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Who is put on trial in the 1947 classic Miracle on 34th Street?
Doris Walker, a no-nonsense Macy’s executive, desperately searches for a new store Santa. She hires Kris Kringle who insists that he’s the real Santa Claus. But he has many skeptics like her and her six-year-old daughter, Susan. So he goes to court to try and prove it.
Which department store was a huge part of the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street?
Santa Claus
It stars Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa….
| Miracle on 34th Street | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | William Perlberg |
How many versions of Miracle on 34th St are there?
How many Miracle on 34th Street movies are there? There are two feature film versions of Miracle on 34th Street—the 1947 original and the 1994 remake. There are also three television versions, airing in 1955, 1959, and 1973.
What is the famous line from Miracle on 34th Street?
Kris Kringle: “Now wait a minute, Susie. Just because every child can’t get his wish that doesn’t mean there isn’t a Santa Claus.” Susan Walker: “You mean it’s like, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Kris Kringle: “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig!
Is Kris really Santa in Miracle on 34th Street?
Bryan doesn’t really believe that Kris Kringle is Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Like we knew he would all along because, hey, Miracle on 34th Street is a Christmas movie after all, the judge ultimately rules that Santa Claus is real and that Kris Kringle is him.
Where is the house from Miracle on 34th Street located?
Although the interior shots of the house were filmed on a soundstage, the exterior shots were from a real life house that still stands today. The home is located in Port Washington, New York. According the Zillow, it was built in 1943 and is just over 1,700 square feet.
Is there still a Gimbels in New York?
At the urging of future company president Bernard Gimbel, grandson of the founder, the company expanded to New York City in 1910….Gimbels.
| Display advertisements announcing the 1910 opening of the New York flagship store | |
|---|---|
| Defunct | 1987 |
| Fate | Liquidation |
| Successor | None |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
Where was Coles filmed in Miracle on 34th Street?
Like most John Hughes productions, Miracle… was filmed in Chicago. The exterior of ‘CF Cole’s’ is not a department store at all, but the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue at East Adams Street in the Loop.
What does the last line of Miracle on 34th Street mean?
Advertisement: In the end, Susan’s Dream Home is “For Sale,” and Kris knows where to send them. The owners are mysteriously missing. So, either he is Santa Claus and brought the house into existence—or he’s a wack-job and he murdered the owners so that the girl he’s obsessed with associates him with a happy event.
Who said faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to?
Fred Gailey
Fred Gailey : Faith is believing things when common sense tells you not to. Don’t you see? It’s not just Kris that’s on trial, it’s everything he stands for. It’s kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles.
Where is the house from the original Miracle on 34th Street?
Port Washington
Susan Walker (Natalie Wood) finally finds the ‘dream home’ she longs for at 24 Derby Road, at the northwest corner of Essex Court, Port Washington, in Nassau County, on the north shore of Long Island. It seems to have changes little apart from the addition of an upstairs room.
What street does Krissy Kringle live on?
After she is suddenly fired from her job, Krissy Kringle (Hilarie Burton) is in no mood for all the misdirected Santa mail she receives to her home on Candy Cane Lane.