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Sisters are doin it for themselves.
The character has been embodied by great actors, Hollywood divas, and queer icons.
In most cases, Mrs. Claus proves just as ridiculous and comical an undertaking for these esteemed actresses too.
Which Mrs. Claus sleighed for you?
10.Jill St. John (Northpole)
10.
Even the smallest snowflake can turn into the biggest snowball, she clumsily advises the wayward boy.
St. John is a sweet, grandmotherly Mrs. Claus, but is sadly mostly muffled by the wooden Wagner.
9.Miranda Richardson (Fred Claus)
9.
As thanks, Vaughn offers to head north and do some bookkeeping for the Clauses.
But shes otherwise a smiling, mostly silent, and long-suffering housewife.
Richardson is ultimately shortchanged here on giving us the gingerbread content we so hungrily want.
8.Mira Sorvino (Finding Mrs. Claus)
8.
Winning an Oscar doesnt preclude an actress from taking a bad turn as Mrs. Claus in a Christmas movie.
Look at Mira Sorvino.
(Caesars Palace was full, apparently.)
Its the fashion, flair, and slightly desperate acting from Sorvino that helps partly redeem this budget-TV take.
7.Barbara Eden (My Adventures With Santa)
7.
Richards plays a corporate career mother who places PowerPoints and teleconferences above her family life.
Unfortunately, the film is terrible, and Eden can only smize her way through the part.
6.June Lockhart (The Night They Saved Christmas)
6.
Well, not quite.
But the corporation is looking to tap the oil under Santas home and makes no apologies about it.
Even more so since it seems that parts of the set around her could give way.
Just dont mention the fracking.
5.Elizabeth Mitchell (The Santa Clause 2)
5.
Santa) explains theres a clause (ho ho hoe!)
mandating that Santa needs a romantic partner to stay as Santa.
So, the whole thing was … you needed to find a wife, she admonishes.
Although the blonde and youthful Mitchell is an unlikely Mrs. Claus (shed marry Tim Allen?!
), she still serves some pleasurable sweetness and radiant warmth as Mother Claus in the role.
Especially with her agreeing to marry Scott, who turns back into elderly Santa and gets unsightlierafterthey marry.
The sacrifice and lengths women must go to keep the peace and maintain the status quo …
The Christmas spirit is all about giving, and Mitchell gives it in spades.
4.Imelda Staunton (Arthur Christmas)
4.
The story goes that the North Pole project is really a fast-moving, technologically advanced enterprise.
Staunton puts the mother in Queen Mother here.
3.Shelley Long (Merry In-Laws)
3.
Gone are the beers and in is the eggnog with Shelley Longs turn as Grandma Claus inMerry In-Laws.
), Long is giving sleigh better than most of her peers playing the role.
She even asks everyone to call her mama.
(Thankfully without the Holla!, as per Heather Thomson ofRHONY.)
Give us a serve, Long!
2.Goldie Hawn (The Christmas Chronicles 2)
2.
It might be Santas village, but know she designed the whole thing!
1.Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Santa Claus)
1.
Dame Angela Lansburys Mrs. Claus remains Yuletides greatest onscreen incarnation.
In the musical movieMrs.
Tell the [Chief], Ive just gone out for a little spin … around the world!
There, she finds herself in 1910s New York City, where the toe-tapping musical fun really begins.
Lansbury is her element here, where she goes by the nickname Mrs. North, begins supervising (a.k.a.
unionizing) at a toy factory, and starts mobilizing women to join the suffragette movement.
Its the greatest Christmas gift you could ever want.
