The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard (Edmund Gwenn) is hired as a Macy’s department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and he soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit...except for his boss, Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara), who’s raising her daughter (Natalie Wood) to not believe in Santa.

But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone’s faith is put to the test as young and old alike face the age-old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Edmund Gwenn (Them!, The Trouble With Harry) won an Academy Award for his performance as Kringle and the whole cast is consistently brilliant in this enduring Christmas classic, a film that now doubles as a joyous evocation of New York in the 1940s.