The Christmas Tree (1996 film) Noël, L' Canada", In Spain as "Árbol de Navidad, El Spain", in Brazil as "A Árvore de Natal Brazil" (Portuguese), in Greece as "Dentro ton Hristougennon, To Greece", and in Germany as "Der Weihnachtsbaum". It was made available in October 2001 on VHS in Spanish and English. The Christmas Tree (1996 film) The Christmas Tree is a 1996 American made-for-television Christmas drama film directed by Sally Field, starring Julie Harris and Andrew McCarthy and produced by Walt Disney Television which premiered on ABC on December 22, 1996. A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony (Julie
Albert Tannenbaum owned by his father. When Tannenbaum was 25, he met a guest at the club by the name of Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro, a close associate of infamous Jewish gangster Lepke Buchalter. Shapiro felt that Tannenbaum had what it took to become a mob hitman, and introduced him to the underworld. Tannenbaum progressed rapidly through the ranks of organized criminal violence. He began as an enforcer and strikebreaker being paid $50 a week; his salary was raised to $75 and then later to $100. When he became a full-fledged contract killer in Murder, Inc., he was paid $125 a week for