Good morning Phoenix - it's December 23rd - and Christmas is just around the corner!
Wishing you all a wonderful time with family, friends, or whomever you choose to celebrate with, even if it is just quality time with yourself. You are your own best friend!
As we get closer to Christmas, today's WTF is a Christmas classic: Miracle on 34th Street.
Trivia: Received a 'B' rating (morally objectionable in part) from the highly influential Legion of Decency because Maureen O'Hara played a divorcée.
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.
According to Natalie Wood's biographer, during the shoot, the young actress was convinced that Edmund Gwenn was actually Santa Claus (by all accounts, Gwenn was a very good-natured man on the set). It wasn't until Wood saw him out of costume at the wrap party that she realized he wasn't Santa.
According to Hedda Hopper's "Looking at Hollywood" newspaper column of May 3, 1947 "when the picture opens at the Roxy, Macy's will close for half a day so it's 12,000 employees can see the first showing."
One of the first films to be colorized.
The Macys Christmas window displays were sold on to FAO Schwartz who in turn sold them on to Marshall & Ilsley Bank of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are displayed in the bank's lobby every December in its main branch in North Water Street.
The house that Susan sees at the end of the movie that all three characters enter is, according to the Nassau County Tax Records, located at 24 Derby Road in Port Washington, New York.
Goofs: During the trial Gailey says that the US Post Office was founded on July 26, 1776. The correct date is July 26, 1775.
Several shots of the judge show a lamp on his desk. When the mail is dumped in front of him, the lamp has disappeared.
Outside the courtroom, the shadow of a camera can be seen on the pillar as Kris walks down the hall.
One of the letters to Santa Claus delivered by the New York Post Office is postmarked Indianapolis, Ind.
Git yer shopping done! Have a fangtastic day my friends. Brock
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