History Film / MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet

** ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' aired an adaptation in 1947, with Creator/EdmundGwenn, Creator/MaureenOHara, Creator/NatalieWood and John Payne all reprising their movie roles.

* AdaptationNameChange: Once again, the names are changed up. The first name of Susan's mother is changed from Doris to Dorey, while Fred Gailey becomes Bryan Bedford.

* [[WhenYouComingHomeDad When You Coming Home, Mom?]]: In this version, Karen Walker is constantly berated for the amount of overtime she works and the lack of time she spends with her daughter. Quite a feat in a film created in the 1970s when working moms were increasingly common, especially compared to the 1940s.

* AdaptationNameChange: Once again, the names changed up.

* BrandX: The department store is changed to the fictional "Cole's" in this version of the film as Macy's, which was already having financial troubles at the time of production, refused to have their name used in the film when they discovered that the store's financial problems were an important plot point. Likewise, because Gimbels closed their store in 1987, the rival department store was also fictional.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kris is normally a very nice man... but Mr. Sawyer manages to provoke him into attacking him with his cane in the original. In 1973, this was diminished to a pie to the face.

** In 1973, Kris shoves a pie into Sawyer's face. And for some ''strange'' reason, despite there being witnesses that saw Sawyer needlessly provoke Kris and nobody in their right mind would suspect serious injury from a cream pie...they still believe Sawyer's crocodile tears.
** In 1994, the character of Sawyer is dropped altogether. Instead, Kris strikes Tony Falacchi, who was the drunken Santa at the beginning of the film. Wanting revenge against Kris for taking his job, Tony conspires with the agents of a rival store to get rid of Kris. He baits Kris into attacking him by accusing him of being a pedophile (yes, really).

* BilingualBonus: Kris's unsubtitled conversation with the Dutch orphan, for Dutch speakers. Included in full on the Heartwarming Moments page.

** The little girl that doesn't speak English and is reached out to by Kris is now a child of Spanish-speaking parents. However, as even the film points out, a man who speaks Spanish in New York City (especially when the Spanish-speaking residents were sky-rocketing) isn't that unusual, whereas a man speaking Dutch in 1947's New York was.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: While Mr. Macy comes off as much more profit obsessed, he still behaves in the same way - once its pointed out to him that he can actually increase his profits through customer goodwill, he is enthusiastically behind it. He also supports Kris in much the same way.

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: Averted. Multiple people make a point of observing that Kris and his outfit are a cut above Macy's usual run of store Santas. Even little Susan, after seeing him in the Thanksgiving parade, tells her mother "He's much better than last year's".

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* BerserkButton: While Kris will normally take most accusations and insults in stride, accusing him of pedophilia will provoke a hostile reaction, the villains exploit this to get him arrested for assault.

* LastSecondWordSwap: Mr. Shellhammer comes up with the idea of getting his wife drunk to make her more receptive at taking in Kris as a boarder, and tells Doris he'll call when his wife is "plaster -- er, feeling gay".

* SpinningPapers: When Mr. Macy is on the stand and is asked whether he believed Kringle to be Santa Claus, he has an ImagineSpot of a spinning paper reading "Macy Admits His Santa Claus a Fraud".

* NeverTrustATrailer: Famously, the film's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDC5H2MdtEw original trailer]] reveals nothing about the actual film -- not even that Santa Claus is a major character! Because the movie came out during the ''summer'' box office season, in hopes of making more money, the advertisers had to make sure not to include any out-of-season Christmas imagery. Promotional posters from the time also barely show Kris at all, appearing to portray the film as a simple romantic comedy. One can only wonder what 1947 audiences thought when they actually saw the final movie, but it famously paid off because the film was such a smashing success it actually ran ''through'' Christmas.

* CunningLinguist: Turns out Kris can speak Dutch, which is all the better for the Dutch orphan little girl. And he is cunning, in a benevolent sense.

** In 1947, he's simply employed by Macy's to give employment tests, but envisions himself as a great psychiatrist and enjoys using that status to bully others. He quickly comes to hate Kris due to his passing the psychiatric exam and then turning it around on him, and later tries to have Kris committed both as revenge on him and also to prevent him from telling Mr. Macy about Sawyer's practicing psychiatry without a license on the premises. He gets his come-uppance when Macy just fires him anyway during the trial.

R.H. Macy is incensed... until he sees just how much goodwill Kris is building with the store's customers, and with the public at large. Everyone soon becomes content to let Kris have his harmless fantasies; everyone, that is, except the store's resentful staff psychologist, who attempts to have him committed to the psychiatric ward. Things subsequently come to a head in a big, showy trial, where the defense decides to argue that Kris is not insane even though he claims to be Santa Claus--because he ''is'' Santa Claus!