Keenan Wynn

The story of how Kris Kringle got his start as the world's most famous gift giver by struggling to bring toys and happiness to the children of Sombertown.

It's Cinderella's fabled footwear for this dance-and-fantasy-infused retelling of the fairy tale. She moves from sooty drudge to radiant belle of the ball with pluck, resourcefulness and the aid of a loopy fairy godmother.

Big Jim Cole inherits land in Wyoming and trades his dangerous lawman's life for the comparatively cushy existence of a rancher. But he barely gets his family settled when new dangers plague them. He faces opposition both from a neighbor who wants that land for his own sons, and from a grizzly bear nicknamed Satan who keeps killing Cole's livestock.

Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.

It's wartime, and young people are rushing into hasty, sometimes unwise, marriages. But not pretty, level-headed Alice. Then she meets Joe, a G.I. on a two-day pass, and falls heart-over-level-head in love.

"While searching for missing teenagers. novice skip tracer Maggie McKeown and local town boozer Paul Grogan stumble upon a top-secret Army laboratory conducting genetic research on piranha fish for the purpose of developing biological warfare. When the deadly eating machines are accidentally released from the compound, they're soon headed downstream and consuming everything, and anything, in their path. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the...

Pat Jamieson is a scientist working on a high-altitude oxygen mask for World War II fighter pilots. He has nowhere to conduct his research until he meets Jamie Rowan, a woman with a large empty country house. She has no hopes of marrying for love but Jamie wants to help the war effort and she likes Pat, so to satisfy the proprieties they agree on a business arrangement: a marriage of convenience and partnership. They happily work on oxygen mixes instead...

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: a misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them. Frosty the snowman: a living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat. Santa Claus is comin' to town: A mailman reveals the origins of Santa Claus. The little drummer boy: an orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men en route to...

A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.