MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET - BLU-1947-NATALIE WOOD-70TH ANNIVERSARY E

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Plot: At the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades him to take his place. He proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main store. While he is successful, Doris learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by his doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas among the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent therapist, Granville Sawyer, erupts, he finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberately fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gailey, reassures him of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people's beliefs are reexamined and put to the test, but even so, it's going to take a miracle for Kris to win.
• Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan, Philip Tonge, Jack Albertson, Harry Antrim, Lela Bliss, Walden Boyle, Kevin Burke, Dorothy Christy, Dick Cogan, Jeff Corey, Sheryl Deauville, Mike Donovan, Teddy Driver, Mary Field, William Forrest, Jack Gargan, Robert Gist, Jane Green, Alvin Greenman, Alvin Hammer, Theresa Harris, Percy Helton, Herbert Heyes, Clark Howat, Robert Hyatt, Richard Irving, Robert Karnes, Fran Lee, Marlene Lyden, Robert Lynn, Mae Marsh, Ida McGuire, Joseph McInerney, Jean O'Donnell, Anne O'Neal, 'Snub' Pollard, Lorin Raker, Bob Reeves, Thelma Ritter, Stephen Roberts, Jeffrey Sayre, James Seay, Irene Shirley, Patty Smith, Ray Spiker, Ann Staunton, Brick Sullivan, Anthony Sydes, Guy Thomajan, Basil Walker, George Seaton, Valentine Davies
• Director: George Seaton
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie