Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

"That's what I've been fighting against for years: the way they commercialize Christmas."

"For the past fifty years or so, I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle...Christmas isn't just a day; it's a frame of mind."

is he Kris Kringle or "just a nice man in a white beard"?

Kris Kringle jolly Edmund Gwenn magical, Oscar-winning perf

Macy's

Susan Walker (Natalie Wood)

William Frawley

Thelma Ritter's screen debut

evil psychiatrist Mr. Sawyer (

Gailey: "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."

learns "you've...got to believe in people"

clever legal twist

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade