Mrs. Santa Claus

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Mrs. Santa Claus ★★½ 1996 (G)

Who better than Lansbury to star as the title character in this sweet TV musical set in 1910. Vivacious Mrs. C is tired of being left home during Santa's (Durning) annual trip and decides to borrow the sleigh for a test drive just before the big day. But bad weather and an injured reindeer force an emergency landing in New York City where she befriends the young sweatshop workers at villainous toy-maker A.P. Tavish's (Mann) factory and does a little matchmaking too. But Mrs. Claus still must make it back to the North Pole by Christmas Eve. ♫Avenue A; Almost Jolly; We Don't Go Together; Suffragette March; He Needs Me. 90m/C VHS, DVD . Angela Lansbury, Charles Durning, Terrence Mann, David Norona, Debra Wiseman, Rosalind Harris, Bryan Murray, Lynsey Bartilson, Michael Jeter; D: Terry Hughes; W: Mark Saltzman; C: Stephen M. Katz; M: Jerry Herman.

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