1947 - Miracle on 34th Street - Movie Set PICTURED: MAUREEN O HARA as Doris Walker and JOHN PAYNE as Fred Gailey. RELEASE DATE: May 2, 1947. MOVIE TITLE: Miracle on 34th Street. STUDIO: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. PLOT: At the Macy s Department Store 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 the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy s outlet. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle s 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 a 19470502_brt_g90_354

1947 - Miracle on 34th Street - Movie Set PICTURED: MAUREEN O HARA as Doris Walker and JOHN PAYNE as Fred Gailey. RELEASE DATE: May 2, 1947. MOVIE TITLE: Miracle on 34th Street. STUDIO: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. PLOT: At the Macy s Department Store 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 the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy s outlet. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle s 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 a 19470502_brt_g90_354