12 Days of Christmas Films | Day 10: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
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...