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Miracle on 34th Street. A brightly cynical bit of whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus, and his effect on Christmas trade (TIME, June...
Miracle on 34th Street. A surefire, brightly cynical bit of whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus, and his effects on Manhattan's retail Christmas trade (TIME, June...
Miracle on 34th Street. Surefire, brightly cynical whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus (TIME, June...
Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox) is brought about by a well-beavered, somewhat pixillated old gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success...
...during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent. By the fadeout, not only the courts of New York State but 20th Century-Fox itself are ready to insist that there really is a Santa Claus, and that Mr. Gwenn...