Column: Netflix series unwraps the stories behind holiday movie classics
Print Looking back on it now, it is hard to believe that anyone thought having Will Ferrell play the world’s biggest, sweetest elf was anything but a stroke of candy-coated genius. Or that anyone but Danny Elfman could provide the singular singing voice for Jack Skellington in “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Or that “Elf” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” were not destined to become modern holiday movie classics. But Scrooge has always lived large and loud in Hollywood, and one of the joys of Netflix’s “The Holiday Movies That Made Us” documentary series is watching t...
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