Desc: The Night Before Christmas: Directed by Jim Pabian. With The Norman Luboff Choir, Olan Soule, Barbara Eiler, Hal Smith. Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas," in which his young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's musical version and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.