Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Serving as a last-minute replacement for the
drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is
offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen
O'Hara soon begins having second thoughts about hiring Kris: it's bad
enough that he is laboring under the delusion that he's the genuine
Saint Nick; but when he begins advising customers to shop elsewhere for
toys that they can't find at Macy's, he's gone too far!
72-year-old Edmund
Gwenn won an Oscar for his portrayal of the "jolly old elf" Kringle; the
rest of the cast is populated by such never-fail pros as Gene Lockhart
(as the beleaguered sanity-hearing judge), William Frawley (as a crafty
political boss), Natalie Wood, and an unbilled Thelma Ritter and Jack Albertson.
Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
This is a FREE event.
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