Happy Rudolph Day Everyone!!
This month’s movie is MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
I chose this because it is one of my absolute favorites and I am in love with old classic Christmas movies. I love everything about this movie, from the beginning Thanksgiving Day Parade to the very end when Susan realizes that there IS a Santa Clause!
I only saw bits and pieces of this movie this past Christmas and it always gets me in the Christmas Spirit! I hope you all enjoy watching it with me!
DID YOU KNOW:
• Despite the fact that the film is set during Christmas, studio head Darryl F. Zanuck insisted that it be released in May because he argued that more people went to the movies during the summer. So the studio began scrambling to promote it while keeping the fact that it was a Christmas movie a secret.
• Maureen O'Hara was ultimately forced into her role against her will, as she had just returned to Ireland before being called back to America for the film. However, she immediately changed her sentiments upon reading the script.
• Natalie Wood was eight years old when she made this film.
• There are 21 mail bags carried into the courtroom at the end of Kris's hearing.
• The scenes of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are of the actual parade held in 1946. As such, careful preparation was necessary for the shots as retakes were obviously out of the question. 20th Century-Fox had cameras positioned along the parade route at the starting line at 77th Street, on Central Park West, on the 3rd floor of an apartment building at 253 West 58th Street, in Herald Square and on 34th Street at 7th Avenue.
• Unbeknownst to most parade watchers, Edmund Gwenn played Santa Claus in the actual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held November 28, 1946. He fulfilled the duties of most parade Santas, including addressing the crowd from the marquee of Macy's after the parade was over.
• The scenes at Macy's were shot on location at the main New York store on 34th Street itself.
• In the untranslated dialogue with the Dutch girl, Santa Claus asks the child what she wants for Christmas the girl says she wants nothing, telling Santa she got her gift by being adopted by her new mother.
• 2006: Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
This month’s movie is MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
I chose this because it is one of my absolute favorites and I am in love with old classic Christmas movies. I love everything about this movie, from the beginning Thanksgiving Day Parade to the very end when Susan realizes that there IS a Santa Clause!
I only saw bits and pieces of this movie this past Christmas and it always gets me in the Christmas Spirit! I hope you all enjoy watching it with me!
DID YOU KNOW:
• Despite the fact that the film is set during Christmas, studio head Darryl F. Zanuck insisted that it be released in May because he argued that more people went to the movies during the summer. So the studio began scrambling to promote it while keeping the fact that it was a Christmas movie a secret.
• Maureen O'Hara was ultimately forced into her role against her will, as she had just returned to Ireland before being called back to America for the film. However, she immediately changed her sentiments upon reading the script.
• Natalie Wood was eight years old when she made this film.
• There are 21 mail bags carried into the courtroom at the end of Kris's hearing.
• The scenes of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are of the actual parade held in 1946. As such, careful preparation was necessary for the shots as retakes were obviously out of the question. 20th Century-Fox had cameras positioned along the parade route at the starting line at 77th Street, on Central Park West, on the 3rd floor of an apartment building at 253 West 58th Street, in Herald Square and on 34th Street at 7th Avenue.
• Unbeknownst to most parade watchers, Edmund Gwenn played Santa Claus in the actual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held November 28, 1946. He fulfilled the duties of most parade Santas, including addressing the crowd from the marquee of Macy's after the parade was over.
• The scenes at Macy's were shot on location at the main New York store on 34th Street itself.
• In the untranslated dialogue with the Dutch girl, Santa Claus asks the child what she wants for Christmas the girl says she wants nothing, telling Santa she got her gift by being adopted by her new mother.
• 2006: Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
