History Trivia / MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JackAlbertson has a small uncredited role as the mail sorter who suggests sending the post office's Santa letters to the courthouse.

* AbilityOverAppearance: The original plan was to give a GenderFlip to Susan and have the remake's child be a boy. According to Creator/MaraWilson's autobiography, a few people she had worked with recommended her for the part, and the character became a girl once again.

* RemakeCameo: Alvin Greenman, who played Alfred in the original, plays the doorman.

* WorkingTitle: The original intended title was ''Christmas Miracle on 34th Street''. The Christmas part was dropped when all references to the holiday were removed from the marketing campaign. (The title of the script that Maureen O'Hara was first shown was ''The Big Heart'')

** Creator/NatalieWood and her husband Creator/RobertWagner were approached to play Karen Walker and Bill Schaffner, respectively with their [[RealLifeRelative daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner]], who was four years old at the time, playing Susan. However, Natalie and Robert refused due to the fact that they didn't want their daughter to go into acting at a young age like Natalie.

* AwardCategoryFraud: Kris Kringle is the story's central character and the one with the most screentime, and yet Creator/EdmundGwenn was nominated for and won the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Supporting Actor.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was originally released in ''May'' despite its Christmas theme, due to [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox]] head Darryl F. Zanuck believing that people were more willing to go to the movies in the summer. This famously led to a marketing campaign that hid the movie's Christmas themes, including a trailer which, rather than showing scenes from the film itself, depicted a fictional Fox producer trying to figure out how to sell it to the public while several of the studio's contemporary stars raved about it. Fortunately, the film turned out to be a massive success anyway and actually ran long enough that it was still in theaters when Christmas ''actually'' rolled around.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The film was originally released in ''May'' despite being a Christmas film, due to an executive that believed people were more willing to see movies in May instead. This famously led to a marketing campaign that hid the Christmas themes of the film, including a trailer that instead of showing the film showed a fictional producer trying to figure out how to sell it while other contemporary stars raved about it. Fortunately, the film turned out to be a massive success anyway and actually ran long enough that it was still in theaters when Christmas ''actually'' rolled around.

* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Despite starring a man who [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not]] be Santa Claus, the film was originally released in '''May'''. This was because the summer was seen as a more profitable time of year, and resulted in the marketing focusing on the romance sub-plot rather than the main off-season festive story.

* BillingDisplacement: While Kris Kringle is definitely the story's central character, Edmund Gwenn was billed third behind Creator/MaureenOHara and John Payne in the original film. This wound up paying off for Gwenn, who was nominated for (and won) the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in a case of AwardCategoryFraud.
* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Maureen O'Hara once said that for decades children would come up to her asking "Are you the lady who knows SantaClaus?" – to which she would respond "[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Yes, what would you like me to tell him?]]"

* DyeingForYourArt: Edmund Gwenn grew a beard and gained thirty pounds for his role as Kris.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/NatalieWood was genuinely surprised when she tugged at Edmund Gwenn's beard while filming and saw him naturally react in minor pain.

* TheRedStapler: In the wake of this film, Department stores like Macy's and Gimbal's really did start the goodwill efforts of referring customers to their rivals during Christmas shopping season. A practice that lasted until [[NewMediaAreEvil online shopping]] mostly displaced department stores.
* StillbornFranchise: John Payne wanted really badly to make a sequel, and Maureen O'Hara claimed they had talked about it for years. He apparently wrote a screenplay for it but died before it could be produced.

* BillingDisplacement: While Kris Kringle is definitely the story's central character, Edmund Gwenn was billed third behind Maureen O'Hara and John Payne in the original film. This wound up paying off for Gwenn, who was nominated for (and won) the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, in a case of AwardCategoryFraud.
* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Creator/MaureenOHara once said that for decades children would come up to her asking "Are you the lady who knows SantaClaus?" – to which she would respond "[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Yes, what would you like me to tell him?]]"

* EnforcedMethodActing: Natalie Wood really did feel surprised when she tugged at Edmund Gwenn's beard and saw him naturally react in minor pain.

* DyeingForYourArt: Edmund Gwenn gained thirty pounds for the role.