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Directed by George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street (1947) begins when Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) is persuaded by Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), the special events director at Macy's department store in New York City, to play Santa Claus in their Thanksgiving Day Parade. He does such a good job that he is hired to as the store Santa during the holiday season. While he is successful, Doris learns that he has been directing clients to other stores and claiming that he is Santa Claus. Meanwhile, Doris's neighbour and friend, attorney Fred Gailey (John Payne), takes her skeptical young daughter, Susan (Natalie Wood), to see Santa at the store. Doris has raised Susan not to believe in fairy tales, but her lack of faith is shaken when she sees Kris conversing in Dutch with an orphan girl from the Netherlands who does not know English. Although Doris asks him to stop telling people that he is not really Santa Claus, Kris continues insisting that he is. Worried that he is delusi...

To celebrate lovely Gene Tierney's 95th birthday, which was yesterday, this week on "Film Friday" I thought I would bring you what I believe was the first film of hers I have seen. Incidentally, this picture was released on the exact same date of her 26 th birthday. Original poster by Norman Rockwell Directed by Edmund Goulding, The Razor's Edge (1946) opens at a dinner party held by eliti st snob El liott Templeton (Clifton Webb) and his sister L ouisa B radley (Lucile Watson) at a Chicago coun try club in 1919. Much to the family's dismay, Louisa 's daughter I sabel (Gene Tierney) is enga ged to Larry Dar rell (Tyrone Power), a war veteran who discovers upon his return home that he can no longer fit into th e world of upper-class society that his fianc é lives in. Also at the party is Sophie Nels on ( Anne Baxter ), Isabel's simple childhood friend ; Gray Maturin (John Pa yne), Larry's wealthy f riend who is also in love with Isabe...