Travers: Clarence [Oddbody] Beulah Bondi: Mrs. Bailey Frank Faylen: Ernie Ward Bond: Bert Gloria GrahameViolet [Bick] H. B. Warner: Mr. Gower Todd Karns: Harry Bailey Samuel S. Hinds: Pa Bailey cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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uring the Christmas season, Dudley, an angel in the guise of a mortal, strolls around a small town and notices Julia Brougham, the bishop’s wife, gazing wistfully through a store window. Dudley follows Julia to a Christmas tree lot, where she meets her old friend, Professor Wutheridge, and expresses her sadness that her husband Henry is too busy worrying about fund raising for a new cathedral to enjoy the season with his parishioners.

The professor offers Julia a contribution of an ancient Roman coin from his collection. After Julia leaves for home, Dudley purposely bumps into the professor and makes inquiries about the Broughams. When Julia arrives home, she finds Henry in a tense meeting with several important parishioners, including Mrs. Agnes Hamilton, a wealthy widow, who insists that her large contribution toward the cathedral’s construction guarantee a proper memorial to her dead husband. Henry is upset by Julia’s tardiness and the meeting breaks up after Mrs. Hamilton threatens to withdraw her support unless satisfied. Julia mentions seeing the professor and gives Henry the ancient coin, which he angrily dismisses as worthless. Trying to make amends for his curtness, Henry asks Julia to have lunch with him the

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following day as they used to do, and she delightedly agrees. After retiring to his study, however, Henry is beset by messages and demands on his time. Dismissing his assistant, Mildred Cassaway, Henry prays for guidance, and a few moments later, Dudley mysteriously arrives and informs Henry that he is an angel sent in answer to his prayer. Henry is immediately skeptical, and when Julia comes in a few moments later, Dudley introduces himself as Henry’s assistant, which pleases her and upsets Henry. The next morning Henry is dismayed to see that Dudley has returned and ingratiated himself with Mildred Cassaway, the maid, Matilda, and even the family dog, Queenie. Julia is disappointed that Henry has broken their luncheon date and sadly takes their young daughter Debby to the park. After Henry departs, Dudley follows Julia and Debby to the park and helps the little girl build her confidence during a snowball fight. Dudley offers to take Julia to lunch just as Matilda inexplicably shows up to relieve her of Debby. Dudley takes Julia to Michel’s, which she reveals is her favorite restaurant and is where Henry proposed to her. When they are spotted by several parish ladies, Dudley wards off gossip by inviting them to join him and Julia. Walking home later, Julia and

Dudley run into the professor, who is suspicious of Dudley, yet invites them to his tiny apartment, where he admits that due to a lack of inspiration he has not worked for some time on his manuscript about ancient Rome. Dudley, who has retrieved the ancient coin from the Brougahms’, returns it to the professor and piques his interest by informing him of the rare and valuable coin’s unique history. Meanwhile, Henry has rescheduled his appointments so that he can make his lunch date with Julia and is annoyed to discover that she has gone out with Dudley. The next day, Dudley tells Debby the story of David, who is helped by an angel, which only vexes Henry further. Later, Henry accepts an appointment to meet with Mrs. Hamilton, knowing it will conflict with his promised appearance at choir practice at his old parish. Despite Julia’s pleas, Henry insists on seeing Mrs. Hamilton, and Dudley accompanies Julia to the rehearsal. At Mrs. Hamilton’s, Henry agrees to all her demands in exchange for her complete support of the cathedral but, while hastening to leave to meet Julia, finds himself stuck to a recently varnished chair. At the church, meanwhile, Rev. Miller is embarrassed by the poor turnout, but Dudley reassures him and asks the couple of boys present to begin

singing. Gradually all the boys arrive and give an inspiring performance under Dudley’s direction. As the stillstuck Henry fumes at Mrs. Hamilton’s, Dudley and Julia catch a cab into town where Dudley purchases a hat for Julia he knows she admires. Then Dudley asks the cab driver, Sylvester, to stop at a park where a crowd is ice skating and, with Dudley’s guidance, both Julia and Sylvester skate enthusiastically. Dudley and Julia return home, where Henry angrily demands that Dudley leave for good. Henry’s outburst depresses Julia, and the next day, Christmas Eve, the household wonders if Dudley will ever return. After Henry and Julia leave to make calls, Dudley arrives and rewrites Henry’s Christmas sermon, dictating while the typewriter takes down the new speech. Dudley then transforms the Christmas tree over which Matilda has been laboring and departs to see Mrs. Hamilton. While waiting in the wealthy woman’s drawing room, Dudley discovers a hidden piece of sheet music inscribed to Mrs. Hamilton from a man who is not her husband. Dudley plays the tune on Mrs. Hamilton’s harp, and she confesses that in her youth she was in love with the tune’s composer, but feared poverty and rejected him. In an effort to make up for not loving her wealthy husband, she cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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has steadfastly tried to maintain his legacy. Later, when Henry and Julia arrive, Mrs. Hamilton thanks Henry for sending Dudley to her and tells them that he has inspired her to give her money to the needy rather than build the cathedral. Utterly dismayed, Henry tells Julia he will meet her at home and, wandering into town, stops by the professor’s, where he confides that Dudley is an angel who has upset everything. He apologizes for rejecting the professor’s coin, which the old scholar returns to him, declaring that it has inspired him and may help Henry too. When Henry sadly reveals he believes he has lost Julia to Dudley, the professor reminds him that he is human and Dudley is not and encourages him to fight for Julia. At the Broughams’ home, while Dudley and Julia stand admiring the Christmas tree, Dudley tells her it is time for him to leave, but asks her to have him stay. Disturbed by his implication, Julia tells him that he must go and hastens upstairs just as Henry arrives to challenge Dudley. Dudley is pleased that Henry has finally acknowledged that Julia is the most important thing in his life and reminds the bishop that he never prayed for a cathedral, but for guidance. He wistfully adds that it is bad when an angel

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envies a mortal and informs Henry that after he goes, no one will have any memory of his existence. Henry then finds himself alone in his study praying before the painting of the cathedral, and abruptly races upstairs looking for Julia, who is putting Debby to bed. They embrace and then depart for St. Timothy’s where Henry delivers Dudley’s Christmas sermon. Dudley listens from the street, and satisfied, departs.● Cast & Crew Henry Koster: Director Cary Grant: Dudley Loretta Young: Julia Brougham David Niven: Henry Brougham Monty Woolley: Professor Wutheridge James Gleason: Sylvester Gladys Cooper: Mrs. [Agnes] Hamilton Elsa Lanchester: Matilda Sara Haden: Mildred Cassaway Karolyn Grimes: Debby Brougham Tito Vuolo: Maggenti Regis Toomey: Mr. Miller Sara Edwards: Mrs. Duffy

By The Dove Foundation Dove “Family-Approved” Suitable for any age Theatrical Release: 11/19/2010 Video Release: 10/10/2013 Reviewer: Donna Rolfe Source: Network Writer: Beth Roose Producer: Beth Roose Director: Owen Smith, Dave Moody, Beth Roose Genre: Animated Runtime: 24 min.

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head to the North Pole in time for Christmas.

his is a family musical animated story that is truly enchanting for both children and adults.

Families will love the adorable Elf Sparkle as she and Santa go for a test ride on the sleigh but end up in the middle of a rain storm. They must put the sleigh down at Horseshoe Pond in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It is there they meet Christmas the Horse. With a little help form a dash of elf dust, Christmas is able to pull the sleigh out of the mud and they all

Dove Worldview: Here is a cute animated story for the Christmas season that your children will love year after year. With wonderful music to charm the audience, Sparkle and Santa take them on a toe tapping adventure. This short holiday story will entertain the entire family and you will want to add it to your collection of Christmas DVDs. It is happily awarded the Dove “Family-Approved” Seal.●

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lthough Elizabeth Lane, author of the popular magazine column “Diary of a Housewife,” lives alone in a New York apartment and cannot cook, she writes about a bucolic life on a Connecticut farm with her husband and child and publishes as her own recipes she obtains from her chef friend, Felix Bassenak. During his recovery, Nurse Mary Lee reads Elizabeth’s column to injured war hero Jefferson Jones and, hoping to interest Jeff in marriage, writes to Jonathan Yardley, the magazine’s publisher, asking him to arrange for Jeff to spend Christmas on Elizabeth’s farm. Yardley, who is a stickler for the truth, has no idea that Elizabeth has been inventing the details in her column and insists that she invite Jeff for the holidays.

To make matters worse, Yardley invites himself to join them.

Convinced that she is about to lose her job, Elizabeth accepts the marriage proposal of her friend, architect John Sloan, even though she does not love him. When Elizabeth’s editor, Dudley Beecham, learns that John owns a Connecticut farm, however, he suggests that they use it to recreate the situation she has devised for the column. John arranges for the local judge to marry them at the farm, and Felix agrees to do the cooking. The practical John even arranges for a stand-in baby--one that his maid Norah cares for while its mother is at work in a defense plant. The planned marriage ceremony is interrupted when Jeff arrives earlier than scheduled. Elizabeth is immediately attracted to him and begins to regret her promise to marry John. Yardley’s arrival completes the party. Elizabeth successfully carries out her deception despite a slight setback when she learns that the baby is a girl, not a boy as she first assumed. Felix, pretending to be Elizabeth’s uncle, cooks a wonderful meal, and while Elizabeth decorates the Christmas tree, Jeff sings Christmas carols. After everyone has gone to bed, the judge returns, but once again the wedding is canceled when Yardley and Jeff sneak downstairs for a snack. When Jeff helps Elizabeth put the cow in the barn, she discovers that he is also attracted to her. On Christmas morning, Elizabeth confides in Felix, who eagerly comes to her aid. When the judge returns, Felix lies that the baby has swallowed a watch, and once again the wedding is postponed. That evening, at a community dance, Jeff and Elizabeth have eyes only for each other. They take a walk outside and sit in a sleigh to continue their conversation. Feeling their weight, the horse wanders off, and the couple is arrested for stealing the sleigh. Meanwhile, Yardley has returned to the farm and sees the baby’s mother carrying her out. He believes that the baby has been kidnapped and notifies the police. In the morning, Elizabeth and Jeff return home, and Elizabeth tells the incredulous Yardley the truth. Furious at the deception, Yardley fires Elizabeth. Then Elizabeth and John quarrel and break up. The way seems clear for Elizabeth to marry Jeff, but her hopes are dashed when Mary arrives and announces that she is Jeff’s fiancée. Soon, however, Felix learns that Mary has married another man and then convinces Yardley to rehire Elizabeth. Although Yardley offers Elizabeth a raise and offers John a contract as well, Elizabeth refuses to return. Then Jeff proposes, even though Felix warns him that Elizabeth cannot cook.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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n Christmas Eve in New York, the performing trio of singer Jim Hardy, dancer Ted Hanover, and singer and dancer Lila Dixon, split up when Lila chooses to marry Ted and continue performing rather than marry fiancé Jim, who plans to quit performing to run a farm. After a year of struggling with farm work in Connecticut, and several weeks of recuperation in a sanitarium, Jim decides on a less exhausting occupation and opens Holiday Inn, a country-style inn which features live entertainment and is only open on holidays. As a way of stopping Linda Mason, an ambitious performer who works selling flowers, from pestering him, Ted’s agent, Danny Reed, sends Linda to Connecticut to audition for Jim. The two are attracted to each other and Jim offers her a job. On New Year’s Eve, after Lila jilts Ted so that she can marry a Texas millionaire, Ted travels to Holiday Inn to drown his sorrows. He arrives drunk, but immediately engages in a dance with Linda. The patrons all think that she is Ted’s new dance partner and applaud as Ted collapses in a drunken stupor. In the morning, Ted cannot remember much about Linda but becomes determined to find her and make her his new dance partner.

Jim does everything he can to thwart Ted’s plans because he has fallen in love with Linda. Although Linda performs on Lincoln’s birthday at the inn, Ted does not recognize her because Jim makes her wear blackface make-up for her number. Ted does find her on Valentine’s Day, however, and insists that they perform together for Washington’s birthday.

Ted mercilessly pursues Linda to draw her away from Jim, and stays on at the inn through the next few holidays. When Jim overhears that Ted has brought two Hollywood film producers to see the Fourth of July show, he secretly asks his driver, Gus, who is picking Linda up at the train sta-

tion, to make sure that she does not arrive in time for the show, and then invites Lila, who did not marry after all, to perform. Gus drives the car into a pond, and when Linda hitches a ride on the road, she is picked up

by Lila. Unaware of Linda’s identity, Lila tells Linda her story, and on the pretense of taking a shortcut, Linda makes sure Lila drives into the pond as well. Both women show up too late for the performance, but the producers offer to buy the idea of Holiday Inn to use as the basis of a musical.

Having earned the enmity of all his friends because of his deception, Jim reluctantly agrees to the idea, but insists on remaining in Connecticut to write the music while Ted and Linda go to Hollywood. On Thanksgiving Day, when a lonely and dispirited Jim reads that Ted and Linda are engaged, his concerned housekeeper, Mamie, convinces him not to give up and to pursue Linda honestly. Jim arrives in Hollywood on Christmas Eve, just before Ted and Linda’s wedding. Despite Ted and Danny’s efforts, he manages to sneak onto a soundstage which has been set up like his Holiday Inn, and as Linda performs “White Christmas,” the first song they ever sang together, Jim sings along and the two are happily reunited. Finally, on New Year’s Eve, the two couples, Jim and Linda and Ted and Lila, perform together at Holiday Inn.● Cast & Crew Mark Sandrich: Director Bing Crosby: Jim Hardy Fred Astaire: : Ted Hanover Marjorie ReynoldsLinda Mason Virginia Dale: Lila Dixon Walter Abel: Danny Reed Louise Beavers: Mamie Irving Bacon: Gus Marek Windheim: Francois James Bell: Dunbar John Gallaudet: Parker Shelby Bacon: Vanderbilt Joan Arnold: Daphne cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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History of the Historic Hotel Bethlehem

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he city of Bethlehem was named on Christmas Eve in 1741 – on the very site that now hosts Historic Hotel Bethlehem. This site has been greeting travelers for over 270 years! In 1823, the Moravian brethren who founded the city established the Golden Eagle Hotel. The Golden Eagle Hotel was the predecessor to the Historic Hotel Bethlehem. Later known simply as “The Eagle”, the Moravian brethren operated the hotel for almost three decades and in 1843 leased the hotel to Caleb Yohe who purchased the hotel in 1855. Yohe had a granddaughter born at the hotel in 1866 by the name of May Yohe.

As a little girl, she often sang and danced in the lobby for the hotel guests. In 1888, she had become one of America’s most noted theatrical stars. She later traveled to England and married Lord Hope, who presented her with the world-famous Hope Diamond.

With the arrival of the twentieth century, Bethlehem became home to one of America’s largest, most influential corporations of all time. In 1901, Charles M. Schwab, a disciple of Andrew Carnegie at U.S. Steel Corporation, acquired a majority interest in Bethlehem Iron Company, located across the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The facility traced its roots back to 1857 with the formation of the Saucona Iron Company.

In 1904, Schwab changed the company’s name to Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

In 1918, the local chamber of commerce – with full support and enthusiasm of Charles Schwab – proposed the construction of a new, state of the art, fireproof hotel to be built on the site of the Eagle Hotel, which by then had fallen into disrepair. The Bethlehem Hotel Corporation was incorporated with authority to issue, 2,500 shares of 6 percent preferred stock worth $500,000, as well as $500,000 worth of bonds. The Eagle hotel was purchased in 1919 from the George H. Myers estate for $75,000 and demolished within two months.

On March 3, 1921, excavation for the hotel began.

At 6:00pm on May 20, 1922, Hotel Bethlehem opened for business. The hotel enjoyed visitors such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart and Sir Winston Churchill in its early years. The hotel had much early success and in 1936, the Bethlehem Hotel Corporation signed a long term agreement with American Hotel Corporation, the nation’s largest and most successful hotel management firms. During this era 1936-1962, the hotel played host to guests such as President Dwight Eisenhower, John F Kennedy and Doris Day. In 1962, Bethlehem Steel officials, frustrated by the continuing demise of Hotel Bethlehem and recognizing its inability to fund the improvement necessary to main-

tain it as a showplace for the community, took matters into their own hands. They launched a campaign to acquire majority interest in the hotel by purchasing stock from the original shareholders. Once they amassed enough shares to control the board, the first decision was to terminate business relations with American Hotel Corporation after more than 25 years. During these years – 1962-1984, the hotel saw politicians and celebrities such as Billy Joel, Henry Kissinger and Phyllis Diller. It was in the hotel in 1982 that Billy Joel penned the lyrics to “Allentown” deciding that calling it “Bethlehem” might have religious connotations.

In 1984, Bethlehem Steel sold the business to Robert and Dee Decker. In 1996, they announced plans to convert the top 3 guest floors into Lifetime Investment Apartments. Unfortunately, there were not sufficient contracts to generate the financial support needed to begin the project. The hotel closed its doors in January 11998. Sadly, the Dickers declared the Hotel Bethlehem bankrupt. Four years later – Bethlehem Steel declared bankruptcy.

Two Lehigh University Alumni from the Class of 67’, Bruce Haines and Bill Trotter, began working on a plant to build a partnership of other Lehigh alums and friends to save the hotel. They gathered a total of nine investors, secured funding, purchased the hotel out of bankruptcy, renovated the hotel and opened in the fall of 1999. The hotel that had once been an anchor on Main Street in Bethlehem is again an anchor and fosters a sense of community partnership within the historic district.

Historic Hotel Bethlehem has been restored to its 1922 grandeur, with floor to ceiling palladium windows, painted murals and beautiful balconies. Renovators discovered the original Moravian tile floor, intact, under the carpeting of the hotel’s restaurant, 1741 on the Terrace. These tiles grace our Capital in Harrisburg and the famous casino in Monaco.

The hotel invites guests to walk through their “Hall of History” in the lower lobby and enjoy photographs and artifacts of its storied history. Though steeped in history, guests can be rest assured that all the modern amenities that today’s discerning traveler require are at their fingertips. Meetings, special events and weddings can be found throughout the 9 event spaces offering over 14,000 square feet of flexible and beautiful ballrooms and event rooms. Most recently, the hotel opened The Shoppe at Hotel Bethlehem on the south corner of the hotel. Guests can enjoy Penn State Creamery Ice Cream while shopping for the perfect gift.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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Holiday Happenings at Historic Bethlehem

‘Tis the Season in the Christmas City Presented by Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites

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Contact: LoriAnn Wukitsch, Managing Director, 610-882-0450 ext. 16 E-mail: lwukitsch@historicbethlehem.org

ETHLEHEM, PA- On December 24, 1741, our city was christened “Bethlehem” by the Moravian Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. In 1937, it was deemed “Christmas City, USA.” Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites’ tours, museums and programs are a great way to be immersed in the holiday spirit while taking in scenic Bethlehem, the newest National Historic landmark District in Pennsylvania. Experience the magic of the most wonderful time of the year and take a trip back in time with all the activities Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites has to offer this holiday season.

Christmas City Stroll Talk a candlelit walk through beautiful downtown Historic Bethlehem with our certified guide in period dress.

Discover the story of the city’s unique beginning in 1741, the tales of a candle-in-every-window, and the renowned Bethlehem Star. Historic highlights include Bethlehem’s exquisite Victorian and colonial architecture, including two National Historic Landmarks, the 1741 Gemeinhaus and the Bethlehem Waterworks. The tour route is part of the National Historic Landmark District of Historic Moravian Bethlehem.

Tickets for this tour are $12 for adults, $6 for children age 6-12 and free for children under the age of 6.

Tours will begin November 28 and 29 at 4pm and will resume December 3 to December 28, every Wednesday-Sunday at 4 p.m., excluding Christmas Day. Scenic Holiday Carriage Rides Let Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites give you the holiday experience of a lifetime with a stroll through Christmas City in a horse drawn carriage. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the holidays and the city’s beautiful 18th Century architecture with your loved one or family as you pass through almost 300 years of history and the newest National Historic Landmark District in Pennsylvania. Visitors will be inspired by Historic Bethlehem’s 18th Century architecture Beginning November 28, the carriage rides will be offered every Thursday through Sunday from 4-9:20pm, and will be approximately 15 minutes in length. The tickets cost $55 per carriage, each fitting a group of four.

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Rides will not be offered Christmas Day, December 25.

To purchase your carriage ride, call 1-800-360TOUR or stop in at the Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites Visitor Center at 505 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018.

Bethlehem by Night Bus Tour Visitors can sit back and experience the Christmas City on a trip back in time with our certified guide in period dress. Deemed “the best way to see Bethlehem”, this tour includes a visit to the famous star atop South Mountain, a look at early and current local holiday traditions, and access to historic highlights in north and south Bethlehem.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $6 for children age 3-12. Children under 3 are free while sitting on an adult’s lap. Take this tour every Thursday through Saturday at 5, 6 and 7pm or Sunday at 4, 5 and 6pm, November 28 through December 23. The tour will pick up again daily at 5, 6 and 7pm from December 26 to December 30.

Holiday Museum Tours Tour Historic Bethlehem’s sites in the heart of the downtown, and learn about the city’s founders, early trades, and decorative arts influence.

Stop in to the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, housed in the 1741 Gemeinhaus, which is Bethlehem’s oldest standing building and a National Historic Landmark. Hear stories of how Bethlehem Moravians lived, worked and worshipped while keeping your eye out for holiday decor, including pyramids of greens with candles and fruit- considered one of the country’s oldest holiday decorations. This is the perfect place to get sugar cookies, Moravian stars, and other local favorites.

Then, head up to the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts and experience old favorites and beautiful new traditions at Bethlehem’s premiere decorative arts museum. Gaze in wonder at the array of Christmas trees dressed in the spirit of Historic Bethlehem’s museums, sites, and stories while passing through rooms and halls decked in antique, unique decorations.

Finally, see sparks fly at one of the most popular destinations in Christmas City, the 1750 Smithy. There

will be live demonstrations by trained blacksmiths as well as an explanation of the important early Bethlehem trade. The blacksmiths provide warmth and humor for the whole family – and it’s free of charge!

Exhibitions Be sure to also see the Trees of Christmas Past, a Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites cross-site holiday exhibition. Each site will feature trees decorated by The Bethlehem Garden Club, catering to several different time periods. Guests are encouraged to vote for their favorite trees in this year’s contest. Winners from the top favorite tree will win a free membership from Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites and the Smithsonian Institution.

While viewing the tree displays in awe, make sure to see our new Putzes at the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, the Single Sister’s House and Burnside Plantation. A Putz is a traditional Moravian decoration used around Christmas time. The word comes from the German term, which means “to decorate” or “to embellish.”

These miniature replicas depict various settings of the Nativity story through the use of ornately produced figurines, animals and building structures to recreate the holiest of scenes.

After enjoying these exhibits, experience the sights and sounds of Christmas in downtown historic Bethlehem. Stop by the Single Sister’s House to take pleasure in the wonderful voices of our caroling Docents, accompanied by the soothing sounds of a recorder. Also be on the lookout for our Docents caroling in the streets throughout the holiday season. Stop, listen, and even sing along to your favorite holiday tunes.

Groman’s Moravian Sugar Cookies Since 1925, the Groman family has been providing Bethlehem with the very best Moravian sugar cookies and cakes in town. Though the family bakery closed some years ago, Richard Groman carries on his family’s legacy by baking traditional Moravian sugar cookies using his family’s original recipe for the holiday season.

These delicious holiday treats are back by popular demand.

Using all natural ingredients since the bakery first opened, the Groman family has always been known for their unique flavor that you just can’t find anywhere else.

Proceeds from the cookies will help benefit Historic Bethlehem Museum & Sites, which preserves three centuries of Bethlehem’s rich history.

Stop in at the Visitor Center or the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts starting the week before Thanksgiving and pick up some boxes of star shaped sugar cookies for only $12.50 per box. Visitors can also purchase their cookies online at HistoricBethlehem.org.

Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites is a notfor-profit institution that brings to life three centuries of American history. Historic Bethlehem tells the story of a small town of great influence, home to some of our nation’s earliest settlers, to America’s first municipal water pumping system, and to one of the world’s greatest industrial companies. Historic Bethlehem is located in eastern Pennsylvania, only a 1.5 hour drive from Philadelphia to the North and 2 hours west of New York City. Historic Bethlehem is an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and a National Historic Landmark District.●

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FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHER: Jim O’ Brien

otel H ethlehem B Jim O’Brien is a freelance photographer based in Chadds Ford, PA. While attending Villanova University during the 1970’s, his passion in photography took root. He spent countless hours in the darkroom processing film and printing images. He studied and experimented with Ansel Adam’s famed “Zone System”.

After graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he married his wife of 39 years. He left photography behind while raising a family and pursuing his engineering career.

After traveling to Italy in 2011, his passion for photography awoke and he purchased his first digital SLR camera. His true passions are high fashion/ glamour photography and street photography.

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The Ledford Mill Inn he historic Ledford Mill below the headwaters of Shipman’s creek is a rare jewel. This 1884 gristmill is listed on the National Register of the Historic Places and on the Tennessee Heritage Trail. Restored in 1996, it is now a three story country inn with three exclusive accommodations, owned and run by John and Mildred Spear.

Two spectacular waterfalls frame the gardens. An inviting stone path winds along the creek, over the arched footbridge to the falls.

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the hey-days of mill activity. Come spring, there will be flowers and herbs in the barn yard.

The Inn is only three miles from Tullahoma.

The diverse cities of Nashville, Chattanooga and Huntsville are less than an hour away. For those folks who are city-shy, the Inn recommends touring their neighborly Tennessee Backroads, Antiques, crafts, distillery tours, the Walking Horse Celebration.. it is all nearby the Inn. The Inn has maps and books to help you find what you’re looking for. Antiques, one of a kind treasures, natural products, and items with a sense of style are for sale in their living room/lobby.● http://www.bbonline.com/tn/ledfordmill/

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A Gift from The Heart

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by: Bonnie, A Heartprint Original

ecember is the busiest time of the year. Everyone’s busy preparing for the holidays and continuing family traditions. Has it ever crossed your mind, as to how many really stop and think what Christmas is all about? Are we teaching our children the true meaning of Christmas or how many gifts need to be bought? If we have taught our children the true meaning of Christmas, what we’ve instilled in them will be carried into generations to come. I like to see families create traditions all year long. After all, the original gift to all of us here on earth, was given from His heart. For through our hearts, one single gift of kindness, can touch an endless amount of hearts forever.

This is a story about a child that saw the importance of giving and never thought about giving up. Some may think a child isn’t old enough to carry enough wisdom to teach us all a lesson in living. But I’ve learned a heart grows from life’s many challenges and sometimes a child’s challenges can be far greater than some adults. We met a little girl seven years ago, during one of my daughter’s occasional hospital stays. Her name was Beth and she was my daughter’s room mate for a week.

Beth was a very happy girl despite her medical problems she was facing. Her long blonde curls always seemed to bounce with her smile. The girls got to know each other well and had become good friends. On the pediatric floor of the hospital, we saw many seriously ill children. It was so sad, even though my daughter had an incurable kidney disease and not a very good chance of living to see old age herself. We always saw many children with all kinds of cancer, and sadly enough Beth was one of those children. She was doing two weeks of chemo and radiation. I was amazed at her will and determination to never give up despite how very sick her treatments made her. She was always concerned about my daughter and the other children with cancer she grew to know over her many hospital stays.

My daughter’s IV treatments were done after a week and I was happy to finally bring her home.

We were awaiting the final discharge orders when Beth appeared from the other side of the curtain that separated their beds. She said, “I want you to have this. I know you need a new kidney, so keep

this angel pin with you till you get better. She will watch over you so you smile all over. My friend, John gave this to me to watch over me, but it’s time for this angel to watch over you. When you get your new kidney and smile, you can give this angel to someone that needs her too. I’m done reading my book so here’s my bookmark that has a poem on it called, Don’t Quit!, I know it by heart anyhow.” My daughter thanked her and the girls exchanged hugs and big smiles. I knew, we may never see Beth again, but we never forgot the gift she gave from her heart that day. During that year, we found out Beth has passed away. It was so sad to know such a beautiful little girl was no longer bouncing smiles to everyone she would meet. Her sincere kindness will stay with us forever.

We kept that angel for six more years. My daughter had gone beyond what medical journals had studied and expected from her disease. Was it the angel watching over her or pure luck? My daughter ended up on kidney dialysis for over a year, and one month after almost loosing her, a kidney became available and she received a transplant. My heart tells me, an angel upstairs was watching with a loving smile. My daughter had kept that angel pin and now she felt it was time to give it to someone who needed watched over till they could smile again. She gave it to an elderly man trying to overcome the damage from heart problems and undergoing extensive therapy. His family has informed us, that when he returns home he wants to give the angel to someone he knows suffering from a brain tumor.

How many families and hearts this angel has touched no one knows for sure.

But all it took was one single gift of kindness, that has and will touch an endless amount of hearts forever.

So this Christmas season, look around and see that gift that can’t be bought. Create a tradition with your children or maybe someone you love.

Make someone’s day and do the unexpected, let a friend know you care, or greet a stranger with a warm smile. Give the gift that keeps on giving.

It’s open twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, it’s a gift from your heart.

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hristmas Eve is the time when presents are exchanged. The gifts are sometimes brought by Santa Claus(called ‘Julenissen’ in Norway). Present are also brought by the small gnomes called ‘Nisse’. There are also hobgoblins (Nisse) decorations. Children pick up the presents from under the Christmas Tree and read the cards on the presents out loud.

As in Finland, a sheaf of wheat is often left out for the birds to eat over Christmas. Also a type of rice porridge is sometimes left for the ‘Nisse’ who is believed to guard the farm animals.

In some parts of Norway, children like to go carol singing and most children do! Often children will dress up as characters from the Christmas Story, such as the Shepherds and Wise Men, and go singing from house to house in their local neighborhood. Sometimes they carry with paper stars on them.

Another tradition in parts of Norway is that families light a candle every night from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day. Christmas wasn’t celebrated in Norway until about 1000 or 1100, when Christianity first came to the area. Before this people celebrated jul or jòl in the middle of winter. It was a celebration of the harvest gone and a way of looking forward to the spring. Lots of beer (juleol) was brewed and drunk in honor of the old pagan Scandinavian gods.

Maybe the most famous custom about Christmas in Norway is the big Christmas Tree that Norway gives to the UK every year. The tree is given as a present to say ‘thank you’ for the help that the people of the UK gave to Norway during World War II. The tree stands in Trafalgar Square in the middle of London and often hundreds of people come to watch when the lights are turned on.

A traditional Norwegian Christmas Tree decoration are small paper baskets called ‘Julekurver’ which made in the shape of a heart. It’s said that the writer Hans Christian Andersen might have invented them in the 1860s!

In Norwegian Happy/Merry Christmas is ‘God Jul’ or ‘Glædelig Jul’. .

Many different types of cakes and biscuits are eaten over the Christmas period in Norway. One of the most popular is a special bread called ‘Julekake’ that has raisins, candied peel and cardamom in it. . Rice Porridge is eaten on Christmas Eve either as a meal at lunchtime (served with butter, sugar and cinnamon) or as a dessert to the main evening email (with whipped cream mixed in!). If you find an almond in your portion you’re traditionally given a pink or white marzipan pig.

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The Doll and a White Rose by: V.A.Bailey, Source Unknown

hurried into the local department store to grab some last minute Christmas gifts. I looked at all the people and grumbled to myself. I would be in here forever and I just had so much to do. Christmas was beginning to become such a drag. I wished that I could just sleep through Christmas. But I hurried the best I could through all the people to the toy department. Once again I kind of mumbled to myself at the prices of all these toys. And wondered if the grandkids would even play with them.

I found myself in the doll aisle. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little boy about 5 holding a lovely doll.

He kept touching her hair and he held her so gently. I could not seem to help myself. I just kept looking over at the little boy and wondered who the doll was for. I watched him turn to a woman and he called his aunt by name and said, “Are you sure I don’t have enough money?” She replied a bit impatiently, “You know that you don’t have enough money for it. The aunt told the little boy not to go anywhere that she had to go get some other things and would be back in a few minutes. And then she left the aisle. The boy continued to hold the doll. After a bit I asked the boy who the doll was for.

He said, “it is the doll my sister wanted so badly for Christmas. She just knew that Santa would bring it.”

I told him that maybe Santa was going to bring it.

He said “No, Santa can’t go where my sister is” “I have to give the doll to my Momma to take to her” I asked him where his sister was. He looked at me with the saddest eyes and said “She has gone to be with Jesus. My Daddy says that Momma is going to have to go be with her.”

My heart nearly stopped beating. Then the boy looked at me again and said, “I told my Daddy to tell Momma not to go yet. I told him to tell her to wait till I got back from the store” Then he asked me if I wanted to see his picture. I told him I would love to. He pulled out some pictures he had taken at the front of the store and said, “I want my Momma to take this with her so she don’t ever forget me. I love my Momma so much and I wish she did not

have to leave me. But Daddy says she will need to be with my sister.”

I saw that the little boy had lowered his head and had grown so very quiet. While he was not looking I reached into my purse and pulled out a hand full of bills.

I asked the little boy, “Shall we count that money one more time?”

He grew excited and said , “Yes, I just know it has to be enough” So I slipped my money in with his and we began to count it. And of course it was plenty for the doll. He softly said, “Thank you Jesus for giving me enough money.”

The boy continued, “I just asked Jesus to give me enough money to buy this doll so Momma can take it with her to give to my sister. And he heard my prayer.

I wanted to ask him for enough to buy my Momma a white rose, but I didn’t ask him, but he gave me enough to buy the doll and a rose for my Momma. She loves white roses so very very much” In a few minutes the aunt came back and I wheeled my cart away. I could not keep from thinking about the little boy as I finished my shopping in a totally different spirit than when I had started. And I kept remembering a story I had seen in the newspaper several days earlier about a drunk driver hitting a car and killing a little girl and the Mother was in serious condition.

The family was deciding on rather to remove the life support. Now surely this little boy did not belong with that story.

Two days later I read in the paper where the family had disconnected the life support and the young woman had died. I could not forget the little boy and just kept wondering if the two were somehow connected. Later that day, I could not help myself and I went out and bought some white roses and took them to the funeral home where the young woman was. And there she was holding a lovely white rose, the beautiful doll, and the picture of the little boy in the store.

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esitating, the first snow flakes fell. It was one day before Christmas. There was this small house in front of a big forest, which was breathing quietness. Just every now and then, two rabbits disturbed the peace and quietness. They seemed to be searching for something between the dead leaves. Inside, a man stared through the window, as if he was waiting for something.

Except for the man, there were two other people in the small room. They were his daughters in the age of fifteen and seventeen, who were both reading. The youngest one was called Mary and the oldest Leslie.

They were both of the dreaming type, this unlike their father who, being a lumberjack, could not see any good in dreaming.

Quite often, it bothered him that his daughters were reading. This was not in the first place because he could barely read himself but because books were expensive and he did not make a lot. Every once and a while Leslie spoke up by pointing out that they read used books but this did not mean much to the poorly educated lumberjack.

‘Dad, could we please go for an evening walk?’

Leslie asked. The lumberjack growled a bit and then nodded.

Meanwhile, it was snowing considerably and so the girls dressed accordingly. To make sure that they would not get lost, they took the familiar path, which ran along the wood. To go into the wood itself, was even now for an experienced trapper risky. As more snow fell, the evening became lighter.

Mary and Leslie continued in silence. They both had the same thought: their mother who had died a year ago because of terrible fever. So their father’s behaviour was understandable.

When the girls were already at quite a distance from their home, rather suddenly the wind increased. The sisters got a startle out of this because they knew very well what this could mean. They looked at each other but there was no need for words and they returned.

However, a return was out of the question because soon they lost their way. Leslie got overwhelmed by fear and started to cry. Mary tried to comfort her older sister. ‘Take it easy Leslie, we will just wait on this trunk’ she said and put her arm around her sister.

The wind increased to gale force and it seemed as if the snowflakes were trying to beat each other in size

and speed. Soon, the snow came to their knees. Leslie was sobbing silently and Mary was praying.

Suddenly, their surroundings were strongly lit. The girls covered their eyes quickly. ‘Don’t be afraid!’ a soft voice said and the sisters looked up at once because they had recognized their mother’s voice. Leslie could not speak at all but Mary felt that this happened for real.

‘O mother, you are returning!’ Mary cried. ‘Only temporarily, after you will have to go on your own on this earth,’ their mother said, emphasizing ‘this’.

The bright white light, which surrounded their mother’s appearance, became less bright and also got different shades of color. ‘Are there more planets like the earth?’ Leslie asked who had recovered from the unusual event. ‘Yes, dearest Leslie, many more but most important is that it is over there always Christmas?’ and their mother brushed away a tear. Now, Leslie could not control her emotions any more either and burst out crying.

Then a miracle occurred: her tears changed into beautiful pearls, which she could catch in her hands.

Mary looked up to her mother with a question mark on her face, whose appearance spread now a soft glow.

‘It is really you isn’t it??’ she asked almost begging.

‘Yes Mary, it’s really me. But what happens here is not done by me because only God can do that. This event has a special meaning. It’s an expression of God’s Love for His Creatures. With these pearls part of the hunger, poverty and misery can be solved. Every one of us, gets the chance to perform a very beautiful task; to spread Peace and Love all over the world.’

Tomorrow, it will be Christmas. Your tears will be normal tears again because everybody will have to contribute to the Great Plan him- or herself. Money will only be a tool. One has to act from the heart.

Their mother’s shape began to fade away but Mary and Leslie were not sad. They were very happy because they received the most beautiful Christmas message of their lives.

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arbara Stanwyck was a dazzling study in contrasts. At times sultry and sweet; vulnerable and tough; comedic and dramatic; joyous and tragic - she simply was one of the greatest and most unique actresses during Hollywood’s Golden Era. She could play whatever the part required, whether it was madcap glamour in comedies like “The Lady Eve” (1941), tough-minded feminism in weepies like “Stella Dallas” (1937), or poisonous vixens in noir classics like “Double Indemnity” (1944). A working-class girl from Brooklyn, she became one of the richest women in the United States due to wise investments. On a personal level, she was wildly popular among her peers, yet died a virtual recluse. Most astounding of all, she gave some of the most unforgettable performances in film history, yet never won an Academy Award for her work. Like many an aging glamour girl, she moved reluctantly into TV in the 1950s and 1960s when her movie career declined, but became an even bigger star than she had been before.

Barbara Stanwyck - an American original and the true essence of the word “dame” - like no other actress of her generation enjoyed a long, varied career in film and television while remaining beloved by her millions of fans.

Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, NY. She endured a rough-andtumble childhood befitting the fierce heroines she would later play on screen. When Stanwyck was two, her mother died after being pushed from a moving trolley by a drunk. Her father was more interested in drinking and womanizing than raising his children and abandoned his brood to work on the Panama Canal. He was never heard from again. Sadly, neighbors put Ruby and her brothers and sisters into foster homes. It was a grim existence, but even at a young age, Stanwyck did not indulge in self-pity. Between the ages of 11 and 13, she learned to dance while living with her older sister Millie, a showgirl. She bounced in-and-out of school while working at a variety of low-level jobs, but had caught the performing bug from those early dance lessons and just knew her destiny was to be a star. The problem was how to be a star while broke and struggling in Brooklyn.

The gutsy perseverance embodied by the characters she would one day play came into focus for real while Stanwyck auditioned for Broadway shows. She was short, skinny and not conventionally pretty, but she was also unstoppable. Her grit got her on the chorus line of a few Broadway shows, but her ambition pushed her to center stage. The great Broadway producer David Belasco took notice of her, changed her name to “Barbara Stanwyck,” and cast her in his play, “The Noose.”

The play was a smash hit and Stanwyck - just 20 years old - was now a stage star. She headlined another hit play, “Burlesk,” which attracted the attention of a film

producer. Not long after, she won the small part of a fan dancer in the silent movie “Broadway Nights” (1927), and while the role and the film were not memorable, the experience in front of a camera was. Stanwyck and her new husband, actor Frank Fay, left New York for Hollywood to try their luck in motion pictures.

Stanwyck’s movie career caught fire as soon as she stepped into the hot Los Angeles sunshine. She won leads in the “The Locked Door” (1929) and “Mexicali Rose” (1929) and never looked back. From the beginning of her film career, she established the Stanwyck template: bright, beautiful, and ballsy - all on her own terms. Her powerful presence in those early films thrust her into her first “A” picture, “Ladies of Leisure” (1930).

Directed by the up-and-coming Frank Capra and based on a play by her old friend David Belasco, Stanwyck shined as a “party girl” hired by a wealthy artist to be his model. The movie was a hit and Stanwyck established herself as someone to be reckoned with both on and off screen.

As the 1930s progressed and Americans struggled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, Stanwyck became a potent symbol of the underdog who could triumph over any circumstances. In movies like “Ten Cents a Dance” (1931), “The Miracle Woman” (1931), and “Shopworn” (1932), she played variations on the good girl from the wrong side of the tracks who must overcome social prejudice and economic adversity to realize her dreams of love and prosperity. It was an old formula but Stanwyck’s aggressive and witty approach breathed new life into it.

Stanwyck’s career raced forward with vehicles tailored to her inimitable mix of attitude and allure. She usually made three to four pictures a year and earned a reputation as one of the hardest working women in Hollywood. Her marriage to Fay crumbled as she became a rising star and he became an unemployed drunk.

Perhaps this additional emotional pain brought even more poignancy to the succession of parts she played.

“The Bitter Tea of General Yen” (1933) showcased the actress as a self-sacrificing missionary’s wife during the Chinese Civil War. “The Woman in Red” (1935) featured her as a poor but noble woman who rides show horses for wealthy snobs intent on ruining her marriage to a once-wealthy polo player. “Annie Oakley” (1935) saw Stanwyck playing the eponymous sharp shooter who finds love and fame as the star of Buffalo Bill’s “Wild West Show.” The movies were not always first rate, but nobody quibbled with Stanwyck’s performances.

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Carole Lombard. Although based on a novel, the film seemed crafted to play to Stanwyck’s strengths. In the title role of a working-class woman who marries and has a child with a well-born but destitute man, Stanwyck once again revisited her underdog persona. But the movie’s power sprung from the self-sacrifice that Stella makes for her beloved daughter after the marriage breaks up.

Choosing to give up her child so that she can lead a better life among the wealthy and privileged, Stanwyck’s powerful performance earned her an Academy Award nomination - no doubt helped by the classic scene of her standing outside her daughter’s window, crying as she watches her join her new family.

For the first of several times, Stanwyck lost out on the Oscar but kept winning great parts. A tireless worker, she churned out movies at a steady pace. “The Mad Miss Manton” (1938) allowed her to switch gears and play a wacky debutante rather than her usual plucky pauper. It also teamed her with Henry Fonda, who would soon costar with Stanwyck in the classic screwball comedy “The Lady Eve.” “Golden Boy” (1939) featured Stanwyck playing a cunning boxing promoter’s wife who supports the career of a young fighter, played by newcomer William Holden. In reality, Stanwyck grew especially close to the young actor, helping to promote his career. She fought hard on Holden’s behalf when the studio wanted to replace him, and the movie’s subsequent success turned Holden into a star. It also earned him the nickname “Golden Boy,” which Stanwyck would refer to him thereafter, until his untimely death in 1981. For his part, Holden was so grateful to the actress for fighting for him that he reportedly sent her flowers every year on the anniversary of the first day of filming.

Stanwyck slowed down her busy career long enough to marry the impossibly handsome actor Robert Taylor in 1939. Cynics whispered that it was an arranged marriage to quell rumors that both of them were gay.

She treated these rumors with her characteristic fortitude, plowing headfirst into some of the most creatively brilliant work of her life. The year 1941 may have been a bad year for America as the country staggered into World War II, but it was a great year for Stanwyck. She starred in four movies - three of which became instant classics, including “The Lady Eve,” “Meet John Doe” (1941), and “Ball of Fire” (1941).

In “The Lady Eve” Stanwyck played a con artist who seduces the wealthy but unsophisticated Henry Fonda. After a misunderstanding causes them to split, she impersonates a wealthy English aristocrat to get back at him. The comedy’s absurd premise remains grounded in reality, thanks to Stanwyck, who demands the audience’s sympathy despite her scheming. The tiny, quirky-looking, and aggressive Stanwyck was more than

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a match for the tall, pretty and passive Fonda, and despite not earning an Academy Award nomination, Stanwyck’s work in “The Lady Eve” ranks as perhaps her greatest comedic performance of them all.

“Meet John Doe” paired Stanwyck with yet another ridiculously tall, good looking leading man in Gary Cooper. They could not have been more different. Cooper was 6’3,” came from Montana, and spoke - when he spoke at all - in the quiet, flat tones of the upper Plains.

Stanwyck was 5’3,” came from Brooklyn, and never lost the clipped cadences of her native New York. Director Frank Capra took full advantage of his stars’ contrasts by letting their natural personalities and differences play out on screen. Stanwyck, in the role of a reporter who must scramble to save her reputation after printing a fake letter by an imagined “John Doe,” again won audience sympathy through the engaging forces of her personality and intelligence.

“Ball of Fire” featured Stanwyck and Cooper again, but this time in a lighter comedy than the socially pointed “Meet John Doe.” Stanwyck was in her familiar element, playing another girl from the wrong side of the tracks; this time, a wisecracking nightclub singer on the lam from the mob. Cooper did a variation on the Henry Fonda role in “The Lady Eve,” lending his charm to the role of a naïve professor researching American slang. Sparks fly between Stanwyck and Cooper, with each teaching the other a thing or two about their disparate worlds before falling in love. Under Howard Hawks’ crisp direction, the screwball premise crackled with pitch perfect comedy and romance, leaving Stanwyck with yet another hit on her hands. She also earned her second Academy Award nomination for her work in the film.

To this point, Stanwyck had proved she could play comedy, drama - even melodrama. But with “Double Indemnity” (1944), she upped the ante, proving in a platinum wig and seductive satin heels that she could play Fred MacMurray - play him for a sap, that is. One of the greatest film noir thrillers of all time, “Double Indemnity” was directed and adapted by Billy Wilder with Raymond Chandler from the James M. Cain novel. A wicked waltz danced by a scheming femme fatale and crooked insurance salesman, Stanwyck seduces MacMurray before convincing him to kill her husband to collect on his life insurance. Multiple double-crosses follow, as the couple’s plan begins to unravel. Stanwyck’s performance - packed with treachery, seduction and venom - earned her a third Academy Award nomination. And yet again, she was overlooked, losing out to Ingrid Bergman for “Gaslight” (1944).

“Double Indemnity” represented the high-water mark of Stanwyck’s cinema career. She continued act-

ing in movies for another dozen years but none of the movies approached the searing brilliance of her earlier films. “Sorry, Wrong Number” (1948) was a fine thriller and garnered Stanwyck her final Academy Award nomination, but it did not leave an indelible mark on film culture as “Double Indemnity” did. As she aged and the movie roles became less interesting, Stanwyck turned her inestimable talents to television. “The Barbara Stanwyck Show” (NBC, 1960) lasted only one season but earned its star an Emmy Award. Stanwyck’s marriage to Robert Taylor had ended in divorce in 1951, but she kept the ranch and horses they had shared.

This kept her in prime riding shape to handle a host of guest appearances on Western shows like “Wagon Train” (NBC, 1957-1962; ABC, 1962-65). Finally, with the Western series “The Big Valley” (ABC, 1965-69), Stanwyck landed a long-running prime time hit that kept her busy and made her a fortune. She also won another Emmy Award for the role, playing the matriarch of a large family in central California.

The aging Stanwyck’s final professional triumphs were all on TV, including another Emmy Award for her work in the phenomenally successful miniseries “The

Thorn Birds” (ABC, 1983) in which she played Mary Carson, the hard-as-nails owner of a ranch in Australia’s outback who lusts after her local priest (Richard Chamberlain). In fact, her porch scene with a naked and decades-younger Chamberlain became the final classic in her canon of memorable onscreen moments. Mustering up the youthful lust she feels for Chamberlain, but cursing out the old body she is trapped inside, it was an Emmy-worthy scene. After “The Thorn Birds,” she lent her class and grace to the primetime soap operas “Dynasty” (ABC, 1981-89) and its spin-off “The Colbys” (ABC, 1985-87), but after a lifetime of hard work she was growing tired of the grind.

A robbery at Stanwyck’s home precipitated her withdrawing from public view, although she continued to be active with charity work. Both on and off screen, she had seemed a fierce, invulnerable presence, able to conquer any man or circumstance. In real life, her heavy smoking habit and relentless working schedule finally caught up with her. She died from congestive heart failure and emphysema on Jan. 20, 1990, leaving behind an impressive body of work and a unique personality indelibly captured for all time on the silver screen.●

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Crosby Popular crooner and durable boxoffice star of the 1930s, 40s and 50s who amassed one of the entertainment world’s largest fortunes.

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rosby made his screen debut as a band singer in “King of Jazz” (1930), but his most successful films were the “Road” movies with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Crosby’s effortless baritone, caramel-mellow singing style, and his easy-going, self-mocking charm helped him endure while other, flashier talents faded around him.

His escapist material both in song (with mostly a “Sunny Side of the Street/Pennies From Heaven” upbeat philosophy) and in reassuring, sentimental films--”Holiday Inn” (1942), “Going My Way” (1944), “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945), “White Christmas” (1954) and “High Society” (1956)--helped audiences forget the Depression, WWII and its aftermath and account for his enormous popularity. Although he refused to play screen heavies, in the 1950s Crosby proved his skill as dramatic actor with his complex performance as a washed-up alcoholic singer in “The Country Girl” (1954); he played another alcoholic, this time a doctor, in the 1966 remake of “Stagecoach”. Crosby co-authored an autobiography, “Call Me Lucky” in 1952, but his son Gary’s scathing portrait of his father in “Going My Own Way” (1983) revealed a stern, unloving disciplinarian contrary to Crosby’s easy-going public image.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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andsome, debonair leading man David Niven was the very essence of “good breeding” throughout his career, though the screen never quite captured his actual vigor, epitomized by his service in first the Highland Light Infantry and later the Commandos, or his wit displayed as a writer of two novels and two amusing autobiographies. The son of a British Army captain, he followed in his father’s footsteps but found the routine of military life between the wars so dreadfully boring that he resigned his commission and crossed the pond in search of adventure.

Once in Hollywood, he worked as an extra and came to the attention of Samuel Goldwyn who signed him to a contract with MGM, and he rapidly graduated from bit parts to supporting and lead roles which showcased his polished British diction and his lighthearted yet sincere manner. Niven’s first major success came with Edmund Goulding’s “The Dawn Patrol” (1938), in which he played a courageous, devil-may-care WWI pilot friend of Errol Flynn.

Niven’s years with MGM were sometimes stormy, as when he initially refused to take the thankless role of Edgar Litton, second-fiddle to Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) for the affections of Cathy (Merle Oberon) in “Wuthering Heights” (1939). He was also loathe to suffer the dictatorial ways of director William Wyler, experienced first-hand during the filming of “Dodsworth” (1936), but acquiesced rather than suffer MGM’s threatened suspension. Niven, who returned to military service during World War II, eventually becoming a lieutenant-colonel, was at the bottom of MGM’s list after the war, and Goldwyn’s loaning him out to other studios boded well for the actor. Before the war, audiences knew him primarily as the “hero’s best chum”, but the British directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger finally nailed down the charming Niven persona in his best starring performance to that time, “A Matter of Life and Death/Stairway to Heaven” (1946). Although he continued to star in films, it would be another decade before his career would receive a comparable bump.

Playing intrepid traveler Phileas Fogg in the Oscar-winning “Around the World in 80 Days” (1956), Niven came off as the perfect stereotype of the unruf-

“was the very essence of ‘good breeding’ throughout his career....”

fled English gentleman, and quite intentionally a caricature of 19th Century British propriety, his star quality enhanced exponentially by the 46 stars providing able support in the Mike Todd-produced extravaganza. By this time, he had also become a TV executive, having formed Four Star with Dick Powell, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, and the success of its projects probably had as much to do with his ever-present smile as anything.

1958 saw him star opposite Deborah Kerr in two movies that revealed the inadequacy beneath the charm and banter (a frequent theme running through his movies).

“Separate Tables” earned him the Best Actor Oscar for his phony British major, with a made-up Sandhurst background and boring lies of WWII adventures, exposed when he’s caught molesting a woman in a theater.

Niven definitely profited from arguably the best script of his career and a more sympathetic role than his character in “Bonjour Tristesse”, who proposes marriage to Kerr but continues to philander, ultimately driving her to an apparent suicide.

Much of Niven’s work over the last two decades of his career was slight, particularly during the period between 1965 and 1975 when he continued to cash paychecks for forgettable nonsense (i.e., “Prudence and the Pill” 1969, “Vampira” 1975), but movies like “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (1960, opposite Doris Day) and “The Pink Panther” (1964, with Peter Sellers), in which he played one of his many ultra-sophisticated thieves, enhanced his reputation as a fine comic actor. As for drama, “The Guns of Navarone” (1961), in which he played an explosives expert, and “55 Days in Peking” (1963), as the unusually observant British ambassador quietly stealing the show, helped dispel his image as weak and morally unreliable, casting him for the popular consciousness in the heroic mode. Maintaining his blend of politeness, stoicism and good humor to the end, Niven delivered some late gems to enliven average Disney projects, essaying the granddad in “No Deposit, No Return” (1976) and sparkling as the butler of many disguises in “Candleshoe” (1978), though the trademark charm was also solidly on display in the ensemble of slightly better movies (i.e., “Murder by Death” 1976; “Death on the Nile” 1978).● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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s the star of her own ABC sitcom between 1958 and 1966, Donna Reed epitomized selfless American motherhood, but her crowning achievement had been winning an Academy Award for playing a prostitute. Reed specialized in girl-next-door types after signing with MGM in 1941. Her role as a courageous Navy nurse in John Ford’s “They Were Expendable” (1945) brought her to the attention of Frank Capra, who paired her with James Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946).

Long before it was canonized as a holiday classic, Capra’s paean to small-town American life was written off as a failure, prompting the producers of the baseball biopic “The Stratton Story” (1949) to drop Reed from the cast when Stewart signed on. Reed rebounded with a role in Fred Zinnemann’s “From Here to Eternity” (1953) and took home an Oscar for playing a hooker entangled in a tortured relationship with army private Montgomery Clift. Disappearing from public life after the cancelation of “The Donna Reed Show,” the actress returned in 1984 to replace Barbara Bel Geddes for a season on the prime time ABC soap opera “Dallas” (1978-1991).

Fired a year later with the return of Bel Geddes, Reed won a hefty settlement from the series’ producers for breach of contract but succumbed to pancreatic cancer early in 1986. The revaluation of “It’s a Wonderful Life” boosted Reed’s posthumous Hollywood stock, drawing new fans to her signature roles and to an appreciation of her unique blend of beauty, intelligence and unflappable poise.

Donna Reed was born Donna Belle Mullenger in the small Iowa town of Dennison on Jan. 27, 1924. The firstborn of five children, she grew up on her father’s farm and was raised with her siblings in the Methodist faith. Reed attended Denison High School, graduating at the top of her class and winning the title of Beauty Queen. She had hoped to attend college with an aim toward becoming a teacher, but the family lacked suffi-

cient funds to send her. On the advice of an aunt, Reed headed for Los Angeles, where secretarial courses at Los Angeles City College cost five dollars a semester.

While a student at LACC, Reed participated in campus dramatics and was crowned Campus Queen. Scouts from the Hollywood studios began making offers of a contract but Reed insisted on finishing her secretarial studies, interested more in the promise of steady work as a stenographer and its median salary of $15 per week.

Reed was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941. That same year, she made her feature film debut as Donna Adams in the crime drama “The GetAway.” A remake of “Public Hero No. 1” (1935), the film found Reed’s Irish-American nice girl Mary Theresa O’Reilly torn between loyalty to her gangster-on-the-lam brother Dan Dailey and the stirrings of love for undercover fed Robert Sterling. Additional wholesome roles followed in “Shadow of the Thin Man” (1941), with the actress cast as the girlfriend of murder suspect Paul Clarke, and opposite Mickey Rooney in “The Courtship of Andy Hardy” (1942), for which MGM played up Reed’s childhood past by announcing that they would film the feature’s trailer on the Mullenger family farm. Reed reteamed with Rooney for “The Human Comedy” (1943), while also appearing with Lionel Barrymore in both “Calling Dr. Gillespie” (1942) and “Dr. Gillespie’s Criminal Case” (1943), spin-offs of MGM’s popular cycle of hospital films sparked by “Young Dr. Kildare” (1938).

An atypical role for Reed was as the Spanish heroine of “Apache Trail” (1942), opposite Lloyd Nolan and William Lundigan as a pair of outlaw brothers. She enjoyed third billing in Albert Lewin’s Academy Award-winning “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945), an adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.

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During World War II, her corn-fed Iowa beauty proved popular with U.S. troops stationed overseas and she played her part in the war effort by dancing with serviceman at the Hollywood Canteen. Between 1943 and 1945, Reed was married to makeup man William Tuttle. Obtaining a quickie divorce in Mexico, Reed married producer Tony Owen.

It was Reed’s performance as a Navy nurse in John Ford’s “They Were Expendable” (1945) that earned her consideration for the female lead in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946). Capra had initially approached Jean Arthur and Ginger Rogers for the role of Mary Hatch, dutiful wife of James Stewart’s beleaguered small-town hero. When both actresses turned him down, feeling the part was not dynamically proportionate to their star status, Capra requested that Reed be loaned from MGM to RKO Radio Pictures. Not an immediate success, “It’s a Wonderful Life” attained cult status with the lapse of its copyright and repeat TV broadcasts. Next up, Reed was Lana Turner’s sister in “Green Dolphin Street” (1947), a melodrama set against New Zealand’s 1845 Maori uprising. She had been cast opposite Van Johnson in “The Stratton Story” (1949) but when Johnson was replaced

by James Stewart, the film’s producers dropped Reed in favor of June Allyson, fearful of reteaming the stars of the then-failed “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

At Paramount Pictures for Lewis Allen’s flashback-driven “Chicago Deadline” (1949), Reed played comely murder victim Rosita D’Ur, whose sad tale comes to light through the pains of reporter Alan Ladd.

Signed with Columbia Pictures, she appeared in Phil Karlson’s “Scandal Sheet” (1952), as a resourceful newspaper reporter who helps colleague John Derek unmask Manhattan’s Lonelyhearts Killer as their own editor-in-chief, Broderick Crawford. Reed seemed miscast as the aristocratic lover of pirate John Payne in the swashbuckler “Raiders of the Seven Seas” (1953) but her next assignment was a career changer. Tapped to appear with actor Aldo Ray in a screen test for Fred Zinnemann’s “From Here to Eternity” (1953), Reed walked away with the role of Alma, a prostitute involved in a tortured love affair with a nonconformist army bugler - a role that went to Montgomery Clift. Among the film’s many Academy Awards was one for Reed, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Despite her Oscar win in a gritty role that was at impressive odds with her onscreen reputation for wholesomeness, Reed had difficulty capitalizing on her success. She enjoyed work in a few hit films, among them the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis vehicle “The Caddy” (1953) and “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (1954), which featured Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson as leads.

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er Charlton Heston to health and interracial romance in “The Far Horizons” (1955), but she was reduced to tears and hand-wringing as the anguished mother of a kidnapped child in “Ransom!” (1956) with Glenn Ford.

Cutting her losses on the big screen, Reed turned to the medium of television to make her next big career move.

“The Donna Reed Show” (ABC, 1958-1966) cast the 34-year-old actress as the quintessential TV mom, a loving wife and mother with an indispensable cache of tender words and good advice. Developed and produced by Reed with husband Tony Owen, the sitcom was not an instant hit with viewing audiences but ratings improved when it was shifted from Wednesdays to Thursday nights. By 1963, the series was among television’s Top 25 shows, its popularity aided by hit songs recorded by Reed’s juvenile co-stars Shelley Fabares and Paul Peterson. Between 1959 and 1962, Reed received four Emmy award nominations, and in 1963, she took home a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series.

Retreating to private life after the 1966 cancellation of her show, Reed stayed out of the limelight for more than a decade. An outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, she co-chaired the political advocacy group Another Mother for Peace. In 1971, Reed and Owen were divorced. In 1979, she returned to acting with a starring role in the NBC telefilm “The Best Place to Be,” playing a lonely widow who takes her first uncertain steps toward a new beginning. In ABC’s “Deadly Lessons” (1983), she was the autocratic and somewhat suspect headmistress of an exclusive finishing school plagued by a serial killer. In February 1984, Reed appeared in a two-hour special episode of “The Love Boat” (ABC, 1977-1986).

That same year, the producers of “Dallas” (ABC, 1978-1991) brought Reed in as a replacement for Barbara Bel Geddes, who had quit the primetime soap opera over unmet salary demands. Reed slipped easily into the role of oil matriarch Eleanor “Miss Ellie” Ewing, varying the characterization enough to make the part her own.

The series’ ratings remained consistently high during Reed’s single season and at the end of her first year, her year contract was expanded to encompass two more.

Yet when Bel Geddes approached the series’ producers about returning to “Dallas,” Reed was unceremoniously fired. Suing for breach of contract, Reed collected $1.25 million in damages. In December 1985, Reed was rushed to L.A.’s Cedars Sinai Hospital for treatment of a bleeding ulcer. A diagnosis was made of advanced pancreatic cancer. Given only a limited life expectancy, she was released from the hospital on Christmas Eve to be with her family. On Jan. 14, 1986, Reed succumbed to the disease, dying two weeks short of what would have been her 65th birthday.●

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fter the rigors of a convent education interrupted her nascent career (she had broken into film as a bit player at the age of three), Loretta Young resurfaced at age 14 to play a supporting role in “Naughty But Nice” (1927), netting herself a contract with First National (the precursor of Warner Brothers).

By the mid-30s Young, having made a strategic switch to the Fox lot, had blossomed into one of Hollywood’s more prominent leading ladies, capably adorning dozens of (mostly mediocre) productions. With her prominent cheekbones, limpid-pool eyes and Joan Crawford-style mouth, Young was often utilized for her stylish beauty and ladylike screen personality rather than the acting talent suggested by “Platinum Blonde” (1931), “Midnight Mary”, “Man’s Castle” and “Zoo in Budapest” (all 1933, and an excellent showcase triple bill for Young). Young, however, did enjoy the very occasional meaty, charming, or relatively offbeat role, as in “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell” (1939) and Orson Welles’ “The Stranger” (1946).

Young’s career reached its peak during the late 40s in such carefully mounted and entertaining vehicles as the fantasy “The Bishop’s Wife” (1947), “The Farmer’s Daughter” (1947), which unexpectedly won her an Oscar, the surprisingly gritty “Rachel and the Stranger” (1948) and the syrupy but likable “Come to the Stable” (1949), for which she netted a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination. Her subsequent vehicles, however, did not sustain the momentum; “Cause for Alarm” (1951) was a very interesting film noir, but films like “Half Angel” (1952) were too flimsy to be very entertaining.

By 1954 Young had abandoned the screen in favor of a successful second career as the centerpiece of TV’s long-running anthology series “The Loretta Young Show” (1954-63). Clad in expensive floor-length gowns, Young would sweep grandly onto the set to introduce each installment of her series, many of which she also acted in. Reflecting her childhood training, she would close each episode with a quotation from the Bible which commented on the drama which had just transpired. After the show went off the air, Young completely retired from performing, not returning to the spotlight until her roles a quarter of a century later in two NBC TV-movies, “Christmas Eve” (1986) and “Lady in a Corner” (1989).

Her first husband was actor Grant Withers, her second was producer-writer Thomas Lewis and her third was fashion designer Jean Louis. In 1994 Young’s daughter Judy Lewis wrote a book in which she revealed she had been fathered outside of wedlock by Clark Gable and that for years she had been led to believe that she had been adopted by Young.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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he career of singer-actor Rosemary Clooney is actually two careers separated by a 20-year gulf of child-raising, marital troubles and substance abuse. Part 1 began in 1945 at the age of 16 when Cincinnati radio station WLW hired the Maysville, Kentucky native and her 13-year old sister Betty to sing duets for $20 apiece. Appearances with local bands brought them to the attention of bandleader Tony Pastor, and ‘The Clooney Sisters’ debuted with his big band at Atlantic City’s Steel Pier in 1947. After Betty opted for the quiet life of Cincinnati, Rosemary struck out on her own for NYC, signing a recording contract with Columbia which yielded the star-making hit “Come On-a My House” in 1951. Hollywood beckoned and her appealing chirping style and cute personality made her an immediate screen star in movie musicals like “The Stars Are Singing” (her debut) opposite Anna Maria Alberghetti, “Here Come the Girls” (both 1953) with Bob Hope and “White Christmas” (1954), starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Allen.

Clooney’s 1953 marriage to Academy Award-winning actor Jose Ferrer capped her whirlwind storybook ride to the top, and she settled down to motherhood after a stint hosting a TV program of music and songs, first as a syndicated vehicle (“The Rosemary Clooney Show” 1956) with Nelson Riddle as her music director and later under the aegis of NBC and Lux (known as “The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney” 1957-58). She then disappeared from sight, periodically surfacing for appearances on the shows of her good friends Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, as well as some specials. There was the negative publicity surrounding her two divorces from Ferrer and the drug addiction and nervous breakdown she described in her harrowing 1977 autobiography “This For Remembrance”, adapted as the 1982 CBS movie “Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story”. Many people in the music business considered her finished. “She was so ill,” remembers longtime Clooney friend Michael Feinstein, “that it was doubtful that she would ever sing again. So the fact that she came back is almost unbelievable.”

But come back she did. While touring with Bing Crosby in the last year of his life, the opportunity presented itself for Clooney to record with the fledgling Concord Jazz label. Her first Concord effort “Everything Coming Up Rosie” (1977) plus a series of releases devoted to the music of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer, among others, established her as one of the most persuasive interpreters of a song lyric. Since her first nomination for “Girl Singer” (1992), she has been a perennial Grammy nominee, movie soundtracks like “Married to the Mob” (1988) and “Radioland Murders” (1994) have featured her as a song performer, and her first-ever appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1991 led to subsequent triumphs at that venue. She has also acted on TV, perhaps most memorably as a Bible-toting murderess in the CBS movie “Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies” (1987) and as a singing Alzheimer’s patient on two episodes during the first season of the NBC drama series “ER”, starring her nephew George Clooney, for which she received an Emmy nomination.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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legendary Hungarian movie actor, Szoke Szakall better known as ‘S.Z. Sakall’ is widely recognized for his brilliant performances in the movies like ‘In the Good Old Summertime’, ‘Lullaby of Broadway’, ‘Casablanca’ and ‘Christmas in Connecticut’. This versatile movie personality was born on 2nd February 1883 in Budapest, Hungary. In his initial, he used to write sketches for the Budapest vaudeville shows under the name of Szoke Szakall. He started to take interest in acting at the age of 18. In the period of 1910s, he started appearing in the Hungarian stage plays. After a decade, he shifted his place to Vienna where he got a chance to perform in ‘Kabarett Leopoldi-Wiesenthal’. In the year 1927, he was casted in the movie titled ‘Familientag im Hause Prellstein’. His performance in the movie was well appreciated by the audiences. In 1929, he appeared in the movie titled ‘Ihre Majestat die Liebe’. The movie was remade in the Hollywood with the title of ‘Her Majesty Lov’. His next considerable role came in the movie ‘Two Hearts in Waltz Time’. Szakall showed his immense acting skills in more than 40 movies in his native place, Hungary. He moved to Hollywood along with his wife. It was in the year 1940. When he made his first appearance in the Hollywood movie titled ‘It’s a Date’.

His outstanding performance gained huge appreciation of the audience.

After a year, he was casted in the movie titled ‘Ball of Fire’. He further became popular with the movie. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); After getting much needed recognition in Hollywood after making appearance in the several movies, he signed a movie contract with ‘Warner Brothers’. Szakall appeared in the various movies of Warner Brothers. His much appreciated role came in 1942 when he appeared in the movie ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’. After a year, he further gained wide attention and appraisal of the audience after showing his exceptional acting talent in the movie ‘Casablanca’. He portrayed the role of Carl, the head waiter in the movie. Szakall continued his successful acting career with appearing in other movies like ‘Christmas in Connecticut’, ‘Embraceable You’. ‘Romance on the High Seas’, ‘My Dream Is Yours’, ‘Look for the Silver Lining’, ‘In the Good Old Summertime’, ‘The Shop Around the Corner’, ‘Oh, You Beautiful Doll’, ‘Tea for Two’, ‘Lullaby of Broadway’, ‘Montana’, ‘The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady’, ‘Sugarfoot’, ‘Painting the Clouds with Sunshine’ and ‘The Student Prince’. He has shown his versatile performances in many movies. Talking about his personal life, the renowned actor has got married twice. First he got married to the beautiful lady named ‘Giza Grossner’ in 1916. After two years of marriage, Giza uncertain death made him alone. In 1920, he again got married to gorgeous lady, Anne Kardos. Both were sharing blissful moments with each other. In 1955, the renowned actor left this world. He was died after shooting for the movie ‘The Student Prince’. Szakall was buried in Garden of Memory based in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. This legendary actor had achieved huge fame and success in his career. He was often noticed for his dashing and attractive personality. His exemplified height of 5 feet 11 inches and athletic body had many girls crazy. Szakall had garnered huge fan following in his life. His exceptional acting skills in the various movies were hugely appreciated by the audiences. He had always been the part of appreciation and appraisal in his entire movie career. Szakall’s true net worth and salary hasn’t been disclosed yet in the media. More interesting information and facts about him can be extracted from the wiki and other various internet sites.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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Roast Goose with Oranges and Madeira

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Ingredients (Servings: 6) For the Goose: 1 12 1/2-pound goose, neck reserved 1 tablespoon butter 3 shallots, sliced 1 1/2 cups Madeira 4 small oranges, quartered 4 cups canned low-salt chicken broth 1 cup fresh orange juice 4 large shallots, halved 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons Madeira 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons (about) honey For the Shallots: 1 tablespoon butter 18 shallots, peeled 1 1/2 cups Madeira 3/4 cup canned low-salt chicken broth 3 tablespoons honey Preparation To make the Goose: part of thigh registers 180°F. about Remove excess skin, fat and 1 hour 15 minutes. Increase oven quills from goose. Carefully lower temperature to 450°F. Roast goose goose into large pot of boiling wauntil golden, about 10 minutes. ter. Boil 1 minute. Remove from Transfer to platter. Pour off all fat water. Pat dry. Place on rack in from pan, leaving browned bits in large pan. Chill uncovered 2 days. pan. Pour 1/3 cup Madeira into Melt butter in heavy large saucepan. Gently heat pan while scrappan over medium heat. Add goose ing up browned bits. Pour mixture neck; cook until brown, turning into sauce. Dissolve cornstarch in once, about 5 minutes. Add slice remaining 2 tablespoons Madeira. shallots; sauté until tender, about 4 Whisk into sauce. Boil until thickminutes. Add 1 1/2 cups Madeira ened to sauce consistency, about and 1 orange. Boil until reduced 7 minutes. Stir in 2 tablespoons by 1/3, scraping up browned bits, honey. Season to taste with more about 3 minutes. Add broth and honey, salt and pepper. juice. Boil until reduced to 2 cups liquid, about 45 minutes. Strain To make the shallots: sauce into saucepan. (Can be Melt butter in heavy large made 2 days ahead. Chill.) Presaucepan over medium heat. Add heat oven to 325°F. Pierce goose shallots; sauté until golden, about skin (not meat) all over with fork.

10 minutes. Stir in Madeira, broth Place halved shallots and remainand honey. Simmer until shallots ing 3 oranges in cavity of goose. are tender and liquid is reduced Tie leg together to hold shape. to glaze, about 1 hour 10 minutes.

Season with salt and pepper. Place (Glazed shallots can be made 1 day goose, breast side down, on rack ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Rein roasting pan. Roast 1 1/2 hours. warm over low heat, stirring often, Transfer goose to platter. Pour off before serving.) fat from pan. Place goose, breast Carve goose. Arrange slices on side up, on rack in pan. Roast until plates. Top with Madeira-glazed thermometer inserted into thickest Shallots and sauce and serve.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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Carrots and Leeks Add a shot of red-wine vinegar to enliven this simple, earthy side dish.

Ingredients 6 bunches baby rainbow carrots (3 pounds with tops) 2 large leeks, halved lengthwise and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces 5 tablespoons unsalted butter Kosher salt 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg Freshly ground pepper 1/2 cup chopped mixed fresh herbs (such as tarragon, chives, mint, parsley and/or basil) 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice Preparation Trim the tops of the carrots. Scrub the carrots well but do not peel; halve lengthwise. Wash the chopped leeks thoroughly.

Melt the butter in a wide pot over medium heat. Add the leeks and 1/4 teaspoon salt and toss to coat. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until almost tender, about 8 minutes. Add the carrots, lemon zest, nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper and 1/2 cup water. Cover and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until the carrots are tender, 15 to 20 more minutes.

Add half of the herbs, the lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste; toss. Transfer the vegetables to a platter and top with the remaining herbs.â—?

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Oyster Stuffing Prep Time: 8 Hours / Cook Time: 30 Minutes Makes 12 Servings Ingredients 3 cups Cornbread, Cut Into Cubes 2 loaves Ciabatta Or Other Crusty Italian Bread, Cut Into Cubes 2 Tablespoons Bacon Fat Or Butter 3 cans Oysters, Drained, Liquid Reserved 4 whole Carrots, Diced 6 stalks Celery, Diced 2 whole Small Onions, Diced 8 cups Turkey (or Chicken) Broth 1/2 teaspoon Ground Sage 1 teaspoon Chopped Rosemary Salt And Pepper, to taste 2 whole Eggs 1/4 cup Chopped Fresh Parsley Preparation Allow all bread cubes to sit uncovered for several hours or overnight until it’s dry. Place all the cubed bread in a large mixing bowl.

Heat bacon fat or butter in a large skillet over medium heat.

Add carrots, celery, and onions, and stir to combine. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes.

Add oysters and stir around for 1 minutes. Remove from heat and pour over the bread cubes. Sprinkle on the sage, the rosemary, and salt and pepper. Then add the broth while tossing bread cubes with a large spoon. Stir in egg.

Stop after adding 5 or 6 cups of liquid to give the mixture a taste. Add more broth to taste, until it gets to the moisture level you like. Adjust seasonings as needed.

Hint: if you think it needs a little more of an oyster kick, splash in a small amount of the oyster liquid. (A little goes a long way!)

Pour mixture into a large baking dish (or stuff the bird if you prefer.) Bake it in a 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown on top. Serve with your Thanksgiving dinner!â—?

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Grilled Lemon and Gin Marinated Chicken and Onions Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less Makes 2 Servings

Ingredients 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons gin 1/4 teaspoon dried orĂŠgano, crumbled 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 whole skinless boneless chicken breasts (about 1/2 pound each) 2 cups thinly sliced onions Preparation In a shallow dish whisk together the lemon juice, the gin, the orĂŠgano, the salt, the sugar, and pepper to taste, add the oil in a stream, whisking, and whisk the marinade until it is emulsified. add the chicken, coating it well with the marinade, and let it marinate, covered and chilled, for 20 minutes. Grill the chicken, reserving the marinade, on an oiled rack set about 6 inches over glowing coals for 7 minutes on each side, or until it is cooked through. While the chicken is grilling, in a heavy skillet combine the reserved marinade and the onions and boil the mixture, covered, over high heat, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes, or until the onions begin to brown. Reduce the heat to moderately low and cook the mixture, uncovered, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Transfer the chicken to a heated platter and with a slotted spoon scatter the onions around it.â—? cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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A Delicious Baked Ham Servings: 1/3 pound per person

Ingredients Ham: 1 10-to-15 pound whole ham, or 1 5-to-7 pound half of a ham Glaze: 1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar 2 teaspoons dry mustard 3 tablespoons cider vinegar, prune juice, wine, or ham drippings Whole cloves Decorate with: pineapple rings studded with cranberries and stars cut from preserved orange peel, optional Garnish with: Slices of jellied cranberry sauce topped with thin orange or pineapple slices, optional Preparation 1. Ham labeled “Cook Before Eating” Preheat the oven to 325°F. Place the ham on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. For a whole 10- to 15-pound ham, allow 18 to 20 minutes per pound; for a half--5 to 7 pounds--about 20 minutes per pound; or for a shank or butt portion weighing 3 to 4 pounds, about 35 min-

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utes to the pound. In all cases, cook uncovered until the internal temperature reaches 160°F. For an attractive, quick finish, remove the ham from the oven about 30 minutes before it is done and glaze as directed below.

II. Ham labeled “Fully Cooked” or “Ready to Eat” Preheat the oven to 325°F. To heat the ham, place it on a rack in a shallow roasting pan, and bake uncovered.

For a whole ham, allow 15 to 18 minutes to the pound; for a half, 18 to 24 minutes per pound. The ham will be ready when the internal temperature reaches 140°F. To glaze the ham, remove it from the oven about 30 minutes before it is done, and increase the oven heat to 425°F. Remove all the rind but a collar around the shank bone. Slash the fat in the top of the ham in a diamond pattern, and cover the surface with brown sugar, dry mustard moistened with cider vinegar, prune juice, wine or ham drippings. Stud the fat at the intersections of the diamonds with whole cloves. Or decorate with alternating half pineapple rings studded with cranberries and stars cut from preserved orange peel. Return the ham to the oven, reduce the oven heat to 325°F again, and cook about 30 minutes. Place on a platter. Garnish with: Slices of jellied cranberry sauce topped with thin orange or pineapple slices.●

Holiday Christmas Bread

Makes: 24 servings / Yield: 1 loaf Prep 40 mins / Rise 1 hr Bake 40 mins / Stand 10 mins Ingredients 1 active dry yeast 1/2 cup warm water (105 degrees F to 115 degrees F) 1 1/3 cups milk 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg, lightly beaten 5 1/4-5 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup chopped black walnuts or walnuts 3/4 cup raisins 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Powdered Sugar Icing: 1 cup powdered sugar 1 tablespoon milk 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1.

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Preparation In a large bowl dissolve yeast in warm water; set aside.

In a medium saucepan heat and stir milk, granulated sugar and salt just until warm (120 degrees F to 130 degrees F). Using a wooden spoon, stir milk mixture, egg and 2 cups of the flour into the yeast mixture until combined. Stir in walnuts and raisins.

Stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.

Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (6 to 8 minutes total). Shape dough into a ball. Place in a lightly greased bowl, turning once to grease surface of dough. Cover; let rise in a warm place until double in size (1 to 1-1/4 hours).

Punch dough down. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Cover; let rest 10 minutes. Meanwhile, grease a very large baking sheet*. Roll dough out to a 12x10-inch rectangle. Cut dough crosswise into twelve (1-inch) strips. On the prepared baking sheet, twist and weave 5 of the strips together,

pinching together the ends and tucking them under the braid. Twist and weave 4 more strips together and place atop the first layer. Braid the remaining 3 dough strips and place atop the first two. Brush the loaf lightly with oil. Use 4 wooden or metal skewers, pushing in from the top, to secure layers.

5. Cover and let rise in a warm place until nearly double in size (30 to 45 minutes). Bake in 325 degree F oven 40 to 45 minutes or until bread sounds hollow when lightly tapped; remove skewers after bread is set. Cool bread on wire rack Drizzle with icing.

Makes 1 loaf (24 servings).

6. Powdered Sugar Icing: In a small bowl combine powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until icing reaches drizzling consistency.

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Applesauce Spice Cake Makes 10 Servings Prep 25 mins / Cook 30 mins / Cool 35 mins / Bake 50 mins Ingredients 1 cup raisins 1 cup dried cherries 3 cups apple cider or apple juice 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 cup unsweetened* applesauce 3/4 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 3/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 cup walnuts, chopped Powdered sugar For the Frosting: 5 oz cream cheese, softened 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1 cup confectioners sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Preparation 1. In a medium saucepan combine raisins, dried cherries and apple cider; bring to boiling. Reduce heat and boil gently, uncovered, for 30 to 35 minutes or until liquid is almost absorbed. Remove from heat and cool about 20 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan; set aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, applesauce, oil and vanilla. In a medium bowl combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and cloves; stir into applesauce mixture just until combined. Add raisin mixture and nuts. Transfer to prepared pan.

4. Bake in a 350 degrees F. oven for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack 15 minutes; remove and cool completely. Wrap and store overnight before serving. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before slicing. Makes 10 servings.

Making the Frosting: Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla with an electric mixer at high speed until fluffy. Sift confectioners sugar and cinnamon over cream cheese mixture, then beat at medium speed until incorporated.

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Cranberry Sorbet This refreshing seasonal sorbet is a wonderful mid-meal palate cleanser or a low calorie dessert Makes 10 to 12 servings (about 1 1/2 qt) Ingredients 1 pound fresh or frozen cranberries (4 cups; thawed if frozen) 5 cups water 2 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice 1/3 cup fresh orange juice Special equipment: an ice cream maker Garnish: fresh mint sprigs Preparation Boil cranberries, 2 cups water, and 1/2 cup sugar in a 5- to 6-quart heavy pot, stirring occasionally, until cranberries have burst, about 15 minutes.

Purée cranberry mixture in batches in a blender until as smooth as possible (use caution when blending hot liquids).

Force through a medium-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding solids, and chill, covered with plastic wrap, until cold, about 2 hours.

Bring remaining 3 cups water and remaining 2 cups sugar to a boil in a 2-quart saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then remove from heat and cool syrup 30 minutes.

Stir together cranberry purée, sugar syrup, and citrus juices and freeze in ice cream maker. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze until hardened, at least 2 hours.● cinamagic DECEMBER 2014

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Historic Bethlehem Museums - Moravian Museum Photo by: Jim O’Brien / Chadds Ford Model: Danielle Caraballo Hair by: Hair Affair Wardrobe provided by: Le Femme Boutique Make-up by: Roxy