Maurice Evans born
this day
in 1901
and left us on Mar 12 in 1989
English actor
Ozzie Nelson born
Mar 20
in 1906
and left us on this day in 1975
American actor, filmmaker, musician and bandleader
Ellen Corby born
this day
in 1911
and left us on Apr 14 in 1999
American actress and screenwriter
Rue McClanahan born
Feb 21
in 1934
and left us on this day in 2010
American actress and comedian
The Nutcracker Sweet (2015)
It is Christmas Eve and the Silberhaus children are excited for the festivities to begin. Marie and Fritz are playing in the children's room when their godfather Drosselmayer arrives and presents them with an early Christmas gift, a Nutcracker. Marie witnesses a great battle between a vast army of toy soldiers led by the Nutcracker against a terrible platoon of mice commanded by the Mouse King. Follow Marie and Fritz's journey in the Kingdom of Dolls, through the Christmas Forest, past the Almond Milk Sea, and the Palace of the Marzipans.
A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads to disaster for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, along with an erratic photographer, his vindictively murderous fiancée, her secret lover, and a strung-out mall Santa.
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting. /// Andy and Elizabeth Farmer move from New York City to the country. Hijinx ensue that stresses their marriage and they think about divorce and try and sell the house. Towards the end of the movie, they ask the towns people to act out a perfect small town Christmas to help sway the potential buyers to a quick sale.
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
In 1931, Captain Steven Warren, the chief investigator for the Chicago District Attorney's office, tries to arrest the henchmen of notorious gangster and bootlegger Roger Touhy for a series of crimes, but the frightened witnesses refuse to cooperate. Warren releases Touhy's cohorts--Herman "Owl" Banghart, Bernard "Troubles" O'Connor, Icebox Hamilton, Maxie Sharkey and Thomas J. "Smoke" Reardon--from custody but vows to pursue them.