Miracle On 34th Street (1947)/Miracle On 34th Street (1994)

Double bill featuring the original 'Miracle On 34th Street' and the 1994 remake. In 'Miracle On 34th Street' (1947), Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), an executive at Macy's department store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life and is consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to believe in Santa Claus. This year, however, the convictions of both mother and child are challenged when the kindly old man (Edmund Gwenn) hired as the store Santa insists that he is in fact the real thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is willing to go to court to prove his case. In 'Miracle On 34th Street' (1994), a girl, Susan (Mara Wilson), confides in Kris Kringle (Richard Attenborough), the kindly old man who is acting as the grotto Santa in the department store managed by her mother. Kris Kringle believes he is the genuine Santa Claus and this devotion to the cause makes him very popular indeed, leading to record profits for the store. This annoys rival retailers so much that they try to discredit the so-called Santa, leading eventually to a court case in which Kringle and his lawyer try to prove that he is the real thing.

Actor: James Remar
Actor: Richard Attenborough
Actor: Porter Hall
Actor: Gene Lockhart
Director: Les Mayfield
Director: George Seaton
Writer: George Seaton
Actor: Jerome Cowan
Actor: Edmund Gwenn
Actor: William Frawley
Actor: Maureen O'Hara
Actor: Robert Prosky
Actor: John Payne
Actor: James Seay
Actor: Philip Tonge
Actor: Harry Antrim
Actor: Mary Field
Actor: Percy Helton
Music: Bruce Broughton
Producer: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Actor: Thelma Ritter
Music: Cyril Mockridge
Actor: Mara Wilson
Actor: Joss Ackland
Actor: Jane Leeves
Actor: J. T. Walsh
Actor: Simon Jones
Producer: William Perlberg
Actor: Dylan McDermott
Actor: Elizabeth Perkins
Actor: Natalie Wood