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The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal (in her feature directorial debut), based on the 2006 novel by Elena Ferrante. The film stars Olivia Colman , Dakota Johnson , Jessie Buckley , Paul Mescal , Dagmara Domińczyk , Jack Farthing , Oliver Jackson-Cohen , Peter Sarsgaard , and Ed Harris .
In a 1959 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, actress Gertrude Berg described her father's substitution of a "Chanukah bush" in place of a Christmas tree. [7] Another family's dynamic is described by Edward Cohen, [8] in a memoir about Jewish life in 1950s Mississippi: I recalled the year I had asked my mother for a Christmas tree.
Legend of the Lost was directed by Henry Hathaway. Wayne and Hathaway worked together six times, beginning with The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) and ending with Wayne's Oscar-winning role in True Grit (1969). Co-author Robert Presnell, nearing the end of his career at this time, was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters.
The plot concerns a Jewish crime fighter known as the "Hebrew Hammer" who must save Hanukkah from the evil son of Santa Claus, who wants to destroy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and make everyone celebrate Christmas. The film parodies blaxploitation films, and features Melvin Van Peebles in a cameo appearance as "Sweetback".
Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas-obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington.
First a little girl goes missing, then her doll, in “The Lost Daughter,” a daring psychological drama in which what should have been an idyllic summer vacation on the Greek island of Spetses ...
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The Lost Daughter, a 1999 novel by Joanna Hines; The Lost Daughter, a 2011 novel by Lucretia Grindle; The Lost Daughter, a 2017 novel by David Ashton; The Lost Daughter and Other Stories of the Heart, an 1857 short story collection by Caroline Lee Hentz; The Lost Daughter, a 2013 memoir by Mary Williams