Miracle on 34th Street (initially released as The Big Heart in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by See more

Throughout the process of getting this script accepted by the PCA, the movie underwent multiple different title changes, starting as My Heart Tells Me and then progressing into The … See more

Miracle on 34th Street was first released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1987.
In 1985, it became one of the first full-length See more

There are numerous remakes of the movie, as well as a Broadway musical.
Radio
Lux Radio Theatre aired a one-hour adaptation of the movie on three occasions: on December 22, 1947, which starred the original … See more

• Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker
• John Payne as Fred Gailey
• Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle
• Gene Lockhart as the Hon. Henry X. Harper See more

Critical reception
Miracle on 34th Street mostly received positive reviews from critics. Bosley Crowther See more

A 1994 feature film starred Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J. T. Walsh, Timothy Shea, James Remar See more