There was his nose, to begin with. In the first version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” it glowed “like the eyes of a cat,” and Rudolph’s friends nicknamed him Ruddy because of it.

Read full article: Director of ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Jules Bass dies at 87 The director and producer of many holiday classics, Jules Bass, has died ...