Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas · 2017

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

Larry Weinstein · 52 min · Canada

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.

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Production companies

Riddle Films Inc.

Cast

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  Larry Weinstein

  Narrator

• Kang Ho

  Owner's Mother

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  Steven Page

  Take-Out Man

• Gaston Poon

  Owner

• Decker Williams

  The Boy

• Jeremy Salzman

  Father

• Jenna Harris

  Mother

• Franc-Anton Harwart

  Head Waiter