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...Theater (Mon. 9 pm., CBS). Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street...
...Crain) and her glum G.I. husband (William Holden)-and answers their problems with advice from Socrates and Spinoza-Apartment for Peggy is a pleasant little movie flavored with idealism. Then it spills over into woman's magazine fiction and some heavy bathos about a retired philosophy professor (Edmund Gwenn...
Keynoter Jean Hersholt rose to announce that "We are sentimental people. . . ." But the 6,000-odd movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar as the best supporting actor for his very human, slightly balmy Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Celeste Holm was named the best supporting actress for her acid other-womanizing in Gentleman's Agreement...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). A good newcomer among the Christmas fantasies: Miracle on 34th Street, with Edmund Gwenn...
...Edmund Gwenn, veteran character actor that he is, gets the freest of reins in this innocuous little film--and he overacts his way magnificently through the role of an irascible old Scottish sheepherder, soaked in Scotch and fighting a losing battle with a heather-clogged accent. Plot concerns a couple of rival dogs, the annual sheepherding trials, and dastardly murders (of sheep) by one of the aforementioned canines...