Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
Documentary · Music
Overview
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.
Cast
- Larry Weinstein as Narrator
- Kang Ho as Owner's Mother
- Steven Page as Take-Out Man
- Gaston Poon as Owner
- Decker Williams as The Boy
- Jeremy Salzman as Father
- Jenna Harris as Mother
- Franc-Anton Harwart as Head Waiter
- Dione Taylor as Young Woman
- Aviva Chernick as Female Singer
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