Harold B. Lee Library

Miracle on 34th Street

Do You Believe?
Miracle on 34th Street

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
• Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event:
Starring Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood, Gene Lockhart.
Nominated for Best Picture, this utterly charming contemporary tale of Santa Claus in Manhattan earned Academy Awards for the original story by Valentine Davies and for its screenplay by George Seaton, the film’s director. Maureen O’Hara is an advertising executive at Macy’s department store and the divorced mother of young Natalie Wood, who is skeptical of the existence of Santa Claus as well as “fairy tales and happy endings;” that is, until a young attorney, John Payne, comes along to make his “case” for the warm and generous Kris Kringle, played by Edmund Gwenn, who also won a well-deserved Oscar. This is a Christmas film that not only has no peer, but has also triumphed over subsequent theatrical and television remakes. The feature will be preceded by A Star in the Night (1945), a moving Christmas allegory and winner of the Best Short Subject Academy Award.
20th Century-Fox. 1947. 96 mins. Director: George Seaton.
Special thanks to Schawn Belston, 20th Century Fox

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