There are many Christmas movies out there, but only a few of them have moved on to become family favorites. Among the ranks of Elf, Home Alone, and A Christmas Story, Disney+ hopes to add Noelle, one of their first original films, as a modern holiday classic for the whole family. Noelle stars Anna Kendrick, as the titular character who is the daughter of the recently deceased Santa Claus. When her brother, Nick (Bill Hader) learns he must succeed his father’s legacy, he panics and runs away to Phoenix, Arizona. Noelle, who was never considered as a replacement, sets …
There are very few people in the world that can say they have worked with great artists like Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, Bob Fosse, and many others. But for Shirley MacLaine, who has had a successful career spanning over six decades, these are just some of the names she called friends over her lifetime. MacLaine has played many characters, but in Noelle, one of the first Disney + original films, she takes on a role unlike any other she’s done before- a nanny who happens to be an elf. Polly (MacLaine) has been Noelle’s nanny her whole …