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Miracle on 34th St. Sure-fire comedy about a man (Edmund Gwenn) who thinks he's Santa Claus (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Miracle on 34th St. A clever, sure-fire comedy about a man (Edmund Gwenn) who thinks he's Santa Claus (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox) is brought about by a well-beavered, somewhat pixillated old gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who calls himself Kris Kringle and isn't kidding. So far as he is concerned, he is the original, the one & only Santa Claus. As such, he is well pleased to take the throne in R. H. Macy & Co.'s toy department. His employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent. By the fadeout, not only the courts of New York State but 20th Century-Fox itself are ready to insist that there really is a Santa Claus, and that Mr. Gwenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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