Talk:Santa Claus: The Movie

Cleanup
Slightly more progress has been made on major edits. Fine tuning is needed though. Do we really need the "Where are they now?" portion of "Making of Santa Claus: The Movie"? If you want info on this, articles should be made for the respective people or they should be updated. --Chick3magnet (talk) 19:14, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Moving this section as part of the cleanup:

Of the few surviving cast members, John Lithgow concluded his starring run in the Broadway musical remake of the film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in summer 2006, then landed the starring role, along with Jeffrey Tambor, on the recently canceled NBC sitcom Thirty Good Years. However, Lithgow has since resumed his career as a children's book author/performer, having written such groundbreaking stories as The Remarkable Farkle McBride; Marsupial Sue; I'm a Manatee; Micawber; and Carnival of the Animals, based on the classical piece by Camille Saent-Saens. After Santa Claus: The Movie concluded principal photography, Judy Cornwell resumed her career as one of the leading mainstays of British television, being best known for her starring role on the popular BBC sitcom Keeping up Appearances; while Jeffrey Kramer, upon renaming himself Jeffrey L. Kramer, served as a top executive with David E. Kelley Productions. As for the film's two child actors, Carrie Kei Heim is now a practicing attorney and sometime world traveller, who was married in New York City --- Cornelia's own home town --- in May 2005; however, in mid-January 2006, Christian Fitzpatrick contacted KringleQuest.com Founding Elf Richard Washington with an e-mail missive from Boston concerning his present whereabouts; unfortunately, since then, Mr. Fitzpatrick has vanished once more from the public eye. Dudley Moore's fate, alas, would not be as rosy. In September 1999, the former star of 10 and Arthur, who had now so recently enchanted the world by portraying one of Santa's elves, was forced into going public with the news that he had been diagnosed with PSP (Progressive supranuclear palsy); he died in May 2002 of pneumonia-related PSP complications, at the home of his caregiver, Ms. Rena Fruchter, in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was 66.

In a bitter twist of tragedy, a 2004 Sunday New York Daily News article interviewed young Patrick Moore, Dudley's real-life son, and the inspiration for the name of his dad's character --- "Patch" ---in Santa Claus: The Movie. According to the article, young Patrick, now in his mid-30s, was living in a temporary shelter for the homeless in Harlem, New York City; however, the article also revealed that Patrick was at the time on the verge of inheriting the $900 million fortune massed between Dudley and his biological mother, actress Tuesday Weld. No further information regarding that fortune, or Patrick Moore's present whereabouts, has publicly surfaced since.

Effective November 2006, the KringleQuest website was renamed KringleQuest.com Beyond. "The URL remains the same -- http://kringlequest.tripod.com," explained Founding Elf Richard Washington. "All that's changing is the site's name."


 * --Jtalledo (talk) 23:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Title
I think this needs to be moved to "Santa Claus (1985 film)" in keeping with naming conventions. --Rhindle The Red (talk) 16:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The naming convention is also to use the formal title of the movie, which is the Santa Claus: The Movie. The JPS talk to me  19:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


 * How is that the formal title? The formal title is usually the one that appears on the film itself, and that is Santa Claus. --Rhindle The Red (talk) 00:13, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


 * When my mother and I went to see this film in 1985, it was most certainly billed as Santa Claus: The Movie, and in fact I recall Mom getting the tickets and using that very name to refer to the movie. --68.91.254.60 (talk) 17:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

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 * Rationale added to image article. --Johnmc (talk) 14:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Dud
Dudley Moore plays a character called "Patch", not "Pitch." My ears tell me so, my subtitles on my TV tell me so, and even IMDB tells me so. I'm editing the article to change "Pitch" to "Patch". MEICYOUNG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.240.204.150 (talk) 13:12, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

McDonald's Short Story 1985
McDonald's was giving away a short version of this movie as a storybook in 1985 to help promote the movie. The storybook only covered up to the point in the movie where Santa makes his first flight from the Pole. --LReyome254 (talk) 23:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Rebroadcastings
It has been aired often over the years by various national and local channels during Christmas week or the week prior to Christmas. --LReyome254 (talk) 23:40, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Santa, Anya and the reindeer's 'rescue from certain death'
I would question the section stating that the vendegum rescue Santa, Anya and the reindeer. Their final scene before meeting the vendegum is in a torrential blizzard, then the vendegum arrive in a perfectly clear night with no wind or falling snow. I was under the opinion that they died in the storm, were transported to the workshop and were brought back to eternal life, hence the amazing change in weather. Obviously, being a child-friendly story the death was glossed over so nobody apparently dies in a Santa story. --JohnC 10:26, 12 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brucie76 (talk • contribs)


 * Of course they died. They freeze to death and then are revived by the elves (or God, or something) as immortal beings. Which makes Santa's later weight gain, change of diet, and falling asleep in his soup all rather strange. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.41.128.119 (talk) 00:22, 23 March 2021 (UTC)