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Box office. $228.9 million [1] Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. It stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York City to meet his biological father.
Gimbels. Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Lea Thompson didn’t initially hit it off with Michael J. Fox when she met him on the Back to the Future set. “I was friends with Eric Stoltz who had just gotten fired,” Thompson, 63, shared ...
Biography. Gimbel was born to Jewish parents, Rachel (née Feustman) and Isaac Gimbel, [2][3] son of Adam Gimbel, founder of the Gimbels chain of department stores. [2][4] In 1907, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. [2] He started as a shipping clerk for his family's company and worked his way up to vice president in 1909.
By now, it's pretty clear that Macy's has won the battle of the department store, but for decades, Gimbels was its plucky rival just a block from New York City's Herald Square, a fight referenced ...
Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz; October 13, 1935) [1] [3] [2] is an American radio performer, publicly known as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow.In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty ...
Adam Gimbel (great-grandfather) Hank Greenberg (brother-in-law) Edward Lasker (brother-in-law) David Solinger (brother-in-law) Lynn Stern (niece) Peter Mendelsund (grandson) Lisa Mendelsund (granddaughter) Bruce Alva Gimbel (July 28, 1913 – October 7, 1980) was an American businessman and president of the Gimbels department store.
Instead of Santa Claus, the film is narrated by Papa Elf, who does not appear in the musical. Other minor changes from the movie to the musical include Santa Claus using an iPhone instead of a list of names while delivering gifts, Buddy and Jovie's child being changed from a girl to a boy, the department store scenes taking place at Macy's instead of Gimbels, and Buddy being dropped off at the ...